Newlin D NDE. English expanded version  9/29/08 As I was being electrocuted I left my body and floated above the scene. I was surrounded in by a warm diffuse light but could see everything clearly.  I could see my body shaking and convulsing with the electrical current, my eyes were open, my mouth was open but I couldn't speak.  I seemed to know that I was going to die unless something changed.  I don't remember being scared or frightened at all - very matter of factly.  While floating I went over to where my dad was working at the other end of the garage. He had his back to my body and wasn't aware of what was going on.  I went over to him and then he looked up from his work on the floor, turned to see my body being electrocuted.  He picked up a hammer and threw it across the room and knocked the extension cord/drop light out of my hand.  After that the light went out, the scene collapsed and the next thing I was aware of was being awakened mother in our family room.
NDE due to electrocution at age 11.

Fanny B Probable NDE. English expanded version  9/29/08 I felt my soul (I don't know what word I can use for this) just rising up from my body... horizontally or from the belly... something like that. Then, it's just like most people's feeling, so peaceful, so grateful and my body or my soul has no weight at all. I was in the middle of no where, I could see all around me in the same time...360?  The whole room was lighten by a kind of light bright but not hurting, there was no corner, no shadow, the light seems to be peace, happiness and so on.
Probable NDE three days after surgery.

Flannigan D Probable NDE. English expanded version  9/29/08  As I floated up there, I was watching my body lying on the table with the Dr and nurse leaning over me, and I could see the clothes I was wearing, my short-sleeve blue/red/and white shirt which my grandma made for me and two like them for my brothers.  I also had on some blue jeans and my black shoes. My shirt was partially covered with a white towel.  As I watched from above, I became aware of a smell (like lilacs) which reminded me of my Grandma (my mother's mom) who had died in a car accident just two years before that.
Probable NDE at age 8 during surgery.  Shared 53 years later.  He is a minister.

Newie NDE. English expanded version  9/29/08 I found myself in a sort of courtyard.  There were no flowers, but the grass, bushes, and tree leaves were an extraordinarily vibrant green.  Over the horizon was white and gold light.  I knew I was in the presence of something sacred--not God as commonly described--and I experienced true awe for the first time.  I was not afraid.  There was an invisible barrier separating the courtyard from the light and the landscape beyond, and I was scrambling around, trying to find a way through.  I heard a female voice say, "It's not your time yet."  I replied, "I've had a stroke and my left side is paralyzed.  What better time could there be?"  But they wouldn't let me in.  I'm not sure who "they" are, but I was devastated when I realized I was being dragged back to my ruined body. 
NDE due to stroke.

Russell P NDE. English expanded version  9/29/08  I felt my breathing slowing , then stopping.  Then I was engulfed in light and there was a place -a completely black-place I couldn't see through or break through. The light was warm and inviting and I felt like I was a kid in my grandmother's arms -the only safe place in the world.  I felt myself losing everything  then I heard a woman's voice scream ''NO it is not yet his time ''and I awoke and was in an emergency room with the taste of charcoal in my mouth and mad as hell.
NDE due to suicide attempt.

Don R NDE. English expanded version  9/29/08  Apparently, the split second that my head hit the windshield and I started yelling, I had an out of body experience and felt myself hovering above my body about 10 feet up.  I remember a white light but I think that was from the black jack.  But I do remember that God spoke to me and said to come with Him and I said "No, I want to marry and have a son and daughter. (I put that wish in the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem 9 year later and have been happily married for 21 years with a daughter and son).  I also remember Him telling me to walk to Port Arthur, Texas (my hometown) and don't look back.  That's it.  I had a mild concussion, burst some blood vessels in my arm but recovered.
NDE due to head injury.

