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It depends on how you die, naturally, and how you interpret death. Actions, for example, can be seen as states, processes or points, and the way you see them certainly affect your whole experience.
Death can only be seen as a state after you're dead, so it doesn't concern us here. But, you can't see it as process either - like writing or swimming - because even though you can write a letter, for example, and that has an end (i.e. the end of the letter), you can start scribbling and, even before you finished anything, you can say you were writing. With death, you can't say "Oh, I died a bit, and then I came back" - you can say you were unconscious, and/or your heart stopped and doctors brought you back, but the act of dying implies that you kicked the bucket and you're a goner. So I'm going to refer to death as a "point", an instantaneous action.
After all, if you're crossing a street and a lorry hits you full speed (or if you take a bullet in your head), that's it, you're history, and there's nothing you can feel. What you can feel is what happens before death - which isn't death itself, even though these events (such as a long sickness) can be the ultimate cause of your demise. But, death can't be lived, as it is not part of life.
It's hard to go beyond that because of the endless possibilities of what may happen in an afterlife: many Brazilian spiritualists think your soul (if there's one) feel the pain inflicted to your body; but, an eliminative materialist would simply say that once consciousness ceases to exist, it's nonsense to talk about feelings, as there will be no consciousness around to feel them.
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