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Niel L NDE Home Classification NDE 2711 Niel L NDE 5191 Experience Description When I was four, I went to the swimming pool alone to get some coins I had seen at the bottom...
I was a recruit going through training for the Michigan State Police...
In 1981, when I was thirty years of age, I underwent major surgery and experienced the following Near Death Experience (NDE...
I was hit by a car and thrown sixty meters from point of impact...
I was four years old and suffering from a progressively worsening life-threatening pneumonia...
I was a life guard in New Jersey...
Linda D NDE Home Classification NDE 2738 Linda D NDE 5238 Experience Description I was walking with a friend after school...
Edward S NDE Home Classification NDE 2739 Edward S NDE 5239 Experience Description I knew I was in a great deal of trouble, and that something had to be done...
It has occurred to me that this is probably a fairly ordinary experience and I feel pretty sure that many people have gone through something like it; but as time goes by, I am more and more convinced that what I experienced is of great importance to me...
I immediately became aware that the end-stage of my labor was giving complications, however I was very relaxed and confident...
Colin S Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2770 Colin S Probable NDE 5281 Experience Description Our house, situated in the bush three miles from town, relied for its water supply on a large concrete tank at the back of the house...
