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I went to my dentist to have two teeth extracted...
I had no preconceived idea of what heaven was or where it was...
Hazel L NDE Home Classification NDE 2434 Hazel L NDE 4802 Experience Description I was scheduled for a routine dilatation and curettage procedure and laparoscopy in October of 1990...
Sylvia S NDE Home Classification NDE 2447 Sylvia S NDE 4824 Experience Description I moved from Texas to West Germany at age twenty-one to join my husband who was employed by the Department of Defense...
Kathleen W Probable NDE Home Classification Probable NDE 2458 Kathleen W Probable NDE 4846 Experience Description I remember looking for something in the refrigerator of my previous boyfriend's apartment to wash down the sleeping pills...
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Sabine E Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2467 Sabine E Possible NDE 4791 Experience Description I just had transplant surgery...
In my mid-forties, my pancreas began to malfunction due to a birth defect later discovered during surgery...
Translated to English by Kathy...
I was wearing a green hospital gown and mask...
On 9/8/1995 I was in the hospital for a day surgery...
Ken M Possible NDE Home Classification Possible NDE 2497 Ken M Possible NDE 4896 Experience Description I was surfing in Carlsbad, California in the early morning before work...
I was seventeen years old and already a mother of one child who was a year old...
