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At age seventeen, I took a street drug with several girlfriends...
I suffered serious complications from a tonsillectomy at age seven...
The night before an open water scuba diving trip, my dive partner and I stayed up late, drinking beer and got little sleep...
Events surrounding NDE: I was employed at the University of Michigan; I was married and had a son, four months old...
The pushbike rapidly gathered momentum as I pedaled hard down the hill...
Events surrounding NDE: I had been in a severe automobile accident at 7:00 pm on September 17, 1963...
During a surgery (local anesthesia was used) the anesthetic stopped working and there was shock caused by pain and clinical death (from what doctors later had told)...
In June 2005 I had a normal day - went to work, got sicker as the day proceeded...
I was just there...
As I was coming out of anesthesia I could not see, move, talk or breath...
I was so excited, it was my first concert and date as a sixteen year old...
Christy NDE Home Classification NDE 1546 Christy NDE 3485 Experience Description I remember total darkness, being comfortable, and not wanting to leave...
