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In 1960, I was 6 years old and drowning...
I walked towards the orchard, it was silvery white and beautiful...
Lizzy L FDE Home Classification Possible NDE 3551 Lizzy L Possible NDE 7055 Experience Description During the summer, I went as one of four chaperones for a youth group at our Presbyterian Church...
Marshall L NDE Home Classification NDE 3594 Marshall L NDE 7111 Experience Description I was crossing the four lane street in my Honda civic then out of nowhere a truck hit me at 50 mph in a 40 mph zone, I was going 25mph...
I was to have an intravenous pyelogram to determine kidney function...
After being hit by a jeep, thrown couple of feet away from the car's location, and falling on the concrete ground, I tried to get up as quickly but I couldn't as if I was fully paralyzed...
Since the age of 13, I regularly think about suicide to end a life that never brought me any pleasure...
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It was 11 pm, I was returning home from university and as a joke I sat on the hood of the car...
I was on the Mississippi River and stepped off a sandbar without a life jacket...
I was 9 1/2 years old and it was mid-winter in Northern Ontario...
I had become seriously ill with osteomyelitis, contracted through what was eventually determined to be a golf ball-sized polyp located behind my larynx that had ruptured...
On January 3, 2009 in the early afternoon I began feeling gaseousness in my stomach...
