Death Meditations

Meditation.

Virtual Reality

Dying.

All three are seen, to their detriment, as Solitary Activities. They do not have to be.

All three can be Social Activities, although you would never know it by the way they are discussed.

Meditation is navel-gazing. VR takes people away to a Matrix-style hive. Dying is the scariest individual thing we will ever do.

Let’s flip it and wonder what it would be like if we could Meditate, experience Virtual Reality, and prepare for end of life socially.

What if Meditation could be done with other people in Virtual Reality as part of a program to prepare for end of life? What if a group could come together regularly to use meditation to get better at dying?

We just started.

It’s not too late to join but maybe you can’t or you don’t feel like it and you’d rather read about it.

My basic idea is simple. The prospect of dying creates anxiety because it is unknown. Death has been removed from life in every possible way. It is a stranger and strangers can feel threatening, if not terrifying.

For a long time, and certainly ever since I was diagnosed with a form of Leukemia over ten years ago, I have been trying to do the opposite — I’ve…