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My near death experience happened after I gave birth to my third son...
It took me five years to be able to talk about my experience...
For a number of years I had been telling my doctor that I was always sad and depressed...
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Steve T NDE Home Classification NDE 3636 Steve T NDE 7172 Experience Description This was in 1976...
At a party, we joked that if anyone overdosed that they would get thrown in the back yard...
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I was having a difficult labor and delivery of my son...
James A NDE Home Classification NDE 3652 James A NDE 7199 Experience Description I was swimming with my girlfriend in a deep natural pool, popular due to it being the holiday season...
When I was 16, I was in a bad place mentally and physically...
I was having a painful period and by mistake, I was given an overdose of a narcotic...
Nicolas F NDE Home Classification NDE 3659 Nicolas F NDE 7204 Experience Description Waiting, about 30 minutes, for a simple surgery of discal hernia, I went to sleep at the surgical unit...
I could not sleep and finally at approximately 3-4 am, the 29th of April 2014, I fell asleep...
I was admitted to the hospital to have a scheduled spinal column surgery...
