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I was hit by a car and was thrown ten feet in the air and fifteen feet in front of the car...
The night before I attempted to take my life...
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My NDE occurred in the mid-fifties in a maternity hospital in California during the delivery of my third child...
John M NDE Home Classification NDE 1366 John M NDE 329 Experience Description I was performing a Reference Mirror Azimuth Determination, with my team member, TSgt (technical sergeant) Will G...
I was supposed to be under sedation for heart surgery, I was, according to the team working on my physical body...
I was having a 'simple knee surgery...
Rue A NDE Home Classification NDE 1372 Rue A NDE 311 Experience Description I was at The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to have magnetic resonance imaging done...
I only remember looking down, from the left hand corner of the room, on a bed with someone in it and people around it doing something to that person...
My first thought was that I was looking up at the bluest sky and fluffiest white clouds I had ever seen...
I was walking in the park with a friend on a nice cool breezy summer night...
This is a story that my deceased stepfather, Lee M...
I was forty-one and had my third child...
