Yes. But you are experiencing their absence. I think he was asking more about YOU

That’s exactly the opposite of what I meant, which is why I said “not in an abstract way, but …” To “imagine” (Not: to think about) this constantly thinking and sensing “I”, “me”, “Ego” does not exist any more.

Well, both of you seems to believe I cannot conceive of it, even though I tried to explain that I can. And that I find it easy to do. I look at the world around me and know that when I am gone it won’t matter. Nothing will change except that I won’t be here. I tried to use the example of my parents, who now are “nothing” to me except a distant memory, and when I am gone even that will no longer exist. I certainly won’t “miss it” because I won’t have consciousness to miss anything, just as before I was both. I didn’t exist. Now I exist. Later I won’t, again.

Please don’t tell me what I can or can’t conceive of based on the fact that *you* can’t. I can. I tell you with all honesty and directness: I can. Indeed, I have. It’s not a big deal, at least to me. It’s not at all hard to separate myself from, uh, myself, this reality, and everything.