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After delivering twins prematurely, I had retained placenta and was losing too much blood...
Lois T NDE Home Classification NDE 3008 Lois T NDE 6248 Experience Description We were at a lake in Washington with lots of kids there...
It was July 12, 1975 and I had just turned 16 on June 29th...
Although the NDE occurred when I was almost 5 years old I had no memory of it until the age of 18...
Victor D Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3037 Victor D Probable NDE 6278 Experience Description When I was five years old, a friend and I were playing out behind our homes...
I was completely outside time, so I can't say how long the experience lasted...
My near death experience, which I believe occurred on August 11th, and the place I went are ever-present in my consciousness...
The first thing I remember was being helped from the back seat of the car by my friend Donnie...
Lisa K NDE Home Classification NDE 3046 Lisa K NDE 6283 Experience Description I had a cardiac procedure to stop atrial fibrillation; I was under general anesthesia for 9 hours...
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...
I saw Heaven and there were white clouds, which didn't look so much like clouds but more like large puffy cotton balls...
At 11 years old, I was rushed to the intensive care unit due to a case of septicemia [a dangerous blood infection], which was the result of a bad diagnosis made by a general doctor...
