It can speed up your heart beat - it can put you to sleep. Let us comfort and console and caress those who know that they are to die, rather than try to live a lie by pretending it's not going to happen. Let us be present as family and community and tend to those who depart from this place. Let us do it with dignity and compassion, wonder and grace - holiness. Spirit is eternal.
Energy can neither be created nor destroyed, it just changes forms.
In the rapid and rushing river of Time. If someone is in the last stages of inoperable brain cancer and is in severe pain without the intervention of medication, that person should have the personal right to leave his physical body with appropriate medication and die. I am not encouraging suicide by any means - I only wish to place death into the realm of the holy and mysterious and assign it its rightful place in the grand scheme of creation. We have so much fear around death. Thy days have ended.