Death Itself

[TheRapingDragon]

Ok, thought I'd try to get a bit of feedback or debate going here because death is a topic that has been on my mind a lot lately. I used to have a strong fear of death to the point of having small panic attacks, that was years ago, but now for the past few nights I've had too much thoughts in my head, I felt like posting them up is better than more fears.

I'm not looking to start a discussion on what happens after you die, heaven, hell, reincarnation, nothing at all, none of that is wanted here, we probably have plenty of other threads on that topic. I am more interested in what people see death itself as being, what is death, I mean the corporeal death, the embodiment of death, personification of death, whatever you want to call it.

I sit and think of death and my mind can't comprehend it, a typical thought process could be:

"Death is sleeping, but forever, but how can you perceive what "forever" feels like when you wake up from sleeping and cannot remember it, so death is simply the absence of thought and thus the abscence of spirit and memory".

Though then you can get into how you have dreams, and how these dreams show your mind can still be active, so how can you still percieve the process of death as being sleeping, for that to happen you would have to sleep with nothing going on at all.

Anyway, I'm just sorting of wanting to find out what death actually is, a statement where if I fear death I can simply say to myself "There is no reason to fear, I know what death is, death is ???".

So, thoughts, views?