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I was having a 'simple knee surgery...
Rue A NDE Home Classification NDE 1372 Rue A NDE 311 Experience Description I was at The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to have magnetic resonance imaging done...
I poised myself sitting upright against the wall, near the glass pane I had just broken...
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To begin with a guy I liked had moved overseas because of the military...
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Jean R NDE Home Classification NDE 1384 Jean R NDE 280 Experience Description I suddenly was aware I was a spirit looking down at my body...
My mother at the time was away at a camp with her special education class...
Christine S NDE Home Classification NDE 1390 Christine S NDE 268 Experience Description I remember passing out from the smoke and not being able to breath...
Mary Lu R NDE Home Classification NDE 1392 Mary Lu R NDE 265 Experience Description I remember going through a darkness...
Candy B NDE Home Classification NDE 1394 Candy B NDE 254 Experience Description I had a hysterectomy...
I had a car accident and was pronounced 'dead'...
I lost consciousness in the hospital emergency room, stopped breathing...
Kitty W NDE Home Classification NDE 1414 Kitty W NDE 3427 Experience Description When I was twenty-two, I learned that my husband went missing in action in Viet Nam...
