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It was July 12, 1975 and I had just turned 16 on June 29th...
Rose F NDE Home Classification NDE 3028 Rose F NDE 6269 Experience Description I was in Italy for summer vacation with my mother; her parents resided there and so we spent the whole summer with them...
Although the NDE occurred when I was almost 5 years old I had no memory of it until the age of 18...
Vivian M Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3030 Vivian M Probable NDE 6272 Experience Description At age 17, I took some kind of hallucinogen...
This is my 2 or 3 year-old words (my daughter was the one that 'died'): 'Mommy I was in that place...
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I had gone on vacation, at the invitation of a young married couple, to Monterrey, Nuevo León, in Mexico...
I had been in the hospital for two weeks and my cardiologist told me and my parents that my heart was not compatible with living (verbatim)...
On a Thursday I went to my car, opened the door and sat when I felt a strong pain in my abdomen...
Victor D Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3037 Victor D Probable NDE 6278 Experience Description When I was five years old, a friend and I were playing out behind our homes...
My near death experience, which I believe occurred on August 11th, and the place I went are ever-present in my consciousness...
I was twenty-one...
The first thing I remember was being helped from the back seat of the car by my friend Donnie...
