I'm not sure it is that far fetched an idea. When you are young time seams to progress very slowly. I remember being a kid, and school would be out for the summer. The end of summer was so far away you couldn't even imagine it. It felt like forever. But as we get older, time seams to pass more quickly. There is some interesting scientific research on this, and it is thought becuase the brain pays attention to every detail as a child, it seams to take longer to process. As we get older, you run on autopilot, and time flies by because your brain doesn't bother with all the minute details.
So the perception is time passing faster as you age. And becuase at death we are talking about perception, I don't think it is impossible for those last moments to stretch a very long perceived amount of time. It's a possibly I'd give more weight to that consciousness leaving the body and hanging out in heaven, anyway.
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