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I was sitting on my couch and my breathing was cut off...
Demi M NDE Home Classification NDE 1448 Demi M NDE 157 Experience Description I was taken to the emergency room at Kaiser hospital because I had tried to kill myself two days before and that afternoon I was really beginning to feel the effects; my body was ...
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Diana P Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1450 Diana P Probable NDE 150 Experience Description I was in my living room looking in the mirror my right eye couldn't focus on my reflection I kept blinking and blinking trying to get it to focus I fe...
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...
It was May 5th and I was in my private room on the ninth floor of the University of Cincinnati Hospital recovering from a surgery to remove my first and second rib...
Kimberly HA NDE Home Classification NDE 1455 Kimberly HA NDE 133 Experience Description The seizure could've been fatal...
I had been severely depressed for some time after the birth of my youngest child...
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My name is George and I narrate the experience of my mother-in-law, whom I didn't know...
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...
