Your body is instantly crushed

[Robert]

Imagine that, in less time than it takes for a nerve impulse to travel to your brain, your body is crushed and you resemble a pancake. One instant you're alive and the next instant your dead. To better visualize, say you're sun bathing on the sidewalk next to a highrise building. On top of the building is a crane holding a huge concrete block over you, and releases it. You have no warning whatsoever that it is falling, and when it lands you are instantly dead. Let's say you had head phones on and were listening to your favorite mp3 music.

How would one experience this?

[Guille]

That proves the unreliability of the individual in the enviroment and in the self (mind, intuition). When I was a kid I used to think that I wanted to die whiles I slept, or in any other form by which I would be consciouss at all of the danger, the hurt, and death. But now I'm not that sure. Cause if you are never aware, how can you know you died, and that you were plugged into a machine that controls all your functions, your body, your mind, for you to become just one more object of the productivity of the world etz (kind of isaac asimov story, or Huxley's brave new world, or Orwell's 1984...)??? You never do. I prefer then to die in awareness, to make sure.

[HappytheStripper]

Imagine that, in less time than it takes for a nerve impulse to travel to your brain ................

I stopped imagining at the brain part .. cos I didnt wanna imagine being crushed ..

How would one experience this?

I'm going out in a ball of fire .. true to my heart and nature .. hehehe .. nice post Robert

[harmonygirl]

I guess you would experience according to whatever beliefs you have. If death is instantaneous and you are an athiest, my guess is you don't experience anything. You simply don't exist. If you believe in some kind of 'life after...', then you may feel something, but what, who knows? I think that we vibrate faster and faster until we are light, but that's just me...

[mkirkpatrick]

Thankfully Robert,all that it is possible to crush is the physical body,we have several others,that cannot be "crushed" by physical means as they exist out
of phase with the dense physical universe.The etheric,astral,mental bodies,to mention but a few of them,would be completely untouched,but would indeed
register a "shock wave" that would resonate within their perifery.The physical
body is only after all a vehicle for the soul to express itself in three dimensional space,and is disgarded when of no further use.

kind regards michael.

[Mohan.C]

Robert,
When the body is crushed we don't feel anything because we are dead and our brain does not work. That is the intellect whiich keeps track of the history and emotions making us to feel. But there exist an eternal being within us which naver experiences pain nor feel anything. It is in a constant state of meditation and it will remain so. That is conciousness.

[mkirkpatrick]

Robert,
When the body is crushed we don't feel anything because we are dead and our brain does not work. That is the intellect whiich keeps track of the history and emotions making us to feel. But there exist an eternal being within us which naver experiences pain nor feel anything. It is in a constant state of meditation and it will remain so. That is conciousness.

Well
said Mohan,I agree absolutely,in meditation deep is the soul of expression!

kind regards michael.

[dleviwing]

The only important thing is that you conquer the fear of death before it occurs. Thinking about it only destroys the quality of your life while living it.

[HappytheStripper]

Lmao Dave I guess that would be why I stopped imagining it ..

Ashley

[baudrunner]

I think that we vibrate faster and faster until we are light, but that's just me...

That's such a beautiful idea HG! I would really like to know what you thought about where babies came from before you were old enough to learn how it really happens. I'm sure that you will have had another brilliant and original explanation.

As for Robert's posit, I tend to be practical, and curiously enough I have thought about this very thing. When we are temporarily confronted with crisis, time seems to almost stand still. We are sometimes capable of a great deal of activity and thought in a very short span of time in order to meet the crisis and resolve or at least optimize our responses to it, as in events like car accidents or falling down. In the case of being totally distracted I am still of the opinion that the idea that "he never knew what hit him" is pure fiction. At the very last instant of life we are aware of the impending event even by sensing its proximity and time will appear to slow down as we feel the incredibly agonizing pain of being crushed and then feeling the life force evacuating from our bodies. We will know that we are dying and it will all take place in that instant.

Of course, like HG said, that's just me. I have observed that the majority of people crossing a street at the wrong time will actually freeze when confronted by an oncoming motor vehicle. I am also absolutely certain that I for one would scoot out of the way like a scared jackrabbit.