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The time was June 12, 1982; approximately...
I was working as a seamstress in a sportswear company...
Although lamentably true, the following story may appear as though I sat up a few nights concocting it, or could blame it on a bad experience with mood-altering substances (substances that I used to refer to as “recreational drugs” -- most of which were no...
I was sleeping and dreaming...
I was on a motor scooter and all of a sudden a car appeared in front of us...
I was playing in my auntie's room with my cousins when I decided to climb up the window to see what it looks like...
Pluma S NDE Home Classification NDE 1440 Pluma S NDE 179 Experience Description My boyfriend at the time got some cocaine, and said I couldn't do any unless I did it like he did, with a needle...
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Decembra B NDE Home Classification NDE 1442 Decembra B NDE 167 Experience Description I was swimming with a friend as a child and I swam too far across a lake to get back...
When I was just three years old I drowned in a pool behind my house...
James G NDE Home Classification NDE 1445 James G NDE 164 Experience Description I was in a coma, gangrene right leg, heart failure, lungs -- pulmonary edema...
I was sitting on my couch and my breathing was cut off...
Demi M NDE Home Classification NDE 1448 Demi M NDE 157 Experience Description I was taken to the emergency room at Kaiser hospital because I had tried to kill myself two days before and that afternoon I was really beginning to feel the effects; my body was ...
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