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The doctor came in and talked to me...
A day before this happened to me, I was in a bookstore in Orlando, Florida where I was living at that time...
I must have been recovering from the double pneumonia or perhaps was still ill; I know this because my mother was obviously watching me quite closely or she wouldn't have been alarmed when she looked at me sleeping that morning...
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Marie NDE Home Classification NDE 2849 Marie NDE 6029 Experience Description I remember me above my body floating...
I had drowned and found myself in a dark place where I felt I was being pushed and pulled...
Anna L NDE Home Classification NDE 2857 Anna L NDE 5373 Experience Description I lost my sensory connection with my surroundings...
I remember this was the third time I attempted suicide...
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I was in labor...
Alexandre B FDE Home Classification FDE 2875 Alexandre B FDE 5375 Experience Description I was swept away by a wave on a Corsican beach and was saved by my father just before swallowing sea water...
I was suffering from an attack of kidney stones for the third time that week, and a new doctor came in and said, 'I'm going to give you the maximum pain reliever that you can take, for your weight: 250 mg of a mixture of morphine and Demerol...
I was taken to hospital, I had a bad cold...
It was all by strange chance that in August 2011 I ended up travelling to Beirut for a breast augmentation surgery, having been born and raised in Ottawa, Canada, with access to lots of plastic surgeons within my own city...
