The Day I Died

I spent the first 21 years of my life terrified of dying. Then I died. And I've spent 25 years since trying to figure out how I can replicate that experience. Without the dying part.

"Imagine how a caterpillar might feel when it gets too big for its cocoon. It becomes claustrophobic and knows that it has to break out but doesn't want to because it is safe and familiar and the cocoon is all that the caterpillar has known. Eventually it starts suffocating and in desperation, just before it tak...