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I was walking toward a beautiful, bright, white light...
I lost all bodily strength in an instant...
I was pulled from my body...
I had an automobile accident while I was driving alone...
I was swimming in the lake on a very hot summer day (I was not a good swimmer then nor am I now) and I got tired and thought I was close enough to shore that I could stand up but unknown to me there was a very deep drop off...
The day had been an emotionally difficult one, as my mother had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer...
I was a passenger in a car and we were hit head-on by another vehicle...
I had open heart surgery, and even though I had died on the table, and even though things were just not feeling right to me, I was sent home...
In those years we lived in a house with an outdoor patio...
NDE at 6 years old: (Thanks to Barb Schmidt and Meera Jacka, Australia, for the Translation) I had to undergo a tonsillectomy...
Douglas H NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2837 Douglas H NDEs 6014 Experience Description The first time, I fell three stories and had some serious head injuries...
The doctor came in and talked to me...
