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I was so excited, it was my first concert and date as a sixteen year old...
I was with family on our yearly summer vacation at the Outer Banks Beach...
Gilbert H Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1559 Gilbert H Probable NDE 3448 Experience Description At a given moment, my thoughts started wandering off and a bright white light arose around me, until I found myself in a kind of white room with ...
When I was twenty-eight years old, I was out on a date with a boyfriend that I had broken up with previously...
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I kept myself tightened to the cliff face...
Maria N FDE Home Classification FDE 1593 Maria N FDE 3493 Experience Description It was on a morning in the month of November...
Ryland D FDE Home Classification FDE 1608 Ryland D FDE 3576 Experience Description When I got sucked into the drainpipe, the instant I knew I was in trouble, my life flashed before my eyes not like a movie with scenes in it...
I was driving with a friend from Missouri late at night...
That night I entered into the emergency room, I almost don't remember because I passed out in the ambulance with very high blood pressure...
I was ill with what doctors thought was the flu...
I was in Rio de Janeiro on a training course sponsored by the company I worked for...
In a state of depression over the end of a romantic relationship, I attempted suicide with an overdose of heart medication...
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