Copyright1999 by Dr. Jeff & Jody Long
NDE Experiences and Comments: These are summaries of the accounts.  The expanded version can be found by clicking on the link for the experiencer's name.

1118.  Jonathan H NDE. English expanded version 6/23/07 From UK.  The operating room staff were rushing around me on the table while I watched from a corner of the ceiling above them on the other side of the room. I felt remarkably calm and just interested in the technical aspects of what they were doing. Really interesting, and wondering why they were making a such a fuss really. Then a bright white light grew brighter above me to the left, like a distant torch approaching and getting brighter. But it was square, not round. Drawn like iron filings to a weak magnet I seemed to move towards it, float is to imprecise an adjective, and realized that the light was coming from a square corridor that I was entering. No panic or fear, just curious. It wasn't cold either, no reason why it should be, but it was a neutral temperature. Moving up the slight gradient as if walking. Annoying silence all around, but a calm atmosphere. A voice, not one that have ever recognized, but definitely male then said "It's not time yet, you can go back now" I have been asking "why?" and "what for" ever since!
NDE during operation.

1117.  Petra NDE. English expanded version 6/23/07 From Finland. In my experience I saw myself in Etelä-Haaga (another Helsinki district) settings, but everything was in silver tones, even the lawn was silver-ish. A voice said me: "See that young boy biking so happily there? He was run over by a truck"  The male same voice said me "See that lady over there", and he led me to a normal-appearing Etelä-Haaga house - which didn't exist in the material world. It was located at Haaga central square.  I was led in a corridor, which was flooded by an immense overflow of light - I cannot describe it better.  Suddenly there was an immensely brilliant light, which came off one of the ground floor apartments. There was a friendly but extremely authoritative male voice, which said I must tell everything.  Suddenly I was in hospital, hanging off from ceiling not unlike a bat. I fell on the bed in my body.
NDE due to heroin overdose. 

1116.  Gina R NDE. English expanded version 6/18/07 All I remember is that I had gotten to the middle divider and stepped halfway up before I felt a force pull me into a direction leaving me in the dark momentarily. My body was struck by a 45mph car and I could sense the projection occurring before it happened. I could protect myself throughout the accident while learning I could see myself being pulled to a safe place. I don't know where I went just before I got hit. That is why I feel an angel of some sort was also involved. While laying on the hot burning pavement some people tried to help me and all I could see was how my life flashed in front of me an image of me not walking and of dying in the hospital.
NDE due to being struck by car.

1115.  Julie NDE. English expanded version 6/18/07  The next thing I remember is being on the ceiling looking down at my body.  This did not frighten me,  it was just 'ok'. I didn't think this was strange. My thoughts were light not deep. It was very peaceful everywhere.  I felt very safe and secure. I could hear the birds outside. I was aware of everything around me.  Yet, I was at the ceiling looking down at my body. I heard my grandfather come in the front door.  I heard the door close. He called my name.  When he saw me on the bed he yelled my name.  He began shaking me violently by my shoulders.  He was crying and asking me what happened. I could feel his fear, but I had none.
NDE due to injury from horse at age 16.

1114.  Connie V NDE. English expanded version 6/9/07  Sometime during the surgery I found my self on the ceiling in the corner of the room watching the doctor and his surgery room staff frantic about "stop the bleeding," and "we are loosing her," statements.  I was only 5 yrs. old but I can still hear the words and see the intense bright light and the red blood on the little body below as I watched them from above.  It was only a short time for my experience though I understand later that I was in surgery much longer than expected because of a "few" complications.  I didn't see Jesus, a higher power, relatives or go through a tunnel but I thought it was a strange being up in the corner of the room at the ceiling.
NDE at age 5, 56 years ago, during tonsillectomy.

1113.  Douglas D NDE. English expanded version 6/9/07  I knew that this had to be the Book of Life that I had heard about as a youth and that if my name did not appear in it I would have to go to hell. This was very serious indeed but as I stood there the book closed. That did not seem to be a very good sign and I resigned myself to the fact that I would have to go to hell because I had had plenty of opportunities to change but now it was to late. I knew that it wouldn’t do any good to cry and beg but that I should at least take it like a man because there would be plenty of time to cry where I was about to go. Before any sort of trap door opened up to send me to hell I was taken to a second table just like the first one except this book was closed. I was somewhat confused as to what this second book was all about when suddenly it opened up and this scene was a repetition of the first scene. This entire second book made no sense at all as I had only heard of one book but it at least seemed to be a delay in what I already knew was about to happen. Then all of a sudden my name was found in the second book and I thought to myself “great” I get to go to heaven.
NDE associated with severe auto accident.

1112.  Teresa BH NDE. English expanded version 6/3/07 I was choking on a piece of candy I was given. It was early morning. Everyone had been asleep. I woke my family up choking. No one knew what to do. No one could help. I passed out on the floor in the kitchen, my family around me. Suddenly I was looking down at my body. I felt so peaceful. No fear just peace. Suddenly I was in my body again. I sat up coughed and the candy dislodged.
NDE from choking.

1111.  Silvia NDE. English expanded version From Argentina 6/3/07 Original in Spanish, translated to English by Carol. The bus derailed and in the fall I banged my head. When I was able to open my eyes I saw a very intense blue light. After I saw it far away, I started to pass through a tunnel. At the same time I was walking, I was remembering all the moments I lived with my brother. When I reached again the light I went through it again and I saw my brother (he died 4 years ago). I hugged him and after crying for some minutes he looked at me and told me that I had not to cry for his death. That he died because it was his time and I had to live without laments. That he was fine there and that he was always taking care of me from that place.

1110.  Augustin NDE. English expanded version From Spain 5/28/07 Original in Spanish, translated to English by Eva & Carol.  It was pure energy, the force, love, the life. I was at home…Feelings are indescribable because we are limited to this life and there was opening a unknown world of new  feelings, of comprehension of what someone can not understand and loved until that instant, my God how you loved…Then, I felt how someone was coming to welcome me until I had him in front of me. He was like a human form but without a physical body. He was all light, energy and love. We were communicating without talking, with thoughts or with the mind. After him, I started feeling more beings like him that were surrounding us and receiving us. I was fulfilled with joy and happiness. All was peace and harmony. I was prepared to enter completely in that place, my place.

1109.  Cynthia R NDE. English expanded version 5/27/07 The Guide then took me to a room (no walls etc) there were around 11 people walking around in a circle pacing as if they were following the first guy. He came up to what seem to be glass wall and said help me. So I tried to go there but the Guide said I was not allowed only he can save himself. Then we returned to the library...I heard Jesus speaking in the room to the side. I quickly ran to him but could not go thru. I was very angry not allowed to be with Jesus. As I stood there Someone grabbed my wrist and when I turned my head I saw A huge figure standing as if made up of golden energy. The don't talk non of them did but you can hear them in your head you know what they are saying. I then knew the figure to be God. He was very loving yet very stern.

