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When I drowned, I experienced excruciating pain for what seemed like a second...
I was making a sailing yacht transfer between two cities in my country...
I was looking down from about fifteen feet and was concerned for my buddies who were upset...
This experience happened sometime between the time I lost control of my motorcycle and three and half days later when I came out of the coma...
On a typical warm summer vacation day during the summer of 1976, I decided to travel with a friend from Allentown, Pennsylvania to Ocean City, New Jersey to enjoy sailing my sixteen feet HobbieCat on the ocean...
I started playing the 'choking game'...
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I fell out of an attic onto a concrete garage floor head first...
After experiencing a 'non-survivable' heart attack, I passed out while being loaded into a helicopter for transport to a hospital...
Sunday afternoon on a beautiful sunny day in Georgia, my family and friends were at a local lake...
On 5th May 1999, at my work in the University of Tel-Aviv, I had a severe heart attack...
It was beautiful, indescribable really...
After a night of celebrating while watching the Montréal Olympic games, my friend and I left to go home...
