TWO - THE EXPERIENCE OF DYING
Despite the wide variation in the circumstances surrounding close calls with death and in the types of persons undergoing them,
it remains true that there is a striking similarity among the accounts of the experiences themselves.
In fact, the similarities among various reports are so great that one can easily pick out about fifteen separate elements
which recur again and again in the mass of narratives that I have collected.
On the basis of these points of likeness, let me now construct a brief, theoretically “ideal” or “complete” experience
which embodies all of the common elements, in the order in which it is typical for them to occur.
A man is dying and, as he reaches the point of greatest physical distress, he hears himself pronounced dead by his doctor.
He begins to hear an uncomfortable noise, a loud ringing or buzzing,
and at the same time feels himself moving very rapidly through a long dark tunnel.
After this, he suddenly finds himself outside of his own physical body, but still in the immediate physical environment,
and he sees his own body from a distance, as though he is a spectator.
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