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I was gravely ill and the doctors couldn't seem to find out what I was suffering from...
I was in a beautiful space that was filled with light...
My NDE happened on a blustery summer day...
The first thing I see as I step out of the bright light is that I am a little higher than everyone else...
I felt dizzy while I was speaking on the phone, sitting in a chair in my room at the hospital...
One evening when going back to my room, I got a pain in my chest and fainted...
When I was twenty-five, I had a second occurrence of parotid mixed tumors...
I was playing by a slide area and was struck in the head with a rock...
Driving truck too fast...
The surgery was scheduled for afternoon, they laid me on the operating table and the anesthesiologist gave me the anesthesia, I saw that other people entered the operating room I think they were nurses and nurses' aides...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
I was picking flowers for mum on the way home from school...
