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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...
I was at a friend's barbeque with a few friends...
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'...
In the winter of 1981, I was on the way to the beach with a friend, and we were going down the steps (around 10:30 in the morning), when suddenly, as my friend tells it, I fainted...
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...
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...
