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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...
I was resuscitated and could hear and speak, emergency room personnel kept calling my name, 'John, can you hear me...
Had spent four years as Methodist Student Pastor (two different churches) and was now just finished with both the Divinity School (M...
Adeline N NDE Home Classification NDE 2251 Adeline N NDE 4481 Experience Description When I came to after tonsil surgery, I felt sick and vomited blood...
Josefina M Mother NDE Home Classification Secondhand NDE 2259 Josefina M Mother NDE 4658 Experience Description This was my mother's experience, which from that time onwards she told us about as something quite natural, and she remembers it clearly even now...
I was having my third surgery in nine months due to a tractor accident when something went terribly wrong during surgery...
I had a Pneumo Thorax and required surgery to fix it...
Connie P NDE Home Classification NDE 2285 Connie P NDE 4536 Experience Description I had been complaining to my doctor for several months of severe period pain, a stabbing pain in my lower abdomen, night sweats, etc...
