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Billy S NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2623 Billy S NDEs 5069/5067 Experience Description 5069 I was practicing a choke hold on another Marine and then he held my neck and that was when I felt my spirit rise above my body...
I had already had severe asphyxiation episodes which had led to unconsciousness...
I am going to tell you about my experience when I was only twelve years old...
Debbie B NDE Home Classification NDE 2672 Debbie B NDE 5134 Experience Description In my first experience, I remember opening my eyes and seeing my husband standing a distance from me...
I felt the presence of my dead father in the theatre room when I realized that the anesthetic was not working on me...
Geri R NDE Home Classification NDE 2677 Geri R NDE 5142 Experience Description On March 7th, 2011, I went to see my endodontist for what was supposed to be my final root canal...
I was young – twenty years old...
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Niel L NDE Home Classification NDE 2711 Niel L NDE 5191 Experience Description When I was four, I went to the swimming pool alone to get some coins I had seen at the bottom...
Marie C NDE Home Classification NDE 2714 Marie C NDE 5117 Experience Description I was eight and a half years old and was sick with viral hepatitis...
On October 31, 2010, I was at friend's home with other friends to celebrate Halloween...
Vera G NDE Home Classification NDE 2717 Vera G NDE 5201 Experience Description My friend and I went out for a run in the morning, but we only ran one block - just up to her house...
Charles N NDE Home Classification NDE 2731 Charles N NDE 5223 Experience Description My Visit to HeavenI had a back surgery in which the anesthesiologist gave me too much anesthesia and I died on the operating table...
