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I either get that exact question or something similar, like, 'Does Dying Hurt...
My girlfriend and I had not been getting along so I moved out and got a condominium...
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I was thirty-six years old at the time, playing pick-up basketball, full court, with men fifteen years younger than me...
Mary NDE Home Classification NDE 2416 Mary NDE 4766 Experience Description I remember feeling real sick with the bad taste in my mouth before realizing what had happened with my tooth...
I gave birth to my first son...
Scott S NDE Home Classification NDE 2419 Scott S NDE 4772 Experience Description I was, essentially, strangled to death...
I was taken into the hospital room and laid on a table...
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I went to my dentist to have two teeth extracted...
I was taken to a very nice garden-like place with fine grass to walk in...
Angel NDE Home Classification NDE 2429 Angel NDE 4794 Experience Description I had been suffering horribly from a chronic case of Lyme disease since I was in high school and I was now thirty-one years old...
I was a successful business man, entrepreneur, inventor, until 1999 when I became victim to alcohol...
Cara A NDE Home Classification NDE 2433 Cara A NDE 4801 Experience Description I was being attacked...
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