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In the summer of 1985 I was at a beach in California with my family...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
My sixteen year old son and I had just driven back from visiting my husband...
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Belazreg H NDE Home Classification NDE 3069 Belazreg H NDE 6304 Experience Description I found myself floating in a universe of nothingness...
I was laying back in the dental chair with a nasal mask on through which I was receiving laughing gas...
Georgia P NDE Home Classification NDE 3080 Georgia P NDE 6332 Experience Description I was pregnant with my first child; from my fourth month on I kept having problems...
Edwin G Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3089 Edwin G Probable NDE 6341 Experience Description I went to a friend’s house, at the time I was unaware that her boyfriend suspected we had more than just a friendship (but we did not)...
After a brief visit in a physician's office he determined I had a ruptured ovarian cyst and was rushed the emergency room...
I was in a research study at Yale New Haven hospital for women who had been successfully treated for post-partum depression...
I was on the operating table, but when they tried to give me the anesthetic, via a dark face mask, and told me to breathe...
Glenda G Father's NDE (Sherman G) Home Classification Secondhand NDE 3097 Glenda G Father's NDE (Sherman G) 6350 Experience Description My dad, Sherman G, had been diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma and had his right kidney removed...
Ramon Probable NDE Home Classification NDE 3099 Ramon Probable NDE 6320 Experience Description It was around 5 pm on that day in October 2004 that I felt very tired...
