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I arrived at the hospital to have my child...
Before I tell my experience, I felt it was important to tell of what happened leading up to my experience...
While giving birth, I had a reaction to the gas (oxygen) used to alleviate some of the labor pain...
Near Death Experience number one...
After eighteen hours of labor, the delivery was not going well at all, and it was too late for a c'sarean...
Ancient Iranian NDEs Home Classification NDEs 3269 Ancient Iranian NDEs 16021 Experience Description The Ardā Vīrāz Nāmag,An Ancient Mazdean Journey into the HereafterContributed by JonathanThe Ardā Vīrāz Nāmag, an old Mazdean eschatological narrative, prob...
The following experience description was written in 2004...
Kelly C NDEs Home Classification NDE 3274 Kelly C NDEs 6611 Experience Description The first experience was in 1995...
I don't remember how I got there, but I ended up in a room that was like a waiting room...
Sheryl NDE Home Classification NDE 3278 Sheryl NDE 6615 Experience Description At the time I was twenty-two years old and was struggling to forge my way through college...
I broke my back about six years ago in a skydiving accident...
It's been 16 years since my experience and for many years I wasn't able to talk about it out of fear of judgment...
