How Does It Feel to Die?
Death is the only constant thing in the world... Aside from changes though.
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Ever since I was a child, I always thought of how does it feel to leave the world. The world of the living. I wonder if there is really another life after death. Of course, we don't want to "try" it. Don't get me wrong, I am still in my right mind and not thinking of taking my own life. There are lots of reason to live and yes, that is my fear, departing the world of the living.
But what really happens next when we started walking through the light?
Death is an absence of consciousness, which still a mystery that Science can't explain. They can elaborate how neurons work in our brain up to the smallest particles of our body but consciousness.
Death is a natural process, we are being born, get old and passed away.
Does anyone remember the first day that they see light? Literal light. Do anyone remember the first time crying because someone we do not know who or what just slapped our butt while being held upside down. And do we remember the process of our growth?
Lucy does remember it, before turning in to a flash drive. She said it hurts to grow from an embryo to a full human. As every growing part of the body is painful and that even bones are cracking.
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In this modern time, pictures can show us how we started living. But none can take a picture after death.
Our Beliefs
With different religions established, there are different beliefs about "life after death".
As a roman catholic, we believe that every departed person have different path depending on how they behave while living. It's not only Santa Claus who monitor whether we behave good or bad, but also God as we know him. We believe in heaven and hell where we destined to be depending on how we live.
We also believe that prayers of our beloved help our soul to be destined at the side of God as an angel. And we also believed in 40 days of exploration after death before entering the light and accept that they are already left the world of the living.
In some religion, they are certain that reincarnation happens after death. Such departed soul is being reborn to other living things. Plants, flowers, insects or animals, or even the most prestige life we can think of, such as being part of royalty, or even an alien depending on how we behaved our past life.
Even I hopes that reincarnation really happens. But according to our elderly, we lived through the hearts of our beloved forever, no matter what.
The afterlife seems to depend on the way we spent the earthly living. Whether we treat everyone good or do we have faith. Death is the judgment day where we are concluded on where are we supposed to spend the afterlife. Paradise or Hell.
In Arabic or Islam beliefs, there is what they called Siraat. It is a bridge or path between paradise and hell.
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According to the article by Imam Kamil Mufti,
Faith in life after death is one of the six fundamental beliefs required of a Muslim to complete his faith. Rejecting it renders all other beliefs meaningless.
He even made an example of a child in school. That if a child does not believe that studying will bring him to success, he will not focus on studying but something else. Like a man who doesn't believe in paradise and hell will not have faith in God.
But if the departed one conducts is good and has faith in God while he lives. His soul will easily find Siraat and cross from hell to paradise.
In Buddhism, they believe that death is an expiration of a body that we inhabit. And that spirit will be exploring to find another life.
Buddhist believes that a person will be reborn in one of the six realms. The heaven, human beings, Asura, hungry ghost, animal, and hell. And ending in one of the realms is a result of accumulated conducts while we live. Ending in one of the realms is what they called Karma of living.
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As per the article of Ven. Thich Nguyen Tang,
Buddhists believe however, none of these places are permanent and one does not remain in any place indefinitely. So we can say that in Buddhism, life does not end, merely goes on in other forms that are the result of accumulated karma. Buddhism is a belief that emphasizes the impermanence of lives, including all those beyond the present life. With this in mind, we should not fear death as it will lead to rebirth.
Reading this article, my fear of death has diminished. I will be rebirth anyway. But, is it really death that we fear?
Thinking what has an afterlife to offer is our fear. the fear of being forgotten. Fear of losing the life that we cherish and holding on. What we fear is leaving the people around us, and the life that we use to live. For me, that is my fear of dying.
My Greatest Fear
Imagine, given that we have 40 days explorations after death, and seeing the person that you most cared for is mourning and cannot accept the fact that you are leaving them. Of course, you would want to comfort them, you would want to hug them, you would want to say that "it will be fine". And you can't even do any of them because you have turned into a spirit which science cannot explain what kind of a matter is our soul.
Or the people you have left is having the greatest time of their life while you are just watching in some heaven-or-hell-tech screen. And that event is your most awaited when you are still with them, and yet, you cannot celebrate with them.
These are my greatest fear. If ever I will be reborn to another realm like Buddhist believes, how will I do those things if none of them will I care anymore because I am in a different consciousness? Unless it is heaven I end up, I could watch at least.
I fear of leaving my loved ones and be forgotten like I didn't existed at all.
We Die Sometimes
Realizing the beliefs of Buddhism where one's soul will just end up in another realm and life never ends. Therefore, we already die sometime in our life.
Do you still remember your last job? or School days?. The people around you when you were still there?
Sometimes in our life, we already die.
During school days or past jobs, there are a lot of people around us that we cared for. Classmates, Colleagues, some even become our lovers that we thought will live with us 'till death. Until the day of graduation or we decided to find another venture.
It is sad that we leave those people. We worried what will happen next, will we be successful and find Siraat to cross to paradise? or we will fail and will just be a hungry ghost? That is what we think of, and the people from the life we just left won't be around us anymore as they are also busy doing things on their own.
Because we are not part of their world anymore. The time will come that we will just watch what they have become through social media.
So are we, we cannot connect with them anymore because we are already in a different world, most often than not, if we try to communicate, they will not understand it anymore, as we are now speaking another language, the language of our new world.
Sometime along the way, each of one of us has already experienced death. And maybe, just maybe, that's how it feels to die.


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I always imagine myself, dead. I mean I can even imagine how invisible I am to those loved ones I left behind living their life as it is, without me. It seems to like I am watching a movie and their lives are the ones shown, me as the audience, an only audience. It might be an odd thought but it actually would cross my mind. I have this thing as my last wishes to be done during my wake and even at my funeral. I could imagine myself looking at them checking if they have done what I wished for. I don't know why, but that is the case for me.
I admire your positivity. While I fear that it is not easy just to watch my loved ones doing great things without my present. We are even sure if we still know them as a spirit. Memory might be deleted to live peacefully in paradise.
So true. Perhaps we should just live our lives to the fullest before that time comes.