This is sometimes so and often not in later stages of dying. It's not about the moment of death anyway. That's just is a moment. It's about the process in time, how one goes through it, with what consciouness. One who knows the Way in the morning will gladly die in the evening. I wish I could remember who said that. As for the moment of transition, who knows. Does the white light close into blackness - nothing? Does it open into unimaginable radiance (unimaginable even on this forum)? Will the ones you loved and who died be waiting on the other side? After all this time I still don't know.
^^^so how can you say that sometimes death is "psychedelic" seems like you think you "know" i dunno how i wanna die. i would never think cancer though. i guess if i'm like 70 or older it'd be "ok" wonder what those natural causes were in his case? that's all speculation though. no one can know what it's like to die. who wrote the tibetan book of the dead? (rhetorical question, it was...Yeshe Tsogyel, also known in the Nyingma tradition as the Great Bliss Queen, is a semi-mythical female deity or figure of enlightenment (dakini) in Tibetan Buddhism.) not to offend your beliefs or anything, but it's surely not 100%. take for example psychedelics. i don't think anyone can really know what it's like to trip by just reading a book, or even reading many many books and developing a huge knowledge base about psychs. you have to trip. so i don't think anyone knows what it's like to die, even people that "died" and were brought back to life. they aren't dead now. they didn't complete the process. you've got to die to know. good post can't...rep....must....wait