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I had to have a biopsy of my bladder as an inflammation showed up on the ultra sound...
Jean R NDE Home Classification NDE 1384 Jean R NDE 280 Experience Description I suddenly was aware I was a spirit looking down at my body...
In 1992 I had lung surgery...
I was transported on a life-flight chopper, and they put the wires onto my heart to watch my vital signs...
Mary Lu R NDE Home Classification NDE 1392 Mary Lu R NDE 265 Experience Description I remember going through a darkness...
This is going to be difficult, as it's probably going to bring me to tears as I recall it, but here it is in detail: A dank, gray November night, 1991...
I had a car accident and was pronounced 'dead'...
Okay, here is my experience to the best of my ability to convey it; the circumstances that led up to it; and the thoughts and feelings in the weeks following it...
Ten days after the birth of our second child, my husband and I had a planned evening for just the two of us...
My father was an alcoholic and quite violent...
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I was simply having my wisdom teeth out -- a simple operation taking ten minutes...
I had been having intense fever for three days with great bodily pain and a rapid heartbeat...
