Death an end or a new beginning?

Death is an enlightening start (of course, don't try to pinpoint start with a time point) instead of a frightening end. 

Here is the proof.

Death, in medical terms, is brain dead. When your brain dies, your consciousness and the "self" vanish. Self creates the illusion of "I" in your identity, making you think you are not part of the universe. Everything is built upon electrons, up and down quarks (matter = energy) at the sub-atomic level. So, when the mind shuts down, and the self is gone. You are back to your roots, i.e., part of the universe - back home... Getting back home is always exciting, isn't it? So, how can it be frightening?


Read more: Self, The Origin - Identity.

V.S. Ramachandran -The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human

V.S. Ramachandran is Director of the Center for Brain and Cognition and Professor with the Psychology Department and the Neurosciences Program at UC San Diego. A former BBC Reith Lecturer, he wrote Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind (with Sandra Blakeslee), and is the author of A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers. His latest book, The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human explores human uniqueness and illustrates how we can better understand the normal by studying the abnormal. Called "The Marco Polo of neuroscience" by Richard Dawkins and "The modern Paul Broca" by Eric Kandel, Ramachandran has also been celebrated in the epidemic of medical melodramas: in the episode "The Tyrant" of the television show House, MD., Dr. House cures phantom limb pain using Ramachandran's mirror box.