The Process

RAM DAS: ON DEATH AND DYING

“Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.”

Death is all around us, it happens every day- and it happens to everyone and everything.  Whether it be accidental and sudden, or of natural causes such as disease process and old age it remains a major part of the integral cyclical nature of life as we know it on Earth.

Believe it or not, the body has a process for nearly every function

Much like code for computer the body has built processes for various mechanisms ( breathing, heartbeat, childbirth ) … and yes, even death.

Once body reaches a point of being unable to maintain a persons current baseline homeostasis, the body starts the process of dying. This typically looks like eating less, sleeping more, interacting less, weakness & being "bed-bound". This is where the coined term " on someone's death bed" comes from.