Know what's weird about death?

[Not Heidi]

If you're conscious and aware that you're dying, you won't know that you're dead when you die.* There won't be any -

Huh. I'm dead.



Thoughts?

*That is, in my way of thinking about death. YMMV

[tecelote]

1. Not sure. I can't remember the last time I died.

But, I'm old and my memory often fails me.

[Croney]

2. You go to sleep every night and don't know you're asleep.

Same thing but with no dreams.

[tecelote]

4. Great perspective.

But, maybe with a whole new dream. A new reality.

And, maybe not. Maybe we are just dead. The end.

[Croney]

6. I'm not a magical thinker, so...just dead.

Like a squished bug. Imagine if all squished bugs had an afterlife! There's just not enough Raid.

[tecelote]

8. Not to worry, insects are dying off faster than any other animal class.

The insect apocalypse.

Whenever I used to drive long distances, I had to wash the bugs off my windshield.

Not anymore. Insect populations are being decimated.

Dead and gone. No afterlife for them. So, I guess, you might be right.

[2naSalit]

18. Where did all those...

Repug zombies come from then? I always imagined that was the reincarnation award one gets for being a cockroach.

[Not Heidi]

29. *blink*

not enough Raid

[malaise]

30. We're on the same page

Just dead

[JohnSJ]

9. Depends. Lucid dreamers are aware they are asleep

[Binkie The Clown]

3. We, the living, have only seen death from the outside.

We can have no real knowledge of what it's like from the inside. But if we take seriously the thousands of reported "Near Death Experiences" death is like waking up a realizing that what you thought was "life" was only a dream, and the real reality is what comes after.

[tecelote]

5. I hope you're right.

I live with that belief.

[sanatanadharma]

14. Making a fine point by clarifying

Making a fine point by clarifying that the real reality is the 'knower' of waking and dreaming, the 'knower' of here, then, there and now, and continues as the 'knower' of what comes after, if there is anything to be known.

This 'knower' is the a-priori, self-evident existent consciousness that does not depend upon the known, but without which nothing can be known.
This non-negatable consciousness has never known itself to be non-existent and can not be negated nor ignored.

[Shermann]

7. I don't fear death

It's that whole dying phase that worries me.

[captain queeg]

17. Yeah that's how I think. Once you are gone you won't care, but in the case of some drawn out

Painful deaths, it would really suck. In a way it might be good to know it’s coming, so you can take care of a few things. I wouldn’t want my death to be more of a burden than necessary to others, but I guess they’ll figure things out. It’s kind of surprising that man makes dying such a chore in some ways.

[zanana1]

26. I'd like a 48 hour warning.

[WheelWalker]

10. Calls for speculation by the witness.

[NightWatcher]

11. Death is like being an idiot. Everyone else in the room knows it but you're completely unaware

Enjoy oblivion.

[rickyhall]

12. Here one minute, gone the next.

I was hit by a car and woke up in ambulance.

[onethatcares]

20. That's strange

I hit a car and woke up in an ambulance. We must be siblings..

[MuseRider]

13. Have you ever had surgery?

The split second between count backwards and are you awake yet, we are done is what it will be like I think. There is nothing there, you are unconscious. It gives me comfort to believe that death is just like going in to surgery only nobody wakes you up.

[Laffy Kat]

23. Yes.

Everyone thinks you simply go to sleep under general anesthesia, but honestly, the anesthesiologist takes you to the brink of death and back again. That's why they sit so close and watch those monitors like a hawk. It's also why the sleep doc usually has the last word on approving the surgery.

I've had several surgeries and have always enjoyed the sensation of going under. Yes, I know I must be a little odd.

[smirkymonkey]

24. Yes, I don't understand why when they put people to death, they can just put them under like they

would for surgery and then once they are completey under, just give them something to stop their heart?

Why does it have to be so complicated and painful for the person when we have the technology to make it simple and painless?

[Elessar Zappa]

25. Because people are cruel

and want the condemned to suffer. I hate pedophiles, murderers, and rapists but I’m against the torture of them just to satisfy some people’s blood lust.

[zanana1]

27. Being kept alive by a heart/lung machine is pretty close to dead.

Waking up from open heart surgery is also a trip.

[Not Heidi]

31. When was

your surgery? I wish I remember waking up from it.

[marble falls]

15. Death is nature's way of telling you something's wrong ...

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Death is when the body's electrical system shuts down, like blowing a light bulb

Amazed no one's experimenting with low level simulations. Guess it's not safe, but i'm not a doctor or a scientist.

[Frustratedlady]

19. I compare death to birth. You don't know about that, either.

Just sayin'.

[cbabe]

21. Best Best death song: Let the Mystery Be by Iris DeMent

[Sogo]

22. One of my favorite writings about the subject....

https://allpoetry.com/Gone-From-My-Sight

[cbabe]

28. Love the images of the

sailing ship arriving and departing on the same sea.

Runner up best song is 'Tumbling Tumbleweeds' by Sons of the Pioneers.