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I gave birth to a daughter, my third child and my second cesarean...
Lala NDE Home Classification NDE 1103 Lala NDE 21555 Experience Description It was almost 4 am...
There was the accident...
I had already lost a lot of blood when I was on my way to the hospital...
Cynthia R NDE Home Classification NDE 1109 Cynthia R NDE 3097 Experience Description At first I heard what seemed to be a train going through my head - a brief darkness and I climbed up Golden stairs...
Silvia NDE Home Classification NDE 1111 Silvia NDE 3086 Experience Description I was in a school trip to Buenos Aires, Argentina with all my schoolmates...
I was choking on a piece of candy I was given...
Even though I was only five years of age when this NDE took place, I can still see the intensity of the bright light of the room...
I had been horseback riding at my grandfather's house...
I lived in Zimbabwe, Africa and was driving back to boarding school with my cousin in the front passenger seat and two friends in the rear of the vehicle...
I came into this experience with a two-year complicated medical history that spun-off from cancer adjuvant therapies...
Dixie E NDE Home Classification NDE 1121 Dixie E NDE 3125 Experience Description According to the registered nurse, an old lady visiting someone in the hospital (Darien) saw me sitting in my car, looking 'dead...
