The most Breathtaking Description of Death I have ever Heard.

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I finally got around to watching the Netflix series, “Midnight Mass.”

During one of the episodes, one of the main characters, Riley Flynn, is asked what he thinks happens when we die.

I did not expect to hear such a beautiful, breathtaking description of death, and I want to share it here:

“When I die…my body stops functioning. Shut down. All at once, or gradually, my breathing stops, my heart stops beating. Clinical death. And a bit later, like, five whole minutes later, my brain cells start dying.

But in the meantime, in between…maybe my brain releases a flood of DMT. It’s the psychedelic drug released when we dream, so I dream. I dream bigger than I have ever dreamed before, because it’s all of it. Just the last dump of DMT all at once. And my neurons are firing and I’m seeing this firework display of memories and imagination.

And I am just…tripping. I mean, really tripping balls because my mind’s rifling through the memories — you know, long and short-terms, and the dreams mix with the memories, and it’s a curtain call. The dream to end all dreams. One last great dream as my mind empties the f*ckin’ missile solos and then…