I was let this morning into the condition of those who are dying, so that I might know what their state of mind is while they die, and following their death. I was, of course, not dead, but came into a kind of unconsciousness as to bodily sensation, my inward life remaining intact, so that I could be aware of and retain in my memory what happens to those who are dying. For my breathing was not taken away, and as long as breathing remains, a person has sensation-and if it is the kind of breathing I had, has sensation from within, but not from the objects of the senses or from without.