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I was in first grade and having lunch with my class in the cafeteria...
I woke up from surgery in the intensive care unit (ICU), looked at my husband and squeaked out, 'I never dreamed before while under surgery...
My life situation at the time of the event was that I had a strong uneasiness with studies, but the end of a relationship made me fall into a hole...
I was with my wife and we were working out at our ranch in the country...
My NDE occurred at the Grand National Final racing event in Atlanta, Georgia...
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I suffered a pulmonary embolism...
I had been in great emotional distress for a few days due to losing my family in a breakup and homelessness, so I got to the point of killing myself and choose to do so via pain med overdose...
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While in the hospital for sepsis, I unknowingly began to experience fibrillation, a heart arrhythmia...
I am a young mother of three who had 20 minutes of Near- Death and Out-of-body experience in 2019, at age 34...
I was diagnosed with esophageal IV cancer on November 11, 2020...
ON NOVEMBER 12, 2014, I had an NDE...
