death and dying

If your uncomfortable with the topic of death... I suggest you just look at the pictures and skip my rambling at the end...

When we told my mother that we weren't going to have the kids baptised she freaked out a bit... Terrified that in the event of their death... they would spend eternity in limbo or hell or wherever it is that unbaptised people go. I reassured her that Dave also hadn't been baptised... so where ever it was they were going... he'd be there with them. This offered her little comfort.

Not being a religious person leaves the death question wide open. What happens when we die. I have my theories... as I'm sure everyone does... but who knows if we ever find out for sure what happens when all of our physical systems cease operating. I like thinking of a continuous consciousness but really think that it's a romantic notion. The only thing that I know is that at the time of death a huge surge of energy will leave my physical body... whether it will stay in tact as a single consciousness or be scattered into a bazillion particles and absorbed into the universe I'm not so sure of.

I like thinking in terms of light and energy when ponder the great thereafter... it comforts me to know that whether I know it or not... my energy is as eternal as the universe.

I want to be cremated after I die.

I am undecided on whether or not I want to be conscious when I die... I used to think that the best way to die would be in my sleep... but now I'm not so sure. The transition may be smoother... but going from an alive state to a death state might be an interesting sensation... A once in a lifetime kind of event :)

Aldous Huxley had his wife inject pure LSD into his IV while he was on his death bed. That would be soooommme trip!

The worst way to die would probably being buried alive. Though anything involving plunging (from an elevator... a bridge... an airplane) would suck just as badly. Those minutes that you were falling would be awful. Actually any kind of slow death would suck...

Anyway... don't worry about me... I'm not dying... or thinking about dying... well I am thinking about dying... but not anytime in the near future. But if you'd like to share... I'd be interested in hearing your theories on death... and what are those ways of dying that make you have nightmares. If your Christian... and believe in heaven... what do you think heaven is like? If you believe in reincarnation.... what/who do you think you were/will be in other lives?