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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...
It was Halloween night; my dad took me trick or treating...
In July of 2019 I was in a car accident...
The night before an open water scuba diving trip, my dive partner and I stayed up late, drinking beer and got little sleep...
I had been ill with the flu for about five weeks, was at home on sick leave from work, and was in bed...
Conner I NDE Home Classification NDE 1495 Conner I NDE 45 Experience Description I was having a heart attack causing my heart to stop beating...
Events surrounding NDE: I was employed at the University of Michigan; I was married and had a son, four months old...
I remember seeing a passageway and then I was moving toward an entryway ahead of me...
The pushbike rapidly gathered momentum as I pedaled hard down the hill...
I was giving birth to my fifth child, she was overdue by two to three weeks and it was a birth brought on by injection...
I was at a dental surgery...
