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I was standing in my friends' doorway, helping them to move a bed...
I was a passenger in an automobile which, due to the driver having a seizure behind the wheel, crashed head on into a tree on the side of the road...
I overdosed on pain meds and was dead for several minutes...
Charles N NDE Home Classification NDE 2731 Charles N NDE 5223 Experience Description My Visit to HeavenI had a back surgery in which the anesthesiologist gave me too much anesthesia and I died on the operating table...
I was hit by a car and thrown sixty meters from point of impact...
Denise B Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2736 Denise B Probable NDE 5234 Experience Description I was rushed to the hospital for what was determined to be an emergency appendectomy...
I was a life guard in New Jersey...
Linda D NDE Home Classification NDE 2738 Linda D NDE 5238 Experience Description I was walking with a friend after school...
Edward S NDE Home Classification NDE 2739 Edward S NDE 5239 Experience Description I knew I was in a great deal of trouble, and that something had to be done...
It has occurred to me that this is probably a fairly ordinary experience and I feel pretty sure that many people have gone through something like it; but as time goes by, I am more and more convinced that what I experienced is of great importance to me...
After the accident occurred, I was trapped under a Toyota Tundra truck...
Around 4:00 p...
