THE CLIFF APPEARS

It occurs to you that this is the longest you’ve ever lived.  Then, again, you’ve always lived the longest you’ve ever lived.  This, though, is the closest you’ve ever been to the cliff.  You can see it, now, in fact.  You feel apprehensive about it.  You say your anxiety is because you’ve never died before.  You’ve never died before as Joe Blow, at least.  Joe Blow has never been over the cliff.

Eckhart Tolle says that death is not the end of life but merely the opposite of birth.  Deepak Chopra says that birth and death are like parentheses in the constant flow of life.  Life is eternal, indestructible, everlasting.  Like a wheel, it has no beginning and no end.  You are life itself, all you have ever been, and therefore you are not going anywhere at death.  Joe Blow is going over the cliff, you are not.