Yes.



The one I was in was similar to this one but without lights and gadgets inside. Basically, a ventilated box of water covered in black heavy plastic.
It had a microphone and speaker in the top left and right corners plus an infrared camera.

Modern ones are pretty fancy and can be installed in your residence like a Jacuzzi.



The modern terminology is called a "Float Tank".

Weird feeling I would have thought!

I believe being under anesthesia is similar to death.
You go 'under' and then you wake up.
With death, you don't wake up.

When I was under, there was no sensation at all.
I was there one minute and the next minute I was there again.
There is a blank spot while I was under.

During that time, my higher brain functions were halted.
The fact that I continued to exist tells me that the mechanical reflex of involuntary thought persisted while I was in that state. My heart continued to beat, my breathing continued (with assistance) and my cells continued to multiply and die.
However, during that time, I did not exist. I didn't go anywhere, there is just a blank spot. Without my consciousness, there was no me.
The anesthesia did not target my entire body, it targeted my brain.
So, I reside in my brain, not my body.
Was the energy that is me still there during that time?
Obviously it was because I am still here.
What I don't know is if that energy that is me was still within my body or hovering just outside without perception?

My NDE was not like when I was under anesthesia. I was aware I was outside my body. I was aware of things happening to me. I could still hear, see and sense my surroundings. I believe that in the process of dying the sense of touch goes first, abruptly. The other senses seem to fade out slowly. I don't quite understand why that is but I experienced it.

Perhaps what I think of as my 'soul energy' is not one unity but a whole bunch of different types or states of energy that have different dispersion properties? The act of dying causes them to separate?

Here's an example of how my mind operates.
Taking what I just wrote into consideration I need to revise my OP, specifically...



Revised to account for the possible dispersion energies.

that energy would be trapped around the body. As more energy is released by more decay the glow would get brighter and hotter. It might have distinct layers. A multi-faceted glow instead of a unified glow.
"Glow" is probably the wrong word to describe it but it works best with my limited vocabulary and the fact that nothing like it has ever been recorded in all of history.

I've seen Aura photography.



That's pretty interesting but I feel it is limited in scope and detail to capturing a soul at death. Plus auras can be photographed from non-biological items.



That is called Kirlian Photography or Light Stalking.

Still, I find it all pretty interesting...

Plus, there is the occassion when someone is embracing someone at the moment of death.
The soul does not transfer into the living person, or does it?

Is this because there is no soul or because the 'soul frequency' (for lack of a better word) does not match from person to person?
That each and every person has a unique frequency in which the soul energy is composed?

If such an absorption is possible, would we realize the change and know what it is? If not, it could be a proximity thing or it could be a universal thing. If it is a universal phenomenon, everyone could absorb a small part of all who die during their lifetime, planet wide.

Another thing to consider is if that life energy is common for all life or specific to the species. Meaning all plants, animals and bacteria contribute to the energy is all living things.

Some people believe that nature is a life essence in itself. Could it be possible that life energy from all living things gets transfered to the environment? The Gaia belief system promotes this concept.

Considering this, the need for total isolation to capture the soul at the moment of death is much more important. A need to prevent such dispersion and localize the event to a pristine environment.

Without knowing or being able to do this means that all religions and belief systems have their own validity. In other words, since we don't know for sure, its anybody's guess.

Sounds like you are prime for astral traveling Tom, get away from your body and see the world. I can't do it myself voluntarily, but it happens uncontrolled now and then.

Protesting buddhist monks self immolate by leaving their bodies for good, leaving it to burn in a fire while their (soul, spirit, whatever) departs - but they do it deliberately prior to, not as they die.

At least that's what they tell us.

It's one of those 'hard to prove' things, since we don't have the technology to monitor ethereal, spiritual, extra sensory type events.

I held my partner as she died, I didn't feel or notice anything but grief. But who knows what really went on at that moment. I assume that her spirit would have seeked out her close family to be with - daughter, mother, father, etc.

The 'weight of a soul' test conducted decades ago was not scientific enough to have any meaning.

But energy can not disappear, and the soul/spirit must be entangled with energy in some way, so where does that energy go ?

Personally, I believe it is absorbed into the energy of the Universe.
Like a drop of water in a vast ocean. Like a drop of ink in a vast ocean.
It disperses everywhere there is free energy.
The ink is in there but you can no longer identify it because of its dispersion. The base volume is too large.