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I had just given birth to my first son...
I either get that exact question or something similar, like, 'Does Dying Hurt...
Scott S NDE Home Classification NDE 2419 Scott S NDE 4772 Experience Description I was, essentially, strangled to death...
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 realized after the experience that I somehow had foreknowledge of my heart attack because while I had no symptoms of heart problems, I was feverish in the week before my heart attack to prepare a list of important numbers, accounts, etc...
