In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

by Sebastian Junger

“You almost died last night,” the nurse said. “In fact, no one can believe you’re alive.”

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She considered me for a moment. “Instead of thinking of it as something scary,” she said, “try thinking of it as something sacred.”

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Am I the kind of person who will disappear into the desert with Sahrawi camel traders for six months or am I not? It seemed like a fundamental difference between people.

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We leave one version of ourselves behind and pick up where we’d left off with the old versions, our more courageous doubles now forever condemned to our imaginations and what might have been.

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Every object is a miracle compared to nothingness and every moment an infinity when correctly understood to be all we’ll ever get. Religion does its best to impart this through a lifetime of devotion, but one good look at death might be all you need.

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The overwhelming likelihood is that our sense of another reality is just a comforting illusion that helps us live our lives.

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