Many people seem to think that dying in their sleep is the way to go. Personally I want to face my death fully conscious. Not that I think being asleep somehow isn't being conscious. Most people do not understand that sleep is a state where our minds are fully operant, but do not manufacture recollection. Even so, I will prefer to be awake when I die, and facing what it is that brings me death. When I had a heart attack in my sleep, I got up and got dressed, rather than lay there and die.
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