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This is my grandmother's story, passed down to my mother, and then to me...
I was standing in my friends' doorway, helping them to move a bed...
I was a passenger in an automobile which, due to the driver having a seizure behind the wheel, crashed head on into a tree on the side of the road...
As I said before, we were playing good guys - bad guys...
At the beginning, I was choking...
I had been in cardiac arrest for eighteen minutes...
I was lying on the bed...
I overdosed on pain meds and was dead for several minutes...
In 1981, when I was thirty years of age, I underwent major surgery and experienced the following Near Death Experience (NDE...
Charles N NDE Home Classification NDE 2731 Charles N NDE 5223 Experience Description My Visit to HeavenI had a back surgery in which the anesthesiologist gave me too much anesthesia and I died on the operating table...
I was hit by a car and thrown sixty meters from point of impact...
I was four years old and suffering from a progressively worsening life-threatening pneumonia...
