This is one way to go, and one might say the majority choice. But then there are those others, idiosyncratic souls, who ingeniously insist on constructing their own type of craft to take them on this unknown journey. Some will have a sailboat, and there are those who like a motorised vehicle. But we must all somehow cross over to the other side. One occasionally runs into people who apparently attempt to make an excursion in a ramshackle rowboat.
Some remarkable sailors hold fast to the rudder despite storms and lack of provisions.
And then there are the really far-out folk who try to cross over by walking on the water. Many observers have described the path as consisting of a gradient of stages which we must pass through. Perhaps the most famous of these is Erik Erikson, the American psychoanalyst and author. Erikson himself took a very unusual path. Without any formal training, he charmed his way into Freud's inner circle and was trained by Anna Freud to be a child psychologist.