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It was July 12, 1975 and I had just turned 16 on June 29th...
Rose F NDE Home Classification NDE 3028 Rose F NDE 6269 Experience Description I was in Italy for summer vacation with my mother; her parents resided there and so we spent the whole summer with them...
I had been in the hospital for two weeks and my cardiologist told me and my parents that my heart was not compatible with living (verbatim)...
Victor D Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3037 Victor D Probable NDE 6278 Experience Description When I was five years old, a friend and I were playing out behind our homes...
My near death experience, which I believe occurred on August 11th, and the place I went are ever-present in my consciousness...
I was twenty-one...
Submitted by Jonathan Phoenix...
I'm an old man...
I had an attack of pancreatitis while at work...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
On or about Jan 31, 1977 I started feeling flu-like symptoms (fever, chills, general weakness and fatigue)...
I had been in the hospital with medications in an IV for my heart failure and got a horrible leg cramp in my right leg which was the most painful I had ever experienced and asked to stand up...
