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I was twenty-one...
The first thing I remember was being helped from the back seat of the car by my friend Donnie...
I was broadsided while driving my car at approximately fifty-five mph...
I'm an old man...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
As a teacher, I was supervising students coming out two doors of the cafeteria for recess...
I was in a drug-induced coma; on a respirator and life support, after a pulmonary hemorrhage caused by severe lupus...
I had been in the hospital with medications in an IV for my heart failure and got a horrible leg cramp in my right leg which was the most painful I had ever experienced and asked to stand up...
Belazreg H NDE Home Classification NDE 3069 Belazreg H NDE 6304 Experience Description I found myself floating in a universe of nothingness...
I was laying back in the dental chair with a nasal mask on through which I was receiving laughing gas...
Bill D NDE Home Classification NDE 3072 Bill D NDE 6316 Experience Description We were hunting about 20 miles out of town...
At 11 years old, I was rushed to the intensive care unit due to a case of septicemia [a dangerous blood infection], which was the result of a bad diagnosis made by a general doctor...
