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I felt like I woke up and saw my body lying in the pool...
I was floating over a billowing cornfield...
I was walking around the baby pool...
When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I was making a sailing yacht transfer between two cities in my country...
I was looking down from about fifteen feet and was concerned for my buddies who were upset...
My experience happened while ice skating with my sisters on a river...
My surroundings were filled with light and I was floating looking down on my body, my relatives who were present at the time of the accident and the paramedics...
On a typical warm summer vacation day during the summer of 1976, I decided to travel with a friend from Allentown, Pennsylvania to Ocean City, New Jersey to enjoy sailing my sixteen feet HobbieCat on the ocean...
I was swimming in a river with some friends of the family...
I was undergoing surgery for removal of an ovary when I found 'myself' above the operating table sitting on a bar attached to the ceiling...
I fell out of an attic onto a concrete garage floor head first...