1108.  Barbara R NDE. English expanded version 5/27/07 I cannot say at what point I passed out but I remember dreaming of a dark space and I saw people dressed in  bright white and the feeling of I had a job to do...a job that was important in the grand design of things... a job that God gave me...but I had so many questions...I then felt like if someone was pulling me by the back of my shirt and I felt like I was falling and I heard my husband calling me, but he seemed so far away...then I felt him smacking telling me to wake up...when I opened my eyes I asked him why he woke me up, I was dreaming and he yelled at me and said that I was in the train station...I know that I was in and out of consciousness because every time I awoke there were firemen and police around me... they said I went into shock and I had convulsions and I hit my head when I fell....
NDE due to blood loss associated with Miscarriage.  Two NDEs in one day.

1107.  Sandra R NDE. English expanded version 5/27/07  He said, "Come, take my hand.". I remember giving a half hearted attempt at reaching him and realizing somehow that I couldn't feel anything from the waist down. He stood about 8 ft from where I sat, and I knew I couldn't reach him. So I began to cry and I said, "I can't reach you.". His voice got firmer as he in more of a demand than a request repeated, "Take my hand!". This time, I tried as hard as I could to stretch my upper body enough to reach him, but I lost my balance and fell to the floor and hit my face. Then I began to sob and I said, "I can't! I can't reach you, you've got to help me. Please help me!". Then he said, very calmly, "You've got to try. You must never stop trying.". The next thing I saw was a series of bright lights passing over head as I regained consciousness and they were rushing me to ex-ray.
NDE in ER after accident.  Interesting how experience, while relatively unpleasant, was clearly what she needed to live the rest of her life positively.

1106.  Anne V NDE. English expanded version 5/14/07  I was at the oral surgeons office this morning for a dental implant and I had  nitrous oxide, which I have had before but I've never had this experience before.  I felt like I was quickly going toward this long, very bright light and I saw a shadow of a man and I realized and thought "I am dying, I have to go back to my children" and I kept thinking my daughter's name and I woke up and I had tears running down my face and the dr. and his assistant's were acting very concerned and told me that I gave them a scare.
NDE due to dental procedure with nitrous oxide.  Remarkably, the experience was shared the same day it happened.

1105.  Aurora N NDE. English expanded version 5/14/07  …THEN I SAW SOME LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL. BEFORE I KNEW IT I WAS STANDING THERE IN HEAVEN. I COULD HEAR THE ANGELS SING IN THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VOICE ONE CAN'T IMAGINE. THEN I HEARD THE VOICE OF THE LORD, LIKE HE WAS IN FRONT OF THE ANGELS AND I WAS TRYING TO GO THROUGH, BUT GOD SAID IT WAS NOT MY TIME. BUT I WANTED TO GO IN. THEN GOD SAID TURN AND LOOK. (It's a voice you obey), SO I TURNED AND I COULD SEE ALL THE DOCTORS THERE WORKING ON ME, LIKE WHEN YOU LOOK OUT A WINDOW AND SEE THE FULL MOON SO CLOSE, I TO SAW MYSELF. WHEN I TURNED BACK TO TELL THE LORD I WANTED TO STAY. I WOKE-UP BACK IN MY BODY, I WOKE CRYING, THE NURSE THOUGH I WAS CRYING BECAUSE I HAD LOST MY BABY. SHE TOLD ME THEY HAD LOST ME FOR A MINUTE AND WAS GLAD I WAS ALRIGHT.
NDE due to anesthesia following miscarriage.

1104.  Caroline S NDE & Dream ADC. English expanded version 5/14/07  During the caesarian I dreamt that my father was just up ahead of me on a slight incline and he was exactly as I remembered him, I was trying to walk towards him but he turned around and waved me away and he said "no go back go back its not time yet" I can remember feeling slightly disappointed but the next thing I knew I was being woken up by my husband to tell me that the baby was alright. The next day a doctor came to see me and said that during the operation I had hemorrhaged very badly and that they had nearly lost me my husband confirmed this when he came to visit he said he was told to prepare for the worst.
NDE during Caesarian delivery.  Also ADC dream described.   

1103.  Lala NDE. English expanded version 5/14/07  Ok, it was almost 4 o'clock in the morning I woke up with a sharp pain in my head and chest area, I went to bathroom I got out AND I PASSED OUT FOR ALMOST 20 SECONDS IF NOT MORE I SAW MYSELF FROM THE CEILING AND MY BODY WAS LAID ON THE FLOOR. THEN I CAME BACK TO MY BODY AND CALLED 911, IN THE EMERGENCY ROOM I WAS LAYING ON MY BED I FELT SOMEONE IS TOUCHING MY HAIR I OPENED MY EYES IT WAS MY GRANDMOTHER THAN SHE PASSED AWAY LONGTIME AGO, AND SHE TOLD ME TO LIGHT 5 CANDLES. WHEN I CLOSED MY EYES AGAIN SHE WAS GONE I EVEN FELT HER WEIGHT ON MY BED AND WHEN SHE LEFT I FELT THE BED MOVED.
NDE due to heart attack.

1102. Teresa M NDE 3060. English expanded version 5/3/07  Original in Spanish translated by Rio  I kept my eyes open, but there had been what I would describe as a separation of my spirit from my body because I saw my body from the ceiling of the room of the hospital.  I saw, heard and felt such peace, an enormous and embracing  serenity as if there was no force of gravity at that moment.  I thought that people who die must feel as I felt.  No wonder they didn't come back.  And I felt so majestic that nothing worried me about my children, nor the newborn baby notwithstanding the great pleasure I took in having my first daughter.  And although I love my mother and father so much even though my father was still alive and I knew I had to continue working to help him financially in his illness, I didn't feel worried, only enormous peace.  Nor did I feel guilty for anything.  It was something inexplicable. 
Child birth NDE.

1101. Doris NDE. English expanded version 4/30/07  From Mexico, Original in Spanish translated by Rio   I was feeling peaceful when an ex boyfriend arrived and we started really fighting.  He started hitting me.  I fell down and lost consciousness.  I started seeing a light that was very, very white and a lot of people whose faces I was unable to distinguish.  They were all dressed beautifully in clothing like large angels.  All of a sudden a voice told me to go back, it's not your time yet.  I came back.  I didn't know how to explain this to my girlfriend.  She told me she didn't know what to do because she thought I was dead for a long time.
NDE from domestic violence.

1100. Carolyn B NDE. English expanded version 4/28/07 He then spoke to me, not through words but through thought.  ‘It’s not your time yet’.  It was then that I came back.  When I awoke one of the first things I said was ‘I can see! I can see! It’s as if scales have fallen from my eyes’.  My mother who is a nurse responded with yes, I know that you can see.  It wasn’t the physical seeing that I was referring to, it was the spiritual.  It was if a curtain had been placed across my eyes due to a traumatic incident that happened when I was 18.  It affected every part of my life.  The way I acted, the way I spoke, the way I viewed relationships and the world had all been infiltrated because of this one event.  I had felt dirty and harbored feelings of guilt due to what happened.  I had thought that God could not look at me.  I had felt that I was never good enough.  Through this event, I was able to see into my own heart.  I was able to see myself as God sees me.  Laying on my hospital bed with tubes covering my body, an open would of 40cm X 40cm, hair falling out, skin peeling off my eye lids, water retention exploding me to a hefty weight of 140kg, I felt beautiful.  I felt so beautiful, so pure, and so clean!  This is how God sees me.
NDE due to severe illness.  Profoundly inspiring account.

