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I was lying on an operation table and I can remember the doctor applying ether...
Writing this down is both exhilarating and difficult...
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When I had this experience, I knew nothing about NDEs totally ignorant...
At that time, I had never heard of a near-death experience and had no idea what it was that had happened to me...
In spring 1975, I was attending my junior high-school year in Greece at a public school...
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The first thing I recall is seeing my 'fiancé' beside my bed and then doctors/nurses surrounding the bed in a 'flurry of activity' and then seeing myself lying in the bed and being shocked by that...
I suffered a massive heart attack on March 14, 2005, at about 5pm in the evening...
I was driving east on the Simi Valley freeway towards Simi from Moorpark California...
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I was admitted for surgery with high blood-pressure problems...
It was irreversible fear...
I heard and saw the doctor giving me too much anesthesia and the surgeon saying, 'Damn it, you gave her too much, you killed her...
On both occasions a being of white light appeared to me, took my hand, and took me to a door that opened on its own...
