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Student @ Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi Araba
Ebute Ikorodu, Nigeria
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What death never explains
<p>Death is usually described as a moment, but it rarely feels that simple. Biologically, it is easy to explain. A body that no longer functions. A heart that stops. A brain that no longer sends signals. Life, in the physical sense, ends there.</p><p>But that explanation never seems to answer the real question people are asking.</p><p>What happens to awareness.</p><p>Some say nothing happens at all. That when the body stops working, consciousness goes with it. No pain, no darkness, no experience. Just an absence. Not even a void, because a void still suggests something being perceived.</p><p>Others believe consciousness continues. That there is an afterlife, or some form of transition. That the mind, or the soul, leaves the body and moves elsewhere. Where that place is, and what exists there, depends on belief, culture, and faith.</p><p>Then there is the question of whether the body, mind, and soul are actually separate things. Or if they are just different ways of naming the same process. If consciousness is produced by the brain, then it would end when the brain ends. But if the brain only channels it, then death might be less of an ending and more of a release.</p><p>It is strange that something every living being shares is also something no one can report back from. Death does not clarify itself ahead of time. It allows theories, science, religion, and imagination, but it never confirms any of them.</p><p>Maybe that is the real discomfort.</p><p>Not the idea of ending,</p><p>but living while never knowing</p><p>whether anything follows at all.</p>
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