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I was alone in a large space - bright white light and warm and comfortable...
I was four years old...
Diane B ADC Home Classification ADC 1667 Diane B ADC 3666 Experience Description The experience I wish to share is one in which my father passed over and I witnessed him leaving...
At age seven, while swimming (I had not really learned yet) in a motel swimming pool, I found I could not get my head above water...
Jose MO NDE Home Classification NDE 1682 José MO NDE 3653 Experience Description My brother and I were in my bedroom watching a movie we were really enjoying...
I don't have any clear memory of the accident, of the rescue, of the helicopter flight...
Russell P NDE Home Classification NDE 1703 Russell P NDE 3705 Experience Description I felt my breathing slowing, and then stopping...
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Hazeliene M NDE Home Classification NDE 1720 Hazeliene M NDE 3725 Experience Description I was at home and about to play my favorite online game when I suddenly found it very difficult to breath...
Transfusion in the middle of a fourteen hour major kidney surgery that did not work...
My experience occurred during anesthesia (narcosis) that I received after the birth of my son...
I had been dealing with insomnia for a few days and decided to try taking a sleep aid...
I was only approximately seven years old at the time of my near death experience...
