Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00215)

Dying in your sleep may be less traumatic if you are not ready to go, but
dying alive with loved ones at your side when you are ready and the time is
right is better. This is happiest, of course, in old age after a long,
fulfilling life. It is not so happy if you are dying young or with lots of
unfinished business.

There is something to be said for dying without losing consciousness. The
Tibetans might train for such a feat by working on being able to go into the
during-sleep states at night with full consciousness. 

Blacking out when things get too bad is the opposite approach, seeking
unconsciousness as a quick exit from unpleasant waking circumstances (like
passing out, when drunk, escaping a bitter day at the office and hellish
traffic on the way home).

The hardest part of dying is the continuous kind, of dying to yourself of a
moment ago, so that you can be free to be and act differently in this moment
rather than captured by a lifetime of habits.

Now, say you want to die in your sleep. How could it happen in 1045 years?
Your physical body, as hamburger on foot, is good for perhaps 80 to 100
years before it goes stale. To keep it around for 1045 years means you would
have to look into cryogenics. You would be asleep for almost 1000 years
before they pull the plug. You would be having some seriously strange dreams
before all that time had passed!

Would this be good for the world? I wonder. Probably not. With you out of
action, the important role of shaman, trickster, paranormal researcher, and
party animal would be left unfilled for too long. What would we all do is
the hundreds of years to follow, with only your ghost to prowl around in our
dreams? No, I think you had better plan to bite the dust in the 2100's like
the rest of us, and stay part of our happy family.

-----Original Message-----
From: Drpsionic@aol.com [mailto:Drpsionic@aol.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 8:17 AM
To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Theos-World RE: Talking with the dead -

In a message dated 1/15/04 7:00:36 AM Central Standard Time, 
global-theosophy@adslhome.dk writes:

<< I assume you are dying often then ? >>

That was over a year ago, fortunately.

The manner of dying is of course of some concern. Ideally it should happen 
quietly, in one's sleep, at the age of 1045.

Chuck the Optomistic Heretic