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Well, it was the winter of 1977...
Cherie J Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2686 Cherie J Probable NDE 5040 Experience Description I am giving birth; much time goes by and the baby does not come out...
I cut through a vein in my left arm...
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Marty M NDE Home Classification NDE 2694 Marty M NDE 5169 Experience Description I was in total blackness and wondered to myself 'What...
I was young – twenty years old...
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Francisco J NDE Home Classification NDE 2703 Francisco J NDE 5128 Experience Description There was a wall next to a swing, and I jumped from this wall to grab the cross-bar of the swing...
Alan M FDE Home Classification FDE 2705 Alan M FDE 5181 Experience Description The experience is most difficult to put into words...
There were about six, maybe seven, of us kids, the oldest maybe thirteen...
I was in the hospital for outpatient surgery on my toe...
My mother, brother and I were staying in a guest house next to the hospital where they were treating me, and every day I'd go over there and would have my blood taken and my condition monitored...
Niel L NDE Home Classification NDE 2711 Niel L NDE 5191 Experience Description When I was four, I went to the swimming pool alone to get some coins I had seen at the bottom...
Marie C NDE Home Classification NDE 2714 Marie C NDE 5117 Experience Description I was eight and a half years old and was sick with viral hepatitis...
