why dying is like sleeping
Saturday, March 01, 2008 (6:22 PM)
for most of my life, i've accepted that dying is like sleeping except that you don't wake up anymore and possibly are without dreams. only recently i've began to think why we have such a conception. afterall, nobody ever lived to tell the tale, if you don't mind this wicked humour.
i recall blogging about this particular guy who woke up from a halted heart-beat and said there's no heaven, no devil, no nothing. but who can be certain he "died" during that brief moment of cardiac failure?
going deeper, it is not unlikely that death indeed is not much different from sleeping. afterall, we can only deduce from what we can observe and dying does, from the surface, appear like sleeping. if we move on to medical science and combine it with descartes' meditation, it is only understandable that when we die, the thinking substance halts. this agreement can be observed from the medical field that a person is considered pretty much dead when deduced "brain dead".