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I was swimming when I injured my back, that paralyzed from the shoulders down...
Sleeping at night at a friend's home, on the guest couch...
The midterm holiday had just started...
It was December 26th at 6:30 in the morning I laid down to take a few hours nap before my children would be out of bed...
Translation: I was lying down face-up on my living-room sofa doing a relaxation exercise...
My experience completely changed my life during during a surgery over half my life ago...
I was sitting at a desk facing a wall in a large studio adjacent to the university photolab where I worked part-time, reading Robert Penn Warren's novel *All the King's Men* in preparation for an American literature class scheduled a few hours later...
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When I was five years old, I went to the hospital for a noninvasive surgery, in which I was anesthetized with ether...
We always went to my Mother's and help prepare holiday dinner...
Zhihu forum 5/8/2015: I had an NDE when I was under surgical anesthesia...
My friend and I were standing by the fire place in my den on a sunny summer day...
