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It was a Saturday during the day and I was at school...
First Person Interview as told to Elaine Smith (NDERF Volunteer): Karen's near death experience was in the summer of 1975...
I was in a black space on a black nothing; it was kind of like a path because it was lined with small lights close to ankle height that outlined a 'path'...
I awoke around 5:00 am after falling asleep in my lounge chair the night before (very unusual)...
When I woke up in the morgue, I was naked and paralyzed...
I am a doctor, and left the medical school at around four in the afternoon...
I was scared at first everything around me faded to darkness...
In 1973, at the age of twenty, I was in a serious automobile accident...
I am a totally single mother of two children no family and only one or two friends...
Robert O NDE Home Classification NDE 1241 Robert O NDE 3143 Experience Description Was given a blood thinner for a clot, causing atrial fibrillation...
When I was six years old I contracted diphtheria, was taken to hospital where I stopped breathing and died...
I experienced a massive heart attack that started at a nearby golf course (five miles from hospital)...
