Thea PHM. English expanded version  7/1/08  From Romania, Original in Romanian Translated to English by Mariana.  I wanted to show off that I was a good swimmer but the river undercurrent took me away to this drop off near the foot of a bridge.  They told me later that a professional swimmer who happened to be there on vacation at his grandparents’ got me out of the water but that I did not look scared at all.  What I did not tell them was that I had panicked and struggled for a several minutes before I decided to completely give up.  When I did give up, the water disappeared and all around me there was this gentle light that did not hurt my eyes, and I experienced a sense of total peace and calm.  I remember thinking that if that was death it was fine with me.  I would like to tell you that I had an unhappy childhood, with an alcoholic father and a mother who did not have much time for me, so being there in that place was a wonderful thing for me, indescribable.
PHMs at age 4 (scarlet fever 104 temp) and 8.

 Janet J PHM. English expanded version  6/30/08 I saw the nurses and the doctor working on my body, I was up in the ceiling looking down. I thought it was cool I could float like that, I also saw my brother and his girlfriend in the waiting room looking worried. I wondered how did they get there so fast. I tried to touch them and to say I was alright, but I could not. After it was all over, and my brother and his girlfriend came to the room to see me. I reach out and touch them, I told them I had tried to touch them before. I was feeling no pain, I was aware that I was on a hospital bed, but it was by a huge river and there were a group of people on the other side, waving to me to come on the other side where they were. But I could not I had two little girls I had to take care of. So I told them that i could not come.
PHM due to complication of surgery.

 B's Shared NELE. English expanded version  6/30/08 He consciously watched me until 4 breaths before his last exhale. By that breath I was TOTALLY aware of how perfectly calm everything was. As I sat there holding his hand I witnessed a unexpected sight. I SAW not with my natural sight, however I SAW what looked like a whitish, wispy, cloudy human form lift out of a lying down, to sitting, to lifting form leave his body. It went upward and diagonally across the ceiling corner. I even said aloud ‘This is wild’. And I KNEW he was no longer inside the shell of the human body. No question about it. I even felt like I was a part of it. Everything seen and unseen was connected in perfection, and a joyous peace. I am also positive that T and another presence were in the room, located in the corner of the ceiling behind my left shoulder. I felt like I could join them. I was connected I sensed knew that T needed to be sure that I was okay with his leaving before he could/would leave to go on.
Dramatic ADC with husband immediately after his death.

 Pat R Probable PHM. English expanded version  6/30/08  I found my self inside of a tube that was like a bank deposit shoot. Between my hospital bed and the tube shoot I don't know what happened. I knew there were 16 of these tube shoots in a perfect circle all pointing down. The tubes were each 40 feet long from what I could see, but they went on infinitely beyond that. I was head first into the bottom of the tube and had landed at my destination. These tubes were tight, tight, tight, so they held me tight looking straight down at the bottom of the tube. There were people in each of the tubes all head first down. The tubes were made of beautiful 6 " thick crystal glass and people were lining up behind me face down.
Interesting experience - Back injury, coma, but no correlation of experience to time of life-threatening event. 

 Wendy M PHM. English expanded version  6/30/08  HEAD INJURY FALL OF A HORSE ON CONCRETE ROCKS… voice told me  to hold on spoke at first in its native tongue then translated it into English. It was a man voice… A spirit warrior was sitting with me. I saw myself wide awake while I was out of body.
Describes race as Native American.  Head injury at South Dakota reservation.

 Vicky M PHM. English expanded version  6/22/08 From Canada Then I was suddenly looking down at my body.  I was keenly aware in my young mind what had happened.  I could look around the room, seeing everything clearly but noticing nothing mattered - in a material sense.  I was very aware of the fact I had died, and I had a choice to go to heaven or return to life on earth.  I also felt very connected to the universe, and how we are all connected.  I knew what I had to do - as I felt.. knew, I had work to do on earth.. I was here to help others.  So I knew it was too soon to die.  It was not a frightening experience.. but definitely a life changing experience.. it has affected everything I've done to this day and will to the end of my days.
PHM due to meningitis, pneumonia, and collapsed lung at age 6.

 Judith P PHM. English expanded version  6/22/08 From Australia Even though perfect stillness and everything in existence happening at the same time seems a paradox on Earth, it wasn't there. There was no comparison to make with anything because it completely erased my memory of Earth while I was 'there'. I can't adequately describe it but now I call it the 'void' because that feels right for it. I do remember thinking "my mind is working so well!!". I felt like an exquisite flawless diamond. Any questions I asked (and I can't remember what my questions or the answers were now) came towards me in an energy wave that I could feel moving towards me in every direction at the same time and was answering the question before I had finished asking it. It was enormous and personal all at once in that place. I was aware of a 'bubble' of information in my soul's mind over in the distance in front of me, where everything pertaining to Earth was and then I realized that Earth is a dream and not reality and anything pertaining to it was contained, sort of not in reality but within it with borders.
PHM due to ruptured spleen.  Quite profound experience.

 Henry W Probable PHM. English expanded version  6/22/08  The next concept or rule I learned is that God can never be proved by scientific means. To do so would corrupt the environment. It would destroy faith. When we have faith we seek, we learn. If God were to appear before us a huge being at the United Nations. The entire world would believe but live in fear as well. To successfully experience the human existence, one must be physically out of touch with God. You have to learn and seek on our own. To search out the meaning of our own existence and experience here. Faith, is the engine of discovery, without faith we are just like ants.
Suicide attempt.  Profound spiritual wisdom encountered.