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I only knew that my physical body was dying...
I was in an ambulance and everything was black, I felt like my soul was being lifted out of my body...
Fifteen minutes after taking a new diabetic injection, I was driving to work at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina, forty miles away...
This whole experience felt like it may have been an hour in length in total...
I was taking a bath and started to fall under the water...
THE VOICE Unbeknownst to the children in this small town, the building of a community swimming pool had already started before my NDE...
I was a passenger in a car traveling along a very twisty mountain road with a beautiful fiord on the right...
I woke in the night of December 28th, 2004 with what I thought was a routine asthma attack...
After I took the medication, I don't remember anything; I fell into unconsciousness...
I was making a curve on the opposite direction of the road at high speed on a motorcycle...
I was playing basketball when all of a sudden everything turned dark and started spinning...
Prior to my suicide attempt, I was hospitalized 5 times for anxiety and depression...
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