Hi, I Survived listeners, I'm Marissa Pinson.

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This episode contains subject matter that may be disturbing to some listeners. Listener discretion

is advised. And I thought to myself, here I am. I'm 42 years old. I just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, and I'm dying today.

This is my last day on earth. These people died.

I never really realized at that point that I was dead. I just felt like I was home.

I didn't feel that I lived the life that I was supposed to live.

And came back.

And all of a sudden, I felt like I was being sucked through outer space

in this tube or something.

And it was just like a vacuum.

These are their stories.

It's December 2002 in San Juan Capistrano, California.

I was a safety and health professional.

I worked at, you know, several different companies, very career-oriented.

I had chased the money, chased the job. I wanted to be a mom.

I wanted to have two children. It was just the best place in the world to be.

Deb is about to have her second child by C-section.

So when we went into the hospital, they prepped me. I was laying there. The doctor was

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