What do you expect death will be like?

[Taverner]

Me?

If my heart goes out before my brain, I'll go into a subconscious dream that seems to last forever, until I finally fade out.

If my brain goes first - black then nothing....

[av8rdave]

1. Not sure, but I'm expecting a dramatic change of scenery

[Taverner]

3. Hmmmm Fall or Winter?

[av8rdave]

4. In my case, very likely a hot summer! lol

[johnnie]

2. Heart-stopping

[dropkickpa]

5. Nothing much

I'll cease to exist. Dying may be a little more problematic.

[SPKrazy]

6. i don't expect the "ego" or conscious mind to survive

i do expect that the energy that is the body SPK will have to go somewhere

and the body will decay and feed the planet

i don't mean to sound negative, i'm just saying that i don't know that i'll "know" death in any terms that i relate to at this juncture since i understand life through the interpretive aspects of my brain which will no longer be around.

[idgiehkt]

7. I kind of wonder

If after I die (which I think will be instantaneous) if I will have to pull guardian angel duty for a while. And I bet that SUCKS because you have to watch everything, and you probably know what is going to happen, but *most of the time* with certain notable exceptions (hence the term 'guardian angel') you can't do anything about it. I bet it is alot easier to be an earth creature, just fumbling obliviously through life.

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Exactly what the major spiritual paths describe.

The colors of each element releasing, then...and...if enough awareness has been cultivated in life, consciousness of the clear light, and the chance for unification with it.

This is said to be possible to develop, through continuous awareness throughout sleep. They call sleep to be literally the obscuration of ignorance, and it blocks you from knowing the source when the senses shut down temporarily. Dreams are minimal reconnection to the senses, and the mind becomes active again, and externals can intrude more easily.

It has been described that heaven consists of the mid to upper astral realms, and hell, the concentration of the lower astral (dreams of not being able to run through dense material, feet stuck, etc., and far far worse). If you have positive and negative karma, you spend the appropriate time in each realm, burning it off, then you return to the physical if you haven't ended your root poisons. If you are ignorant enough, you won't be aware through any of this.

I'm just parroting what I've read, although I've had enough experience in lucid dreaming to confirm some of it. I haven't seen the clear light, however.

The astrals are supposed to be what was depicted in "What Dreams May Come". Our mindset creates our experience in these utterly fluid realms.

[Deep13]

9. Don't care as long as it is at the same time as my Sweetie.

I don't want either of us have to live with the loss of the other.

[Roon]

32. Like some elderly couples

They die within months or even weeks of each other.

[eyesroll]

37. Distant relatives of mine passed recently.

They were in their 80s, married 60+ years, he had cancer, she had pneumonia (or vice versa), and they went within hours of each other; the second one to go was never told that the first one had died. It was hard on their children/grandchildren to lose both parents/grandparents at once, but at the same time, it's kind of sweet.

[bicentennial_baby]

34. Same here.

[WindRavenX]

39. Pretty much the same for me

Both of us aren't so much scared of dying as leaving the other behind...the mere thought of leaving him behind makes me physically ill.

[wildhorses]

10. otherworldly. sublime and surreal.

n/t

[otherlander]

11. Cold

[mzteris]

12. you mean,

we're not dead yet?

I thought we were already in the level of hell known as


The DU LOUNGE.

[cynatnite]

13. It'll be a glowing funnel seeing all my loved ones...

and I'll be damn happy to see them then...nothing. It's how the brain reacts just before death. Used to scare the hell out of me, but I'm getting more okay with it as time goes on.

[LaraMN]

14. A massive orgasm.

Well, no one can tell me it isn't, now can they?

:D

[Parche]

30. Deathgasm

:hi:

[Arugula Latte]

33. Is that similar to the media's Reagasm when Ronnie croaked?

:P

[Parche]

38. Wellll Nancy I dont Remember

:hi:

[The Straight Story]

15. Probably something like...AHHhhhhhh!!!........

[Breeze54]

16. I guess I won't know. I'll be dead.

:shrug:

[Bluebear]

17. Who left this damn electric cord by the pool? If I have to

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. An orgasm.

[Adsos Letter]

19. Fade to black...

...whether instantly or not, I can't say...

[RebelOne]

20. Nothingness. Blackout.

[regularguy]

21. Just like it was before I was born.

Unfortunately I can't remember.

[zanne]

26. I think about that sometimes, too.

The only thing I don't like about it is that I'd like to see my loved ones who've passed on.

[meegbear]

22. We all enter this world naked, screaming and covered in blood ...

I'm probably gonna be going out the same way.

[triguy46]

23. I will once again be young, fit and healthy.

[zanne]

27. I can top that.

I will be young, fit, healthy, very bright, gorgeous and good at math. I will also possess extraordinary wit and I will write the greatest American novel ever. (If I really think about it, I'll be lucky to come back as a mammal).

[raccoon]

24. Nothing. nt

[triguy46]

25. According to Billy Collins, the dogs will speak in poetry, the cats and everyone else in prose.

[ZombieNixon]

28. An airport.

You end up in a big hub and get to choose where you go from there. I just hope I don't get stuck in the check in line at O'Hare. :P

[Seashell Eyes]

29. Nothingness

I have no problem with that.

[Tyler Durden]

31. I belong to a cult.

They teach that when you die, your soul goes to a garage in Bakersfield, CA.

Ding/Ding.

[Arugula Latte]

35. Well, I don't want to give too much away, but

let's just say it involves jello, Benny Hill, knife juggling, a wombat, the Ice Capades, and an all-the-breadsticks-you-can-eat meal at the Olive Garden ...

[Zavulon]

36. A lot like January 2001-January 2009 in the United States.

Actually, I think it'll just be lights out.

[Burma Jones]

40. Like one of my posts on DU

oblivion