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On a Thursday I went to my car, opened the door and sat when I felt a strong pain in my abdomen...
Julian A NDE Home Classification NDE 3038 Julian A NDE 5417 Experience Description They were performing an angioplasty on me and they had entered via radial...
I was completely outside time, so I can't say how long the experience lasted...
I was twenty-one...
Lisa K NDE Home Classification NDE 3046 Lisa K NDE 6283 Experience Description I had a cardiac procedure to stop atrial fibrillation; I was under general anesthesia for 9 hours...
I had attempted suicide by an overdose of drugs...
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As a teacher, I was supervising students coming out two doors of the cafeteria for recess...
I was in a drug-induced coma; on a respirator and life support, after a pulmonary hemorrhage caused by severe lupus...
I was laying back in the dental chair with a nasal mask on through which I was receiving laughing gas...
At 11 years old, I was rushed to the intensive care unit due to a case of septicemia [a dangerous blood infection], which was the result of a bad diagnosis made by a general doctor...
I had a problem pregnancy...
I was a very serious athlete all of my life and knew my body very intimately...
