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I'm an old man...
One day when I was about 11 or 12 (this is my best estimate of my age at the time) I was swimming alone in our pool...
Belazreg H NDE Home Classification NDE 3069 Belazreg H NDE 6304 Experience Description I found myself floating in a universe of nothingness...
I was laying back in the dental chair with a nasal mask on through which I was receiving laughing gas...
At 11 years old, I was rushed to the intensive care unit due to a case of septicemia [a dangerous blood infection], which was the result of a bad diagnosis made by a general doctor...
After a brief visit in a physician's office he determined I had a ruptured ovarian cyst and was rushed the emergency room...
Jenny C NDE Home Classification NDEs 3094 Jenny C NDE 6345 Experience Description FIRST TIME: I was about five when my first NDE happened...
Glenda G Father's NDE (Sherman G) Home Classification Secondhand NDE 3097 Glenda G Father's NDE (Sherman G) 6350 Experience Description My dad, Sherman G, had been diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma and had his right kidney removed...
Sonia M Possible NDEs Home Classification Possible NDEs 3103 Sonia M Possible NDEs 6352 Experience Description At the time of my first NDE my boyfriend and I had broken up and I was severely depressed (but not so much so that I was suicidal) and extremely d...
Please let me explain my circumstances upon waking up from the coma first hand...
John K NDE Home Classification NDE 3119 John K NDE 6377 Experience Description It was Holy Thursday, 2006, at about 2:00 in the afternoon...
Connie N Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3123 Connie N Probable NDE 6386 Experience Description Birth of youngest child...
