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When I was 10 years old, I had gone swimming with my older cousin, Karen...
Poppy Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3198 Poppy Probable NDE 6500 Experience Description While I was undergoing neurosurgery, I experienced a period of darkness and then I saw grey and pink lights...
Roland B NDE Home Classification NDE 3200 Roland B NDE 6503 Experience Description I unknowingly grabbed a 2300 volt power cable...
A friend and I were walking through a field and nearby woods...
After my first surgery I was extremely weak, tired and in terrible pain...
I will never forget that day...
What is it like to have a near death experience...
I was admitted to hospital with a blood disease called sepsis...
I was attending an evening lecture at my son's high school concerning preparing your child for college...
I was standing out in the yard wrapped in a bed sheet...
In 2006, while undergoing a cardiac catheterization for an angioplasty, I was on the table and was able to hear the Doctor and nurse talking and every so often the doctor would ask me to cough or take a deep breath...
On 3/9/11 I entered the hospital for colon resection surgery [the surgical removal (resection) of a part or all of the large intestine (colon) and subsequent repair] and was discharged six days later...
