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I took handfuls of any pill I could find and lay down...
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I was twelve years old when I had my near death experience...
I remember having an incredibly powerful fear of death before my surgery - a fear which vanished after my experience and has never returned...
I was in an accident...
Tracy M NDE Home Classification NDE 2179 Tracy M NDE 4388 Experience Description I had finished telling the anesthesiologist to tell everyone that I loved them and that Al (my partner) would be a good dad...
When I had my son I had a very rare case of Preeclampsia which caused my heart to stop beating during delivery of my son...
Suddenly I was in what I call the white room...
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I was shot in the abdomen with a 22...
Adeline N NDE Home Classification NDE 2251 Adeline N NDE 4481 Experience Description When I came to after tonsil surgery, I felt sick and vomited blood...
Josefina M Mother NDE Home Classification Secondhand NDE 2259 Josefina M Mother NDE 4658 Experience Description This was my mother's experience, which from that time onwards she told us about as something quite natural, and she remembers it clearly even now...
I was having my third surgery in nine months due to a tractor accident when something went terribly wrong during surgery...
I had a Pneumo Thorax and required surgery to fix it...
