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Suddenly, I was in a tunnel that was illuminated by a strong blue light...
Somewhere around June, 2000 I tried to commit suicide for the third time in a row with medications...
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Portia NDE Home Classification NDE 3250 Portia NDE 5434 Experience Description I woke up and found myself standing to the right of the operating table...
I grew up in the worst neighborhood in the city...
The following experience description was written in 2004...
Hilde Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3311 Hilde Probable NDE 5447 Experience Description I had an appendix operation during which I suddenly floated out of my body...
I was sitting in the bathtub with my friend, it was raining outside...
My third child was coming fast and then something went wrong...
Cardiac catheter error resulted in bypass graft spiral dissection and iatrogenic heart attack followed by urinary tract infection related to non-sterile Foley placement later leading to urosepsis, septic shock, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, , renal f...
Mattie K NDE Home Classification NDE 3423 Mattie K NDE 6853 Experience Description First the wave smacked me, and then I found myself standing in a blue channel of light...
Then the first thing I saw was a vision of myself dead on my bed and the landlord coming in the door with his daughter...
I had been to the dentist with my wife for the extraction of my wisdom tooth...
