I've been thinking about death a lot lately because I think this might be the year.
For me it will be a relief. Lots of sadness of course, but also relief from this torturous disease.
I've always been firmly pro-science and didn't believe in any religion or spirituality. However I've been thinking, after a conversation about reincarnation, that science can be seen as a sort of spirituality.
There are more unknowns, more "magic" within the universe than we could ever comprehend. But what we do know is that we are part of the greater whole. We are the universe, and the universe is us, there is no separation.
I like this quote from Neil DeGrasse Tyson:
*See those lights flashing like paparazzi?*
*Each one is a supernova, the blazing death of a giant star.*
*Stars die and are born in places like this one a stellar nursery.*
*They condense like raindrops from giant clouds of gas and dust.*
*They get so hot that the nuclei of the atoms fuse together deep within them to make the oxygen we breathe, the carbon in our muscles, the calcium in our bones, the iron in our blood, all of it was cooked in the fiery hearts of long-vanished stars.*
*You, me, everyone, we are made of star stuff.*
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson, 2014
And not only are we made of star stuff, but so is everything on earth. When we die, we are "reincarnated" as soil, flowers, pollen. Or we're scattered into the sea, to be swallowed by a fish, maybe even a whale, and become part of it, for a bit, until we become something else. So I now believe in reincarnation, but from a science perspective, and this gives me comfort. 🌸 🐋 🐟 🐝