1099. William W NDE. English expanded version 4/28/07  They were wearing brown robes (like a monk) and carrying a staff, I could not see their face because the hood was hiding it from me. As I recall they never said anything to me, but I knew I was about to find out if I had to return. We walked until we came to what appeared to be a very large house, I entered and before me was what I think was God, or someone who had the power to decide if I was to return. Then this being told me to “Be Good” and pointed to my right, as I turned I saw about 5 or 6 round shapes that looked like planets sitting on top of pedal stools, then I immediately went straight into one of the objects and again felt the same feeling of moving very fast until I could see my body on the operating table.
NDE due to surgical complication at age 3-4.

1098. Wayne R NDE. English expanded version 4/28/07  A voice from my next door neighbor who was still alive at the time was in my right ear. He said do not look at the light. I could feel what I thought was the sun behind me but knew instinctively not to look at it. The pull of the light was great and at that time the same old magnetic pull on my face and upper body was throwing me back into the person under the blanket. Again the pain and cold from the reality of the road and this time I heard a voice saying "he's not dead take the blanket of him.” I was put into the ambulance and after a couple of days I was considered medically all O.k. but very bruised.
NDE due to automobile accident.

1097. Eugenia NDE. English expanded version 4/28/07  From Mexico, Original in Spanish translated by Rio  At that moment, I'm not sure exactly when, someone or something began giving me an examination of conscience and in the blink of an eye images from my life began passing before me beginning with my childhood.  Each image had its counterpart, or as if the actions of my life were being put into a balance.  I could see my house, "alone and sad."  I don't remember exactly hearing a voice, but I did understand everything that was said (as if my mind translated it).  They made me see with clarity that my husband wasn't that being who I had judged so harshly and that my son would be just as well off in life without me.  At the end of this "judgment" there is the option of deciding whether one goes on towards death or stays on earth.  At the end of the review of your life, they give you the option of choosing between life or death. 
NDE from allergic reaction to medication after surgery.

1096. Francesca DB NDE. English expanded version 4/23/07  From Italy, Original in Italian translated by Maurizio B I had to make a choice, to stay or  to go to see what  was there.  I saw a hot light while I was bearing in mind about it. I  decided  to go to see the light  because I felt very well, a relaxation,  a wonder,  a light never seen, something that was inside me and that came out of me and it continued telling me “what a beautiful, what a marvel” that one does not die and ask what are we worried on the earth if there is continuous life.  It is necessary to enjoy laughter and rejoice as in the light.  We continued to talk to each other here even though I was in coma.  I remembered the light telling me what happened.  I was home the day after my nextdoor neighbour found me on the landing.  When she found me, I was doing the thought and was becoming the thought.  I was in wonderful, very green gardens.  I still have feelings of immense joy and the absolute certainty that the life goes on  ...and when I got back in "earth"  I was not scared.  I thought at once that the light was the big mystery called God all here

1095. Jean K NDE. English expanded version 4/23/07 I then heard someone say;" I can't feel her pulse and there is no heart beat." And, then I heard a girls voice say the same thing. During this time I was trying to tell them that I was really okay but, yet I wasn't in the same level as they were.  I felt my body move up to a sitting position and saw a beautiful light or brightness in the sky and I felt so good and safe.  Then next thing I remember was being in an ambulance and the medics trying to give me oxygen, then it seemed like a few minutes later I was awake.  Years later in life I had taken a course "Death and Dying" for college, it was taught by Sister M.  I told her about my experience and her knowing Elizabeth Kubler Ross had me write down what had happen.  Elizabeth confirmed that I had a near death experience.
NDE due to apparent faint and unconsciousness.

1094. Vinnie G NDE. English expanded version 4/23/07 I remember being an indigenous person in pre-Columbian Mexico or Central America.  Once again I had been or was involved in a battle I saw myself trying to climb to the top of one of the pyramids in Mexico I have always thought it was the pyramid of the Sun in the ruins outside of Mexico City.  I guess I think that because I went there once to visit and I felt so at peace like I had returned home, like I had been there before yet I had never been there before that time.  As I am writing this I remember that on this trip in which the accident occurred we had driven into Mexico City and I remember seeing them in the distance and longing to see them close up again wanting to be there.  I cant explain this.  I was trying to climb the stairs but I was wounded I felt that if I could reach the top of the pyramid I would be safe.  For some reason I don't know why I believe that I was some type or warrior/Priest.
NDE due to severe motor vehicle accident.  Remarkable awareness of many past lives.

1093. Rafael EH NDE. English expanded version 4/20/07 From Spain Original in Spanish, translated to English by Rio  Suddenly I saw myself sort of floating about 2 meters from my body.  As I said, I was 12 years old and felt that floating out of my body was the most normal thing in the world.  I looked at the scene with my friends laughing and hitting me to get me up.  I don't know how to explain it, but I was only consciousness.  I didn't move from the site while I saw myself on the ground.  Suddenly I raised my eyes up towards heaven and felt an inexplicable force that pulled me at full speed.  Stopping all at once I looked down and could see the entrance to the school. It's about 800 or 900 meters  from the porch where I lost consciousness to the door into the school where I could clearly see a group of women waiting in the doorway.  I couldn't think.  I was only conscious of everything around me. 
NDE from childhood prank.

1092. Maria S NDEs. English expanded version 4/19/07 From Argentina Original in Spanish, translated to English by Rio  When I returned from surgery there was darkness and I returned through a tunnel of light.  I met my dead father, my aunt and grandparents.  I had life reviews of my life, infancy, adolescence etc. 
Multiple NDEs from a neonatal nurse in Argentina.

1091. CG Possible NDE. English expanded version 4/19/07 From Mexico Original in Spanish, translated to English by Rio  Like the light of the sun but of greater intensity.  I only saw trees around me, nothing more, I only saw the tree tops and an intense light over everything, very brilliant, as if the sun was at maximum brilliance. 
There are NDE-like elements, but not enough information regarding if she died or not.

1090. Montse M Possible NDE. English expanded version 4/17/07 From Spain Original in Spanish, translated to English by Rio My experience is as follows:  I have asthma and as the result of applying an anti-inflammation cream to reduce pain in my neck...I had an severe asthma attack that resulted in respiratory failure.  I was unconscious.  During the minutes before my loss of consciousness, I was completely aware that my life had ended.  I remember, after going through the worst time of my life due to the suffocation I was experiencing, the light went out...everything went dark...and I felt great peace.  I saw passing before my eyes...images of people I love...very rapidly.  Suddenly, awake...3 hours had gone by...3 hours...of which I have no memory, as if I hadn't been alive.  I am alive because they gave me pulmonary-cardiac resuscitation and I responded.  That day I came back to life. 

