Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth

...this fits with my experience of non-traumatic death as well. I know not where we go, but I am utterly convinced that there is something, call it soul, call it whatever you want, that exceeds the bounds of this lifetime. And to be there in that moment when it unbinds itself from flesh is to be touched by transcendence. I can't put it into words and I don't try to. To limit the experience to language is to lose the experience. (Does that make sense to anyone else?)