Leonard S NDE. English expanded version  9/29/08  I only remember that when we were at the Fort Benning Georgia Hospital Emergency room, that I was floating above my body.  My body was on a stretcher or gurney and my mom was next to me crying.  I remember seeing someone come up and feel my arm for a pulse (I assume this) and turning to my mother and shaking his head.  The next thing I saw a another individual being talked to by the first one and that individual checking on me.  He said something to my mother and then I was wheeled into a treatment area… She told me when I was better that a medical assistant had checked my pulse and told her I was dead.
NDE due to being hit on back of head with baseball bat at age 12.

John P Probable NDE. English expanded version  9/29/08  Once I got to the hospital I was placed in a metal tub with ice and some type of solution. my clothes were burnt to my skin and I could still fill the electricity going through my body. the pain was so great that I ask God to come and get me and relieve me from the pain. It was terrible. Then I began to rise up out of my body as a spirit. I could see over the top of my body and see all the doctors in the room looking at my lifeless body. I also saw my mother come into the hospital room screaming and crying. She was a nurse at the hospital at that time. Then something or someone~ I think it was God~ in a voice said come into the light and my spirit began to lift higher into a place of white lights with bluish color surrounding. It was very cool and it took away the pain. I don't know how long I was gone and the next time I remember being in my body. I was at home wrapped in bandages over my whole bad from head to toe. 
Probable NDE due to electrocution at age 8.  A second experience is described which is more consistent with dream vs narcotic experience (presumably he was on narcotic pain medications at the time).

Mary G Experience English expanded version  9/29/08 It was the day before my 37th birthday.  Noelle was coming into the world.  I had had a bad experience with my son's birth eight years before, so this time, I decided to go completely natural.  It was a little frightening, because the doctor had not arrived.  The nurse and my husband had to deliver her.  I was lying on my left side and the pushing urge took over.  Suddenly I was behind myself, looking at the event taking place.  No more fear--no pain.  Just peace.  I didn't even seem surprised that I was there.  Then I saw an amazing pure white light coming from inside my lower back.  The light was so bright that it would have hurt my eyes, but it didn't.  It was really indescribable but felt like love on the highest level I have ever experienced.  I remember wondering what it was.  Immediately I could see it was shaped like a baby--my baby!  The entire experience lasted only a short time, and I was back in my body just as she was born.  I believe I was very privileged to witness my daughter's soul entering her body.
OBE at time of childbirth.  Witnessed baby’s soul entering its body.

John T Fear Death Experience. English expanded version  9/29/08 I was caught in the cross fire 13 shots fired. Hit 3 times, hand (right)  thru & thru left forearm, & left arm part of bicep muscle. I saw 1 bullet pass my eyes & hit concrete right in front of me.  During this episode My spirit left my body & was looking back at my body shaking uncontrollably. I became very calm but had thoughts of how I was going to explain to Walter's wife & 9 children I tried my best.  I thought he was dead. Also how to tell my parents?  In the calm was a white light of calmness. Thank you for letting me tell my story, as for today I do not fear death.
OBE associated with Fear-Death Experience due to being shot, but not in critical organs.

Luz H NDE. English expanded version  9/29/08  From Puerto Rico - Original in Spanish, translated to English by Simon A.  I entered into shock, and that is when everything began. I felt great peace, and felt no fear in separating from my body. I felt myself floating and that I was rising from the gurney. I could hear people praying all around me but could not react, could not open my eyes or move, etc.
NDE from post-childbirth complications.

 Kane D NDE. English expanded version  9/27/08 From the UK.  When I realized I was dead which took several minutes a great warmth of love engulfed me and I felt arms wrap around me even though I had no physical form, colors where electric, smells fantastic I slipped in and out of my body multiple times during the three days. I had life reviews but these were not how I have read since but purely self observed and self analyzed as if I was my own parent or own teacher it is difficult to put into words, I was also aware of the over powering secret to  life in its truly simple form and felt and believed it that nothing else is real but the feeling. the experience of death has been the most real and physical experience of my life and the world here felt cold and heavy and unreal for sometime afterwards.  
NDE due to brain hemorrhage from right temporal aneurysm. Integration experience - Also shared in 2006.

