With Easter approaching, my mind turns to thoughts of, “What does it mean to be dead?”

Is it just life no longer as we know it?

Take a few minutes and consider the following questions (and then I’ll explain why I ask):

Is there consciousness under general anesthesia?
Or does a patient only experience the moment prior to unconsciousness and the moment when s/he awakens?
What happens in between—during the transition?

This may be off topic…but I remember when I was a kid and I would fall asleep at night and when I woke up it was the next morning and it seemed instantaneous. Do you remember times like that?

Could you use the above analogies to try to understand death and an afterlife?

If you believe in resurrection (as Jesus arose from the dead three days after his death) are you just having your consciousness regained?

(Obviously we can’t know for sure until our own time comes to experience it.)

But I’d really like to know if you think “death” exists!

Melanie Hack
Author of Who Killed My Sister, My friend
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