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I was in hospital due to Anorexia Nervosa...
I remember a severe tightness/pain in my chest, and gasping for air with the feeling I wasn't getting air...
In consciousness I remember the surgeon telling me that I had to have surgery...
I had slipped and fallen into the deep end of a swimming pool...
I was about fourteen years old when I died...
I had a spinal anesthetic during a long and difficult labor...
Blester PW NDE Home Classification NDE 1966 Blester PW NDE 4091 Experience Description I was in contact with a woman who I was supporting in Glasgow...
Raina J NDE Home Classification NDE 1967 Raina J NDE 4092 Experience Description Much of the auto accident is blurry...
Kathy R Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 1968 Kathy R Possible NDE 4095 Experience Description I was celebrating my twentieth birthday and had invited just a few select people around - mainly sisters and brothers...
I am looking at myself lying in a hospital bed...
While working at a local service station I had repaired a large split rim truck tire, and it had been laying on the floor of the shop for several hours...
I was on my bicycle and the brakes failed just as I was riding into heavy traffic...
