Do you ever wonder how scary death is? Think about it; it’s the one thing that we truly know absolutely nothing about. Some people may cite religious beliefs of an afterlife; others might claim they just focus on life. Still, the ends of our lives are really something totally and utterly foreign to us. I mean, what if the religious people are wrong? What if death really is nonexistence… that it’s simply over once the brain dies? Terrifying, huh? Of course, the reasoning is that you won't notice it, since you stop existing.
But let’s say a certain someone could expose you to nonexistence. Let's say this person could actually make you experience it as a state, and more importantly, let you remember it. He'd probably be able to get you to agree to anything in order to avoid that fate. Tangentially, for certain people near death, their brain activity sometimes ceases completely for about three seconds and then returns, only to shortly die in a more conventional fashion.
As another aside, many hospital orderlies have noticed a man wearing a suit that they have never seen in any catalog or on any person before. Interestingly enough, when you ask them about the suit, they will struggle for a moment, then reply that it’s hard to describe, but that they are sure they haven’t seen it before. Ask them about the man, however, and they will freeze up, spasm violently, and reply, "What man?"
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Originally uploaded on January 16th, 2011