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I was in the hospital, semi-seated in bed, after giving birth to my first child...
Bob W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2525 Bob W Probable NDE 4924 Experience Description As mentioned above at the point of blockage I ceased to breathe...
Tim NDE Home Classification NDE 2526 Tim NDE 4927 Experience Description During major emergency surgery for perforated diverticulitis that destroyed much of my large and small colon, I rose above the operating table...
It has been many years...
I was being observed during pregnancy and was admitted into the hospital's high-risk labor and delivery department...
My dad and some of his friends were in a garage working on a car, they were in the front by the walk in door which was open at the time...
My NDE happened when I was a child, although I didn't remember it until after my brother died...
I was twenty years old and working for the US Forest Service building trails in the mountains north of Los Angles...
Got caught in an undertow, decided to rest when knocked down again, and dragged on bottom, stones embedded in leg...
I felt tremendously peaceful...
I was under general anesthesia during a four-hour surgery about two weeks before my mother passed away...
I experienced death attacking me several times in a form of a tidal wave while I was resting in the beach...
