While this was a beautiful and very moving post, I disagree with this: > I haven't gone to a better place, or a worse one. I haven't gone anyplace, because Der

While this was a beautiful and very moving post, I disagree with this: > I haven't gone to a better place, or a worse one. I haven't gone anyplace, because Derek doesn't exist anymore. As soon as my body stopped functioning, and the neurons in my brain ceased firing, I made a remarkable transformation: from a living organism to a corpse, like a flower or a mouse that didn't make it through a particularly frosty night. The evidence is clear that once I died, it was over. With all due respect to Derek, and it's remarkable he was standing by his beliefs until the very end, he has no way of knowing that's what happened.