 Frances Probable NDE. English expanded version  9/27/08  From Ireland I was trying to come out of the anesthesia and a heard a nurse say "she isn't awake yet" " let her sleep a little longer"...it was then it happened. I felt so very sleepy, but unable to say I was awake. The next thing I felt separate from my body and woke up in black but only for a second, not even a second. I then was slowly going toward light and as I progressed toward it I felt almost layers of myself falling away....I became lighter and lighter and happier...just so happy. I was in a tunnel of very white light and I saw a group of people who loved me.  I don't know who they were, but they were familiar to me. No words were said but I felt the pure joy of being there...such incredible relief. There were many women young and old.
Probable NDE following surgery.

 Paul J NDE. English expanded version  9/27/08  The next conscious memory I had was of my body shutting down. I can recall the sense of doom I felt as I could physically feel my energy leaving my body; I was so scared and I don't know how to explain this but I mustered the strength to come to long enough to ask my wife to get me a priest and give me my last rights. I guess she did so, but at this point I fell back into a coma and at some point I remember standing on the edge of a cliff and in front of me I saw a mist, a floating fog, but for some reason I knew it was bottomless. All I could feel, hear, and see was sadness. It was at that moment of realization that I knew my right had was raised. I turned my head and looked at my hand and I looked up to see that I was holding the left hand of Jesus. I knew in my heart it was Him. He didn't look at me, he just turned me away from the edge of what I can only call the abyss, and led me away and towards darkness. The next thing I remember is coming to and asking my wife to get me a priest.
NDE due to brain hemorrhage from aneurysm.

 Derek C NDE. English expanded version  9/27/08 After an unknown amount of time to me I was awake again lying on my bed but things were very different. I felt No pain, very much at peace, and not sure if I just woke up or was awakened but on the left side of my bed was my Oma and Opa (grand mother and grand father in German) both of which had died at different times in the past. On the right side of my bed were my Great Grand Mother and Great Grand Father. I have never met my Great Grand Father; he died long before I was even born. My Great Grand Mother was the love of my life as a child, if I was bad during the week my punishment was that I would not be allowed to go to her home and stay with her for the weekend. I have more fond memories of her and being with her than anyone on my life.
NDE during unconsciousness following apparent heart attack.

 Gary T NDE. English expanded version  9/27/08 I knew I was bleeding to death and told my wife goodbye and kissed her. At that point I was in a stage of total darkness and I felt wonderful, no pain, no fear. Then I realized where I was at and I saw a bright light. My Doctor was in the light and he told me I was not going to die. I went with him into the light and things started moving faster and faster. I came too a few hours latter in intensive care. It took almost a full day to understand everything. I had to learn to walk all over, like if you had a stroke. I no longer fear death, I need to understand more. I am see a head Doctor by I don't know if it is helping me understand.
NDE due to blood loss.

 Curtis K NDE. English expanded version  9/27/08 As I was losing hold on my life, I felt sorry for myself as I began to let go. I felt was dying poorly. A kind of darkness, came over me and I experienced a grayish dark void of infinite nothingness. I had no fear at this point. I had no concept of time or relationships to time or of moments passing. It was a very unusual feeling to say the least, not what we normally experience in the everyday reality of our lives. I felt myself becoming more and more aware, self-aware. I had feelings of expanding awareness, becoming everything known experiencing everything yet to be known. As this was happening, everything I had been taught, everything I believed in, everything I ever learned or thought throughout the course of my lifetime, fell away from me as if they never held meaning in the first place. This felt ok to me, I had no fear.
NDE due to apparent heart attack.

