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I had a near-death experience when I was around the age of 11...
I started to feel very cold, as if I were having fever chills...
I had been suffering mentally for months due to the death of one of my closest friends, a woman left me who I loved more than any before her or since and I have suffered for a long time before that thinking about my near non existent relationship to my hero...
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My death experience (DE) was 2/14/1988; quite a while ago, but I remember it as if it were yesterday...
The experience is far too long and detailed to write down here in full detail...
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Early last November, I went in for a long overdue physical...
Good morning, I do not know if mine can be defined in a strict sense as an NDE, but it has some traits in common...
I have always sought knowledge at a different level than my peers and family, as such I have experimented with many religious/ spiritual exercises...
The experience happened when I had surgery for severe uterus adenomyosis on July 24, 2018...
I was having my third c-section, 35 weeks into my pregnancy...
I was waiting for hip surgery while on the operating table...
I nearly drowned at a beach after being hit by several waves...
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