Austin

As in your own death? Why or why not?

A 9th-century poem in Old English contained in the Exeter Book, the posthumously published papers of D.H. Lawrence, a novel for children by E. Nesbit, and an allegorical poem by Shakespeare all refer in their titles to what mythological bird?

I was thinking today. My biggest fear in life is dying. I spend a lot of my free time thinking about dying and mortality. I'm agnostic, however I dearly wish for there to be an afterlife.

With that being said. Today I had an idea. What if, at some point, the universe as we know it reaches a singularity again, that singularity composed of all of this universe's matter (all of us after we die, everyone else, everything)? We belIeve the universe is expanding from a singularity. From that singularity, we have everything we have now.

SO. What I'm getting at is; What if our universe shrinks down, expands again? Couldn't this happen again? Wouldn't it be likely or at least possible that humans would evolve again (Or at least intelligent lIfe)? Who is to say that this theory hasn't already played out an infinite amount of times? This would explain past lives, and would let us live forever.

You die, and at that moment, you cannot perceIve time; so with that in mind, you'd instantly wake up in your next lIfe if I'm right. Maybe we'll die, and exit a womb immediately? Hospital lighting is the light at the end of the tunnel. The tunnel is the cervix and beyond.

I dunno... I'm a deep thinker. It's far fetched, but I'd prefer it over dying and never experiencing anything again.