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>>5723176
Recall your experiences before your birth.

That's what it will be like.

The same as ten months before your birth.

>>5723176
I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

>>5723176
like a bag of sand

Death? If you see it coming, the most absolute terror you could experience in this world.

Being dead? The same as before you were born.

http://www.westga.edu/~shollenb/Jilting%20of%20Granny%20Weatherall%20by%20Katherine%20Anne%20Porter.htm

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Like riding a large biscuit filled with jelly briskly down the mountain, not paying attention to what's in front of you, avoiding trees and boulders by miracle, playing Pokëmon Red on your Gameboy Colour, your eyes getting heavy from not sleeping for sixty years, and all that while a bee kamikazes you for no particular reason.

I actually wrote a short bit about this once. The idea was that the person dying just sort of fizzled out, rather than a flash of light or a sudden series of flashbacks.

I thought about this too, maybe after reading about Aldous Huxley's death trip: as you die (from starvation or sickness), your brain would not shut off all at once. It would kind of slowly click off, and as different components switch out, it would temporarily get rewired and glitch, something like the moments before you fall asleep and your language-consciousness starts to drift off into dribble and senseless constructions of words.

(one time I fell asleep while listening to Hector Berlioz. I had one of those moments where I suddenly "caught myself" falling asleep, and jolted back awake. The last thing I thought was, "That's a very odd thing for a flute to say" and then I was like "wait what the fuck did I just thinK?" and kind of jolted back)

So yeah I think dying of starvation/sickness is basically a short psychedelic experience.

>>5723192
You made me night

>>5723199
Interesting.

I imagine it's sleep without the dreams.

>>5723176
Fucking ur mum

>>5723176
Being on 4chan, but forver.

there should be a field of cute white flowers, asphodels, except cuter and different from our asphodels, there should be other interesting things too
yes, i know my pic isn't really asphodels, but it's the best pic i found looking for them :3

Well, I think the closer you get to death, the more your consciousness opens up and you see things clearer. So as you get closer and closer to death, things get more and more beautiful until you can almost touch what would be the ultimate beauty. Then you lose your ability to process it.

i just hope it's not a cycle in reincarnation, because odds are good i'll come back as a shit-tier life form like a shrimp or a termite

Same as before I was born. Blackness, vast quietness. I'll miss playing guitar and hanging out with out with my dad.

is 'same before you was born' a quote or something because it was repeated ~4 times already and it's not the most obvious metaphor

>>5723612
What would you propose as an alternative, my most beautiful?

>>5723612
It's a default answer for people who don't believe in an afterlife and it's used to put things into a clearer perspective rather than saying "nothing."

I don't believe in an afterlife but I find that notion to lack beauty.

"..."

>>5723612
I think it's a zen teaching. I've heard Alan Watts say it a few times in his lectures. These people just say "hey, that's a good idea", and go on to tell people it like it's their own thought of what it'd be like to die.

>>5723618
nobody really knows what will be after the death, i personally prefer to hope there will be something pretty there, at least if you didn't do anything especially bad, but i didn't mean that those who said 'like before your birth' were wrong, it's just a bit strange to me that several people chose the same metaphor when something like 'a sleep without dreams' seem to be more natural. i suppose it's an indirect quote from something which i cannot identify

>>5723646
oh, i see, ty

sex with OP's mother

Once I said I thought death is similar to a dmt trip

Happy.

>>5723659
A climax too sweet to bear.

>>5723652
It's literally the only metaphor any human can be honestly familiar with. It would be "nice" to think there's something after, but the only thing any living person has to compare with life is the time before they were born.

Just like going to sleep in a giant blender.

>>5723673
the death is universally compared to sleep though
as shakespear said

>To sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,
>For in that sleep of death what dreams may come

Death is a monster that is the most beautiful thing you will ever see. If you touch it it will eat you.

If starts with a blur around your form, a strange haze that hangs on your head. Nearing the end, it phases inward, diluting and spreading away your essence, like water being drawn across paint, pulling away the color until the white canvas is so again,

>>5723703
No dreams. Dreams happen in a live body. A resting brains neural synapses processing the recent days events into a weird random mush till roused awake.

>>5723758
Good God, Butterfly. Have you lost the beauty you once saw in life?

A good time!

>>5723780
I see the beauty.
And I'm so very sorry to see it coming to a close.

>>5723758
>No dreams. Dreams happen in a live body. A resting brains neural synapses processing the recent days events into a weird random mush till roused awake.

you should have said it to shakespear, imagine the monologue of hamlet then:

to sleep-perchance to dream: ay. no neural synapses
for in that sleep of death the dreams process... :3

>>5723758
Random mush?

Someone has never read Freud.

>>5723819
Or Jung. It is random and surreal stuff. The angst ridden variety usually recalled because of its nature to wake you.

>>5723797
Hehe

>>5723823
Yeah you can't comment on Psychology then, much less dreams for fucks sake.

Just read The Interpretation of Dreams. That is. A. Must. Read. Book.

>>5723797
gb2 /badphil/

>>5723176
I haven't experienced it so it doesn't exist.

>>5723600
kek...

Seriously though - this. I've just recently started getting into Buddhism because I really really don't wanna come back.

>>5723176
Can someone explain to me what it is about kittens that makes them so unbearably adorable?

>>5724057
They're pretty shit when it comes to baby animals.

>>5724067
But that's severely incorrect.

>>5724080
nah dood, crocodile babbys are best

>>5724129

>'How doth the little crocodile
>Improve his shining tail,
>And pour the waters of the Nile
>On every golden scale!

>'How cheerfully he seems to grin,
>How neatly spread his claws,
>And welcome little fishes in
>With gently smiling jaws!'

>>5723186
kek

>>5724138
see? even kitty agrees