“Okay, so you know how they say your life flashes before your eyes right before you die? Scientists have studied the brain wave patterns of dying people and collected the stories of those who’ve had near-death experiences, and they’re fairly positive, almost one hundred percent sure, that it’s true—in the moments before you die, you experience a flood of emotions and memory, like vivid hallucinations, as powerful as a drug trip but still only as reliable as a human memory can be, full of holes and problems,

