Any suggestions on the following…

Ways to feel more connected to death? Not in the suicidal sense but to know of it so distinctly, so vastly and to feel inextricably connected to it. That maybe realizing that in some way you were never departed from it? In different ways, if you have any thoughts you’d like to share or experiences of what the power of death is and has. Thanks.

Top | New | Old

TangledUpInBlue · F

I’ve been researching near death experiences for a while. You could look into that for starters. Also I follow all sorts of hospice nurses that talk about death and the process of dying. It’s a fascinating topic to me as well and I would like to understand.

LeopoldBloom · M

@TangledUpInBlue Hospice experiences are interesting but NDEs are just woo.

TangledUpInBlue · F

@LeopoldBloom are they? I find them fascinating. I watched north my parents die and I’m an artist, so I find it part inspiration for my work but also as a way to process death. Hallucinations close to the time of death are also fascinating, especially the prevalence of seeing children. My father kept seeing two little boys with red hair not long before he passed. I didn’t know it was so common among the elderly close to their death until I looked into it.

Wiseacre · F

@LeopoldBloom yep, they’re not death, are they?

ScreamingFox · 41-45, F

I have a connection to the dead because I've experienced SO much loss. Now I feel most at peace in darkness, silence and graveyards. I spent a lot of time thinking on it and I experience something when ghosties want me too. I have no control over it though.

Rudboy41 · 41-45, M

Research asubha meditation, and go in search of a animal corpse in the forrest etc, and visit it as often as you can and meditate on its progress of decay, as you will not find a human corpse to practise this meditation with. I was shocked when the buddhist nun mentioned this tradition of buddhism, but it was ascribed to help practioners grasp the important law of impermanence.

Instead perhaps you could visit a cemetery and contemplate death and its meanings there, reflect on your own mortality etc.

Wiseacre · F

Are we really supposed to be connected to death while alive? In my 60s, I still feel scared of the Grim Reaper. He better not take me while I sleep☹

ThePatientAnarchist · 61-69

@Wiseacre Really? I would be happy to die in my sleep rather than struggling through that transition while awake.

DyingDaily · M

What

TangledUpInBlue · F

@DyingDaily lol says the person with your username.😎

therighttothink50 · 56-60, M

We are merely souls encased within a shell/body, forever living. Death is merely a word as we are all eternal creatures.

cinsac

We are born into this world knowing that we are mortal. We also know that we could die at any time, we see death. How much more connected could we be to death? We have no choice but to accept our fate.

LeopoldBloom · M

Watch the HBO series Six Feet Under which is about how modern American society deals with death.

Add a comment...