¶ Death: Weighing People As They Die
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Humans dying in hospitals have often been weighed as they crossed the threshold between life and death. No weight is lost. Life is weightless, imponderable. When life has departed, the radiant heat, the brain-propagated energy waves, and the radiance of being are alike gone. The full physical inventory of the corpse remains-- useless, reminiscent, but that is all. That is the way I read the data of man’s significant exploring.