1089. Bill N NDE. English expanded version 4/16/07 As I remember I was looking down at two men in white, two police and my mother. They were bent over looking down at a boy lying in the street. I could see a ambulance with the back doors open. It seem as if I was look down through a kaleidoscope.
NDE at age 8 due to being hit by car.

1088. Danielle B NDE. English expanded version 4/16/07  When I lapsed into a coma then coded during the emergency c-section of my daughter I saw myself floating above my body and I could see them standing over my body and blood was everywhere and I turned to my left and there was an extremely bright light and I started walking towards it but the more I walked the farther away it seemed and I couldn't make it there no matter how much I walked then I felt a force not actually seeing it but it spoke to me and told me that I needed to turn around and go back because it wasn't my time and I was needed for other things I never saw this voice but I felt the force pushing me back down towards my body and before I went back into my body I heard the doctors saying that they couldn't get a pulse or a heart measure and that they had tried it all, I was watching them shock me trying to get me back to life and at that point the force told me that there were many things that I needed to do still and that I had a baby fighting for her life needing me and I remember going back down to my body and it was like a strong, steady vacuum.
NDE due to cardiac arrests during caesarian section birth.

1087. Barbara NDE 3059. English expanded version 4/16/07 I had fallen and broken my hip.  I was in surgery to have it repaired.  During the surgery I went into respiratory failure.  I remember being in a darkness without boundaries and I was not in a body.  It was as if the essence or spirit of me was there.  I was floating as if in water but there was no water, just a darkness.  I was calm and peaceful and warm and it felt as though I should be there.  I don't know how I knew but I was waiting.  I did not questions this, I just knew I was there and it was ok.  There was no sound, no feeling, no pain.  And it was completely good.  But I was unable to advance to the next part of the experience.  Then I was in in the ICN and back in my body, but still floating.
NDE from respiratory failure during surgery.  From a nurse.

1086. Dr. M. Ghalabi NDE. English expanded version 4/13/07 From Iraq Original in Arabic 8-entering a dark cylinder space looks as tunnel. 9- appearance of white ghosts stretching its hands towards the center of the tunnel  and some of them tried to touch me, one of those ghosts was of my mother who died when I was 5 years old, and then I saw a light in the end of the tunnel. 10-going out of the dark cylinder entity to the out space, and I was about to leave our universe and I could see through mental discernment . 
Amazing NDE from a Muslim Doctor in Iraq.

1085. Paquita NDE. English expanded version 4/13/07 From Spain, original in Spanish translated to English by Rio  I was working in a hotel annex alone.  I was vigorously vacuuming a room when suddenly I banged my elbow really hard against the open door and lost consciousness.  When I awakened I saw they have put me on a bed.  The boss was there, a doctor, and a coworker.  I had peed all over myself.  The doctor said that I had passed out.  Nevertheless I was in Manhattan, at water level, the skyscrapers were in front of me, the wonderful sensation I had was that I could go instantaneously at will wherever I wanted.  When I began telling this story years later, I said that I didn't have a body, only a head, and that strangely I wasn't wet.  Later I understood that I didn't have a body, either, only consciousness.  The experience was tremendous and wonderful to such a degree that it took me a long time before I told anyone about it...       
An experience during unconsciousness fits the NDERF definition of NDE.  I suspect that there may be differences between those experiences occurring at or near death as opposed to going unconscious but haven't formally studied it yet.

1084. Christopher R NDE. English expanded version 4/10/07 That's when I got electrocuted.  My eyes rolled back into my head.  I could see the electricity going through my body.  Then I left my body, my brother was on the bed. I was looking down on him, I could see the hole room.  It was like being in my body but I was not.  Then I saw a tunnel.  It was made of bricks, just like a brick road, only curved like a tunnel, I went through the tunnel.  At the end, there was a bright white light.  When I went through the white light, there was a man. I say man because it was a mans voice. I saw this person in a white robe. I did not see a face.  I did not want to go back through the tunnel.  It was so peaceful. I wanted to stay but was told I had to go back.  There was a lot I had to learn yet. Then I went back through the tunnel and was back in the bedroom.  I saw my brother on the bed, and then I slammed back into my body.
NDE due to electrocution at age 7-8.

1083. Olma S NDE. English expanded version 4/10/07 I suddenly thought that I should be moving on and suddenly I was aware of moving through velvety blackness with sparkles (The closest I can think of is outer space surrounded by stars) though somewhat tunnel like. As I reached the distant incredible warm glowing light ,a sudden feeling of WOW I'm home, it was so familiar, I know I had been here many times before. I suddenly knew the meaning of life!!  I was communicating with a being unseen, and given the option of staying or going back, This was a tough decision I dearly wanted to see my daughter grow up and I did eventually want to return to my Nursing career, I chose to return and suddenly I was being drawn back into my body.  Strangely I could not remember the meaning of life it was like a curtain had been pulled across that memory.
NDE due to blood loss from colon cancer.

1082. Mary P NDE 3051. English expanded version 3/31/07  I was in a small hospital away from my parents and very concerned for myself.  They could not take me to surgery and I have rare blood type that they did not have on hand.  It seemed like when I would pass I was in the most beautiful place with green and a river and all these people were so glad to see me.  I did not know anyone who had died in my family at that time.  The person that said he was waiting on me was wearing a straw hat, bib overall's with a white handkerchief in the pocket and had the most amazing blue eye's. Also, there were other period people there that were helping me.  It was so peaceful there that I could of stayed very easily but I was begging them that I had a husband and a little boy to take care of and I couldn't stay… Two years ago my brother blew up a 1920's picture of my Grandma and Grandpa on horseback, he died when my mother was only 12 yrs old and he was the man helping me on the other side.
NDE due to hemorrhage after delivery.

1080. Glenda H NDE 3045. English expanded version 3/31/07  The second I died, the thought "Oh, I'm dead" casually and matter-of-factly entered my head and there was an immediate acceptance on my part. I did find out about the so-called "Judgment Day" I feared so much as a child. We judge ourselves and that at first, was a big relief but our life is still our job. I was shown what is now called a "Life Review". I was shown in living color, like on a movie certain situations, both good and bad, in my life. I was able to see and hear exactly how it was. But the kicker was as I was watching this situation unfold right before my eyes, I was forced, for the lack of a better word, to feel the other person's feelings at the time, not mine. Beside all the life situations shown to me, I was given the capabilities to hear EVERY SINGLE SIGNIFICANT thing that has EVER affected me during my life, the good, bad, and ugly. I heard EVERYTHING at the same time with extreme clarity.
NDE due to drowning at age 15.

