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I was sitting on my couch and my breathing was cut off...
Francis R NDE Home Classification NDE 1447 Francis R NDE 161 Experience Description I had just started the fifteenth seizure when everything went black...
I was rushed to hospital at 4:00 am with massive pain, really aggressive pain...
Diana P Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1450 Diana P Probable NDE 150 Experience Description I was in my living room looking in the mirror my right eye couldn't focus on my reflection I kept blinking and blinking trying to get it to focus I fe...
I exited my body and saw my relatives around my lifeless body...
I had been severely depressed for some time after the birth of my youngest child...
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Doina Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1463 Doina Probable NDE 3379 Experience Description I was on the operation table; the last event I have in my memory was when I received the anesthesia in my hand...
Conditions around the time of the experience: Brief interludes of asphyxiation/apnea due to violent episodes of heavy coughing probably caused by allergic reactions to pollen that spring, reactions which were much stronger than at any other time...
I was beaten by three aggressors and went into cardiac respiratory failure...
At age seventeen, I took a street drug with several girlfriends...
I won't get in to the reasons I drowned myself...
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It was July 20th 1987, first day on the job, it went good all day as we did concert stages, set up, tear down, load up, and move on...
