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What is death?

What is death? Surely, it is the complete cessation of everything that you have known. If it is not the cessation of everything you have known, it is not death. If you know death already, then you have nothing to be frightened of. But do you know death? That is, can you while living put an end to this everlasting struggle to find in the impermanent something that will continue? Can you know the unknowable, that state which we call death, while living? Can you put aside all the descriptions of what happens after death which you have read in books, or which your unconscious desire for comfort dictates, and taste or experience that state, which must be extraordinary, now? If that state can be experienced now, then living and dying are the same.

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Permalink Reply by ♥ Sabine ♥ on November 7, 2009 at 8:45pm: You have a similar idea as me. Thanks!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by ♥ Sabine ♥ on November 7, 2009 at 8:45pm: Thanks for all of the replies. I am ever exploring the theories and truths surrounding life and death. A couple of your ideas are derivative of Biblical teachings. I am not saying that I do not believe there is an afterlife, though. I think there is possibly something else to us (souls), but nobody alive knows for sure. I don't trust NDE's because they are brought on by a flow of chemicals and hormones that can cause hallucinations. Hallucinations are not real. Then again... what is real??; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gabriel on November 8, 2009 at 8:39pm: Death is like braking up a party.The ones that stay behind have to pay the bill.XDXD; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Gabriel on November 8, 2009 at 8:40pm: We are already dead Sabine so no need to fear death when you are already dead.;);); ▶ Reply to This