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Date Posted: 13:34:48 11/02/09 Mon
Author: Patricia Reckrey
Subject: Re: Sleep
In reply to: Ray Pavlik 's message, "Sleep" on 09:17:08 12/19/08 Fri

I was happy to read the "sleep " comment. I thought of exactly the same thing: isn't going to sleep this same letting go? There's a reason we use the phrase "Eternal Rest" in talking of death.


>I'm 87, still active and lucid." Nothing To Be
>Frightened Of" omitted a most important step in our
>confrontation with
>death. That is sleep, which is a nightly rehearsal of
>death.
>We lapse into unconsciousness for eight hours and
>enter into
>a bizarre world of dreams, knowing we shall awaken to
>our
>real world again. Death must be a near similar
>experience
>without the waking up. Whether we enter a dream world
>is the
>great unknown. But we are accustomed to closing our
>eyes and
>drifting off without fear so perhaps the long sleep is
>not
>too unlike the nightly one.

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