fairycosmos:

“The whole point of being alive is that you are alive. And that you can make something with this. That we’re in a tangible – we’re literally the manifestation of some kind of underlying brilliance to how everything works, right? We are in physical form. And we’re relating with the physical world around us. But at the same time, we’re consciously relating to the world around us. And consciousness in and of itself is just a physical manifestation, right? It’s neurons firing, it’s chemical synapses, it’s all of that, right? So, that’s incredible! It’s incredible. And you feel that it’s incredible when you’re dying. And that’s the most difficult part about it, is that you’re laying there, and you’re a little kid and you want to hold your mom’s hand, and you want to cry and you want to hold on because you feel how incredible it is to be alive. And not in a corny way, not in a stupid fake inspirational bullshit way, in a genuine i-don’t-want-to-give-this-up kind of way.”

– claire wineland on how it feels to die