I'm comfortable with the thought of death. Comfortable and accepting that I will someday die.
That being said, I don't want to die and in the event of a zombie apocalypse I'll be armed to the teeth and fighting for all hell.
However, I have lived a fantastic life. I have loved, laughed, learnt, travelled and experienced life to the full. If this is all I get, I've done bloody well.
I am not accepting of death because I believe in heaven or reincarnation or any form of an afterlife. In fact I believe we never experience death. Why? Because in death we no longer have any senses, feelings or anything. Our synapses stop firing and no longer have conscious thought. At the exact moment we die, we cannot perceive, hence why should we fear something that we will never experience.
I am however a believer in physics. I am made of flesh and bones which is made of particles of carbon based matter. When I die these living particles still exist and as matter cannot be destroyed, they will always exist. The essence of me will always exist - in some form.
It is amazing to think that the food that I ate, to grow my body, will someday be reabsorbed into the earth, which will give nutrients to plants to grow food, to be eaten, to then be reabsorbed again.
My consciousness may be gone, but life goes on.
The diamond on my finger was once a carbon based life form, just like me and it still exists here and now.
Maybe I should ask to be buried in a peat marsh so one day I can sparkle too.
Or if you have a spare $6000 why wait? You could be a diamond in 3 months! http://www.phoenix-diamonds.com/process/
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