 Roxanne H NDE. English expanded version  9/27/08  THIS IS WHERE AND WHEN THINGS CHANGED...I KNOW I WAS SOMEWHERE AND VERY LITTLE LIGHT...THEN IN FRONT OF ME I SAW BLUE CLOUDS BLUER THAN ANY BLUE YOU CAN IMAGINE WITH BRILLIANT WHITE CLOUDS FLUFFY WHITE WHITER THAN YOU HAVE EVER SEEN. WHILE LOOKING AT THIS I SAW GOLD I AM NOT SURE IF IT WAS A TABLE A ROAD OR A FENCE OR ALTER...AS I GOT CLOSER I SAW A FIGURE AT FIRST I DID NOT KNOW WHO IT WAS SO I GOT EVEN CLOSER...I SAW JESUS STANDING BEFORE ME I COULDN'T BELIEVE THIS WAS TRUE UNTIL HE MOVED HE WAS BRILLIANT LOVE RADIATED FROM HIM AND HE KNEW WHO I WAS AND EVERYTHING ABOUT ME HE WAS PERFECT (FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD) HIS SKIN HIS HAIR HIS EYES THEY WERE LIKE NOTHING I HAVE SEEN BEFORE OR SINCE.  HIS ROBE WAS WHITE AND BLUE ALL ON PIECE BUT YET BLENDED INTO ONE GARMENT...HIS GAZE WAS OF ACCEPTANCE, RECOGNITION, AND LOVE.
NDE due to heart attack.

 Justin M NDE. English expanded version  9/27/08 I then almost instantly found myself in complete darkness. It was a strange darkness, which I mean it was dark but I had no trouble seeing the area around me. Suddenly I felt this presence, in the area with me. I then said in a normal tone "What is this? Were Am I?". My reply back was "you have suffered a injury, and that is why your here." I then tried moving. I struggled to move from side to side, but couldn't. I literally felt like I was being held still. The being was so strong that I couldn't get free, (I don't mean that in a scared way.) I then said "Why are you holding me still?" The being replied back "I have to." I replied back "Am I gonna be alright?" In a lovingly fatherly voice the being replied, "you'll be alright."
NDE due to head injury in early childhood.

 M.E. NDE. English expanded version  9/27/08 The tunnel was very vivid and immediate and real though.  I was in a tunnel of light and I experienced the tunnel of light - and I know it was not just the ordinary experience of being pushed through a tunnel because I was watching it all from above.  I saw myself stretched there, I saw the scrubs and caps or whatever those hospital folks wear on their heads, I saw their shoulders, backs, I did not see their faces.  just mine. I saw the floor, I saw it all from above and I could see the bright bright sky all along the side of me and above me and then surrounding me too.
NDE at age 6 from head injury in accident.

Abdul A NDE. English expanded version  9/19/08 From the U.K. When I opened my eyes, I saw my self standing on my knees and arms. I was in a place that had no beginning and no ending.  It was a white place, white everywhere.  I was very tired and couldn’t stand up.  When I looked in front of me, I saw three tall men standing next to each other.  The two on the sides were the same height, but the one in the middle was taller.  Their faces were blurry. I couldn’t see them clearly. The middle man (the tallest one), pointed at me.  I felt that everything was shaking and I felt like something was pulling me. Then I saw myself back in the class room. The nurse was holding me and he said that they had nearly lost me.
NDE associated with faint at age 15.

 Joseph G NDE. English expanded version  9/19/08  I went to the emergency room of the hospital because of a bad reaction to a tetanus shot.  While in the emergency room, I was given 2 shots of penicillin.  After the second shot, I fell to the floor.  All of a sudden, I found myself floating at the ceiling watching the turmoil going on in the room.  My body was on the gurney jumping and shaking.  The room was full people working on me; pounding on me.  The nurse who gave me the shots was sitting on the floor in the corner, hysterical. I saw them with the electric paddles trying to start my heart, with no luck. I thought I heard someone say that I was dead. Suddenly, this doctor rushed into the room, shoving everyone out of the way. He was carrying this long syringe with a long needle and plunged it into my chest.  That was the last thing I remember. 
NDE due to allergic reaction that happened 50 years ago.