#death--

i just read a study that said that there may still be brain activity in some people after the heart stops. can you imagine? lying there, knowing you’re dead. it must be so terrifying, but also so satisfying. to know how it feels, just for a few seconds, to have your heart not beating and your blood not pumping. one more moment to wonder what comes next.

and then, to my mind, everything goes dark. or rather, you cease to be. i don’t know if i believe that your spirit or soul or consciousness remains. maybe there’s an exchange of energy, when your body loses all momentum, and whatever was inside you escapes out into the world and that’s why we feel ghosts or people’s spirits or energy after someone’s died. 

or maybe you just slip into the ethereal dimension, where you get to see all the mechanics behind the world but you still exist in some version of this world

or maybe you’re born again into a different body and you have no idea where you came from. do you think you’re reborn as a person, or do you think you can be reborn as an animal or a plant? or even a living being not on this planet? what if we’re all from different parts of the universe and this is just our life cycle?

new life is created all the time. the universe is infinite, and even if reincarnation were only limited to human bodies on earth, our population is expanding. does that mean there are new souls always popping up? all over earth, all over the universe? 

the saddest answer is if you just cease to be. but it’s also kind of nice, too. because that means that your time here really is it. and that’s enough to make me want to live life a lot more fully than i already am. because there’s no real reason for me to be here other than what i make of it, so i should be as kind and loving and carefree as possible while i still exist.