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I was standing in the kitchen of my home...
Sue C NDE Home Classification NDE 2927 Sue C NDE 6159 Experience Description First, I saw black...
I was sixteen years old, history of emotional, psychical and sexual abuse, intoxicated, involved in a severe motor vehicle accident that threw me a hundred and thirty-eight feet, landing on the pavement face first...
I got a shock when I sucked a piece of candy down the windpipe...
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I ran to catch a bus with the destination 'hospital' written on the front...
My two older brothers (six and ten years older than I) had persuaded me to allow them to roll me up in a feather filled quilt...
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I was critically ill, had surgery and within twenty-four hours I was septic and went into adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and placed on a ventilator...
Tunnel (really just circular black border) with small pinpoint light in center...
I was playing out on the ice with a couple of buddies, when I fell through the ice...
I was sledding down an alleyway that intersected with an avenue at the bottom...
On May 15 1991, I felt extreme pain in my abdomen...
It was a hot August afternoon in Oklahoma when a friend and I were taking a walk to a fast food place...
