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I had been in cardiac arrest for eighteen minutes...
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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 must have been recovering from the double pneumonia or perhaps was still ill; I know this because my mother was obviously watching me quite closely or she wouldn't have been alarmed when she looked at me sleeping that morning...
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I remember the emergency room doctor telling me they were going to have to remove my gall bladder...
I had just turned 21 three days prior and I was in my college-housing apartment with two friends...
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I was transferred from a private birthing room to the emergency room after the staff noticed that my baby might require her stomach and lungs to be cleaned because she might have meconium aspiration syndrome...
Mindy T NDE Home Classification NDE 2996 Mindy T NDE 6238 Experience Description May 24th, 2005 started out like any other day...
Prior to my suicide attempt, I was hospitalized 5 times for anxiety and depression...
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Victor D Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3037 Victor D Probable NDE 6278 Experience Description When I was five years old, a friend and I were playing out behind our homes...
The first thing I remember was being helped from the back seat of the car by my friend Donnie...
At the time of attack I went completely unconscious...
