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When I was twenty-five, I had a second occurrence of parotid mixed tumors...
My experience began the day before the near-death event...
I remember once I came to from having been unconscious that I had this feeling, this urgent need to let go...
I was drowning and it was horrible, water was everywhere and I was desperately trying to breathe while at the same time grab onto the other child who had fallen into the swimming pool when our little raft overturned...
I was in the car taking my girlfriend home when I felt a growing pain in my right leg and I went into automatic as though something or the part of me that was conscious was preparing to leave my body without harming anybody else...
My experience was as follows: I had to go to a clinic to have tests for tuberculosis as a fellow-student had fallen ill with the disease...
I was picking flowers for mum on the way home from school...
Tara V NDE Home Classification NDE 1851 Tara V NDE 3907 Experience Description I fell off the back of a motorcycle because the man I was dating at the time hit the car in front of him...
I was twelve years old and on a vacation with my family...
I was standing on a moving swing and fell down after a girl shook the swing (and I wasn't holding myself to anything)...
I had been seriously ill for several weeks, but the doctors didn't acknowledge that...
I did not see myself getting out of my body nor floating above it, I just remember going into a wide and long tunnel, like entering a train tunnel...
