Up until now, I have focused on the process of biomechanical death, our various names for it, and whether or not we go on beyond its limits.    I will continue to explore those themes in future essays, as well, but I wanted to take a bit of a different turn here and move into the studies of consciousness for at least this one essay.  I may follow this exploratory path if it leads me to do so into other future posts as well.  Let's assume, for a moment, that it has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that life - consciousness, the mind, memories, whatever name you would like to assign to it at this point - continues after the final point in the process of biomechanical death.   Let this be an axiom from which we start the exploration here.    Given, then, that we know that consciousness/life continues past the limits of the expiration of the physical processes of the body, what can we then take away from this?  The reality is that the impl...