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I stole my dad's car and drag raced a friend on a back road...
On the night I came into the hospital I had both my lungs filling up with blood...
It was on Monday, September 3rd, I went to work as usual and felt as if I was coming down with tonsillitis, so I went to the pharmacy and bought over the counter pain killers...
It was as though I was stuck in a clean, approximately eight feet diameter, pipe with the brightest white light at one end and completely pitch dark at the other end...
Sanz Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1599 Sanz Probable NDE 3561 Experience Description It was in the course of the surgical operation after the anesthesia, normally I shouldn't have felt anything...
I looked up and thought to myself that I was sure that I had turned the light off, when I had gone to bed...
I was driving with a friend from Missouri late at night...
I had a perforated ulcer, with a lot of bleeding...
I had hit a very bad depression in my life...
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Baghdad, 21 October, 1996...
Luz H NDE Home Classification NDE 1697 Luz H NDE 3681 Experience Description I gave birth to my daughter, and was discharged the following day...
During my operation I found myself standing on the apex of a bend in a tunnel...
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