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I felt my body shutting down...
Shortly after the injection was given, she was in extreme pain, and then blacked out...
I have Crohn's disease and had just survived a coma...
I was aware that I had flat lined - yet again...
Marty M NDE Home Classification NDE 2694 Marty M NDE 5169 Experience Description I was in total blackness and wondered to myself 'What...
I overdosed on pain meds and was dead for several minutes...
I experienced cardiac arrest while on the operating room table for a stent implant...
I vaguely remember feeling very ill and being put to bed (they did not bother so much with hospitals in those days) feeling very miserable, hot, and that my chest hurt me...
I had the morning before said to my husband that I loved him and if anything happened to me that he was to keep on doing things as he did...
I remember this was the third time I attempted suicide...
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Karen NDE Home Classification NDE 2896 Karen NDE 6120 Experience Description I don't remember the day I was hospitalized, but the days before I was knew I was really sick...
I was donating blood for the first time at the age of 18...
