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It begins like this: You can see your body, but you're not in it. It's different for everyone, of course. Maybe you die in a car crash, and you wake to see yourself hanging upside-down in the warped and crumpled vehicle, blood dripping, face unrecognisable. Maybe you die in your sleep; you think you're having some sort of out-of-body experience, or a strange dream, because there you are—right there, curled up so peacefully beneath the covers. Or maybe you're like me and it was a long time coming, so you die in a cold hospital room amidst tub...
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Screeech.... BANG. The world disappears in a hot white flash — fade to black. ... pain... pain... white hot pain... my face is on fire and my body is molten... make it stop... please... ... I open my eyes. Nothing but black dark. The pain has waned to a dull throb — a knocking behind my skull, a vice around my chest, a needle lodged at the base of my neck. I reach up to touch my face and find a stickiness graven deep in my forehead. My fingers feel stretched and warped as I extend them and reach them towards the wrecked skin of my face. I to...
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