Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
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Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form.
I like thinking about the fragility of the human flesh and our bodies - our decay and eventual death.
The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.
Death is the beginning of something.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
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