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And having said this, they began to await death. Finally, death itself arrived, roaring like a lion and looking very frightening. It resembled a human, but had no body and was composed of bare human bones. Various instruments of torture were with it: swords, spears, arrows, axes, and other instruments unknown to me.
My poor soul trembled at the sight of this. The holy angels said to death: "Why do you delay? Release this soul from its body, release it quickly and gently, for it has not many sins."
Obeying this command, death approached me, took a small shard, and first cut off my hands, then gradually severed the rest of my limbs with other instruments, separating joint from joint, and all my body became numb. Then, taking an ax, it cut off my head, and it became as if alien to me. After that, death made some kind of drink in a cup and, bringing it to my lips, forced me to drink it. This drink was bitter, and my soul could not bear it; it shuddered and leaped out of my body, as if violently torn from it.
I turned back and saw my body lying lifeless, insensible, and motionless, as if someone had taken off their clothes and thrown them away, looking at them – so I looked at my body, from which I had been freed, and was very surprised. Demons, in the guise of Ethiopians, surrounded the holy angels who were holding me and cried out...
Also, I watched a video tape, it seems on Easter, where a young man described how he had been in the afterlife (by special divine providence). And he also said that he parted with his body with difficulty, and death came, and it was all the same: like a human skeleton in a black cloak with a deeply drawn hood, and with all sorts of terrifying instruments. And it is terribly scary, of course, when they cut you off from life, limb by limb, for several hours... In general, in his story, there were probably 4 completely incomprehensible moments for me, or rather, such that I cannot accept them as true, although he, this young man, is telling it, and there is no reason for him to lie or fabricate anything – he is very serious, and he is waiting for his actual death as just another stage of life, and he is sincerely sure that there will be no hell in eternal life after the resurrection, but he will be saved. So why would he lie?!
But this statement of his, that people have wreaths hanging around their necks, which were placed on their graves, and that they suffer from this, I simply cannot believe! Sins hang around – that's understandable, but what do the wreaths have to do with it? Who knows what someone might put on your grave...
I was also frightened and confused by the moment when he met people who had recently died in his village, i.e., people he knew, but not closely. And they cried and begged, "It is better not to remember us at all, and not even in prayers, than to remember our bad deeds and actions; because our suffering is greatly increased by your words."
He also said something strange, which, with God's grace, does not fit with me. That he was also in those places where the infants who died in the womb are located (he himself has a son and a daughter from different women, about which he cried, poor thing, as if he wished it were not so), and that they are placed in different places according to their age, and the older the children, the worse it is for them. But why? What does age have to do with it? What age is there, excuse me, there is no time there, everything is measured, moves (if one can express it that way) and changes differently, in completely different categories (I suppose that it is relative to proximity to God, but this is a broad field for reflection, and not in such a spiritual state).
So, is death an entity?
Sorry for the off-topic.
