Is dying really like sleeping forever?
822650
No.  Dying can be painful & even when it's peaceful, the process isn't like sleeping.  What happens after may well be like sleeping forever, but nothing has been proven yet & everyone can only speculate.
678506
No, you may as well just curl up and wait to die
768924
Imagine being burned at the stake in front of a baying mob. Every worst nightmare you have ever had about dying has happened to someone.\nWhat if no one actually dies peacefully in their sleep, but is the victim of a nightmare so bad it kills them.\nI think its extended violence that I would want to avoid. Instant painless death in a car crash is possible. I would hate to die of my injuries 3 days later after suffering.
789651
the brain never sleeps untill you die then it sleeps forever.
1017199
most people don't dream about dying because they have never been in a situation where they were close to dying so their brain can't comprehend it as real.  So as soon as you become close to dying, the rational part of your brain thinks "this ain't right" so you either start dreaming about something else or wake up.\n\nPeople who have had near-death experiences may dream about dying. Or the very imaginative.
795091
What a buncha crap.\nWhen you die, you are dead. period.
232219
yes, its called sleep apnea, you dont get enough oxygen and you pass out, it can actually be fatal
352960
It all depends if your brain is still alive , you would be dreaming intermittently...if the brain is dead then you would just be kept from moving on until your body die. If you know what's going on around you, then I think it would be awful but never been in that position. That's why is so important to fill a living will when you are going to be admitted in to a hospital. You could also let someone close to you know what would you like to do in that case.
590834
Sounds to me like an urban legend.  Sort of like "if you hold your breath while passing a cemetery, you add a minute to your lifespan".\n\nThe big question is -- how would you know?
10488
the real question here is: Do we actually die at all?\n\nSure, the functions of the body stop working, but they almost immediately begin to serve new functions.  Mainly, in the beginning, the processes of the body begin to immediately breakdown the body casing.  Once the body is dissolved, is becomes food and nutrient, which in turn serves to produce life, on many different levels.  \n\nAs for the "soul" who knows if it even exists.  We do know that the body's cells are full of energy.  We are also taught that energy cannot be created of destroyed.  So, the energy merely moves along, we could infer.  Perhaps the energy energizes other living creatures, perhaps it spurs a violent collision of atoms and particles resulting in a chaotic tropical storm.  perhaps too it leaves the earth alltogether and enters another dimension of life, after-life, or after-death realm.  Hell, maybe it even retains it's consciousness.  \n\nThen again, maybe nothing happens.  Maybe it's like a dreamless sleep that you never wake up from.  If that's the case, would you ever know that were dead?
1001378
i think u must eat sleeping pills...it is easy u wont feel pain u'll go into a deep sleep and when anyone will awoke u then they will realize that u r DEAD
412862
Premature Burial.\nIn other words (for those ignorant twats among you)...being buried alive.\n\nThink about it.  You fall into an unusually deep sleep or perhaps a coma and people mistake it for death.  Perhaps you fell victim to some voodoo curse that removes your vital signs temporarily.  They have the funeral and then bury your ass in your fancy coffin in 6 feet of dirt.\nYou wake up the first night after you are buried.  It is dark and confined.  What happened to you?  Last thing you remember was going to sleep normally.  Imagine the terror.  And imagine it escalate when you feel the silky linings of your casket and realize what has happened to you.  You pound feverishly at the coffin lid but no one will be hearing you.  You will just fade away when the oxygen does.\nIt is cruel because it allowed you enough time to become aware and then to realize your fate and then understand that Jesus isn't there to help prevent your untimely demise.  \n\nOf course being buried alive in other, less traditional ways is just as bad.  \nLike if you were buried alive in a molasses flood.  Trapped as if you were a prehistoric mosquito in amber.\nYour scientific importance in 1000 years matters little to you as you understand you are being buried in Aunt Jemima.\nMaybe millions of dog volunteer workers from around the world will come and lick you out out of your hardened, sweet and sticky tomb but I doubt it.  \n\nThere are some other bad ways to die my goodbitches, but I am off to get some lunch.\n\n\n.
296236
I think no. Indefinitely has an end, just not sure when, and forever keeps going, with no end.
146813
Not sure anyone living can answer that, really. What it looks like from the outside, from a living person's point of view, may not be a reflection at all of what is being experienced by the person who is passing away. But perhaps the most comfort would come from living as long and as well as you can, being a good person along the way. Perhaps if someone has children they will feel more at peace because they know that their memory will live on.
79967
If I can 'live forever' why do I have to die first?
781695
To live forever, I would trade in my death. Therefore, I could never get it back.\n\nThen I could live forever.
580969
When people die, they sleep without dreams until the judgment.\n\nHell is destroyed with death, so it can't be an alternative to heaven.