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As a boy of about 13, I was standing on a bridge that was also a dam...
I was a three week old baby at the time...
Age four, summer morning, Glasgow, Scotland, not long after a garbage strike which saw an infestation of dock rats in my neighborhood, requiring the army to come out and kill them...
Vicky M NDE Home Classification NDE 1636 Vicky M NDE 3627 Experience Description I was six years old, diagnosed with meningitis and pneumonia and a collapsed lung...
After separating from my husband and experiencing a reoccurrence of my painful, undiagnosed illness, I fell into a deep depression...
Hailey M NDE Home Classification NDE 3884 Hailey M NDE 7575 Experience Description I was going into surgery, for the third summer in a row, to try and correct a failed spinal fusion...
At the age of seventeen I was electrocuted to death after becoming bonded to a raw/live filament of a photographic lamp...
Brent Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 3979 Brent Probable NDE 7732 Experience Description In the early winter months of 1998, I fell ill with severe stomach pain...
David J NDE Home Classification NDE 1947 David J NDE 4050 Experience Description I found myself in a dark void...
My childhood home was heated by a coal furnace which my mother and father would tend...
MY NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCE Mary B (Licensed Practical Nurse) The accident was the worst thing that had ever happened to me, and it is also the best thing that has ever happened to me...
I was in jail, facing an extended stay...
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