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When I was fifteen years old, I lived in Southern California on Coronado Island...
I was twenty years old and working for the US Forest Service building trails in the mountains north of Los Angles...
Got caught in an undertow, decided to rest when knocked down again, and dragged on bottom, stones embedded in leg...
I felt tremendously peaceful...
I was under general anesthesia during a four-hour surgery about two weeks before my mother passed away...
Ruth B Probable FDE Home Classification Probable FDE 2565 Ruth B Probable FDE 4974 Experience Description This is going to be hard in English (writer is from France)...
Jean C NDE Home Classification NDE 2567 Jean C NDE 4982 Experience Description My mother took me to the dentist when I was seven...
I was standing in the hallway of my house and started to see little black dots that gradually closed in my field of vision until my heart stopped and I stopped breathing...
Meanwhile my stomach was bloating more and I started having chest pains, I told them I needed help I was having a heart attack...
On 1-5-2011, at about 7:30 pm...
I experienced death attacking me several times in a form of a tidal wave while I was resting in the beach...
As I waited for the ambulance to pick me up, I was pulled out of the car, which was in flames, and put on the back of a pickup truck...
