How does someone die? Clearly there are various ways that our life can come to an end: sickness, accident, murder, etc, but my question is how do we go from being aware, conscious, alive, to... dead? To nothing? How is it that you can go from being a person to not? From existence to non-existent? What is it like? Those who are sick, do they really go through a slow fading away course of events where they slip away gradually? Or is it instant? Is it as simple as one moment you're conscious, the next you're not? What about those who are in comas and do not ever regain consciousness? Are they dead? So blood still runs through their veins, but without consciousness, are they truly alive? You probably don't even hear it coming. That's scary. The fact that you can be and then suddenly you no longer are, that keeps me up at night. Maybe it's just like cutting to black, but are you aware of this blackness? Do you know you're dead? If and when I die, I don't want to know that I'm dead.
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