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I was 16 and with my boyfriend...
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I was a passenger in a car and we were hit head-on by another vehicle...
NDE at 6 years old: (Thanks to Barb Schmidt and Meera Jacka, Australia, for the Translation) I had to undergo a tonsillectomy...
Douglas H NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2837 Douglas H NDEs 6014 Experience Description The first time, I fell three stories and had some serious head injuries...
Pamela M NDE Home Classification NDE 2858 Pamela M NDE 6032 Experience Description I have a story...
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I had just come home on leave from the armed forces to visit my parents...
I was slicing a bagel and cut the tender area between the thumb and forefinger...
This experience happened to me more than 60 years ago...
Samuel C NDE Home Classification NDE 3047 Samuel C NDE 6284 Experience Description I awoke at about 2 AM, having a powerful thirst...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
It was my very first delivery at age 31 yrs...
Basically I remember being in a queue, some people I knew or recognized and others I didn't...
