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On January 27, 1997, while in my local hospital, I suffered a cardiac arrest...
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 involved in a terrible accident that until this day people look at me and still ask how and why I survived...
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I was simply having my wisdom teeth out -- a simple operation taking ten minutes...
I had been having intense fever for three days with great bodily pain and a rapid heartbeat...
When I was three years old I fell out of an open window from the fourth floor...
Kitty W NDE Home Classification NDE 1414 Kitty W NDE 3427 Experience Description When I was twenty-two, I learned that my husband went missing in action in Viet Nam...
My friend and I set out to enjoy a day of tubing in the river...
Charlene P NDE Home Classification NDE 1416 Charlene P NDE 3434 Experience Description Right before the experience, I was rushed to the intensive care unit...
