Is death an affront to the human ego?
The human ego is essentially a thought structure. You can’t actually touch or feel the ego, it only exists in our heads, so to speak. It identifies itself with the physical body, obviously, but its fundamental identity lies in thought. “I think therefore I am” is the essential statement of the ego, because the ego is really nothing but the process of thinking about yourself (where “yourself” is nothing but an idea also, even though it be connected with the physical body). Because the ego exists as a series of thoughts or ideas, ego death is essentially when nothing (no one) thinks about it. This is why the ego is more concerned about being remembered than it is with physical survival. Because even after one dies physically, their idea can continue on through others. The ego always exists through ideas, and ideas can survive physical death, as long as they last, the ego lasts (at least that is how it percieves the matter). So ego death, the great fear of the ego, is that no one, no thin
