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Jim B NDE

I laid down for a nap, with a request to my wife to wake me at 3 pm if she didn't hear me up before then - I vividly remember noticing the digital clock in our bedroom showing 1:50pm...

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David M NDE

I was coughing up fluid from my lungs, which had accumulated in my windpipe...

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Greyson 16/32Read the account

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Mike W NDE

The pushbike rapidly gathered momentum as I pedaled hard down the hill...

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Greyson 14/32Read the account

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Dick B FDE

I entered a turn on my motorcycle too fast...

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Jessica B NDE

I was in a coma for seven days suffering from encephalitis during this time I had my NDE...

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Dove NDE

I was training a horse and took a fall while jumping a creek and only remember falling but not landing...

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Cristal S NDE

I was asleep at my Grandmother's house...

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Greyson 12/32Read the account

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Robin G NDE

When I was nineteen years old, I gave birth to my daughter Khrysta after seven hours of excruciating labor...

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Julio M NDE

Memoirs of My Death Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina Winter 1976, very cold within the context of a very complicated family life and in my personal life I desperately sought some other way out...

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Greyson 29/32Read the account

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