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I had severe chest and upper stomach pains the night before my cardiac arrest...
During my time before surgery, two or three minutes, a medical student from the same college were I studied computer programming was in the room...
IMy experience starts with returning from camping and breaking up with a girlfriend...
I was coughing up fluid from my lungs, which had accumulated in my windpipe...
It happened when was about to have a ureterectasis surgery, I have an Egyptian friend who's got his PhD (in anesthetic drugs) from a university in London, he had his own researches in hypnotism and I had my readings in parapsychology and the neo-spiritual f...
Swimming in a pool and suddenly panicked when I could not reach the side of the pool...
It was a hot summer day in South Texas...
I was swimming at a local lake with my grandma, aunt and cousins...
The pushbike rapidly gathered momentum as I pedaled hard down the hill...
I was given too much gas in the dentist’s office, died, and floated up above my body...
It was time to go into the delivery room...
I was in the water with a cousin and a current dragged us inside the sea...
