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I could see myself on the operating table during heart surgery...
I had fallen unconscious outside a casino in downtown Nanaimo and entered clinical death (no vitals, not breathing, no heartbeat, and no pulse)...
I was a teenager at the time of my experience...
Josefa L NDE Home Classification NDE 3136 Josefa L NDE 6326 Experience Description Some friends cut off my breathing by squeezing my chest and lungs...
Johanna S NDE Home Classification NDE 3137 Johanna S NDE 6400 Experience Description I had been living with my adoptive mother (who was actually my aunt)...
Kathi S NDE Home Classification NDE 3141 Kathi S NDE 6406 Experience Description I had suffered pain for months and was trying to make it through the holidays before going to the doctor...
I had lost my father many years prior to this incident...
I suddenly became very sick...
I am a type-one diabetic...
My now husband was driving down a country road and did not see that there was a dead end on the road, that dropped about seven or eight feet down, and then there was about a four foot wall of dirt...
When I entered the operating room and was given anesthesia, they told me to count...
I was twelve years old, it was a Saturday evening when I suddenly came down with the worst headache I have ever had...
