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Driving truck too fast...
I was thirteen years old...
My experience began the day before the near-death event...
I remember once I came to from having been unconscious that I had this feeling, this urgent need to let go...
I had had a severe diverticular blood loss about an hour earlier and was very unsteady on my feet...
The surgery was scheduled for afternoon, they laid me on the operating table and the anesthesiologist gave me the anesthesia, I saw that other people entered the operating room I think they were nurses and nurses' aides...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
I was twenty-one and was with my then boyfriend in a hotel, in Paris...
I was in the car taking my girlfriend home when I felt a growing pain in my right leg and I went into automatic as though something or the part of me that was conscious was preparing to leave my body without harming anybody else...
My experience was as follows: I had to go to a clinic to have tests for tuberculosis as a fellow-student had fallen ill with the disease...
‘Bring your son into the examining room, the doctor will be there shortly’ the young nurse instructed...
I was in the recovery room of a hospital after having a minor surgical procedure that required a general anesthetic...
