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I was in the hospital for outpatient surgery on my toe...
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...
As I said before, we were playing good guys - bad guys...
Brenda I NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2753 Brenda I NDEs 5259/6202 Experience Description 6202 I come from a family with a history of heart attacks...
Matt H NDEs Home Classification NDE 2757 Matt H NDEs 5248 Experience Description My best friend and I were at a family reunion on a ranch a hundred and fifty miles from Sacramento, California...
I was swimming in the lake on a very hot summer day (I was not a good swimmer then nor am I now) and I got tired and thought I was close enough to shore that I could stand up but unknown to me there was a very deep drop off...
I had drowned and found myself in a dark place where I felt I was being pushed and pulled...
Alexandre B FDE Home Classification FDE 2875 Alexandre B FDE 5375 Experience Description I was swept away by a wave on a Corsican beach and was saved by my father just before swallowing sea water...
Wife (Kim) of Keith tells of his NDE due to heart attack...
Karen J NDE Home Classification NDE 2921 Karen J NDE 6150 Experience Description While under water and being pulled every which way by the rapids, I was really surprised that there seemed to be no time, no boundaries, just feeling...
Lois T NDE Home Classification NDE 3008 Lois T NDE 6248 Experience Description We were at a lake in Washington with lots of kids there...
It was July 12, 1975 and I had just turned 16 on June 29th...