1079. Jennifer NDE 3044. English expanded version 3/31/07  I was hit by a portion of the tree.  I felt several things at once.  But the first thing I felt and saw when the tree hit my side was being in the middle of a bright light.  It was around me and the edges were yellow and red.  At that moment I felt the presence of my granny and my grandpa and felt that they were there with me.  I felt that they moved me to where I wouldn't be directly hit by the tree- like they saved me.  I then thought "wow, there really is a white light" and "this isn't how I'm supposed to die-I've got too many things to do".  It's as if time stood still b/c when I was back in my life, I saw the remaining part of the tree fall, hit the swing, and I watched it continue to fall on me.  The actions were freeze framed, piece by piece- but my thoughts moved so fast.  All the sounds and smells was frozen as each section moved.  Once it all fell, all I heard was crickets and I remember looking at the sky feeling panic and pain- wondering if I was dying and all the things I would leave. 
NDE due to tree falling on her.

1078. Russell W NDE. English expanded version 3/31/07  I then was about 10 yards away from the bright light (which was warm and felt nice), around this bright light was a arch way. I then walked into the light and felt no pain at all I felt like it was ok to be there, so peaceful so right, I then heard a voice (I know this voice but to this day I can't work out whose voice it is) and the next thing I remember is looking down on myself with my mom and dad holding my left hand (my mom crying it really upset me). I started to move around the icu ward and I can remember that there was 10 beds all with very ill people in and a nurses station in the centre, in front of me. The next thing I remember is floating up towards the roof and that’s the last thing that I remember.
NDE in ICU after his motorbike was struck by car.  From England.

1077. K.C. R NDE. English expanded version 3/28/07 As I got closer the light was more bright.  A color of bright white, so brilliant it is hard to describe.  It is also like a mist - I could feel it as I got closer to it.  Just before I got to the doorway and was in the presence of the light, like being immersed / enveloped in it I began to feel...all knowing, happy, stress less, exuberant, I am aware of all the answers to literally everything, just this ultra-fantastic existence of all problems vanishing, joy, physical and mental limitless being - that is about my best human description.  I walked through the archway of incredible light, and was in a kind of room of this wonderful light.  The room was more like an elevator shaft (without the cables or elevator).  There was no ceiling. I'm standing in the middle of the "room" happily immersed in this wonderful misty, powerful light, and I begin to float upwards.  Up and up and up, in the beautiful nurturing light.  After what seemed like 5 - 10 seconds of floating I never reached a top or anything, but I shifted back to the hospital bed world.
NDE due to complications of ruptured spleen after accident.

1076. Norma H NDE. English expanded version 3/28/07  I heard the crash and some screams, then immediately I was in a different place. There was an older woman on my right side who was "escorting" me, or "introducing" me to this new realm. The very air was of a golden-peach color, and I heard music of a genre I'd never heard before, and couldn't identify the instruments playing the music. Some distance away from us, I saw a large group of people who were facing us, and I "knew" they were there to welcome me. I felt such peace and joy. Suddenly, I was told mentally that I would be returned to life for another "season." It was then that I heard a distant voice calling me. I definitely did not want to return to the earth plane, but the voice kept calling me. It was an employee from a nearby store who was beside my door, saying, "Miss, are you alright? Miss, are you alright? In the emergency room, the doctor (a lady) asked me if I'd blacked out at the scene. I told her that I had not blacked out, I'd been somewhere else. This was something she didn't comprehend, and rather curtly told me that I had blacked out.
NDE due to auto accident.

1075. Diane N NDE. English expanded version 3/28/07 I was being worked up for symptoms of light headedness.  This test had you strapped to a "stretcher".  The first part was lying flat with electrodes monitoring the heart.  Blood pressures were taken a minute apart for 3 minutes.  Then the stretcher was raised vertically and pressures were monitored every 5 minutes.  At the seven minute mark, I started feeling very strange and said I was going to pass out.  As blackness engulfed me, I heard the staff say "she's going out".  The next thing I remember is that I was in this wonderful meadow with brilliant light, warmth and such beautiful flowers.  I had such a sense of happiness and love.  I saw forms but not faces.  The next thing I remember was waking up and having a hard time breathing and feeling sick to my stomach.  I later found out that between the time it took for them to lower the stretcher flat, my heart has stopped twice.  Ever since then, I haven't been afraid of death.
NDE due to medical test.

1074. Terry A NDE. English expanded version 3/28/07  I guess at that point I passed out. I remember walking along a long corridor of light with a man that I couldn't see, and could only hear. I could see ahead of us a group of people standing there, just there shapes and sizes, no features. I also felt I knew these people. I must of asked my male friend, over and over again, why am I so happy? I just left my new baby, and my other 3 children, and my family, because it was Thanksgiving night and all of our family were there watching the birth and eating turkey.  I felt whole and complete Love and Peace. I was so curious why I would feel so happy, and not miss anything or anyone. then my friend spoke to me and said, "You have known them all before and you will know them all again, there is no loss."
NDE due to hemorrhage following childbirth.

1073. Hope S NDE. English expanded version 3/28/07 I could see my mother beside me, with a sponge and ice water and I could hear her praying even though she was not speaking out load.  I could then see everything going on outside too.  I was bored with the scene and just then a person spoke to me and I was embraced with great love.  There were several of these people there with me and they told me I had found my way to a different place of life.  They spoke to me just like you would speak to a child, they told me that I was very sick and to get better I would have to go with them.  I was happy to do so. I then saw myself above my house and going higher and higher till I could see the planet from space.   I traveled across space and I was told that I was being taken to the home planet of these people so I could get better.
NDE at age 5 due to fever from Rubella.  Apparent remarkable healing.

1072. Andy B NDE. English expanded version 3/28/07  From Mexico, Original in Spanish Translated to English by Carol.  When I thought about that like transporting with only wishing that with my mind…I arrived at the end of the stream that was very narrow and I bumped into a strong ray of light like an intense white ray…I even had to close my eyes until I was not dazzle…Before I opened my eyes I was thinking that God was that light…and while I was opening my eyes…until I could penetrate that light and… what I saw was the Virgin of Guadalupe like made of pure gold…she was shining like the light of the sun.  The starts of her layer were like light sparks…her rays were shining intensely all around…it was pure light, really beautiful!... I was standing there just looking at her for a moment until I saw her at her face for a moment.
NDE from a heart attack.

