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I had no preconceived idea of what heaven was or where it was...
Hazel L NDE Home Classification NDE 2434 Hazel L NDE 4802 Experience Description I was scheduled for a routine dilatation and curettage procedure and laparoscopy in October of 1990...
Kathleen W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2458 Kathleen W Probable NDE 4846 Experience Description I remember looking for something in the refrigerator of my previous boyfriend's apartment to wash down the sleeping pills...
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Sabine E Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2467 Sabine E Possible NDE 4791 Experience Description I just had transplant surgery...
Ken M Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2497 Ken M Possible NDE 4896 Experience Description I was surfing in Carlsbad, California in the early morning before work...
I was in a near head on (45 degree angle) car collision, each of us traveling about 60 mph...
I remember telling the nurse that I felt very badly...
I remember being rushed to the hospital five days after my daughter was born as I had begun to have very heavy bleeding...
Tim NDE Home Classification NDE 2526 Tim NDE 4927 Experience Description During major emergency surgery for perforated diverticulitis that destroyed much of my large and small colon, I rose above the operating table...
On July 19, 2010, I had a scheduled routine visit with my obstetrician...
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I was under general anesthesia during a four-hour surgery about two weeks before my mother passed away...
This is from my book and in a way, my editor toned it down but it conveys much of what happened...
