Death

[_lostindc]

Dr. Sam Parnia and others are conducting a fantastic study on the very subject of what happens when we die.
[url]
http://horizonresearch.org/main_page.php?cat_id=38[/url]

[_moksha]

What happens after death is the big mystery. The process itself is also something to ponder. I've attended the deaths of several people (clinical and relatives). I've found no answers in watching the process.

Then perhaps you could look to the comfort taken in the various ways the after death experience is regarded. Some posit a dust to dust experience and some hold that an afterlife is possible. An afterlife sounds most comforting to me.

[_Quasimodo]

I do fully expect to have a NDE while my brain is dying. I think it is the bodies way of handling the dying process.

I hope you do, in the far distant future. I'm not necessarily hoping for that, anytime soon. It would be an interesting experience. Perhaps our last.

[_just me]

I do fully expect to have a NDE while my brain is dying. I think it is the bodies way of handling the dying process.

I hope you do, in the far distant future. I'm not necessarily hoping for that, anytime soon. It would be an interesting experience. Perhaps our last.

I'm not planning to experience it for at least 65 years. :) I'm gonna live to be 100.

[_Simon Belmont]

Here's an interesting thought, try imagine yourself not existing.

Can you do it?

[_Quasimodo]

Oh cool, I really like talking about the dying process. Yes, I am weird.

I don't think that is weird. We all come to it. It's natural to be curious about it.

A quick story. I was once asked by an oncology nurse if I could shoot some photos of a couple getting married in one of the hospital oncology rooms.

Of course, I agreed. A very nice man (with terminal cancer) was marring his long time girlfriend for both legal and emotional reasons. He dressed for the occasion and I photographed them both standing next to his bed. He seemed fine at the time

Moments later, after the ceremony, he casually put his hospital gown back on, laid down on his bed and died.

He must have been holding back death the whole time. Interesting that someone could do that.

[_Quasimodo]

Here's an interesting thought, try imagine yourself not existing.

Can you do it?

No, but I'll bet others have imagined me not existing.

[_just me]

Oh cool, I really like talking about the dying process. Yes, I am weird.

I don't think that is weird. We all come to it. It's natural to be curious about it.

A quick story. I was once asked by an oncology nurse if I could shoot some photos of a couple getting married in one of the hospital oncology rooms.

Of course, I agreed. A very nice man (with terminal cancer) was marring his long time girlfriend for both legal and emotional reasons. He dressed for the occasion and I photographed them both standing next to his bed. He seemed fine at the time

Moments later, after the ceremony, he casually put his hospital gown back on, laid down on his bed and died.

He must have been holding back death the whole time. Interesting that someone could do that.

OMG! Goosebumps.

[_Quasimodo]

Then perhaps you could look to the comfort taken in the various ways the after death experience is regarded. Some posit a dust to dust experience and some hold that an afterlife is possible. An afterlife sounds most comforting to me.

An afterlife sounds best to me, too. Here's hoping (swig of wine). I'm guessing if there is no afterlife, we will not be aware of it, anyway. Just a sudden nothingness.

[_Tarski]

What do you think death is like?

Waking from a dream. Your first thought as you wait to see what happens next, will be of your life... the people. Seeing yourself dead will cement you still exist. The next thought will be acknowledging that since you still exist after death, so will they. The next thought will be complete focus on who you were and your experience in life. You'll then wonder where the door is, a light, something. You'll then plan to meet your maker. You'll rationalize who you were and why you were a good person... sort of making a case in defense of yourself. As the rationalization starts, you'll realize (fully) that introduction of anything that isn't based on absolute truth was meaningless. You'll look at your dead body and wonder where that light is... a door... something. I don't know what happens after that.

...and you will be doing all this thinking, acknowledging and rationalizing without a brain?
One might then wonder what brains were good for in the first place.