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I was visiting a friend in Lompoc, California...
I was told (after the fact) that I was given a cocktail of heavy duty drugs...
Finally, I hear a siren, and soon, two men and a woman arrive (she's the doctor, I think)...
When I decided to give up trying to reach the shore and just let myself drown, suddenly everything seemed to stand totally still...
I was in the car taking my girlfriend home when I felt a growing pain in my right leg and I went into automatic as though something or the part of me that was conscious was preparing to leave my body without harming anybody else...
A hydraulic hose took my head back between my shoulder blades...
For reasons I can't explain at this moment, I had attempted suicide at the age of nineteen...
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First of all, I arrived in a cemetery where my father (who died in 2003) was with Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens...
There are some things about this experience that I can't put into words and won't try because it will probably deliver the wrong impression...
All of this happened during my camping trip, in the camping cabin surrounded by four of my friends in Vladivostok, Russia...
I was in a restaurant in upstate New York getting something to eat with my hunting party...
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...