1071. Corinne TL NDE E032607. 3/28/07 Original in French, Translated into English by Jean Peter.   I am 42 now and my experience occurred as I was about 16 – 17.  It was on the week-end, My sister had a boy-friend then who knew someone who could drive us to the night club with his car. On the outward journey, I felt unsafe as I saw how this person drove. And driving back, about 1 mile from the night club, the driver lost control of his car. There was a very thick fog. The driver tried to get a cassette off the car radio. When he raised his head, we were in a curve and he had no time to regain control. We turned and turned. The car tires screeched. The wipers worked on their own. The fog was so thick that we did not see anything. This is when I knew I was dying. I had this belief that came from inside and filled my head. It told me, “You are dying”. I emphasize “You”, as I did not talk to myself. This feeling was as if I had always known. Then my life rewound just like a cassette, like a movie, to come back to start, i.e. my birth. The only image that is burnt forever in my mind is when I saw my mother feed me as I was an infant. She was on my right side. Anyway, it would have been unthinkable for her to stand on my left. The fridge was small and next to my mother. I was facing the scene, I was a spectator. I was awfully scared by the thought of dying as I certainly did not wish to die. Beside, I told to myself “What shall my mother say?”, I was scared that she would scold me at the thought that I was dying. Behind, my sister was screaming. My door opened, and I believed I would be ejected from the car, I grabbed the driver arm. Then the car came to a stop. While getting out, I could not recover my balance and suffered a severe headache which lasted till the morning on the next-day (same for my sister). It took me a very long time to tell my parents about it. When I did, I asked my mother whether she recalled the small fridge, but she answered no. Same for my sister, she never lived something similar. The lesson I learned from that is: life is no game, you’d better not step into a car with a driver you don’t know. I believe this was a mean to scare us in order for us to be aware of the danger. A few years after my experience, the book “Life after Life” by Dr Moody was published. I wanted to buy one then, but I did not know what it was precisely about. It’s been about ten years since I have got it. I understood then why I wanted to buy it. I talked about it to a friend who also had a NDE, she saw the tunnel and the light.  It’s Moody’s book which convinced me of her experience. Since all this, I interested myself a lot in the NDEs. I try to understand and compare with things we know. I find a lot of similarities with everything about space, like: 1) The fact that you float; 2) The fact that you find yourself in a celestial body; 3) The four dimension world and Etc…  I believe there is indeed research to be completed in this area.

1070. Edward H NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  Recall being upside down and flying through the air.  Landed in a ditch.  I felt nothing as if my mind and body were separated.  Found myself in a white clouded tunnel with a bright white light at the end. I was enjoying the experience so much that I became angry when people on the scene offered emergency assistance.  I wanted to be left alone  Recall someone asking if I were dead.  I said no I wasn't dead. At that point I lost the tunnel.  The rest is history.  I am still here.
NDE due to being on motorcycle and struck by car.

1069. Bernardita B NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 From the Philippines. I was brought to the Hospital by my mother because of an acute asthma attack. I suddenly felt light and I floated . I saw my mother from above rubbing my hands and pleading to the nurses to take care of me as my hands suddenly became cold and limp. At that moment, I blacked out and as sudden as there was darkness a light shines through very bright but not blinding. I saw a closed gate suddenly opened and clouds rising around it. As I entered the gate I heard a voice telling me" Go back, Bernadette (not the name I use but Bernardita), It's not time yet. You have not met me yet." At that instant I was revived with solucortef… My name in Heaven which some priest or religious persons call me. I later discovered that it was the name in my birth certificate but which my parents were not aware of because it was registered by the midwife .
NDE due to asthma attack.  Remarkable occurrence where she was called a particular name in her NDE that was not what she knew her name to be.  Later, found the midwife who delivered her had recorded her name in her birth certificate as the name she was referred to during the NDE. 

1068. Ally D NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  I saw myself as I'd never seen me before and I was ashamed but also I had to relive all the horrible abuse, some of which I'd forgotten, all over again in every agonizing detail. I became aware of a presence with me. This presence was so vast and unimaginable I wasn't at first sure of what I was sensing but then I knew it was God. He was everywhere and everything, the beginning and the end, and he was Love. I came to know that Love is a power to rival all powers real and perceived in the Universe, something I never could have understood without this experience. As my life review, which by the way I didn't know to call it until sometime in the last decade, went along it picked up in speed. It felt ominous and I was battered with all this at light speed and I knew if it got to the end, I was dead.
NDE due to strangulation at age 16.

1067. Mark M NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  I walked out into the water, walking toward my sister and cousin, Cheri.  I hit a drop-off.  I was bobbing up and down, drowning.  I heard Cheri say, "Isn’t that your brother?"  Now I was floating above the water, looking down at my body laying on the beach....a lifeguard was bending over me, giving me mouth to mouth, I assume.  The next thing I knew, I was back in my body, I spit up, set up, he asked me if I was OK, and I said "yea".
NDE due to near drowning at age 5.

1066. Gwen P NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 My cousins wife told me afterward that 8 people had been working on me, that my heart had stopped.  Sometime between the efforts of those to start my heart - I found myself in a tunnel. I believe that I saw figures on my right, and left sides as I went down this tunnel.  And then I saw this light, like the suns light, but buffered.  A beautiful white light with touches of gold.  A wonderful warmth radiated from it.  He spoke to me, not verbally, but I heart him in my heart.  The thoughts were loving and kind coming from HIM, but I do not remember what was said.  I begged, and pleaded to be allowed to return.  I had a 4 year old daughter, and was concerned about her future without me.  So I didn't say "please, please take me", I said "please, please let me return".  And I did.
NDE due to severe pneumonia with organ failure.

1065. Dave A NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  After a few minutes I was alone and slipping away again. I found myself in a dark expanse. I was not alone but saw nothing and no one. I was not afraid. It was understood that I was safe. As easily as anyone understands when it's time to blink, I understood what was expected of me at that moment. A basic translation is as if someone said, "See." as an instruction to be followed. I saw and understood everything, the nature of the universe and how it applies to everything from the beginning of our universe to how we are part of it. It took many years and many moments where I would seem to 'zone out' while a flash of my experience in it's entirety would wash over me and I would get a headache from the amount of knowledge involved. Each time I would retain more and each time the amount more grows.
NDE due to accident.  Very transcendent.

1064. Roy F NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  What I now know to be a NDE, happened during the surgery to open my windpipe.  I have a vivid recollection of being near the ceiling in what looked like a hallway of the hospital.  The Dr. and 2 nurses were working over my body furiously.  The bed was slanted downward with my head lower than my feet.  I was not fearful.  I just waited... My brain paralyzed.  I was in an iron lung when I did regain conscientiousness.  My dad was there.  I was later told that I was unconscientiously for several days.  After my recovery, which in itself is a miracle, I remember telling my mom about how the surgery was conducted. In fact, I told her and my dad many times while growing up.  I would tell it in front of friends and visitors.  Their response always was, "Baby, there is no way that you could have known that, you were in a coma."
NDE during surgery for tracheotomy due to complication of polio at age seven, 55 years ago.

1063. Marlene K NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 The next thing I remember is hovering above my head in an ambulance and watching two male attendants work quickly on my body - I wondered why I couldn't hear the siren.  Then I turned around 180 degrees and saw my ex-husband's grandmother standing in a long white gown holding a beautiful bouquet of daffodils - they were gorgeous, as was she - she was in her 20s or 30s and I couldn't get over how beautiful and YOUNG she looked.  I felt she communicated in some way that if I took the bouquet of flowers (which reminded me of my own grandmother - daffodils were her birth flower and always her favorites), I could leave with her -that she would take me somewhere.  I looked back at my body and perhaps at this time is when I re-entered - because the next memory I have is waking up in a hospital room five days later..
NDE due to suicide attempt with overdose of Phenobarbital.

