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I was running track at my high school...
I was admitted for surgery with high blood-pressure problems...
I was in a cab while vomiting...
Tonya R NDE Home Classification NDE 2137 Tonya R NDE 4314 Experience Description My experience happened in 1993...
Jerry G NDE Home Classification NDE 2140 Jerry G NDE 4323 Experience Description This was during my third hospitalization and second spinal surgery of 1969...
I took handfuls of any pill I could find and lay down...
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I was twelve years old when I had my near death experience...
I remember having an incredibly powerful fear of death before my surgery - a fear which vanished after my experience and has never returned...
I was in an accident...
David W NDE Home Classification NDE 2173 David W NDE 4382 Experience Description The morning after my bypass surgery, the fog from anesthesia and morphine was lifting...
Tracy M NDE Home Classification NDE 2179 Tracy M NDE 4388 Experience Description I had finished telling the anesthesiologist to tell everyone that I loved them and that Al (my partner) would be a good dad...
When I had my son I had a very rare case of Preeclampsia which caused my heart to stop beating during delivery of my son...
