What if dying is going to be the most AWESOME feeling ever??

Meh...death can wait

Yes, but you can't hold it off. I will come when it will. And it might be the best feeling you ever had. Take a moment and reflect, you may understand what I'm saying here.

The best may be yet to come. Like being constipated for a long time and then RELIEF.

Well yeah, when you are actually dying not like over time but the moment itself, your brain purges and releases all those stored chemicals so its like being on drugs. I'm sure its a good feeling.

your pineal gland probably overloads your brain with DMT at the big moment

And if it goes on beyond that...I'm sure the feeling is like post-orgasm. So beautiful and fulfilling. I bet that goes on forever. ;)

And then?

We are all going to find out...that's a guarantee!

It's better the second time.

Sometimes I sit there and ponder/try to feel what my last moment might be like. Anyone here ever try that? I mean, really and truly meditate upon and confront your mortality. Not like a statement "Oh, I know I'm going to die one day." But to actually try to think about what those last moments might really feel like?

It's not pleasant or easy, but in a lot of ways it's rewarding. I've done it and I'm not sorry.

Ha, yeah man. I had a NDE. Probably why I even sit and ponder it. I am the recipient of a defibrillator and 13 pints of blood. I saw the tip of the iceberg about 20 years ago. The feeling never left.

I feel like it depends how you die.

that's the biggest mystery question of all time, isn't it?

Going out of body feels awesome. But dying that could be painful and horrible. So yea, death is the cool part, but dying is not cool.

Ok but listen...once all the blood has leaked out/nerves can't function/etc... there must be that feeling of letting go. Total release.

How do I know? Someone here touched on it. I died 21 years ago but was brought back.

Lately it's been on my mind a lot. Tugging at the edges of my consciousness. It's become important again, after all these years of shoving it aside. Those feelings of comfort and relief...but I won't lie, as you let go it's the worst fear and pain you can imagine.

Hard to talk about it. I subscribed to "Be grateful and enjoy life and your second chance" philosophy.

But lately...I don't know it's just in my face. We will all have it in our faces and you may duck a punch or two or three. However one day your moment will come and there will be no turning back.

I'm just here to tell you that after the fear and chaos and pain there is a peace and release you can't imagine.

It was hard to come back but I am glad I did. I had to. :)

I'm so glad I typed this tonight. Even if I can't tell those around me, I really just can't have these conversations with my friends and family right now, it is really helpful to me to say this all "out loud" right now.

I have been on the other side and I think we are all going there, soon. So don't worry and don't fight it. The more you fight, the harder the transition is. It really is beautiful, it is okay. Much better than you think, much better than here (we are all attached).

Thanks for letting me get this out.

which is why people have these white tunnel/Jesus fantasies-they are not REALLY dead-or they would not be telling of their adventure

they are not fantasies, friend. people experiencing NDE's often see themselves and others from outside their body and tell of things they should not have seen, such as who was operating on them.

www.nderf.org

It probably is. If you had to live for 80 years in a box, wouldn't it feel good to get out of it?

I have heard that people who have experienced NDE in the past are more sensitive to its nearness... In either family members or close friends.

What about the people that scream horrifically at the moment of death?

Uhh they become ghosts and haunt the place like casper maybe

You get to relive your life in what seems like hours but in reality takes only moments with a overwhelming indescribable sense of love and peace until you pass.

You could just say "What if <insert whatever bollocks your brain can come up with>".. and it's just that, bollocks.

And you talk about how nice sleep is.. well yeah, also think about walking around all day and then how nice it is to sit down.. doing hard work and sweating on a hot day and then how nice it is to have a cold drink.. having a nice meal and then how nice it is to let rip a loud belch.. and your example of how nice it is to go to sleep, after being awake all day. It's a shitty example to build on your premise.

Okay, fair enough. You will find out when you die. :)

you wake up as Bruce Jenner

Through the principal of correspondence, we can deduce that death is like going to sleep on a grand scale. I think you're right OP. It would be the ultimate irony too - that moment we fear most from the moment we become aware, turns out to be the best moment of our lives.

I think deep down we know this, which is why so many people take drugs to numb themselves and go to sleep. I'm looking forward to going to sleep now, even though there's really not much to even remember of it when I wake up. I don't know why I like it so much, but I do.

thanks op, i needed to read this. I have nothing to base anything on except my intuition. It tells me you are right.

Hey, lots of love to everyone reading this. While we all die alone, we will all experience a very similar thing so we really are not alone. We're a family, probably more in death that in life.

All in all...there's hope and relief in the end. That's my message. :)