1062. Connie L NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 The anesthetist was not paying attention to me or what he was doing still busy talking about the football game.  I struggled and struggled trying to move anything to speak and could not.  I realized that I was going to die, I didn't want to die, I had a husband and three children that needed me.  all of a sudden a very calm feeling came over me and I was surrounded by a white light very cloud like. I felt myself floating and weightless it was a great feeling and I wanted to stay there.  I desperately tried to move up and down sideways anything and I heard him still talking about the football game and saying, she is blue, then yelling at me to breathe.  I don't remember ever breathing and the next thing I knew I woke up in recovery and able to move and talk.
NDE due to anesthesia complication.

1061. Howardena P NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  It was hard to believe by others as I saw  myself or felt I was walking around outside of the car, but also experienced being  highly conscious in a dark void, but I was not afraid. Although it was dark, I felt I could see. There was no up, down or sideways... no sense of direction. I was alone, Apparently the Buddhists call this Bardo.
NDE due to car accident.

1060. Sandra J NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 After 12 midnight I was taken to the operating room and put under anesthesia.  I wasn't really informed as to my condition as being life threatening.  I guess I was young and uninformed since I was aware as to the bleeding all day but since this was my first child I did not know what to expect.  While I was under the anesthesia I found myself in a very bright warm area high over the operating table.  I could hear people talking about the fact that they didn't know what happened.  Also they said that they knew that I had just given birth to a child the day before and they were sure that I would like to be there with my child.  The peaceful location, the warmth, the brightness, the calmness of the voices made it a very comfortable experience.
NDE due to bleeding after childbirth.

1059. Cameron H NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  I went into a coma dues to being diagnosed with Ryes Syndrome.  During the coma, I was on life support and an ICP bolt was put in my head to measure brain pressure.  My mother finally needed to leave my side to go to the restroom and when this happened, my life support dropped to "0" and the doctors tried to bring me back to life.  They were successful but I remember passing down a hallway that had no doors that was a soft grey tone.  At the end there was an open door with an immense light emitting through it.  I felt like I was floating down the hallway straight to the door.  I passed through it and was in this vast space that was like a giant Styrofoam sphere, that I was stuck on.  I could only travel round and around.  I then heard crying and beeps and turned to look where the sound was, and I was back in my hospital bed surrounded by beings that were floating around me.
NDE due to coma from Ryes Syndrome at age 6.

1058. Bonnie B NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 All of a sudden everything was black then I saw a light like a multiple shinning radiant glowing of indescribable brilliance and I was being whisked down a tunnel at an incredible speed.  There were people outside of this tunnel all along reaching out seaming to want to touch me. They were communicating with each other like a mental chatter but I couldn't recognize any of them yet they seemed familiar like they knew me. They were like faceless figures. I was not afraid to go forward but all I could think of was no, no I need to go back to be with my children, they are to young for me to leave them, please, please, I need to go back. I kept saying my children, my children, even though I would like to stay. I didn't say it with words it was with my  mind.
NDE due to complication of dental nitrous oxide.

1057. SM's NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  It was 10 days after surgery and I was scheduled to go home the next morning, but when the nurse checked my pulse early in the morning, she found no pulse. I had bled to death during the night. I remember this causing much confusion in the hospital ward, and my body was rushed to the trauma room.  I remember floating near the ceiling and being VERY SAD because I had a 6 month old daughter that would not have the care of a mommy.  The staff administered blood transfusions and I slowly came back into my body sometime later.
NDE due to bleeding after surgery.

1056. Diana R NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  During the event, I thought I was in the presence of Jesus.  We spoke and I was shown a life review.  The review was very fast but I seemed to comprehend everything easily despite the speed.  After the review was over, I had lots of questions esp. the meaning of life, lots of scientific questions and the meaning of the universe, etc. type of questions.  I was given all the answers and remember that it was all so easy and so clear and why didn't I understand that before.  I was told why I was born and my mission or reason for being and then told that my work wasn't done yet and that I had to go back.  I was really hurt that I couldn't stay because there wasn't anything that I wanted more than to stay.  Pure love is the best way to describe the being and place that I would be leaving. Under protest, I was sent back. 
NDE due to cardiac arrest as complication of kidney failure.

1055. Larry B NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  The next thing I noted was that I hit my head.  I noted I hit it hard but it didn't seem to concern me.  Then I was standing in this place.  I guess I could use the word beautiful to describe it but it was more of a mist and a feeling than anything.  I was alone at first.  But then people started appearing.  I recognized them all.  Some relatives and friends.  The others, well I knew them somehow.  They were all happy to see me but somewhat concerned.  I remember the overall feeling from them as I wasn't supposed to be there.  One of them pulled me aside and asked me a few questions.  I answered them.  He then said that someone was going to come and talk me out of staying.  I replied something to the effect of I have no intention of leaving.
NDE due to unconsciousness from inhalation of helium and falling and hitting head.

1054. Janice H NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  I looked around for a while and wandered to the garden area. I saw my grandmother standing on the other side of the fence in the neighbor's yard. I ran to the fence, so happy to see her. I wanted her to hold me like she did when I was a child. She had a wonderful laugh and was happy to see me too. We talked though it seemed that we communicated by thought rather than words, about general life things, she told me she was very proud of me. She told me she was sorry she left me when she did and was glad that I had acted so responsibly when I found her body. After talking for a short while, she said it was time to go. I wanted to cross the fence and go with her, but she told me no. She said it was not my time, that I still had things to accomplish. She told me that she would always be with me and close by at all times.
NDE due to severe flu.

1053. Violet P NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  I was having a baby Doctor could not stop the bleeding. I left my body. I watched them working on me. Then there was a bright light around me and I heard my great aunt's voice (she has been dead since I was 10) she asked me if I really trusted my husband to raise my son…  I am legally blind without my glasses but the nurse took my glasses before they took me to the delivery room but I could see clearly what the Dr. was doing.
NDE due to blood loss at time of childbirth.

1052. RoseMarie W NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  The smoke seeped into my home and cause me to have more difficulty with my breathing.  After going to sleep, I was wide awake.  I knew that I was not breathing.  I tried to take in some air but it felt as if a large block of cement was on my chest.  I was not afraid and I understood what was happening.  I knew that I was leaving my body.  I never saw a tunnel but I was going backwards from what I perceived to be a place of division.  One the other side, I was alive and on this side I was not breathing.  I was moving slowly at first and started gaining speed away from the place of division.  It was almost like a surface when you're under water.  It's hard to describe exactly what it was like.  I was totally aware of what was happening and there was absolutely no fear.  My mind and thoughts were moving as fast as lightening.  Everything was like crystal.  I understood everything and again there was absolutely no fear.
NDE due to inability to breath due to myasthenia gravis (a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease).

