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I was drowning and I saw my life flash before my eyes...
We were celebrating a birthday, the whole family, and at the end we drank Queimada Gallega, which is a hot drink, from Galicia originally, which is prepared by heating up whiskey from grape liquor with lemon and sugar...
It was July 12, 1975 and I had just turned 16 on June 29th...
I had gone on vacation, at the invitation of a young married couple, to Monterrey, Nuevo León, in Mexico...
Julian A NDE Home Classification NDE 3038 Julian A NDE 5417 Experience Description They were performing an angioplasty on me and they had entered via radial...
I was completely outside time, so I can't say how long the experience lasted...
I had attempted suicide by an overdose of drugs...
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One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
As a teacher, I was supervising students coming out two doors of the cafeteria for recess...
I had been in the hospital with medications in an IV for my heart failure and got a horrible leg cramp in my right leg which was the most painful I had ever experienced and asked to stand up...
Georgia P NDE Home Classification NDE 3080 Georgia P NDE 6332 Experience Description I was pregnant with my first child; from my fourth month on I kept having problems...
I was a very serious athlete all of my life and knew my body very intimately...
