Wow, I would look into a past-life regression if I were you.  Most people would prefer to die in their sleep.

As for myself, I want to be totally aware of the dying process and be fully awake. 

Love, Mairlyn

My grandma died while in a coma... Right before she died, she let out a HUGE breath of air. Apparently your lungs hold in a specified amount of air throughout your entire life. However, upon dying that last remnant of oxygen gets pushed out of the lungs... I've heard from numerous NDE reports, that at the moment that "last" breath leaves your body, it is at that moment that your soul releases from your body. (This of course depends on what type of ailment/accident is the cause for your departure.)

The amazing part about my grandmother is that at the very moment my mom told her that, "she can go whenever she feels ready..." "that we will be with her very soon..." "and that there is no need to worry, God is with you, and all you have to do is follow the light..." It was at that "very" moment my grandmother released her last breath of air.

I remember when my grandfather passed away... He had a surreal/peaceful look on his face. To me, that's a very comforting sign.

With regards to dying in one's sleep... I believe that it can be a very peaceful/easy transition into the afterlife... It would be akin to waking up from a dream in our physical reality... However, you would be waking up in the "real" reality. How much more exciting/adventurous could it possibly get? It has always amazed me that one could be having the "worst" day in their entire life... and all that it takes is 1/10th of a second for all of their worries/troubles to disappear. For instance... when I was having a very difficult/extremely stressful day a few years ago, when I felt as if "nothing" could fix my worries... I was lying on my bed and I had, instantaneously, a vision of awareness that opened up in front of me... It was a very surreal landscape of immeasurable beauty and undefinable peace. It made "everything" that I had found to be troublesome and tiring before seem unimportant and significantly insignificant. I felt like I was at my real "home" again! I honestly believe, from the deepest treanches of my heart/soul, that this is quite similar to what the dying experience as they pass on from this life to the next... It just takes "1/10th of a second for everything to become as it "should" be... ("Now, if that's not a welcoming thought... I don't know what is!?")


"May the peace go round & round!",
PUL,
Cosmic_Ambitions

Hey,

I agree with Marilyn with this one, i would want to be awake and know its going to happen. That may seem like a bad thing to say but it doesn't have to be painful, that way i know I've gone over and hopefully wont need retriving!

But i also believe everyones different so you could pass in your sleep and still awake to the other side no problem.

Ryan

Yeah the oversoul part will be concious.

But is there something important about C1 conciousness kicking in?

Monroe wrote something about visiting the future ...third book...and his experiences involved being conciously in the bodies of other animals. And he wrote about their dying and about something happening at the moment of dying, or in the dying process, that seemed to be significant. But we usually sleep through it.

So maybe there is something to be learned from doing death conciously...C1 conciously. Can we take C1 conciousness tot he other side? Is taking C1 conciousness to the other side what allows us to remember dreams, obes, retrievals whatever?

And what is the Tibetan Book of the Dead for anyway? Isn't that to help learn to cross over conciously? Then maybe there is something significant to doing it conciously.


(Hmm I must be over the hill; to think that dying is a more exciting "doing it" than anything else...)

I agree with Mairlyn and Ryan, I too would want to be awake and conscious and know what is happening.  Of course our higher selves would be aware but there is so much to be learned and gained, I feel, when we can have an experience through the persepective of our conscious selves on this level.  I don't think I'll be afraid of death, but I do want to be finished here and ready for it when the time comes.  I don't like surprises!

Of course, if you die in your sleep, it's possible you could have an OBE at the time and know what is going on from that perspective.  In the case of a coma, I'm sure that is what takes place.

Juditha, that's a wonderful thing you found out. So it sounds like those who are brain dead leave their body before the physical dies. Thanks so for telling us.

Love, Mairlyn