1051. Robert E NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 the first experience took place at the time when my blood pressure was crashing and my pulse rate was so fast I felt like my heart was breaking through my chest. I was tired of the the fight.  In my vision I found myself in a dark and barren hospital room. besides the brightly illuminated bed I was in, the only other item in this room was a plain wooden chair up against a wall. the chair area was also brightly illuminated. in the penumbra you could barely make out the outline of a doorway through which entered my clone who proceeded to sit in the chair.  at this moment I swung my legs over  the side of the bed and faced my companion.  I wanted to rip out my  heart which felt alien and unfriendly.  my companion seemed clearly aware of all my feelings. after all we were one and the same.  he said the following: "Robert, you can choose to stay or check out”.
NDE due to septicemia in ICU.

1050. Della M NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  There were by now 3 doctors and 5 nurses in my room. I though the nurse with the blood pressure cuff was funny. She would pump it up, listen, pump it up again, listen, pump it up again. I saw 1 doctor & 1 nurse fill a syringe with a very long needle that they were going to inject into my heart. I knew I was dead. I had no fear, I felt very much at peace. I was more than willing to go on. BUT at the very last second I thought what would happen to my 4 young children in my absent. It was like SLAM I was back in my body and I heard the nurse say I have a pulse. I have told others it was like the hand of God slammed me back into my body much like you would slam a handful of mud against a wall. I started laughing which no one understood. Since that day I have had no fear of death. I am far more easy going and at peace.
NDE due to allergic reaction after surgery.

1049. William S Probable NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 …the earth was racing toward me at 120 knots.  Instantly I developed the most intense headache centered in my forehead. The pain and pressure felt the size of a quarter and in that instant the pain exploded and I heard the following words “Let go you don’t have enough reaction time for that”. Upon hearing the words I concluded my subconscious was informing me I had bought the farm. For a nanosecond I resisted the notion to let go of the controls. In the following instant I let go of the controls, and laid my hands in my lap and waited for the impact.  In the few microseconds I had left on the earth I realized I had for the first time truly surrendered to forces beyond my control. The only recognizable regret I had in that moment was for the well being of the plane. I thought what a shame to damage such a wonderful machine.  My thoughts were moving faster that the speed of light and at this incredible speed I knew with certainty that my life was over. As I gazed at the earth rushing up at me I could see the birds flying around in the tops of the trees that I was about to impact.
Three experiences described.  Vision at age 5, Probable NDE at age 10, Remarkable near plane crash at age 44.

1048. Rosalie D NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 I closed my eyes and a few seconds later opened them again. This time there were 2 angels standing at the foot of my bed, I remember thinking that 2 angels at the foot of my bed couldn’t be good. They spoke telepathically saying that God wanted to see and speak to me and to go with them. I told them “Thanks! But I don’t want to speak to him." They repeated their request and I could see they weren’t going anywhere soon, so I told them I couldn’t go anywhere as the doctors might turn the life support off while I was gone. They reassured me they would stand guard over my body and not let anyone turn off the life support. Normally this would not convince me, however I could see they weren’t lying, when you talk telepathically you can see inside the words and lies would be seen. Where they come from lies don’t exist and telepathy being the perfect communication there are no misunderstandings. So with that excuse blown out of the water I went with them reluctantly.
NDE due to Septicemia.

1047. Cory P NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 When I hit the surface, water choking water exploded from my nose and mouth. Right next to me I saw this boy with blue dark blue eyes. Can you help me get back? I'm so tired. He looked at me. Put your hand on my shoulder. I ended up on the beach on all fours coughing my guts out.  Looking around all I could see were my friends pointing at me. I wanted to thank blue eyes but I couldn't find him. After talking with my friends they said I swam in alone. I went back a couple of times after that. I never saw the kid again.
NDE due to near drowning at age 16.  Was assisted back to shore by being that could not be seen by his friends on shore.

1046. James E NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 Then, POOF, im in the light.  Its golden, its beautiful, the pain from the 3 years of my life gone, the laughter, the love, every emotion I had had in life, was gone.   I was one with everything that ever existed, or ever will be. I knew at that moment, the why of all whys.  I had no questions, I had need for no answers. Everything was known in that instant I entered the light.  Then it spoke to me, as if I was speaking to myself through the voices of everything that can, does, or will exist.   It simply said " you have to go back" and it was me telling myself I have to go back, but yet.. I am all, so who was talking to whom???   ha-ha.     So, I did not question, I already knew why I had to, why life existed, why everything happens.  After it told me I had to come back, that was it. I woke up in my bed, my mother laying next to me, 5 days had passed, the cancer that was eating me alive, that the doctors had said they could not cure, was completely healed.  They tested me, found i was completely void of cancer, and sent me home.
NDE due to coma after surgery at age 6 due to advanced Hodgkin’s Disease.  Quite transcendent NDE.  Indicates he was immediately cured after NDE.

1045. Denise M NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  I went into a diabetic coma.  My parents rushed me to the hospital where they told them I had also had a stroke on the left side of my brain, destroying most of it.  They said that I would die within the next twenty-four hours.  All of my organs were shutting down.  I didn't die.  When I went into the coma at my home, Jesus appeared at the side of my bed and asked me to go with him.  I did.  He took me to the spirit world or what you call heaven and showed me many things.  I got to see all of His life.  He showed me hell, where the evil people have gone.
NDE at age 10 due to diabetic coma.  Very detailed.

1044. Tim B NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 I woke up above my body, and I was still having electrical thoughts.  I felt like I was in the shape of a clear ball, and the back of me was connected to some type of electrical force, that was using me, but not hurting me.  I never thought of this was afterlife at the time, but after analyzing it now, I can see how it could be.  I was surprised how I could move around, by just wanting too, and the pressure of going back into my body was rough, but I was hoping it would all work out in the end, and it did.
NDE due to apparent loss of consciousness after unknown type of needle shot. 

1043. Steven T NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07 My heart was in V fibrillation and then stopped completely.  All of a sudden I'm in an extremely bright and white room with a large wooden table in the center of this room. Chiseled in the center of the table was an unknown design. (No other articles in the room whatsoever) Sitting at the table were three knights (like during the crusades with the large red cross on the clothing). Two were sitting side by side with their backs to me. The third was sitting across from the two. All three had their armor helmets resting on the table just to the right of each one of them.   They never acknowledged my presence, so I don't know if they seen me or not)   The knight sitting by himself stated with a firm voice "we need him now". One of the knights with his back to me stood up, slammed his fist on the table and shouted "no, it is not his time.”
NDE due to heart arrhythmia.  Saw three crusade era knights.

1042. Steve F NDE. English expanded version 3/22/07  ...I could see a person in the driver seat covered with blood and paramedics working on him, and I thought "wow that guy's really messed up", then I realized it was my truck and the person was me. While this was happening I felt confused; how could I be standing where the house should be? why am I standing when I was sitting in the truck? how could I see myself being worked on? then I turned to my right (facing forward) and I saw the grim reaper, the dark robe , the sickle, no face but where the face should be was just blackness, blacker than anything I'd ever seen before in my life, it was as if you could take the brightest light you could find (the sun, or even 10