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I was at the beach with my family one summer...
When I was 17, my family was camping at Bear Lake in Idaho...
I was twelve years old...
On the fourth night after major surgery I had a cardiac arrest...
For reasons I can't explain at this moment, I had attempted suicide at the age of nineteen...
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While doing my job I became increasingly slow...
While having a heart attack and being in the doctor's clinic and being attended to, I saw an extremely bright light and experienced a great calming and thought to myself that I was going to die and thought 'Well, this is going to be a new experience...
My first experience was a feeling of floating...
My son's experience: He was wading in a mountain river in the summer, hit a pothole and got caught in river rapids...
As a teenager, I often spent time with my friends at a public outdoor pool...
All I remember is being up above where the nurses and doctors were working on my body, and looking down and watching...
Even though I was only five years of age when this NDE took place, I can still see the intensity of the bright light of the room...
