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The feelings of unearthly joy and overwhelming love...
The summer between my eighth and ninth year of school was the longest, and most difficult of my life...
Carolyn B NDE Home Classification NDE 1100 Carolyn B NDE 3069 Experience Description It was a Wednesday night August 2005 when I was rushed to emergency due to chronic abdominal pain and vomiting thought to be pancreatitis...
Chuck K NDE Home Classification NDE 1137 Chuck K NDE 3290 Experience Description Just another cold January day in 1998, receiving another series of allergy injections for wasps...
Pat P NDE 3197 Home Classification NDE 1228 Pat P NDE 3197 Experience Description My first NDE (accidentally, I have had a couple) occurred when I was a child of seven...
Kitty W NDE Home Classification NDE 1414 Kitty W NDE 3427 Experience Description When I was twenty-two, I learned that my husband went missing in action in Viet Nam...
Charlene P NDE Home Classification NDE 1416 Charlene P NDE 3434 Experience Description Right before the experience, I was rushed to the intensive care unit...
Hazeliene M NDE Home Classification NDE 1720 Hazeliene M NDE 3725 Experience Description I was at home and about to play my favorite online game when I suddenly found it very difficult to breath...
We were unloading some crates onto a barge several hundred yards off the coast near the mouth of the Mekong river (we called it the Saigon river at the time)...
Debbie NDE Home Classification NDE 2081 Debbie NDE 4253 Experience Description I was staying at a hotel in Florida on holiday with my family...
I had delivered my son, who weighed 10lbs 3oz, naturally with no medical intervention, specifically no prostaglandin in the third stage which can prevent post-partum hemorrhage...
Debbie P NDE Home Classification NDE 2107 Debbie P NDE 4280 Experience Description During emergency surgery to correct prolonged bleeding from a spontaneous abortion (unknown early stage pregnancy) my heart stopped and electric shock to my heart was applied...
