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I was thirteen years old...
I was twenty-one and was with my then boyfriend in a hotel, in Paris...
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...
Mitzi M NDE Home Classification NDE 1872 Mitzi M NDE 3935 Experience Description I was at home, preparing Thanksgiving leftovers for family and friends that were staying the weekend...
It was New Year's Eve 2002 (and I was completely content) and we suddenly received a call from the wife of one of my closest friends...
I was slowly aware of a light ahead of me...
David J NDE Home Classification NDE 1947 David J NDE 4050 Experience Description I found myself in a dark void...
In consciousness I remember the surgeon telling me that I had to have surgery...
Attila D FDE Home Classification FDE 1980 Attila D FDE 4106 Experience Description I had only passed my car driving test for a couple of weeks, but my dad let me drive his car as I never owned my own car at the time...
Alex and I made all of our pit stops and finally set out on Highway 58...
I was a Combat Marine, in a battle in which certain death seemed imminent...
I was critically ill, had surgery and within twenty-four hours I was septic and went into adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and placed on a ventilator...
