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I either get that exact question or something similar, like, 'Does Dying Hurt...
I was thirty-six years old at the time, playing pick-up basketball, full court, with men fifteen years younger than me...
Mary NDE Home Classification NDE 2416 Mary NDE 4766 Experience Description I remember feeling real sick with the bad taste in my mouth before realizing what had happened with my tooth...
Scott S NDE Home Classification NDE 2419 Scott S NDE 4772 Experience Description I was, essentially, strangled to death...
I was young and I went with some friends to a local wooded hangout to party...
Angel NDE Home Classification NDE 2429 Angel NDE 4794 Experience Description I had been suffering horribly from a chronic case of Lyme disease since I was in high school and I was now thirty-one years old...
I was a successful business man, entrepreneur, inventor, until 1999 when I became victim to alcohol...
Cara A NDE Home Classification NDE 2433 Cara A NDE 4801 Experience Description I was being attacked...
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I am trying to document as much as I can in a poem format, this is the beginning as by my time in the other realm I spent several years and there is much to tell...
James C Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2441 James C Probable NDE 4809 Experience Description The accident happened so fast that it took a while for me to realize what had happened...
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Kathleen W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2458 Kathleen W Probable NDE 4846 Experience Description I remember looking for something in the refrigerator of my previous boyfriend's apartment to wash down the sleeping pills...
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Leaving my boyfriend's house (at the time,) I was driving too fast down a country road that I was not familiar with, in a 1971 Volkswagen bug...
