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It was back in High School...
The Harbor...
Steven C NDE Home Classification NDE 1272 Steven C NDE 799 Experience Description I had my brother's fishing net in my right hand and I was trying to catch a dragonfly and I kept reaching over the water and I fell in...
I was on the EC Row Highway outside of Windsor, Ontario, and it was raining and I was coming home from work at night...
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...
Decembra B NDE Home Classification NDE 1442 Decembra B NDE 167 Experience Description I was swimming with a friend as a child and I swam too far across a lake to get back...
When I was just three years old I drowned in a pool behind my house...
I have two memories growing up that I've never been able to understand or put together until now...
I was standing on a pier four inches above a body of water...
Ryland D FDE Home Classification FDE 1608 Ryland D FDE 3576 Experience Description When I got sucked into the drainpipe, the instant I knew I was in trouble, my life flashed before my eyes not like a movie with scenes in it...
At age seven, while swimming (I had not really learned yet) in a motel swimming pool, I found I could not get my head above water...
I was only approximately seven years old at the time of my near death experience...
