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James C Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2441 James C Probable NDE 4809 Experience Description The accident happened so fast that it took a while for me to realize what had happened...
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Walter W FDE Home Classification FDE 2450 Walter W FDE 4834 Experience Description After spending Christmas with my folks in Ohio, I set out at 5:00 am in my car to return to my apartment in Massachusetts...
In my mid-forties, my pancreas began to malfunction due to a birth defect later discovered during surgery...
The light was green...
Matt H NDEs Home Classification NDE 2757 Matt H NDEs 5248 Experience Description My best friend and I were at a family reunion on a ranch a hundred and fifty miles from Sacramento, California...
I was hiking with a friend in the Bowness River valley and we decided to climb up from the valley via a very steep hill...
On August 14th, 2007, I was a sergeant with a Sheriff's Office and I was on duty during the day shift...
I was riding my motorbike on a main artery road to the south of Mexico City crossing over the Avenida Desierto de Los Leones...
I was transferred from a private birthing room to the emergency room after the staff noticed that my baby might require her stomach and lungs to be cleaned because she might have meconium aspiration syndrome...
We were celebrating a birthday, the whole family, and at the end we drank Queimada Gallega, which is a hot drink, from Galicia originally, which is prepared by heating up whiskey from grape liquor with lemon and sugar...
I had just finished a long semester of school and went to visit a friend...
