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Well, whatever it means, and as far as one can extrapolate, it's nice to know that death itself is not traumatic or painful.

nico 3y ago
It is definitely nice to know and also nice to experience (at least after the fact, as the leading up to it can be terrifying) You can have a death experience through meditation, breath work, hypnosis or psychedelics It’s very liberating to go through it, as shown by studies in which they’ve given psilocybin to terminally ill patients
encoderer 3y ago
There is definitely a shut-down procedure that the body goes through and it appears to be peaceful. But in many cases I do think there is a terrible moment when your conscious brain is still alive and you realize you are dying. It looks when you see it exactly like a scared animal looks, if you’ve ever seen that. I’ve only seen it twice but it doesn’t leave you.
- gavinray 3y ago
  As someone who has had both a physical death experience (flatlined, no heartbeat for several minutes) and psychedelic-induced death experiences, my experiences of the two were quite different. Physical death for me involved no "white lights" or life-flashes. It was just pure, black nothing. Like a dreamless sleep -- you go to bed, and then next thing you know you're waking up. Everything in between was a blank, black nothing, with no sense of time. Psychedelic death experiences were a thousand times more intense and I still retained some element of base level consciousness.
salad-tycoon 3y ago
Eh, I’ve seen some deaths. Hospital setting. They can be really not great for sure. Maybe that’s just my interpretation, can’t ask them but did see them, but definitely made me readjust my attitude to that the two most important moments in your life are how/why you are born and how/why you die. I’ve dabbled in various religious studies, now consider myself a FBI-most-wanted traditional Catholic. What I’ve found to be anxiety relieving is the practice of practicing for death. In Latin we have a phrase “memento Mori” which means remember death and there are lots of oddities that help us there, like chandeliers made from skulls and bones and songs and other traditions like “ash Wednesday” etc . Anyways, my point is death can be and probably should be terrifying. It depends on how you harness that energy. You can practice for death. Seeing a number, I think it’s good practice. It shouldn’t be morbid, if you ask me. Everybody poops, everybody dies. Feel free to reflect on death to help yourself appreciate life. Edit: I guess if you believe in no after life it doesn’t really matter right? But I still think it’s worth it to try and make my last few moments on earth less terrifying, even if I am sent into a nothingness afterwards.
- jareklupinski 3y ago
  > the two most important moments in your life are how/why you are born and how/why you die everyone starts and ends the exact same way (a vague 'clicking in', and a bright light/tunnel), and some of us through ritual even experience momentous occasions similarly (confirmation, communion, holidays), but the only way we differentiate ourselves amongst other people is through the choices we make in the moments between the two bookends ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and all that good stuff in between https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKluzn07eQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKluzn07eQ

nico 3y ago

It is definitely nice to know and also nice to experience (at least after the fact, as the leading up to it can be terrifying) You can have a death experience through meditation, breath work, hypnosis or psychedelics It’s very liberating to go through it, as shown by studies in which they’ve given psilocybin to terminally ill patients

encoderer 3y ago

There is definitely a shut-down procedure that the body goes through and it appears to be peaceful. But in many cases I do think there is a terrible moment when your conscious brain is still alive and you realize you are dying. It looks when you see it exactly like a scared animal looks, if you’ve ever seen that. I’ve only seen it twice but it doesn’t leave you.

gavinray 3y ago
As someone who has had both a physical death experience (flatlined, no heartbeat for several minutes) and psychedelic-induced death experiences, my experiences of the two were quite different. Physical death for me involved no "white lights" or life-flashes. It was just pure, black nothing. Like a dreamless sleep -- you go to bed, and then next thing you know you're waking up. Everything in between was a blank, black nothing, with no sense of time. Psychedelic death experiences were a thousand times more intense and I still retained some element of base level consciousness.

salad-tycoon 3y ago

Eh, I’ve seen some deaths. Hospital setting. They can be really not great for sure. Maybe that’s just my interpretation, can’t ask them but did see them, but definitely made me readjust my attitude to that the two most important moments in your life are how/why you are born and how/why you die. I’ve dabbled in various religious studies, now consider myself a FBI-most-wanted traditional Catholic. What I’ve found to be anxiety relieving is the practice of practicing for death. In Latin we have a phrase “memento Mori” which means remember death and there are lots of oddities that help us there, like chandeliers made from skulls and bones and songs and other traditions like “ash Wednesday” etc . Anyways, my point is death can be and probably should be terrifying. It depends on how you harness that energy. You can practice for death. Seeing a number, I think it’s good practice. It shouldn’t be morbid, if you ask me. Everybody poops, everybody dies. Feel free to reflect on death to help yourself appreciate life. Edit: I guess if you believe in no after life it doesn’t really matter right? But I still think it’s worth it to try and make my last few moments on earth less terrifying, even if I am sent into a nothingness afterwards.

jareklupinski 3y ago
> the two most important moments in your life are how/why you are born and how/why you die everyone starts and ends the exact same way (a vague 'clicking in', and a bright light/tunnel), and some of us through ritual even experience momentous occasions similarly (confirmation, communion, holidays), but the only way we differentiate ourselves amongst other people is through the choices we make in the moments between the two bookends ashes to ashes, dust to dust, and all that good stuff in between https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKluzn07eQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoKluzn07eQ