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Dear Doctor Jeff and Jody, In 1976, when I was twenty-seven years old, I had a near death experience...
On Sunday evening around 8:30 pm and after my parents left I collapsed in my bed...
Grady R NDE Home Classification NDE 2103 Grady R NDE 4276 Experience Description See Below...
Debbie P NDE Home Classification NDE 2107 Debbie P NDE 4280 Experience Description During emergency surgery to correct prolonged bleeding from a spontaneous abortion (unknown early stage pregnancy) my heart stopped and electric shock to my heart was applied...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I went by ambulance to the emergency room at my local hospital, with a swollen stomach and in great pain...
After giving blood I was seated at the refreshment table and drinking a coca cola...
I was four and a half years old...
I was running track at my high school...
I was making a sailing yacht transfer between two cities in my country...
Two nurses came into my hospital room to help me sit up for the first time since my injury and subsequent surgical repair...
I found myself in a very long area, quite narrow for me at the beginning, with lots of people in the distance, gray shade silhouettes of different intensities, according to the distance where I perceived them, turning more and more grey, and finally white a...
