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When I Am No More (death)

  Author:  24924  Category:(Philosophy) Created:(12/7/2006 6:22:00 PM)
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"Compared to the great vastness of the cosmos, the ocean of deep time, my individual existence is a blip, a bubble in the foam on the surface of a flowing river. I am a momentary arrangement of atoms and molecules, an arrangement that lives and moves, to be sure, an arrangement that thinks, laughs, appreciates beauty, dreams, and loves.

But a mere arrangement nonetheless, a transient state, an ephemeral gathering. Soon the blip will go out, the bubble will pop, the arrangement will dissolve, molecular bonds released by entropy. My consciousness will cease. But the molecules that once were me will still exist. The atoms that made up my body, iron, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and all the heavy elements forged in the crucibles of dying stars, will remain. Liberated from their temporary home, they will rejoin the rest of the planet, taking new shapes, finding new arrangements, becoming part of other life.

I will become merged with everything. I will become part of the trees that grow wherever my ashes are scattered, joining the eco-system of the forest. I will be in the slow green heartwood of the trunks as they patiently tick off the centuries, in the buds that burst forth in spring and in the leaves that explode with colour in autumn. I will be the sparkle of sunlight on the surface of a flowing mountain stream.

I will sink into the earth and mix with the groundwater, eventually flowing back and rejoining the ocean where all life on this planet ultimately began. I will be in the waves that crash on the shore, in the warm sheltered tidal pools, in the coral reefs that bloom with life, and in the depths that echo with whale songs. I will be subducted into the planet's core and join the three-hundred-million-year cycle of the continental plates.

I will rise into the sky and, in the fullness of time, become dispersed throughout the atmosphere, until every breath will contain part of me. And billions of years from now, when our sun swells and blasts the Earth's atmosphere away, I will be there, streaming into space to rejoin the stars that gave my atoms birth.

And perhaps some day, billions of years yet beyond that, on some distant planet beneath bright alien skies, an atom that once was part of me will take part in a series of chemical reactions that may ultimately lead to new life, life that will in time leave the sea that gave it birth, crawl up onto the beach, and look up into the cosmos and wonder where it came from.

And the cycle will begin again."

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Date: 12/7/2006 6:25:00 PM  ( From Author ) From Authorid: 24924    This was authored by a friend. I like it. I was inspired to post it because of a post Beezleben did where he ask "are you afraid of death".  
Date: 12/7/2006 6:29:00 PM  From Authorid: 21435    Greetings to "The Thinker." A lovely piece of work, Catherine. My compliments to your friend and thanks to you for sharing with us.   
Date: 12/7/2006 7:31:00 PM  From Authorid: 42945    Congratulations Cat to your friend hun, what an intelligent and enjoyable read it was...*hugs* and Merry Christmas my friend....  
Date: 12/7/2006 7:47:00 PM  From Authorid: 27403    Very, very beautiful, Thinker! It is amazing how close our thinking is, with but subtle differences. A joy to read! Love and Light  
Date: 12/7/2006 7:48:00 PM  From Authorid: 48809    I thought this was beautiful...it seems your friend is quite gifted Catherine...it was so nice of you to post it.  
Date: 12/7/2006 8:43:00 PM  From Authorid: 61977    I loved this, but you knew I would. Thanks for sharing this with us. Bookmarked!!  
Date: 12/7/2006 8:44:00 PM  From Authorid: 36704    Oh, and also this was a good read, thanks for sharing it.  
Date: 12/9/2006 10:28:00 AM  From Authorid: 55967    Great post! My personal definition of Life is the Universe looking back on itself. You know, you can put this whole post in reverse, and realize we all came from the same whole process. We ARE that distant planet beneath bright alien skies, too.  
Date: 9/8/2007 11:07:00 PM  From Authorid: 63400    wow! very good!  

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