Does death hurt?

i think it hurts the people who love you more probably.

 

apparently when you die you get a heavy natural endorphine rush which feels like heroin times 50 or something.. to sorta make up for the brain and heart failing etc. and this is how they explain how some people think they saw a tunnel and a light and shit like that.. thinking it was heaven.. it's just hallucinations..

I was in a coma before and I vaguely remember shit like that

 

if reality is defined merely as perception, hallucinations must be an alternate form of perception.

Perhaps in death we integrate with what gives us the perception of life... perhaps "heaven" is integration, perhaps "hell" is separation.

 

I think its DMT that your brain produces in mass quantities before death. With means afterlife would at least start off as a dreamlike state.

Eqyptions covered the interior of their pyramids with "the route" to afterlife, which involved getting on a boat...i like boats.

 

"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

 

great poem Aristartle

 

Thank you wonder boy!

 

it depends on the death.
I've died twice. (I know that sounds weird, but I have)
and each time I accepted it. It was warm, and calm.
just like going to sleep.
your crown chakra opens up
and the divine white light leaks in.

it's very trippy.

I can't believe I'm alive right now.

 

i sometimes wonder if car accidents where you dont die right away... how much they would hurt.

in any case, i dont think you can really know for sure overall.

 

Timothy Leary once said that he couldn't wait for that moment after his body had died where his brain was functioning without being encumbered by the restrictions of the body.

Apparently there is 3-15 minutes of brain activity after the body dies. No one really knows what happens in those minutes, but you'll still be able to think, reason, remember, and all that stuff.

The craziest experience a human being can have .... living with no body.

 

i do not think that death hurts, i think life is what hurts <my emo response>

wouldn't it be something if death was more along the lines of the greatest climax you've ever experienced
like an orgasm times infinity

 

death probably isnt one universal experience.

 

while i have many dream/memories of odd bits and pieces out of the middle of one or more of my previous lives, i have none of my dieing on any of them (nor for that matter, of my birth either, other then on this one), so i really couldn't say.

i suspect that while many of the conditions which cause death are painful or at least uncomfortable, death itself might not intrinsicly be. (as many people have died with peaceful and contented expressions, just as many have not)

=^^=
.../\...

 

Death is like the ultimate orgasm of total mind blowing freedom and release from the constrictions, suffering and pain of being alive, if it isn't then they're not doing it right.

 

The moment of death itself and everything after, there is no pain.

 

I know a couple people that have technically died in the hospital and been resuscitated. After talking with them about the experience, i'd so no, death is the opposite of painful. They said it was actually peaceful.
And then there's also the theory that you get a huge surge of DMT from your brain when you die. So there's that.

 

I think its pretty painless
well i've had a near death experience and when i did i was too busy going in and out of conciousness to even feel the pain. i remember feeling dizzy and sweaty, like i was going to pass out. and thats all i remember from it. So like I said i think its pretty peaceful but I havent officially died yet, I'll let you know when I do!

 

At least according to the Tibetan book of the dead, from a psychological standpoint it can be very painful:


The initial after-death experiences are moments of perfect clarity and insight. These are short-lived, however, and soon fall off into partially enlightened modes of consciousness, which themselves eventually degenerate into increasingly hellish and horrific experiences of bewilderment, selfishness, and animal aggression. The latter, absolutely terrifying, states of consciousness arise as the disembodied consciousness, after having failed to forsake its unconscious tendencies time and time again in its descent through the stages of the bardo, approaches the moment of being reborn into a new physical body and the world of ordinary life. As people who do not change their ways are fated painfully to repeat themselves, after-death states of consciousness range from the heavenly to the hellish, individuals of different personality types will see themselves reflected in one or another of the bardo states. If one is a relatively enlightened person, then one will feel akin to the visions within the more peaceful bardos; if one is a more violent and selfish person, then one will easily recognize the visions within the more hellish after-death states.

 

Whoa...

 

I do not know if it could hurt worse than life.

I suppose it is how you die and what circumstances.

Some deaths are quick and painless. Others would be long and drawn out.

But I imagine the process of actually dieing would be a release of all pain.

But no one actually knows.