The Final End Approaches!

I have a rendezvous with Death
At some disputed barricade,
When Spring comes back with rustling shade
And apple-blossoms fill the air—
I have a rendezvous with Death
When Spring brings back blue days and fair.

It may be he shall take my hand
And lead me into his dark land
And close my eyes and quench my breath—
It may be I shall pass him still.
I have a rendezvous with Death
On some scarred slope of battered hill,
When Spring comes round again this year
And the first meadow-flowers appear.

God knows 'twere better to be deep
Pillowed in silk and scented down,
Where Love throbs out in blissful sleep,
Pulse nigh to pulse, and breath to breath,
Where hushed awakenings are dear ...
But I've a rendezvous with Death
At midnight in some flaming town,
When Spring trips north again this year,
And I to my pledged word am true,
I shall not fail that rendezvous.

I Have a Rendezvous with Death​

 
If I could take something with me I think I’d take memory.
Even knowing that in the end, past the door, we all go with nothing but what we’ve been.

Not the grand, highlight-reel stuff. Not the awards or the headlines. I’d take the small moments:

The way a room sounds when everyone you love is in it.
The weight of a good tool in your hand that’s worn smooth from years of use.
A dog settling down because he knows you’re steady.
A note someone left that meant more than it looked like it did.

If memory isn’t allowed, maybe I’d take the ability to recognize meaning, the sense that even simple things matter. Without that, nothing else I might carry would have much worth.
 
Mitch86 said:
I'm 91 years old and my own ending is approaching. Only 1 out of 8,000 lives to age 100. Thus, at 91 I'm getting close to my own ending. Medicine has never been able to find a Fountain of Youth so I must simply ACCEPT the coming end for me.
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I can understand that it's hard to accept when you want to go on. Your post is very sensible. You must accept that your body will give out at some point.
Enjoy the minutes.
My husband was here one day and all was fine and the next day he was gone. He was 72.
I hope you live many more years Mitch.
 
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I'm working on living to 120 years old. It's a nice number. I don't think I will set any records as there will be some 125 years old peeps setting Senior Olympics records by then.

I might even get me an 80 year old girlfriend then and no one will complain and call me names.
 
Lawrence00 said:
I'm working on living to 120 years old. It's a nice number. I don't think I will set any records as there will be some 125 years old peeps setting Senior Olympics records by then.

I might even get me an 80 year old girlfriend then and no one will complain and call me names.
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It just occurred to me: one distant cousin lived to be 104.
 
Although minor numbers do, most scientists don't believe there can be life after death primarily because there are no reasonable hypotheses of how that might be possible. What explanations in media are provided amount to no more than philosophical mumbo jumbo or actions with forces magic by "gods" with nonsense Omniscient, Omnipresent, Omnipotent powers.

Hence many are agnostic or atheists. But the majority of those scientists also do not understand the science nature of our animal creature nervous system and with that what IMO consciousness really is given how entrenched decades of dogma has generally dismissed electromagnetic theories. EMC theories today given the rise of hi tech machines like magnetoencephalography that are rapidly giving EMC consciousness credibility.

There are reasonably strong reasons both in Bible scripture and for science reasons to entertain the possibility that electromagnetic fields of the brain might be able to be duplicated within like impedance containers by Ultimate Intelligent Entities though such is not something that can be adequately explained to those unfamiliar with the science. In scripture, Jesus clearly states the body MUST die before being reborn in spirit. And that spirit IMO is our EMC brain fields that science has shown to not be mere sequential interconnections like with our silicon semiconductor electronics but rather whole fields throughout neural tissues.

But if so, that does not mean everyone gets to still exist after death but rather ONLY those that meet some well-known scriptural criteria. The effect upon waking would be similar to what occurs went one awakens from anesthesia surgery except that one would not awaken within one's former organic body.
 
Sunkist said:
Life is temporary.. death is permanent..
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Agreed at the level you intended, that organic body death is permanent, irreversible, forever due to rapid tissue decay without cell oxygenation.

However, death to one's brain electromagnetic field is IMO very much not so if an equivalent impedance container is provided. Of course, there is a world of physics science that will prevent ordinary persons from understanding what that means in the same way this person will never grasp quantum physics because I never had the advanced math and physical education to be able to do so.

In the Star Trek universe, humans, their clothing, and tools, were transmitted via the Transporters, over 3-dimensional space to reform elsewhere. Each time they did so, their former body was briefly no longer alive as in dead until another duplicate body was recreated from the pattern buffer. IMO such will never ever be possible but such is essentially the same as what I describe above in that everything under the Transporter was re-materialized elsewhere.

The difference with my hypothesis is that we will not re-materialize into a duplicate organic body as was in that fiction but rather into a possibly mostly or fully non-organic body essentially immortal if not physically destroyed. As Jesus stated a body must first die in order to be reborn into spirit.
 
I will live on, not in bodily form, but alive in the memories of my children, their children and their children's children. Some will have personal memories of me. Others will know me by the stories that they are told about me.

I am always surrounded by a cloud of memories of people who have touched my life and who are now dust.

From dust we were made, and to dust we shall return. The dust that made us is the atoms that were born in the heart of the stars. I am always amazed that the Universe is the source of the matter and energy of every living thing.
 
David777 said:
Agreed at the level you intended, that organic body death is permanent, irreversible, forever due to rapid tissue decay without cell oxygenation.

However, death to one's brain electromagnetic field is IMO very much not so if an equivalent impedance container is provided. Of course, there is a world of physics science that will prevent ordinary persons from understanding what that means in the same way this person will never grasp quantum physics because I never had the advanced math and physical education to be able to do so.

In the Star Trek universe, humans, their clothing, and tools, were transmitted via the Transporters, over 3-dimensional space to reform elsewhere. Each time they did so, their former body was briefly no longer alive as in dead until another duplicate body was recreated from the pattern buffer. IMO such will never ever be possible but such is essentially the same as what I describe above in that everything under the Transporter was re-materialized elsewhere.

The difference with my hypothesis is that we will not re-materialize into a duplicate organic body as was in that fiction but rather into a possibly mostly or fully non-organic body essentially immortal if not physically destroyed. As Jesus stated a body must first die in order to be reborn into spirit.
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'The level I intended'? 😒
 
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