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The day before my emergency operation I felt sick...
Pluma S NDE Home Classification NDE 1440 Pluma S NDE 179 Experience Description My boyfriend at the time got some cocaine, and said I couldn't do any unless I did it like he did, with a needle...
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I was rushed to hospital at 4:00 am with massive pain, really aggressive pain...
Diana P Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1450 Diana P Probable NDE 150 Experience Description I was in my living room looking in the mirror my right eye couldn't focus on my reflection I kept blinking and blinking trying to get it to focus I fe...
I had been severely depressed for some time after the birth of my youngest child...
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Doina Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1463 Doina Probable NDE 3379 Experience Description I was on the operation table; the last event I have in my memory was when I received the anesthesia in my hand...
Conditions around the time of the experience: Brief interludes of asphyxiation/apnea due to violent episodes of heavy coughing probably caused by allergic reactions to pollen that spring, reactions which were much stronger than at any other time...
At age seventeen, I took a street drug with several girlfriends...
I won't get in to the reasons I drowned myself...
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In the fall of 1993, I designated forty days to abstain from food, sleep and human contact in preparation for a suicide attempt...
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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...
