I can relate with you on this one to a point.
The first past life I recalled (I won't go into details because it gets looonnnnggg lol), I was allowed to see when and how I died. At least my physical body. What got me was what I was remembering AFTER I'd left my body.
One moment I was there in my (still not sure what title to use for him. Friend? Best friend? Personal guard? Boyfriend?)'s arms, dying. I remember feeling so peaceful. It didn't hurt (then again the poisoned dart I'd just been shot with probably make short work of any pain I might've felt. I just remember feeling weak and numb) and I told him it was okay. I wasn't afraid to die.
Then, next thing I know, I'm outside of my body, looking at my body and my Shi-kun. The last breath leaves my body, my Shi-kun looks seriously distraught, and there I am, just kind of taking a moment before going 'Hey! It's okay, Shi-kun! I'm still here! I'm still alive!' I was myself again. Not the person I'd been in that body or that lifetime, not the person I am now, but the 'real me' as it were.
I remember watching him, and he was VERY upset, to put it nicely. I could go on and on about this (but, like I said, long story there), but I'll try and keep this short. But there I was, staying at his side, in a very pleasant, happy, content mood (considering the fact that "I" had just been murdered), curious about his emotions and the actions he was taking to take revenge for my death.
Even now as I think about it, there was this strange and completely different mindset I had between the physical me, and the 'real' me, as it were. (I've heard it compared to when someone slipps off a shirt they've been wearing, or steps out of one old car and into a new one. It's no big deal and it feels refreshing to be out of it. Where the shirt or the car is our physical body and the wearer of the shirt / driver of the car is our soul / our real self / however you want to say it)
I mean, on the one hand I can totally understand why any physical bodied person would be upset with the loss of another. I get it. I totally do. But on the other hand, I feel a lot like a child. I just look at them and go 'lol what's wrong with you? I'm still around! It's not like I've ceased to exist! I'm perfectly fine!'
(Thinking back over what's been shared in the Lemuria, Mu, Atlantis memories thread so far, specifically about how close those in physical worked and coexisted with those in spirit, there was no fear or 'loss' about death. Kind of a strange place for me to be at mentally, to both be able to understand, yet not understand, both sides of this.)
I'm not entirely certain why you were able to witness your own death, because sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. Sometimes it's important in your learning process, and sometimes it's not. A lot of the time, for me anyway, it's a lot like reading a story in a book. Everything that happens, everything we're able to remember, is part of that 'story', from beginning to end, from birth to death. Though, to be honest, in only a very small handful of my past lives have I been able to remember any sort of childhood. Most times I've been able to recall from being a teen or young adult up until my death.
If you ask me, (and I admit I could be totally wrong about this since I'm sorta guessing) the reason why you felt emotional pain, no physical pain might be because of what you said. You said the guy slit your throat and left you for dead. The action was so clean, so deep, that it didn't hurt.
I remember watching this mystery show on CBS... when was it? A month or two back? About this guy who just get totally nutbunnies, killed off his wife and his three (or was it two?) daughters. Drove his daughters out to the edge of a cliff where people dumped their trash over the egde and one by one he took them out of the car, placed them over his lap, and slit their throats.
The one girl who'd survived recalled that with clarity, despite her being only, what? 3? 4? 5 years old? She was really young, but she remembered her father killing one sister right in front of her. He got her and was ready to do the same and she tried covering her throat with her hands. He moved them out of the way and FFT! cut her throat. She said that she didn't remember feeling any pain from that, and blacked out. Next thing she knew, she found herself waking up beside her two sisters in the grass. She'd been the only one to survive. (Understandably, after the fact, I bet her neck hurt like no one's business because of the slash and since it was trying to heal.)
Then again, perhaps your body went into shock, sort of an 'on auto-pilot' sort of mode where your mind was still working but there was a sort of disconnect between mind and body.
I don't know really, but maybe this (or what someone else will share here) will help bring you some clarity on this matter.
heh, I know exactally how you feel with your comment about not forgetting it until the day you die. I feel the same way about the first past life I recalled. (I'd even written it down in story format and drawn pictures for it some years ago.) Despite whatever pain and tears and saddness are associated with that, I never want to forget it.
You are more than free to go find a past life regressionist, or you could try some more meditation and allow more past life memories to come forward on their own.
Whatever you do, I sincerely hope you find the answers you're searching for.
With Love and Light, Dawn