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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...
I was broadsided while driving my car at approximately fifty-five mph...
I had attempted suicide by an overdose of drugs...
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I'm an old man...
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...
I was in a drug-induced coma; on a respirator and life support, after a pulmonary hemorrhage caused by severe lupus...
Belazreg H NDE Home Classification NDE 3069 Belazreg H NDE 6304 Experience Description I found myself floating in a universe of nothingness...
Teresita Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 3074 Teresita Possible NDE 6310 Experience Description I found myself in a place where several things claimed my attention: the place was like a luminous city, but the luminosity was not sunshine...
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...
Georgia P NDE Home Classification NDE 3080 Georgia P NDE 6332 Experience Description I was pregnant with my first child; from my fourth month on I kept having problems...
