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I was in the hospital, semi-seated in bed, after giving birth to my first child...
Bob W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2525 Bob W Probable NDE 4924 Experience Description As mentioned above at the point of blockage I ceased to breathe...
Tim NDE Home Classification NDE 2526 Tim NDE 4927 Experience Description During major emergency surgery for perforated diverticulitis that destroyed much of my large and small colon, I rose above the operating table...
I was at a friend's barbeque with a few friends...
It has been many years...
I realized after the experience that I somehow had foreknowledge of my heart attack because while I had no symptoms of heart problems, I was feverish in the week before my heart attack to prepare a list of important numbers, accounts, etc...
Felt a great peace, a feeling of happiness and peace as I had never felt...
During a suicide attempt, I jumped out of a moving car and landed head first on the ground...
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My dad and some of his friends were in a garage working on a car, they were in the front by the walk in door which was open at the time...
Beth L FDE Home Classification FDE 2554 Beth L FDE 4963 Experience Description We had those old metal ice cube trays that make the giant cubes with the sharp edges...
I was twenty years old and working for the US Forest Service building trails in the mountains north of Los Angles...
I felt tremendously peaceful...
