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I was taken to hospital by my grandmother, and my mother...
My first experience was a feeling of floating...
NDE due to drowning at age six...
NDE from pulmonary embolism...
I had a feeling as if I was drowning and could hear my husband crying and saying, 'Mary don't leave me...
I had been bleeding occasionally all through my fifth pregnancy...
Towards the end of my first year in college, I decided to drive home to visit my family during Christmas break...
Mandy C FDE Home Classification FDE 2408 Mandy C FDE 4750 Experience Description As my attacker raised his weapon above my head I knew it was the end...
I was thirty-six years old at the time, playing pick-up basketball, full court, with men fifteen years younger than me...
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...
My life at that time was in ruins: abused almost by everyone I knew; no self-respect, not married and pregnant at eighteen...
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James C Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2441 James C Probable NDE 4809 Experience Description The accident happened so fast that it took a while for me to realize what had happened...
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