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I was eight and a half years old and was sick with viral hepatitis...
The first thing I see as I step out of the bright light is that I am a little higher than everyone else...
Michael H NDE Home Classification NDE 1819 Michael H NDE 3853 Experience Description At 2:24 am, I had been hit from behind by an intoxicated driver...
I had been struggling to breathe for about 24 hours...
Driving truck too fast...
Jason N NDE Home Classification NDE 1838 Jason N NDE 3888 Experience Description I was woke up by someone I did not know...
I had had a severe diverticular blood loss about an hour earlier and was very unsteady on my feet...
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 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...
After I was shot, I ran about a hundred yards...
Tara V NDE Home Classification NDE 1851 Tara V NDE 3907 Experience Description I fell off the back of a motorcycle because the man I was dating at the time hit the car in front of him...
I hyperventilating and stopped breathing...
