I can not wait to die. So excited about it. This life is nonsense. Heaven, arms open with my deceased friends and husbands, hallelujah. Take me away from this bs.

I looked at it like: the body housing the soul has expired, but energy can't disappear, it only changes, so the soul leaves the body taking with it some sort of energy.
Then I thought that energy goes to a 'pool' where it it recycled and re distributed; like the sea collects all waters and mixes it up and it is moved on to its next cycling.
I have seen ghosts I think, and seers told me that people were hanging around me. So I know something else goes on after death.
I'm sure someone/thing watches out for me and has saved my life several times.

A dying mate was going to leave a sign if he could. He didn't.
I thought he probably had better things to do than doing tricks for the living.

I did have a memory of drowning in a mud slide; it wasn't that bad once my body gave up and I was free. Quite comfortable. But I don't know if it was real.

As long as i get to die,
doing something loud and stupid,
I'm okay with death.

I'd be really disgusted with myself,
if i die quietly.

i have died and ive had severe anxiety, resistent depression for years. but i died playing with my dogs, happy. there was the peaceful black abyss before me then sucked a breathe of life, woke up and the **** was hitting the fan. death didnt hurt just life

How do I view death?

Enlightenment I hope.

As someone who has come close to death a few times, and has the scars to prove it, I relish every breath I take. Afterwards? Who knows? I'll deal with what comes as everybody will have to eventually.

I think how you are in life is how you are in death. The reason I say that is there are spirits that even in death they torment/sexually abuse the living because they were like that when they were alive. Or you have those that were very caring and their spirit has shown the same care to the living. I'm referring to haunting stories of people lived experiences. After you pass over, I don't believe that that individual spirit/soul/energy what ever you call it, becomes enlightened.

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I agree. I can't wait to go I want to rejoin with my sweet adorable wife.

when we are dying, does our cognition (modern brain area) collapse first to prevent awareness of the pain of death/loss? ...and then our autonomic functioning(primitive brain area) attempt to keep us from feeling physical pain (ie like an animal gone into catatonic shock when captured by a predator) while still trying to keep us alive?

The universe has been around for about 13 billion years. Now that is a number so large it’s sometimes hard for people to fully comprehend the vastness at which those years spread, so let’s use a quick analogy to bring things into focus. If you were paid $1 per second, you would make about $3,600/ hour. Now I’m sure we could all agree that would be one great paying job, far beyond what most people make today. At that pay rate it would take you about 11 and a half days to save a million dollars, but, Would take you a staggering 31.7 years to get to a billion , now multiply that by 13 and replace seconds with years and that’s the age of our universe. The reason I wanted to bring that to your attention is because all of us today spent more than 99.99% of all that time not alive, all the way up until the moment where you woke up for the first time before ever going to sleep. People think a lot of the after life but never stop to question the before, where we have spent billions of years. Now I can’t speak for anyone but myself but I do not necessarily remember all those billions of years as being in any particular way bad or frightening, so I’m not inclined to believe that whatever comes next should be any different.

The way I see it, life is a process of molecular interaction.
It has a start and an ending.
It didn't exist before and doesn't exist after, only during the time the process exists.
The past and future are man-made concepts.
Life exists in the present only in our living brains.
Memory and anticipation are products of our ability to reason which is governed by the process of chemical electric interactions in our living brains.

Beliving we existed before we were alive or will exist after we are dead is a delusion. A common shared delusion. A delusion propogated by religion, another shared delusion. Spiritual immortality is something we give our Gods.

Physically, our bodies have energy. The process of a cell living us the use of energy. When we die, the energy in our bodies dissapate into the energy of the Universe. Not as an entity but as a field. Like a drop of water into an ocean.

My favorite quotes about death come from the same person:

If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.

and

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

- Dag Hammarskjold, Second Secretary General of the UN

My take on this, is not to focus on things that are inevitable and you cannot change.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

-Dag Hammarskjold

We become fearful and depressed when we focus too much on ourselves and not enough on others.

I read this once years ago...

Life is a sexually transmitted disease which is 100 percent fatal.

I am always irritated at how often people are afraid to say he's DEAD, or she's DYING. they say "passed" "moved on" "gone". I think perhaps they are afraid of death and by saying other words they soften the blow. Good Grief. We die. Those no longer living are Dead. no science to it. Jesus Died. He was DEAD. now he is Alive.

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I'm not afraid of talking about death. My mother died a long time ago and I can talk about it, or not.

For me what we regard as death is a very significant part of life. Transition to different dimensions of experience.
It's a form of freedom to the limitations of the body, plus this planet is full of pain I wouldn't want to stick around forever.
Death is a process it happens everyday, it started when we drew our first breath as an infant.

Reason we fear death is that we identify with our accumulations as ourselves.(fear is nothing but lack of knowledge) "EVERYTHING YOU ACCUMULATE CAN NEVER BE YOU" accumulations are bound to perish.
Your car, your house and all your possessions, a little deeper, your body, your mind and emotions all of this is yours not you , accumulated over a period of time, so who are you if not your accumulations. The consciousness/energy within the vehicle that is aware of life process, aware of the experience of pain, joy,anger, thoughts etc.

Who or what can kill energy?
Death is like recess to a soul still in the circle of incarceration and a graduation for those that brake the cycle.