I woke up to find my self dead... Lying there completely motionless; my body lay before me, a very bloody and mutilated corpse for that matter

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I woke up to find my self dead... Lying there completely motionless; my body lay before me, a very bloody and mutilated corpse for that matter. But the ironic thing was that I wasn't there when I died, because I'd been away, you see, away from my physical body. My mind - spirit, soul, psyche, consciousness, call it what you will, I was terrified so terrified that my, let's call it my soul, had jumped out of my ridged body. I wasn't there, when I died...

I didn't absorb what lay spread before me, a strange venomous feeling pumped through my bloodless veins, which I couldn't eternally describe. The feeling was yet so mysterious I came to appreciate its presence flowing through my veins like a river flows through a canal. I was floating, adrift like some poor desolate body. But was I a ghost? If I was shouldn't I have been on my way down a long black tunnel towards the light at the end? Shouldn't my life have flashed before my very eyes? Sins and all?
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Where was my judgement day? Had I been forgotten about? The irony of this whole thing was that I didn't feel very dead, not dead at all. But it is true if I were dead wouldn't I at least feel dead? It was like being exiled from my own body, now my body what was left of it anyway was an empty lifeless shell.

I could almost taste a the putrid smell that engrossed the air around my very soul, a decomposing smell, my body that lay before me was rotting away and I could not do ...

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