When you die...

Submitted by S Raphael (United Kingdom), Aug 23, 2006 at 19:45

When you die, you die. Your consciousness leaves you much as when you sleep and you go to nothingness - just as before you were born. You know this to be true - just as every individual and creature ultimately knows this is the case. Why do you flee from danger, why are you so similar to others and the flora and fauna on this planet which rotates round a small star amongst a billion others. Open your eyes. But when you die, I hope you have a moment of reflection if you or through you actions have inspired others to kill and make others go through that very same moment of consciousness decades earlier, in that moment it will hurt - and then there will be nothing. Why not try and do some good, leave something positive Art, Music,Teaching, Writing, and most of all love. And in that final moment there will be something.....

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