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Describe the Experience: When the doctor told me I was dying...
I am a young mother of three who had 20 minutes of Near- Death and Out-of-body experience in 2019, at age 34...
I was lying in my bed while sick...
Mark B Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 5226 Mark B Probable NDE 16133/4249 Experience Description 16133 submitted 8/26/2023 I am forwarding this email and paper I wrote about an accident that killed me but the coroner and EMTs brought me back,...
Excerpt from my personal essay on the subject published on openeyes1031...
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On April 23, 2010 I was in a fatal car wreck on the highway...
What happened from my perspective: I was shooting up meth with my boyfriend at the time...
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I experienced an NDE from being in an accident in Nepal, on the night of October 31, 1989...
Jennifer V NDE Home Classification NDE 1153 Jennifer V NDE 3318 Experience Description I felt that I had returned HOME...
I began writing this description of my near death experience on October 6th, 2007, thirty-five years after the experience...
In the middle of my surgery I woke up, looked at the doctor and told him that what he was doing hurt...
Laura M NDEs Home Classification NDEs 2995 Laura M NDEs 6235 Experience Description On May 18, 1970, the day my first son was born, I had serious medical complications that led to a serious post-partum hemorrhage...
