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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...
During a suicide attempt, I jumped out of a moving car and landed head first on the ground...
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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...
Beth L FDE Home Classification FDE 2554 Beth L FDE 4963 Experience Description We had those old metal ice cube trays that make the giant cubes with the sharp edges...
When I was fifteen years old, I lived in Southern California on Coronado Island...
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...
