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In 2002, I had a severe car crash where I hit a tree head-on at 80 km/h...
At age 7, I was taking swimming lessons in the very deep, dark Lake Michigan...
I was in the passenger seat of a car that my boyfriend was driving...
On October 1, my second daughter was born by C-section and everything went well...
After getting the result of the pap smear, I went to see my pastor...
It was late that night when my friend called her mom to come pick us up from the movie theater...
When I turned age 16 in September 1974, my parents gave me a car for Christmas...
I awoke early in the morning with severe chest pain and asked my wife to call 911...
I was lying in bed in my dorm room, alone, after having walked home during half time from a basketball game...
My NDE happened in 1971...
Carlos Manuel V NDE Home Classification Second-Person NDE 4241 Carlos Manuel V NDE 8136 Experience Description Hello, my name is Adrian...
Newt J NDE Home Classification NDE 4242 Newt J NDE 8137 Experience Description I was on a road trip to holiday with my then-girlfriend's family on 25...
