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Two years ago I was having oral surgery and had a reaction the medication to put me asleep...
I was feeling ill...
It was my birthday and my parents let me have a small party...
I just recall being drawn towards a big bright light to the point where I was in the light, only to have it communicated (somehow) that it was time to leave and back I came...
One summer when the temperature was soaring above 105 degrees my brother begged and persuaded my mother and my other two sisters to go to the Comal River to escape the summer heat...
I began writing this description of my near death experience on October 6th, 2007, thirty-five years after the experience...
First, a bit of background, I had left Quebec on April 30, 1983 to go learn English in Alberta...
The fact of the matter is that I died, I remember feeling my heart slow down until it stopped, at that moment my eyes closed...
After a craniotomy, my body clinically hovered between life and death for two days, and my spirit left it at that time...
Bridget F NDE Home Classification NDE 1654 Bridget F NDE 3648 Experience Description This is where I wish I had voice recognition software...
At age eight my father took me and my two brothers (ages ten and eleven) to go fishing in a river called Rio Guaiba in Porto Alegre, Brazil...
I remember the very bright purple and white lights...
