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I was in a cab while vomiting...
Tonya R NDE Home Classification NDE 2137 Tonya R NDE 4314 Experience Description My experience happened in 1993...
I was looking down from about fifteen feet and was concerned for my buddies who were upset...
Jerry G NDE Home Classification NDE 2140 Jerry G NDE 4323 Experience Description This was during my third hospitalization and second spinal surgery of 1969...
Jacqueline H NDE Home Classification NDE 2141 Jacqueline H NDE 4324 Experience Description I was eating breakfast with my then husband...
Paula D Daughter NDE Home Classification Second-hand NDE 2147 Paula D Daughter NDE 4335 Experience Description My name is Paula and I am writing this information on behalf of my daughter who had the experience...
Joe NDE Home Classification NDE 2151 Joe NDE 4346 Experience Description I experienced a beautiful, tranquil light, feeling of total peace and serenity at the time of the accident...
Michael O NDE Home Classification NDE 2152 Michael O NDE 4349 Experience Description I will start by saying that prior to the event, I was diagnosed with a condition called IGA Nephropathy...
I was stationed aboard the USS Prairie in the Philippines, we had a ship's party on Grande Island there, I was scuba diving for coral, I was almost bitten by a sixteen foot long dark grey shark, I managed to get to shore unharmed I thought, I did not feel t...
I remember having an incredibly powerful fear of death before my surgery - a fear which vanished after my experience and has never returned...
In the midst of the heart attack, I was talking with the emergency medical technician in the ambulance one second, and the next I was somewhere else...
I had just finished a year of teaching kindergarten at a private school in southern Arizona, and was living alone out in the middle of the desert without a phone...
