Sorry Skuzzy I said I'd stay out of here, but with no reply in 3 weeks, and the topic at hand, well... "Mustaine" lives on, and I hope you understand.
I personally do not want or look forward to dying. A good friend and I had this conversation, today actually; about death. "Does the person in a car wreck with their head bashed feel anything?"
The same goes for a number of different types of death. I have been "brainwashed" and de-sensitized to "death" from another site I frequent, though unwillingly as the pics are impossible to miss.
Anyway, my concern is thus: do people dying "feel" it happening? That is the core of the question. If there is no real "feeling" then what is lost?
If you want to get into a moral debate about my Christianity, or anything of that nature please take it to another thread. But here, I have to ask the question "when does the soul leave the body???" There are many theories about this and no answers possible.
If I were put in a situation like the thread starter’s examples, I hold true my thoughts would be about the will of God, and his purpose of this. I would pray to ask if this is God’s will let it be so, if not, let it pass. There is no other way about it in my mind. If it were God’s will then I would ask for a sign to show that, if so it is unavoidable; hence I would have no choice but to accept it.
Death is an unpleasant thing for all those that surround it, and I do not pretend to know anything about it. I DO know that I hold strong in my convictions, and that all things happen for a purpose.
Before you comment on this, PLEASE re-read my comments in the 3rd paragraph above. Thank you.