Despite his attitude, though, he somehow reunites with his physical body and lives.
Later he tries to tell others, but he has trouble doing so.
In the first place, he can find no human words adequate to describe these unearthly episodes.
He also finds that others scoff, so he stops telling other people.
Still, the experience affects his life profoundly, especially his views about death and its relationship to life.
It is important to bear in mind that the above narrative is not meant to be a representation of any one person’s experience.
Rather, it is a “model,” a composite of the common elements found in very many stories.
I introduce it here only to give a preliminary, general idea of what a person who is dying may experience.
Since it is an abstraction rather than an actual account, in the present chapter I will discuss in detail each common element, giving many examples.
Before doing that, however, a few facts need to be set out
in order to put the remainder of my exposition of the experience of dying into the proper framework.
1. Despite the striking similarities among various accounts, no two of them are precisely identical (though a few come remarkably close to it).
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