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What does it feel like to die?

I don’t know what it feels like to die because I’ve never died before! But you probably already knew that, didn’t you?

Knowing what something feels like is really hard unless you’ve experienced it before. For example, if you’ve never had a migraine (an extreme kind of headache that

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