What is it like to die? This VR experience offers some answers


Gagen uses a VR headset to experience what it's like to die at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Education Center in Minneapolis. In this scene, they're looking down at their own body as loved ones say their goodbyes. — The Minnesota Star Tribune/TNS

MINNEAPOLIS: When the University of Minnesota offered to let me experience what it’s like to die, naturally I said yes.

Aren’t we all morbidly curious about the undiscovered country, as Hamlet put it, from which no traveler returns?

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