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It was Friday, October 9th...
I was behind the operating table perhaps ten to twelve feet back and slightly above the doctor's and nurse's heads and I could feel the palpable sense of frustration and failure of the doctor's because my heart had stopped and they could not continue to try...
Jake NDE Home Classification NDE 2042 Jake NDE 4169 Experience Description I had gotten stuck on a very large rope swing near a friend's house, my shoe was stuck in the loop and the harder I pulled the more my shoe came off...
I was very unhappy in my family and social life, a gay teenager brought up in a very restrictive and rigidly conservative family where most of my needs for safety and care were not being met...
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I found myself totally lucid, clear in mind and thought, floating in blackness...
Almost immediately I had an allergic reaction to medicine prior to the NDE...
Tom C NDE Home Classification NDE 2050 Tom C NDE 4212 Experience Description I had a NDE when I had a bad car accident six years ago...
Lisette D NDE Home Classification NDE 2051 Lisette D NDE 4206 Experience Description A friend and I were hitch-hiking to Ste-Adèle from Victoriaville...
It was during the summer of 1979, I was about to turn nine...
I was eleven years old...
My friend injected heroin into my left arm...
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It was early morning, I was seventeen years old (just turned) and on my way to work before school (I worked for a garbage company as a garbage man riding on the back of the trucks)...
