I view death as the end of the mind and the brain and the body. I don't know whether we have spirits or not that live on. On an emotionaly level,I would hope so but don't really believe so intellectually. If we do, I hope there's some postmortem convergence with the earth and the universe.

I think death is like nothingness. Like the nothingness before we were born. Or when we're completely blanked out under anesthesia. Nada. The journey across from life to death is sometimes an adventure. But when the electrical activity stops in the brain and breathing and circulation stop, it certainly looks like nothingness clinically.