{"id":2419,"date":"2023-05-10T08:06:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/d-h-lawrence-on-death-and-the-best-lifelong-preparation-for-it-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T08:06:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T12:06:03","slug":"d-h-lawrence-on-death-and-the-best-lifelong-preparation-for-it-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/d-h-lawrence-on-death-and-the-best-lifelong-preparation-for-it-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"D.H. Lawrence on Death and the Best Lifelong Preparation for It \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cTo study philosophy is to learn to die,\u201d Montaigne wrote in his most famous essay<\/a> as he reckoned with how to live<\/a>. Indeed, we spend our lives learning to die while trying to bear our mortality<\/a>, using our religions and our materialism to look away from the great unknown, to fill with myths and negations what is undeniably the supreme mystery on the other edge of existence. We may know what happens to our physical being when we die<\/a>, but what happens to consciousness at the boundary of life remains the ultimate enigma.<\/p>\n

A revelatory new study<\/a> has found, through electrogram recordings, heightened brain activity and connectivity at the transition to death: Upon being taken off life-support equipment, patients exhibit a surge of gamma waves \u2014 an indication of amplified rather than diminished consciousness. This finding, refuting the classic conception of death as a fade-out of consciousness, calls to mind a lovely line from a D.H. Lawrence<\/a> poem composed at the end of his life, depicting death as \u201cthe last wonder.\u201d <\/p>\n

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