I watched a man die today

[tasteetriceps]

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Hello from a million years ago :o)

[crucible]

Amazing story - wow.

[inertiacrept]

I too recently spent time with what had been a person lately, I too did it as a function of my employment. I wasn't there when she died, when the truck knocked her out of her shoes and killed her on impact, but I was there fast enough that she was still bleeding out on the side of the road.

Context is everything, always.

[eros_in_uranium]

What if there is no soul and death is the endgame, would that change things? Would that still make death a release and, as you eloquently put, almost recklessly glorious?

ooh intriguing question!

[tasteetriceps]

For me personally, that perspective does not reflect my adult experience, although i had such speculations prior to said experience. To me, questioning the existence of the soul is like asking if my body is real; i think it is only our concepts, our programs, that separate us from its obviousness. I wouldn't expect others to have come to the same working conclusions, but my view of death and the nature of being reflects my direct experience. It's not an intellectual thing

Mindell speaks

[tasteetriceps]

I happen to be reading such an incredible book by Arnold Mindell: Coma: The Dreambody Near Death. He writes (p. 27):

Because of my having seen so many people die, life and death have have a new meaning for me. They are relative concepts. Death is frightening only as long as we identify ourselves with who we have been in life. That is why I recommend to people who worry about death to go through the death fantasy in detail. The fantasy of dying is often the need to drop an attitude or identity that has run out of time. When people imagine that they are dying, they frequently close their eyes, take a pause from their momentary identity, and enter a new life