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I was walking on a hazy path, enveloped in foul odors and suffering...
I felt tremendously peaceful...
I was under general anesthesia during a four-hour surgery about two weeks before my mother passed away...
Ruth B Probable FDE Home Classification Probable FDE 2565 Ruth B Probable FDE 4974 Experience Description This is going to be hard in English (writer is from France)...
Jean C NDE Home Classification NDE 2567 Jean C NDE 4982 Experience Description My mother took me to the dentist when I was seven...
During major surgery on my kidney, the medical staff was unable to control bleeding, which caused my heart to stop...
It was dark in my bathroom...
I underwent a seven hour operation in a heart and lung hospital...
Rick M NDE Home Classification NDE 2577 Rick M NDE 4994 Experience Description Being Native American, I don't have a view of your heaven...
On 1-5-2011, at about 7:30 pm...
I experienced death attacking me several times in a form of a tidal wave while I was resting in the beach...
As I waited for the ambulance to pick me up, I was pulled out of the car, which was in flames, and put on the back of a pickup truck...
