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[Mr. Roboto]

http://www.time.com/...1842627,00.html

[Gomer Pyle]

Will always be life's biggest question, and regardless of scientific progress, I don't think we'll ever have a legitimate answer. Being dead twenty minutes to an hour hooked up to tubes doesn't mean shit. You're not really dead. Also, when dead for such a short period of time, all kinds of shit going on is just your brain misfiring and fighting for survival. The "white light" so often described by people brought back can simply be chalked up as a brain malfunction. If someone can lay on a slab in the morgue for a few weeks or a month or two(and not be embalmed of course), and that person be brought back to life through some miracle, then we may know what happens once your life ceases to exist. Anything less than that doesn't prove or disprove a thing.

[Mr. Roboto]

It's still a very interesting article, and I ended up reading a lot about it that night (various sites.) We are all petrified of death, although there certainly is no way out of it. I tend to believe it's just another step along the way, that we are essentially immortal in some aspect that we can not understand right now. Perhaps that's just the human ego talking though, IDK.

[Timothy]

Are we all scared of death or just the meaning of Death though?

[LISA]

oddly I am not scared of death..I certainly don't want to go just yet but I am not frightened of it. Anything has to be better then this life has been thus far..maybe it is just a new door, a higher plane of existance? maybe just dirt and worms..meh

[Mr. Roboto]

oddly I am not scared of death..I certainly don't want to go just yet but I am not frightened of it. Anything has to be better then this life has been thus far..maybe it is just a new door, a higher plane of existance? maybe just dirt and worms..meh

I have read a couple of stories from people who had "Near death experiences" and they professed profound sadness to learn that they were back in their bodies after what they experienced.

[LISA]

sounds sort of sad when I say it..but honestly, it has to be something better..not a religious gal by any means..but fucking LIFE must be a test before you move on to the next level..sort of like Super mario Brothers, lol

[freedom78]

The insurance company makes a profit.

[Macker]

I wish to be incinerated after death because I don't want to end up starting a smart car in a hundred years.

[LISA]

i want to go with a bottle of fine red wine, a stoagie, naked eating double pepperoni and cheese pizza gettin boned but so hawt dude. make it so number one

[Macker]

I think we end up on the show "Lost"

[Timothy]

or if your really bad you end up on the new 90210

[TAP]

gettin boned but

Awesome....

[Timothy]

Does that mean ass play??!

[TAP]

Death is the end, any immortality you have is through your genes, achievements and other people's memories of you. For near death experience info, google ketamine for a boring but plausible explanation.