1092. CONCERNING THE STATE OF THE DYING AND OF THOSE WHO ARE BEING RAISED FROM DEATH This morning I was let into the state of those who are dying, in order that I might know what their state is when dying, and what follows after death. I did not indeed die, but still I came into a state of a kind of insensibility as to the corporeal sense, the interior life remaining entire, so that I could thence perceive and retain in my memory the things that happen to those who die. For my respiration was not taken away, and so long as the respiration remains man sensates, and if his respiration is such as I had, the man sensates from internals, but not from the objects of the senses, or from externals.