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I was forty-one and had my third child...
I poised myself sitting upright against the wall, near the glass pane I had just broken...
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To begin with a guy I liked had moved overseas because of the military...
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I had to have a biopsy of my bladder as an inflammation showed up on the ultra sound...
I was drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes all morning...
Jean R NDE Home Classification NDE 1384 Jean R NDE 280 Experience Description I suddenly was aware I was a spirit looking down at my body...
Christine S NDE Home Classification NDE 1390 Christine S NDE 268 Experience Description I remember passing out from the smoke and not being able to breath...
On January 27, 1997, while in my local hospital, I suffered a cardiac arrest...
This is going to be difficult, as it's probably going to bring me to tears as I recall it, but here it is in detail: A dank, gray November night, 1991...
I had a car accident and was pronounced 'dead'...
Okay, here is my experience to the best of my ability to convey it; the circumstances that led up to it; and the thoughts and feelings in the weeks following it...
Ten days after the birth of our second child, my husband and I had a planned evening for just the two of us...
