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: This is my account of what my mother described to me on her deathbed...
It was the beginning of the Christmas holiday where I worked...
Hello, I read with great interest the article in Newsweek about your research with near death experiences...
I was in the shower the morning of January 8, 1998 getting ready for work when all of a sudden I felt like a lightning bolt went off in my head...
Sylvia R NDE Home Classification NDE 2079 Sylvia R NDE 4248 Experience Description A surgeon had performed a hysterectomy on me and I was being wheeled to my room...
This is from my book and in a way, my editor toned it down but it conveys much of what happened...
I remember at the gas station where I was shot looking down and seeing my internal organs lying in the ground and knowing that death was soon upon me before I passed out...
Denise B Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2736 Denise B Probable NDE 5234 Experience Description I was rushed to the hospital for what was determined to be an emergency appendectomy...
I had been seeing my girlfriend for a little over a year...
Tammie W NDE Home Classification NDE And Probable NDE 3167 Tammie W NDE 6452 Experience Description At first I did not leave this realm...
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Dominique V FDE Home Classification FDE 3317 Dominique V FDE 6648 Experience Description I was driving in open country that morning, heading towards the village of Saint-Romain on a small fairly straight narrow road, to go to my practice surgery, as usual...
Prior to this event I have always been just a tad bit psych, so my mother says since the day I was born...
