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I read a book by Jessie Duplantis about his NDE...
I was admitted at the emergency room with suspected heart problems...
For years, I’ve sought to find others who’ve had similar experiences as mine...
I was on life support for double pneumonia, septic shock, and multiple organ failure...
It was December 26th at 6:30 in the morning I laid down to take a few hours nap before my children would be out of bed...
My experience completely changed my life during during a surgery over half my life ago...
This is an account of the first moments of my life here as best as I can describe...
In 2018, a sudden and severe illness put me into a coma and in the ICU for some time...
It was Saturday, January 11, 1986, and winter in Chicago, Illinois...
On Halloween night in 2012, I was riding a moped to my friend's house to hang-out...
I experienced this when I was 18 years old...
Prior to the experience, I had a collapsed lung, so the doctors put a chest tube in...
