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I was on the operating table and noticed that my heart rate on the monitor changed to V-Tach...
I saw the Light...
In the fall of 1993, I designated forty days to abstain from food, sleep and human contact in preparation for a suicide attempt...
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James F NDE Home Classification NDE 1480 James F NDE 118 Experience Description Shortly after eating a large dinner three days before Thanksgiving Day, 1996, I had experienced pains to my chest that was so sharp that it dropped me to my knees...
Working alone...
My First Near Death Experience I remember this one time when I was about two and a half years old (1974-1975, somewhere in Texas), it was my first death experience...
I was in a bed flying over the city of Chattanooga looking down at the ground and the terrain...
My parents tell me I was two years old...
I had been ill with the flu for about five weeks, was at home on sick leave from work, and was in bed...
On March 13, 1996 at three in the afternoon, I got very sick and knew I needed help...
Events surrounding NDE: I was employed at the University of Michigan; I was married and had a son, four months old...
The pushbike rapidly gathered momentum as I pedaled hard down the hill...
