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When I was just three years old I drowned in a pool behind my house...
James G NDE Home Classification NDE 1445 James G NDE 164 Experience Description I was in a coma, gangrene right leg, heart failure, lungs -- pulmonary edema...
I exited my body and saw my relatives around my lifeless body...
Richard B NDE Home Classification NDE 1453 Richard B NDE 144 Experience Description I was on my way to work, 1:30 in the afternoon, temperature was 105 degrees, I was riding my motorcycle, car turned at last second, I hit car approximately two feet from fro...
I had been severely depressed for some time after the birth of my youngest child...
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Doina Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1463 Doina Probable NDE 3379 Experience Description I was on the operation table; the last event I have in my memory was when I received the anesthesia in my hand...
Conditions around the time of the experience: Brief interludes of asphyxiation/apnea due to violent episodes of heavy coughing probably caused by allergic reactions to pollen that spring, reactions which were much stronger than at any other time...
I had two heart attacks in 2007...
It was July 20th 1987, first day on the job, it went good all day as we did concert stages, set up, tear down, load up, and move on...
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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Working alone...
On March 13, 1996 at three in the afternoon, I got very sick and knew I needed help...
