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Platypus Side Hero Username: Platypus Post Number: 6342 Registered: 01-2008 Posted From: 82.19.11.233 Rating: N/A |
This is not a review of The Discovery but my thoughts on the concept of death itself. In the movie, Robert Redford's character discovers proof that some form of energy (call it soul, brainwaves whatever) leaves the body at the time of death - proving beyond doubt that there exists something after death. The discovery results in millions of people ending their lives voluntarily hoping to start afresh on the other side. However, while proof exists that there is something beyond death, no one has any clue what it is. The scientist keeps on experimenting and towards the climax, finds what happens on the other side. At the time of death, your soul just changes the realm and enters into a parallel universe where your life is still continuing albeit in a slightly modified way. How many such hops can a man endure is something the movie doesn't dwell on (conveniently) but it is a fascinating concept. After watching the movie, I sat up upright and thought about my own life. 1. When I was eight years old, I was hopping from my uncle's house to my own terrace - when I slipped and fell ten feet - with my chin coming dangerously close to a sunshade. It would have killed me had I made contact with it. Did I just die there? and entered a new realm where I continued my life with a couple of bruises? Or is there a plan of existence where my life ended right there? 2. When I was 27, I met with an accident on Chennai's East Coast Road - thanks to a jaywalker. I had my helmet on and survived the high speed crash. I suffered with short term amnesia (Memory getting reset every minute) for a period of three days. I was in the ICU for a week. I see it as another inflection point. Maybe I did die on that day and my consciousness traveled to a parallel universe. I can come up with a couple of more such incidents in my life. Assuming parallel universes with slightly different but eerily similar realities exist, maybe "death" is nothing but a way of traveling from one to another. Unfortunately it is probably the only way of doing it. We will not know until we die, is it? Problem is, even when you die and you move to a new reality, you will not know it. You will remember it as simply an incident from which you walked away unscathed. The reality you leave behind has people mourning your death and wondering what exists after you die. The reality you enter has no knowledge of your death. I guess at some point when you hit 90's you will find peace and not enter any reality. Till then probably you are hopping from one to another. Luckily, you can't comprehend that. Count your blessings. |