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Francisco J NDE Home Classification NDE 2703 Francisco J NDE 5128 Experience Description There was a wall next to a swing, and I jumped from this wall to grab the cross-bar of the swing...
Alan M FDE Home Classification FDE 2705 Alan M FDE 5181 Experience Description The experience is most difficult to put into words...
My mother, brother and I were staying in a guest house next to the hospital where they were treating me, and every day I'd go over there and would have my blood taken and my condition monitored...
I had been in cardiac arrest for eighteen minutes...
After the accident occurred, I was trapped under a Toyota Tundra truck...
Matt H NDEs Home Classification NDE 2757 Matt H NDEs 5248 Experience Description My best friend and I were at a family reunion on a ranch a hundred and fifty miles from Sacramento, California...
Michaele S NDE Home Classification NDE 2823 Michaele S NDE 5363 Experience Description I was driving my 9 year old daughter home from the dentist and she was sleeping on the seat beside me...
I was hiking with a friend in the Bowness River valley and we decided to climb up from the valley via a very steep hill...
Pamela M NDE Home Classification NDE 2858 Pamela M NDE 6032 Experience Description I have a story...
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Alexandre B FDE Home Classification FDE 2875 Alexandre B FDE 5375 Experience Description I was swept away by a wave on a Corsican beach and was saved by my father just before swallowing sea water...
I was suffering from an attack of kidney stones for the third time that week, and a new doctor came in and said, 'I'm going to give you the maximum pain reliever that you can take, for your weight: 250 mg of a mixture of morphine and Demerol...
