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I was working as a seamstress in a sportswear company...
The day before my emergency operation I felt sick...
As I lay in the emergency room, I hovered over my body looking down at myself...
Although lamentably true, the following story may appear as though I sat up a few nights concocting it, or could blame it on a bad experience with mood-altering substances (substances that I used to refer to as “recreational drugs” -- most of which were no...
Pluma S NDE Home Classification NDE 1440 Pluma S NDE 179 Experience Description My boyfriend at the time got some cocaine, and said I couldn't do any unless I did it like he did, with a needle...
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My boyfriend and I were playing around in the park...
James G NDE Home Classification NDE 1445 James G NDE 164 Experience Description I was in a coma, gangrene right leg, heart failure, lungs -- pulmonary edema...
Francis R NDE Home Classification NDE 1447 Francis R NDE 161 Experience Description I had just started the fifteenth seizure when everything went black...
Diana P Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1450 Diana P Probable NDE 150 Experience Description I was in my living room looking in the mirror my right eye couldn't focus on my reflection I kept blinking and blinking trying to get it to focus I fe...
I was undergoing surgery to remove a tumor from my right adrenaline gland shortly after my eighteenth birthday...
Richard B NDE Home Classification NDE 1453 Richard B NDE 144 Experience Description I was on my way to work, 1:30 in the afternoon, temperature was 105 degrees, I was riding my motorcycle, car turned at last second, I hit car approximately two feet from fro...
It was May 5th and I was in my private room on the ninth floor of the University of Cincinnati Hospital recovering from a surgery to remove my first and second rib...
