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I was in the hospital, semi-seated in bed, after giving birth to my first child...
Tim NDE Home Classification NDE 2526 Tim NDE 4927 Experience Description During major emergency surgery for perforated diverticulitis that destroyed much of my large and small colon, I rose above the operating table...
It has been many years...
I was playing with my sister hanging upside down on the washing line over a stone path...
My father died on the evening of 11/21/2010...
I was in a very weak state later described by the medical staff in layman's terms of a 'walking coma'...
My story started when I was having dinner at home...
My dad and some of his friends were in a garage working on a car, they were in the front by the walk in door which was open at the time...
My NDE happened when I was a child, although I didn't remember it until after my brother died...
The Unseen Contract: My Journey Through Death and Beyond Introduction Hello, my name is James...
My experience started with a terrible pain in my chest, followed by a sinking, falling feeling...
I was twenty years old and working for the US Forest Service building trails in the mountains north of Los Angles...
