re: ISIS beheads 4 kids

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It it's the former...the act of 'dying' is a expansion beyond the individual's limitations into an infinite and Conscious - and loving - Being. If it's the latter...'dying' is the dissolution and absorption of the unique characteristics which form a particular individual (form of life)...into a feeling-less and dispassionate void.

The kicker/trump card...COULD be...that the ultimate experience of death (dissolution)...is SUBJECTIVE; all depending upon the choice/belief/faith of the particular individual.

Two individuals die. Observed (Empirical) death would be the same for the individual who believed in God...as for the one who didn't. However, their (subjective) perception of the dissolution of their limited conscious perception...would be radically different. As one would dissolve into Conscious Love...and the other would simply dissolve.

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An interesting viewpoint. I have a question however. It would seem that the characteristic of being a unique self or mind would dissolve upon death for having a mind would be part of an individual's essence. If true then how can the self experience or perceive death with the ability to perceive having dissolved?