Today, the nations of the world are seeking peace and pleasure through hot and cold war. Perhaps, they are trying to find internal peace from external conflicts. People think that the external victory can give internal peace and pleasure. This is spiritual ignorance.

Good health is our original physical state; it is our original nature. When our health suffers from a disease, we take doctor’s help and our health is restored with the disappearance of the illness. Doctor cannot give us health, he simply removes the disease and we return to our original state of health.

One may say that the fear of death causes the fear of losing the continuity of life. But this continuity which derives from time has never been real in the first place and has always been imaginary.

We are made victims of sickness, aging and death by gaps in our knowledge of the self. To lose awareness is to lose intelligence; to lose intelligence is to lose control over the human body. It means that if we want to change our body we have to change our awareness first.

We are part of divinity but our divinity remains obscured by ignorance. We have to be God-conscious rather than world-conscious to reach that state of being. The world consciousness leads us to unending cycle of wishes and desires and of birth and death. When our attachments and desires are removed our divinity is unveiled.

Life at its source is creation. When we are in touch with the inner intelligence we are in touch with the creative core. Yogis who can manipulate their heartbeat at will indicate that our bodily process responds to the command of the mind

Human death involves the stoppage of consciousness, hence scientists made attempts to study near-death-experience (NDE). It refers to the conscious experience of someone close to death. NDE is characterized with the following attributes.

Feeling of calmness, emotional and physical comfort

Vision of intense pure bright light

Out of-Body-Experience (OBE)- one feels he left the body

Entering into another realm- heaven or hell

Symptoms of Death

Difficulty in breathing and exhaustion by coughing

Numbing of intelligence

Eyes turned up due to loss of vitality

Foam from mouth

Sensing intense pain

When the breath is leaving its place, the moment of dying seems at close

Christianity and Death

Many Christian theologians believe that near-death experiences have not been mentioned in the Holy Bible. Hence the NDE described in scientific reports can neither be fully supported nor rejected. The existence of consciousness after death has been presented in Christianity, as similar to Vedic text.

Islam and Death

According to Islamic legend called “Miraj” Prophet Mohammed had an experience that is similar to a near-death experience as stated earlier. Muslims believe that the righteous are able to see the vision of God and the wicked see vision of hell. Islam agrees that consciousness exists after death and cannot be terminated after death.

Scientifically supported opinion is that when the EEG records flat signals; it characterizes death. Flat signals recorded by EEG are characteristic of death. Spirituality as outlined by Vedic text defines the stoppage of all levels of consciousness. It means absence of all living symptoms. If scientific know-how can overcome death; it can be considered superior to nature. But it cannot, hence supremacy of nature prevails.

Dying words of famous people seem to be little more poetic than the typical dying utterances of the common folk. Some memorable dying words from some very famous people are quoted in this title.

Most people don’t know that the final words they say might be the last words they ever say. But for these famous people, they made those final words count – whether they knew they were their last words or not.