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DeathIsWeirdtoday at 8:32 PM0 repliesview on HN

You mean the process doesn’t go to heaven?

Unrelated: My cat died. Saddest day of my life. I watched the light leave his eyes and still wonder where he went.

I looked it up and it said that the last thing to go when dying is probably your hearing.

When you die, typically you lose your sight first, then your bodily sensations, and 1-by-1 all your sensory channels turn off: Balance, equilibrium, proprioception, until you are like an empty force flying through infinite darkness, all your thoughts still in tact, knowing what is happening to you, and in the background you can still hear everyone in the room, until the sounds too begin to fade and distort into a light buzzing noise that gets higher and higher pitched like a zipper zipping up your last waking experience in a metaphorical body bag to be tossed off the edge of time.