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I was awakened from a deep sleep by my sister to answer a telephone call...
Ricky W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2494 Ricky W Probable NDE 4892 Experience Description I tried to rescue an eight year old friend of mine from drowning, and he took me down under the water...
After a night of celebrating while watching the Montréal Olympic games, my friend and I left to go home...
I observed the body surrounded by a surgical team, then the hospital from above, then the hospital surrounded by wintering cornfields...
After the doctors could not revive me, I found myself above them in the corner of the room...
I was going in and out of consciousness during the examination and when I was in the second operating-theatre I suddenly found myself surrounded by very bright light, where there was really no way to tell up or down...
Following a sudden aortic dissection, I was urgently operated in a specialized center...
On January 27th I had an appointment with my cardiologist at 2:00 pm...
I was in the hospital, semi-seated in bed, after giving birth to my first child...
I was standing in the kitchen of my home...
Bob W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2525 Bob W Probable NDE 4924 Experience Description As mentioned above at the point of blockage I ceased to breathe...
Tim NDE Home Classification NDE 2526 Tim NDE 4927 Experience Description During major emergency surgery for perforated diverticulitis that destroyed much of my large and small colon, I rose above the operating table...
