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I was ten years old crossing a street heading home for dinner from a friend's house...
Rose D NDE Home Classification NDE 2472 Rose D NDE 4867 Experience Description I was having an asthma attack but this one seemed much worse than any I'd had before...
This experience I have been keeping to myself for almost last fifty years...
I sat on my bike, in front of the car that was about to run me over for what felt like hours, having a little conversation with myself...
In the last couple of years before Christmas 2006, I'd lost my husband, home, horses, dogs, and my car...
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Ricky W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2494 Ricky W Probable NDE 4892 Experience Description I tried to rescue an eight year old friend of mine from drowning, and he took me down under the water...
Ken M Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2497 Ken M Possible NDE 4896 Experience Description I was surfing in Carlsbad, California in the early morning before work...
After a night of celebrating while watching the Montréal Olympic games, my friend and I left to go home...
First of all I will NEVER fear death...
I observed the body surrounded by a surgical team, then the hospital from above, then the hospital surrounded by wintering cornfields...
I was seventeen years old and already a mother of one child who was a year old...
Following a sudden aortic dissection, I was urgently operated in a specialized center...
