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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...
During the birth of my second child, the labor started to go drastically wrong...
Michael C NDE Home Classification NDE 2210 Michael C NDE 4422 Experience Description I was in the middle of a heart attack and the medics took me to the nearest hospital (Community North) because it was the nearest medical facility...
Suddenly I was in what I call the white room...
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Robert S NDE Home Classification NDE 2231 Robert S NDE 4454 Experience Description Upon passing out in the shower I fell forward and struck my face between the eyes on a small retaining wall between the shower and bathroom floor...
I was shot in the abdomen with a 22...
