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I was lying on a bed and sniffing Protrusuin and I stopped breathing...
I was stationed aboard the USS Prairie in the Philippines, we had a ship's party on Grande Island there, I was scuba diving for coral, I was almost bitten by a sixteen foot long dark grey shark, I managed to get to shore unharmed I thought, I did not feel t...
I was twelve years old when I had my near death experience...
I remember having an incredibly powerful fear of death before my surgery - a fear which vanished after my experience and has never returned...
In the midst of the heart attack, I was talking with the emergency medical technician in the ambulance one second, and the next I was somewhere else...
I had just finished a year of teaching kindergarten at a private school in southern Arizona, and was living alone out in the middle of the desert without a phone...
I suddenly woke up in what I can only describe as an open space of light...
I was in an accident...
I sustained a major brain injury, broken back and rib cage from an accident between a bicycle and moving van...
David W NDE Home Classification NDE 2173 David W NDE 4382 Experience Description The morning after my bypass surgery, the fog from anesthesia and morphine was lifting...
My experience happened while ice skating with my sisters on a river...
In early to mid-2003, I was undergoing a considerable amount of stress at work...
