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It all started on Christmas day in 2003...
About a few weeks prior to the near-death experience, I had this feeling that I would die soon...
My Trips to the Other side and Back My first NDE experience occurred in 1995 during emergency surgery...
My parents had decided to take us to Lake Jackson, near Houston, during the summer of 1990 (approximately)...
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While he was very ill with throat cancer, in hospital, my grand-father told one of my aunts that my grand-mother had come to tell him it was time to go...
My sister died at home of kidney cancer following an illness of approximately six months...
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Good morning, I do not know if mine can be defined in a strict sense as an NDE, but it has some traits in common...
My mother was in labor with me and everything was going well...
I awoke with my alarm clock feeling normal...
During one of the many routine admissions to the hospital I started to have what I had termed "dreams in their own category"...
In 2017, after returning from the vet where Crystal (cat) had been treated for renal failure, she hid behind an armchair against the wall, where it was dark and quiet...
