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[softspoknmime]

i was thinking, how soon before the body dies does it (the body) "know" it is going to die? and when i say body i am excluding the mind, not the brain. i mean if theres all this shit going on in our body (cells regenerating, white cells attacking infection, heart pumping, etc) that our minds dont acknowledge, meaning we dont sit and tell our

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[yourworstfriend]

Easy out: Different cells probably "realize" at different times. But cells die all the time. What does it mean to 'know'?

When the heart stops beating, all the cells begin to suffocate. Different parts suffer in different ways at different speeds. But one by one, cells just die away. When you hold your breath you kill thousands of brain cells. Do you think they feel it? Do you think they "know" what it means to die?

If only you had to understand death to die. Then we'd all be immortal.

[yourworstfriend]

Not that immortality would be particularly great.

[bottleofblonde]

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh... crazy confusing death thoughts. I somehow on a daily basis find myself thinking about this kind of shit, until i start getting a headache. I don't think we're ever meant to know what death is like until we actually die.