Mercia Blackcat
Striker
My main concern about it is that I'm fairly sure it'll be painful as fuck. The way you describe it there sounds alright, slowly drifting away serenely. I always think though, surely since at some point you stop breathing, it must feel like being suffocated. I don't see how the heart could stop pumping without the after effects of that being agonising. I might be wrong like because you do see old people who have just almost fell asleep when they've died, but I don't understand the process
Well this is the second neurological stage after the breathing and the heart have stopped. By everyday medical standards physical death of the body has already occurred and I am sure that first stage will be distressing but that stage will obviously pass. The Tibetans have made a study of NDEs and correlations to meditation for centuries and they describe it as a process of dissolution as various functions and abilities dissolve away. The physiological stage is described in terms of feeling very heavy and unable to move the body, then being swept away by a huge river or sinking in an ocean, then as a rush of sparks as if through a chimney and finally as a flickering light like that of a candle. The second neurological stage is likened to being in a vacuity of white light, then a warmer orange/red light and then a brilliant blackness, all with little sense of time if any. The ability of the brain to conceptualise will have ceased and then thought altogether at this point. The sense of self will come to an end and at this point it will feel like the end of consciousness. I think some religions call this the Abyss. They say the consciousness then re-emerges in a transparent vacuity called the Clear Light of Reality before finally leaving the body. However, I am sure the experience is individual to some extent.
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