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It was Friday, October 9th...
I was behind the operating table perhaps ten to twelve feet back and slightly above the doctor's and nurse's heads and I could feel the palpable sense of frustration and failure of the doctor's because my heart had stopped and they could not continue to try...
I was very unhappy in my family and social life, a gay teenager brought up in a very restrictive and rigidly conservative family where most of my needs for safety and care were not being met...
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After feeling intense pain and deep fear during strangulation, I became aware of 'floating' through a dark (PITCH BLACK, all-encompassing darkness) area that had no limits or boundaries...
I was driving in a car and it seemed as if I was about to crash into a truck...
I found myself totally lucid, clear in mind and thought, floating in blackness...
Almost immediately I had an allergic reaction to medicine prior to the NDE...
Tom C NDE Home Classification NDE 2050 Tom C NDE 4212 Experience Description I had a NDE when I had a bad car accident six years ago...
Lisette D NDE Home Classification NDE 2051 Lisette D NDE 4206 Experience Description A friend and I were hitch-hiking to Ste-Adèle from Victoriaville...
It was during the summer of 1979, I was about to turn nine...
Rick H Possible NDE 4228 Home Classification Possible NDE 2061 Rick H Possible NDE 4228 Experience Description My kids had just got off the bus and we were talking and I was telling them that I love them and was talking to them...
My experience was a little different because I was having a baby girl...
