>>7480306You will not know that you're dead. You will not even know that you ever lived. Everything that you were, everyone you met, every experience in between joy and pain you ever felt might as well have never happened.
Nothing lasts... but nothing is lost. What ever you want to call this life, love it or hate it, this alternative to absolute nothingness is quite something, isn't it?
Maybe the peace and stillness of nothingness is really where home is for all of us, as it was before the organism we began to inhabit needed a consciousness for it's continued survival. If this is the case, nothing should be feared of the state of death; it's the end of a dream which you will wake up from at some point and return home.
The real question is whether we return for good. Perhaps we restart lives in an endless cycle of reincarnation? Maybe the emergent properties of the material world we all experience has an end goal which will ultimately serve both what lives in and what does not (or did). Maybe there is no end goal; the material world which gives birth to the phenomenon of life is already a success and fulfilling it's purpose to entertain and will carry on forever.
I'm getting carried away with the unknowns and possibilities as you can see. The only thing we know for certain is that you, I, all of us, will expire one day. We should all enjoy the ride.
