hope beyond that,” Griffiths explained, “then death seems like a pretty dismal prospect.” But, he added, if “you have an experience of transcendence, when one has a sense of the interconnectedness of all things and a stunning appreciation of life and consciousness, whether or not you come out believing in heaven or karma or an afterlife, you can recognize the depth of our ignorance in the astounding mystery of what it is to be alive and aware.” In Janeen’s case, that experience with mystery allowed her to make peace with the fact that she would die.
