I definitely think it's important to think about death frequently.

The last few years forced me to confront the possible deaths of my closest loved ones (my husband, my best friend, my brother) - although they didn't die thankfully, it did make me have to confront the fact they will die one day and it won't be within my control when that happens. And that I myself will die.

It made me think hard about what death actually is from a philosophical perspective. I discovered that from the perspective of consciousness, there is no such thing as non-consciousness. So from the perspective of one who is alive, there is no such thing as death. "Where I am, death is not, where death is, I am not".

I think about how everything in existence is interconnected. How my life and my consciousness is sustained by the deaths of other beings. Even though I'm vegan, it still requires the deaths of plants, which science has shown do have a form of subjective experience and consciousness. When I die, my cells will become food for other beings and continue the cycle of overlapping consciousnesses that are in endless flux. Everything is change.

When I think about what death may feel like to experience, I think it may feel like waking from a dream where you don't remember the dream, and yet you know it wasn't nothing.