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I was twelve years old...
Cara A NDE Home Classification NDE 2433 Cara A NDE 4801 Experience Description I was being attacked...
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Hazel L NDE Home Classification NDE 2434 Hazel L NDE 4802 Experience Description I was scheduled for a routine dilatation and curettage procedure and laparoscopy in October of 1990...
I remember I woke up and my mom was in the room because she spoke to me...
I was in an ambulance and everything was black, I felt like my soul was being lifted out of my body...
It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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I was in the hospital, semi-seated in bed, after giving birth to my first child...
Tim NDE Home Classification NDE 2526 Tim NDE 4927 Experience Description During major emergency surgery for perforated diverticulitis that destroyed much of my large and small colon, I rose above the operating table...
I was playing with my sister hanging upside down on the washing line over a stone path...
My story started when I was having dinner at home...
My experience started with a terrible pain in my chest, followed by a sinking, falling feeling...
It was in the summer...
