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On February 17, 2000, I was traveling with my family to go on a weekend vacation...
I fell through a roof...
On April 23, 2010 I was in a fatal car wreck on the highway...
I’ve always had a memory of this experience, but didn’t know where it came from...
On March 28, 2005, I was overdue to have my son, so I went to the hospital to be induced...
In 2016, I experimented with IV opiates for the first and last time...
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My swimming teacher instructed the class to swim to the other end of the pool with a kickboard and by holding it with one hand...
My NDE took place in 2013, in the hospital...
What happened from my perspective: I was shooting up meth with my boyfriend at the time...
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On December 29, 2007, I had a phone call from a doctor telling me that I needed to immediately come back into the hospital to have an emergency surgery...
In the summer of 1996, I was 25 years old and living in Lake Louise, Alberta Canada...
It started out a night like any other weekend night...
