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I killed myself but I was sent back...
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At one point during the crisis I 'saw' images or pictures of my mom and her sister, my aunt...
Sandi R NDE Home Classification NDE 3202 Sandi R NDE 6505 Experience Description It was a rainy afternoon when we were driving home from my grandmother's after a visit...
Somewhere around June, 2000 I tried to commit suicide for the third time in a row with medications...
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I was attending an evening lecture at my son's high school concerning preparing your child for college...
I was in a semi-private room at a hospital following abdominal surgery...
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Kelly C NDEs Home Classification NDE 3274 Kelly C NDEs 6611 Experience Description The first experience was in 1995...
Sheryl NDE Home Classification NDE 3278 Sheryl NDE 6615 Experience Description At the time I was twenty-two years old and was struggling to forge my way through college...
Janie Anesthesia Experience Home Classification Anesthesia 3287 Janie Anesthesia Experience 6631 Experience Description I was having my tonsils out and I woke up in a theater, feeling myself drop my Rupert Bear cuddly toy...
Annette Q NDE Home Classification NDE 3314 Annette Q NDE 6672 Experience Description I was taken into the hospital operating room to get control of the tetanus seizures [med: Tetanus is a serious bacterial disease that affects your nervous system, leading t...
I had been ill from a recent operation I had had...
July 2007: Without any advanced notice, my relationship ended...
