Amos opined:

Those who never have see only deathful blackness as her fate and are understandably outraged at such a possibility. The idea of slipping into permanent unbeing is horrible and compelling; but it ain't so. To them, living as a vegetable is better than the not-existing of death. Any sensation is better than no sensation.

Not so. I see death as a pure end, "deathful blackness" in your words. (Actually I'd prefer the word "blankness" to "blackness". Even that word implies a mind to perceive it, but I guess we're bound to verbal expression here, and I don't know how to express anything like that when I as a mind just do not exist. I am as convinced as is possible that there is nothing further when the operations of the body no longer make consciousness operate. Just the same, I agree with Terri: If I'm in a situation like that, pull the plug, remove the tube or whatever. Both for myself (if a chemical process being forced to continue operation can be called "me") and as a kindness to my friends and loved ones, get it over.

Dave Oesterreich