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I was transported on a life-flight chopper, and they put the wires onto my heart to watch my vital signs...
Mary Lu R NDE Home Classification NDE 1392 Mary Lu R NDE 265 Experience Description I remember going through a darkness...
My family and I had just arrived at a hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
Candy B NDE Home Classification NDE 1394 Candy B NDE 254 Experience Description I had a hysterectomy...
I had had attacks before and always recovered, this time I could tell I wasn't...
On January 27, 1997, while in my local hospital, I suffered a cardiac arrest...
This is going to be difficult, as it's probably going to bring me to tears as I recall it, but here it is in detail: A dank, gray November night, 1991...
I had a car accident and was pronounced 'dead'...
My father was an alcoholic and quite violent...
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I was involved in a terrible accident that until this day people look at me and still ask how and why I survived...
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I was simply having my wisdom teeth out -- a simple operation taking ten minutes...
I had been having intense fever for three days with great bodily pain and a rapid heartbeat...
