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It was an unbearable pain, level 12/10...
It was a very hot and sunny day...
I won't get in to the reasons I drowned myself...
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I was on the operating table and noticed that my heart rate on the monitor changed to V-Tach...
It was in the days of Hippies, drugs, free sex, and rebellion...
Before I had become unconscious, my boyfriend at the time had just got home and he came in the bathroom to let me know he was home...
I saw the Light...
In the fall of 1993, I designated forty days to abstain from food, sleep and human contact in preparation for a suicide attempt...
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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...
My First Near Death Experience I remember this one time when I was about two and a half years old (1974-1975, somewhere in Texas), it was my first death experience...
In July of 2019 I was in a car accident...
