Excellent post about a great man / comedian and about death. Apart from the fact that he died in a car crash, I'd never heard about the details of the accident.

The quote about "awareness appears to have continued" says a lot, particularly in light of the fact that Indian mystics say that consciousness is a function of our (temporal) mind, while awareness is something beyond (or even prior to) consciousness.

So, very possibly, as Kinison was slipping out of consciousness, he was simultaneously slipping into AWARENESS. Wow.