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I went into labor and then had to have an emergency cesarean section...
Marie C NDE Home Classification NDE 2714 Marie C NDE 5117 Experience Description I was eight and a half years old and was sick with viral hepatitis...
Dale T NDE Home Classification NDE 2716 Dale T NDE 5198 Experience Description It was about 55 years ago, and I was around 6 years old...
I was a recruit going through training for the Michigan State Police...
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...
At the beginning, I was choking...
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...
I was a life guard in New Jersey...
