Why we can't imagine death? Almost everyone has a tendency to imagine the mind continuing to exist after the death of the body. Even people who believe the mind ceases to exist at death show this type of psychological-continuity reasoning in studies. Rather than being a by-product of religion or an emotional security blanket, such beliefs stem from the very nature of our consciousness.

The brain is like any other organ: a part of our physical body. And the mind is what the brain does—it’s more a verb than it is a noun. Why do we wonder where our mind goes when the body is dead? Shouldn’t it be obvious that the mind is dead, too? The common view of death as a great mystery usually is brushed aside as an emotionally fueled desire to believe that death isn’t the end of the road.

From this article, i feel that as death isn't like anything we've experienced, we cannot imagine what it will feel like to be dead. In fact, death won’t feel like anything, when we die, what’s next is nothing. Death is a black hole, the end of experience, the permanent extinction of being.

I believe that we have seen death taken place before, like people older than us who has already deceased. Some of us actually hope that the deceased can tell us what happens during afterlife, but that is never going to happen.

I find this article interesting, and i think that if the world was very advanced and progressed, we can actually experience death before death itself with an advanced technology equipment, but who knows? For now, i'll just let the mystery be.

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=never-say-die

- Low Jing Yi Shervin. (11)  ¶ 3:57 PM