During my freshman year of college, I experienced what I believe to be the closest simulation to death without dying. I dreamt that I was in some sort of space craft orbiting the earth. The craft was small, maybe about the size of a small car, and it was cone shaped. This craft was meant to deploy a parachute and get me to earth, but something had gone horribly wrong. The parachute messed up and the craft began to hurl towards earth at immense speeds. I could see fire start to cover up the windows at all sides. I launched so fast downward that I felt my heart stop. I could see the ship around me start to fade, and I realized due to the rate of acceleration, I would die before I reached earth’s lower atmosphere. In this moment I died. It was a very strange feeling. My final thought before dying was “I died”. That it. A few seconds before, my body had been filled with fear and adrenaline, but all of a sudden, all my feelings were completely gone. No more emotion. No more fear. Just complete acceptance. I had died and there was no other option I had. My brain ceased thought and emotion entirely, and I experience blackness with the last thought echoing through whatever part of me that was left “I died”. After about 3 seconds, I began to regain feeling in my body and woke up in my bed. It was like my body was ready to shut down, then realized that I was actually still completely alive. It was a powerful feeling, but when I woke I was just happy to be alive.