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I was a Combat Marine, in a battle in which certain death seemed imminent...
Jake NDE Home Classification NDE 2042 Jake NDE 4169 Experience Description I had gotten stuck on a very large rope swing near a friend's house, my shoe was stuck in the loop and the harder I pulled the more my shoe came off...
Almost immediately I had an allergic reaction to medicine prior to the NDE...
I was eleven years old...
Bo FDE Home Classification FDE 2065 Bo FDE 4221 Experience Description During a recess at the village's school my whole class went down to the small river and out on the new ice near the school...
I was sitting around talking with friends when I felt my heart speed up faster and faster and then stop...
By telephone, I interviewed Rebecca yesterday evening...
On a typical warm summer vacation day during the summer of 1976, I decided to travel with a friend from Allentown, Pennsylvania to Ocean City, New Jersey to enjoy sailing my sixteen feet HobbieCat on the ocean...
I was in an IBM sales class when I experienced heart failure...
Robert S NDE Home Classification NDE 2231 Robert S NDE 4454 Experience Description Upon passing out in the shower I fell forward and struck my face between the eyes on a small retaining wall between the shower and bathroom floor...
As a child of approximately 5 years, I went to a lake with my parents and a married couple, who were friends of theirs...
After the motor vehicle accident, I was brought to the hospital via ambulance and have no recall of that...
