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Padma NDE

As I lay in bed, with doctors and nurses administering emergency help, all of a sudden I was on the ceiling looking down at my twisted and mangled body...

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Edwin A NDE

It's funny that I write...

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Irene NDE

10 SECONDS 10 seconds in a liquid black sea I lay for this time, but what did I see...

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MF NDE

First Experience: My friends and I were typical teenagers looking for an 'alternative experience'...

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Ron C NDE

It was summer in Long Island, New York at Stone Brook beach...

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Thomas R NDE

I remember suddenly being aware that I was 'floating' above a bed and when I looked down it was me lying there...

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G M NDE

After just moving to the city, my partner and I went to meet some friends on their boat that was parked in the quay...

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Sharon L NDE

I have never been the same since NDE when I saw my body in the street...

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Kami C NDE

It was my first time at the ocean at age seven and a day after a hurricane had been out at sea, warnings posted to swim at own risk and warnings also on radio...

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