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August 14th 2008 I was having a scheduled cesarean section, my fourth one...
Michael H NDE Home Classification NDE 1819 Michael H NDE 3853 Experience Description At 2:24 am, I had been hit from behind by an intoxicated driver...
I didn't see a light or deceased loved ones but I recall looking at (although I had no eyes or a body) a bluish green almost translucent membrane...
I was just seventeen years old and staying with my aunt and uncle in Boundary Bay, British Columbia, Canada...
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I had been struggling to breathe for about 24 hours...
I was playing by a slide area and was struck in the head with a rock...
Driving truck too fast...
My experience began the day before the near-death event...
I remember once I came to from having been unconscious that I had this feeling, this urgent need to let go...
Jason N NDE Home Classification NDE 1838 Jason N NDE 3888 Experience Description I was woke up by someone I did not know...
I had had a severe diverticular blood loss about an hour earlier and was very unsteady on my feet...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
