Where do we go when we Die! — Summary

Emy GContemplative

Where will i go when i die? I believe i will cease to exist No memory to live No body to to breathe I will go nowhere

You can believe what you want That i will go burn or fly That i will be born again You could tell me you cant go nowhere And i will nod my head You could tell me to change my answer And i would say reincarnation i guess

However, i will add

Sleep is mini death No certainly you will wake up But are you afraid of sleep? No of course not It is a necessity for survival Or you'll die Is death not the same?

No certainty you'll go anywhere A bug crawling up your spine In the back of your mind Will i disappear you ask That my friend, is fear

You can call me a sociopath for murdering that fear But i am not afraid of death It does not unnerve me to know That at the drop of a pin i will go And what I believe to be true Is once i am dead i will not remember the life I once knew

I will have no brain to know the life i lived No body to breathe again My soul you ask, well that could go anywhere Up down in another Another bug in cracked stone i have murdered it too

I am not afraid of death But are you?

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Emy G's speaker answers the question in the title head-on: nowhere. When we die, she believes, memory and body vanish and that's the end. She's relaxed about other people's beliefs, whether heaven, hell, or reincarnation, and says she'd simply nod along. But she still wants to make her own case.

Her main argument is that sleep is a kind of small death. We don't fear sleep, even though we can't be sure what it holds, so why fear the real thing? The "bug crawling up your spine" captures the nagging dread of not knowing, which she calls fear. She says she has "murdered" that fear, even if it makes her sound like a sociopath.

The mood is calm and a little defiant. The tone is casual, almost shrugging, until the last line turns the question on the reader: "But are you?" It leaves us unsettled, and perhaps a little challenged.

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