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I saw the Light...
In the fall of 1993, I designated forty days to abstain from food, sleep and human contact in preparation for a suicide attempt...
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My First Near Death Experience I remember this one time when I was about two and a half years old (1974-1975, somewhere in Texas), it was my first death experience...
I suffered serious complications from a tonsillectomy at age seven...
The night before an open water scuba diving trip, my dive partner and I stayed up late, drinking beer and got little sleep...
My parents tell me I was two years old...
I had been ill with the flu for about five weeks, was at home on sick leave from work, and was in bed...
My older cousin and mother used to choke me until I lost consciousness...
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Events surrounding NDE: I was employed at the University of Michigan; I was married and had a son, four months old...
The pushbike rapidly gathered momentum as I pedaled hard down the hill...
I was at a dental surgery...
Events surrounding NDE: I had been in a severe automobile accident at 7:00 pm on September 17, 1963...
