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I was in the hospital, semi-seated in bed, after giving birth to my first child...
Bob W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2525 Bob W Probable NDE 4924 Experience Description As mentioned above at the point of blockage I ceased to breathe...
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...
Catherine P NDE Home Classification NDE 2534 Catherine P NDE 4935 Experience Description It was a regular school day...
I was in a very weak state later described by the medical staff in layman's terms of a 'walking coma'...
Vincent K NDE Home Classification NDE 2548 Vincent K NDE 4936 Experience Description About five minutes into my recovery period from a stress-test on an exercise bike, my eyesight began to cloud over, starting from the outside corners...
My NDE happened when I was a child, although I didn't remember it until after my brother died...
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 was walking on a hazy path, enveloped in foul odors and suffering...
I felt tremendously peaceful...
During major surgery on my kidney, the medical staff was unable to control bleeding, which caused my heart to stop...
