DOA Lyrics

You are still alive

Only peaceful silence

Calm, quiet

You can still think

You can still remember

You can still hear, see, move, reason, wander, feel

Actually you are more alive after death

Than at any time since you were born

If you expect to die when you die you will be disappointed

When you die you lose your body

That’s all there is to it

The bastions of heaven

A cruel interruption

The site luminescence

A gift of some white noise

The feelings of flatline

An absence of reason

The fortunate entrance

Appearance to angels

A darkness of patience

The passage to silence

A table of contents

The end of the story

What it feels like to die

Any pain to be suffered comes first instinctively

You fight to live, this is automatic

It is inconceivable to the conscious mind

That any other reality could possibly exist

Beside the earthworld of matter bounded by time and space

We know ourselves to be ourselves by the external stimuli we receive

Life tells us who we are and we accept it’s telling

That too is automatic and to be expected

Your body goes limp, your heart stops, no more air flows in or out

You lose sight, feeling, and movement, although the ability to hear goes last

Identity ceases, the you that you once were becomes only a memory

There is no pain at the moment of death

Only peaceful silence, calm, quiet

But you still exist

It is not easy to breathe, in fact it is easier, more comfortable and infinitely more natural

Not to breathe, than to breathe

The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life

Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event

Be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between

Expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize

You are still you