Welcome back, Lidybug! It was a nice feeling to see your name appear on the forum!
I'm not sure my experience is what you're looking for, but I did die a few times in dreams over the years -- okay; many times, but there were a few where I didn't immediately wake myself up right away, and the dying wasn't of my own lucid doing.
Though the circumstances were different each time, I had about the same sensations: My world/dream collapsed immediately around me, sort of into me (I guess you had to be there for that) followed by a bodyless, timeless, moment in a lightly swirling gray fog where I felt very peaceful, but not much else. Then the fog would silently woosh away and I would find myself in a "powerful" nothingness, still feeling pretty good, but beginning to feel kind of anxious in anticipation of what might come next. Also, my thoughts throughout were wordless.
Up until the nothingness part, the sensations were very similar to what I've experienced during Delta sleep LD's. The nothingness part, though, wasn't really the oft-discussed "void," which I've experienced many times, but more like I was in an actual place, waiting for something like a door to open (still with no body, BTW). It was truly unique, in my experience, though I did -- years after having these dreams -- come across very similar descriptions of the nothingness in the Tibetan Book of the Dead, when the "place" between one life and the next was described. Coincidence? Sure... but still pretty cool.
So, no bright lights, long tunnels, or dead family members (though I have had many dreams with NDE themes, there was no death in the dreams' themes), and these really were "you had to be there moments" that sort of fall flat in the telling, but I figured it would still not hurt to share.
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