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• A comment on Conversation: What is it like to die?

  Nov 6 2012: With regards to going to an eternal sleep or spending a temporarily dreamless night, I think it depends if you believe in the after-life or not. If you believe in it, then death is like spending a temporarily dreamless night. You died here and you wake up on the “other side of the world”. If you don’t believe in it, then you go into a continuous sleep forever. But, anyway we will never really know until we get there.
  
  Where we actually go after death is still not known, and so we are scared. I once experienced a near death experience and all I can feel is fear. All kinds of thoughts come to mind. We can’t really be prepared for death, it just comes to us any second. Anyhow, why do we think of death when we don’t even know how to live?
  “Makes us to think if the world ended now would we be happy how you lived our life, would we done justice or would we just let it pass us by” All I can say is if you are happy living your life with intense passion so as to believe that in the end you have given justice to your life then do so. But if you are also happy just going with the flow and letting your life pass by, then I think you have all the right to do so. I think we should live life based on how we want to and not on how “rules of life” said we should live because nobody can really judge whether you lived rightly or not. People have lead many different lives. It’s not as if in the end, Person 1 lived correctly, person 2 live wrongly, etc. I believe there is really no such thing as a right or wrong way to live. There is if you believe in religion, or on being a good citizen. By then, one can judge that you live rightly if you lived like Jesus or as the Bible says and so on. I hope know you know what I mean. But, removing all those, who can really say right? I’ve gone too far… Interesting subject you opened here…2/2

• A comment on Conversation: What is it like to die?

  Nov 6 2012: “In the midst of life comes death”. I think that death is not only limited to the ending of the physical functions of our body. There are people who are still literally alive—breathing, but are already dead. To live life without any sense of purpose, to have reflected that everything we pursue in this earth is meaningless because it disappears into nothingness, and to conclude that in the end, all of us humans who were “once so complex, so unique, so special will be reduced into something so generic” i.e., dust, is death itself. All our thoughts, emotions and intentions will be lost into the unknown. It is a struggle within us to reject these facts because to accept it would mean surrendering in the battle of finding meaning for the things we do in this world. If we slowly give in to the idea of the meaninglessness of life, then I think we are undergoing the process of dying. What is it like to die? To stop struggling, to live like a “zombie” If one gained the will to live with passion every single day of life, then that person is truly alive again. One has found “life in the midst of death”. 1/2