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After being sent to the hospital, my body felt peaceful and amazing...
I have been snowboarding since I was 12 and have always enjoyed the extreme jumps on the mountains...
My kindergarten class was on an outing to a local state park where we swam in a shallow tidal pool and played on the beach...
I left my body completely...
I was over at my cousin's house for a pool party; I remember everything that happened so vividly...
I didn't see a light or deceased loved ones but I recall looking at (although I had no eyes or a body) a bluish green almost translucent membrane...
I was playing by a slide area and was struck in the head with a rock...
I was swimming in the 'Young Men's Christian Association' (YMCA) pool...
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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 standing in the ocean...
We were unloading some crates onto a barge several hundred yards off the coast near the mouth of the Mekong river (we called it the Saigon river at the time)...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
