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  This sounds like a great DMT trip where you realize, or rather witness, that everything is one. We are just a leaf on the cosmic tree, a combination of atoms that are conscious for some time, until we change to a different combination, maybe conscious but in a different way that we are in this life. 
  I like your view, it's a soothing thought.
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  It's 3am and can't sleep, this is the kind of thought that can haunt you for a while, along with the obvious connection to death. 
  I don't recall who said it, but I heard someone say "do you remember before you were alive ? Well maybe it's the same thing when you're dead." Something along those lines.
  It's both comforting in the sense that you won't "feel sad", and dreadful because the concept of nothingness is terrifying and impossible to fathom.
  And then come the questions of religion which will garantie a sleepless night. >
  
  If it makes you feel any better, I believe that dying is the exact same as before you were born, but the only thing you lose is your identity. Everything that makes you up, was at first in the food that your mother ate and now from what you eat, before that it was all there with the rest of the universe at the Big Bang. Everything including us are just arrangements of all the same little subatomic particles. So when you die you just stop being “you” and become everything around you, the sea and the sky and other animals… before and after your life you are simply everything. It’s a little bit trippy to identify with the whole universe but I think it’s far more comforting (and not any less valid) than believing that it’s all just nothingness.