Looking Forward to Death?

“I am looking forward to letting go. Of my body; of my stuff; of my friends and family."

These words were said by my 89-year old student recently in my course, Spiritual Dimensions of Nearing Death.

We had been exploring the time right before death, the time of death, and after death. We had been focusing on letting go of our fears and accepting death. We had been doing visualizations and guided meditations that helped us peer in to death. We had opened to the possibilities, the maybes, around how we continue after this corporeal existence.

We had touched upon the falling away of everything; the emptying of the body, the attachments, the longings, leaving only pure love remaining.

So when this kindly and very rational, gentle man, said those words, I was deeply moved. It is something to achieve that level of peace within.

What do you think?