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This is a story that my deceased stepfather, Lee M...
While being transported to Harborview Hospital via helicopter, I found myself floating above my body and looking down at it through the air-grill that lined the radius at the roof line of the interior of the helicopter...
Jean R NDE Home Classification NDE 1384 Jean R NDE 280 Experience Description I suddenly was aware I was a spirit looking down at my body...
In 1992 I had lung surgery...
Christine S NDE Home Classification NDE 1390 Christine S NDE 268 Experience Description I remember passing out from the smoke and not being able to breath...
Candy B NDE Home Classification NDE 1394 Candy B NDE 254 Experience Description I had a hysterectomy...
I had had attacks before and always recovered, this time I could tell I wasn't...
This is going to be difficult, as it's probably going to bring me to tears as I recall it, but here it is in detail: A dank, gray November night, 1991...
I had a car accident and was pronounced 'dead'...
Ten days after the birth of our second child, my husband and I had a planned evening for just the two of us...
My father was an alcoholic and quite violent...
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I was simply having my wisdom teeth out -- a simple operation taking ten minutes...
