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Doina Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 1463 Doina Probable NDE 3379 Experience Description I was on the operation table; the last event I have in my memory was when I received the anesthesia in my hand...
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...
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...
Anita C NDE Home Classification NDE 2288 Anita C NDE 4543 Experience Description During a dental procedure there was a bright light that I rose up to and was subsequently fully engulfed by...
Julia J NDE Home Classification NDE 2322 Julia J NDE 4599 Experience Description I fell onto a playground area...
Hazel L NDE Home Classification NDE 2434 Hazel L NDE 4802 Experience Description I was scheduled for a routine dilatation and curettage procedure and laparoscopy in October of 1990...
Tim NDE Home Classification NDE 2526 Tim NDE 4927 Experience Description During major emergency surgery for perforated diverticulitis that destroyed much of my large and small colon, I rose above the operating table...
Portia NDE Home Classification NDE 3250 Portia NDE 5434 Experience Description I woke up and found myself standing to the right of the operating table...
On April 23, 2010 I was in a fatal car wreck on the highway...
Marta Y NDE Home Classification NDE 2094 Marta Y NDE 4251 Experience Description March 13, 1985, I was admitted to Ayala Hospital of the IMSS (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social - publicly-funded) in Guadalajara, following an accident in a taxi causing me...
Anna A NDE Home Classification NDE 3784 Anna A NDE 7433 Experience Description The gush of blood that all of a sudden turned into an endless river, soon turned into a sudden process of feeling very, very cold...
