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I had attempted suicide by an overdose of drugs...
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Just prior to the experience, I was about to have sexual intercourse, when I had a seizure...
When I hit the floor I was blank for a few moments, then 2 small transparent or glowing entities came into my room...
I'm an old man...
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...
On or about Jan 31, 1977 I started feeling flu-like symptoms (fever, chills, general weakness and fatigue)...
I saw Heaven and there were white clouds, which didn't look so much like clouds but more like large puffy cotton balls...
My sixteen year old son and I had just driven back from visiting my husband...
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I had been in the hospital with medications in an IV for my heart failure and got a horrible leg cramp in my right leg which was the most painful I had ever experienced and asked to stand up...
I was laying back in the dental chair with a nasal mask on through which I was receiving laughing gas...
Jon S NDE Home Classification NDE 3071 Jon S NDE 6315 Experience Description I was 7 years old and in the second grade...
Bill D NDE Home Classification NDE 3072 Bill D NDE 6316 Experience Description We were hunting about 20 miles out of town...
