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I was at a friend's barbeque with a few friends...
Catherine P NDE Home Classification NDE 2534 Catherine P NDE 4935 Experience Description It was a regular school day...
My father died on the evening of 11/21/2010...
I was in surgery for a cervical fusion from a broken neck several months prior...
I was in a very weak state later described by the medical staff in layman's terms of a 'walking coma'...
In the winter of 1981, I was on the way to the beach with a friend, and we were going down the steps (around 10:30 in the morning), when suddenly, as my friend tells it, I fainted...
Vincent K NDE Home Classification NDE 2548 Vincent K NDE 4936 Experience Description About five minutes into my recovery period from a stress-test on an exercise bike, my eyesight began to cloud over, starting from the outside corners...
Beth L FDE Home Classification FDE 2554 Beth L FDE 4963 Experience Description We had those old metal ice cube trays that make the giant cubes with the sharp edges...
When I was fifteen years old, I lived in Southern California on Coronado Island...
Got caught in an undertow, decided to rest when knocked down again, and dragged on bottom, stones embedded in leg...
My NDE took place three days after the birth of my son...
At the time I had no idea I was pregnant...
