Is death a light switch?
What is death?
A simple on and off switch? The end of all things, our bodies breaking down and reverting to the building blocks that it was before our mothers ingested then and used them build us out of the selfish genes coming from our grandmother and grandfathers by way of good old Mom and Dad?
It’s an interesting question.
I was watching two different shows today, West World season three (HBO) and Upload (Amazon). West World is pretty amazing. They have a take on life that has a bit of depth to it. In this week’s episode, at the end (spoiler), Deloris and Mauve die. No big surprise there, they’ve been killed hundreds if not thousands of times. Looking at them both dead, I thought of how there were just turned off, like a lamp.
I’ve been taught through my life that our soul lives forever. But what if it doesn’t? It just gets turned off when we die. Then becomes awake later, when it is turned on again.
The birth, death, and rebirth cycle.
Reincarnation.
Perhaps that is why we don’t remember. The river of sleep is just us, unplugged. Our memories gone. Like a computer, when turned off, the code unwritten to disk disappears when the power goes out.
