Sympathy for #Neelix and -All My Fellow #Resurrectees | @MemoryAlpha #Resurrect #Resurrection #Resurrected #Resurrects #Resurrections #ResurrectionSunday
Watching STAR TREK: VOYAGER, I saw the episode where Neelix (the Talaxian) is struck by protomatter-'lightning' & dies for 18 hours. As he is such a useful member of Voyager's crew, 7-of-9 resurrects him by injecting him with modified nanoprobes that start to repair his internal organs.
But he remembers that when he died–rather than go to The Great Forest, where he believes all his dead relatives wait for him–there was nothing. That's the same thing I remember from my 'time spent dead' (only about four hours ... or maybe four minutes)—no "Heavenly Gates," no "banquet-halls filled with glorious ancestors"; just 'nothing.'
That reveals something—even if Heaven/'The Great Forest' is a real place (a place in the AEther between the subatomic particles all around us, somewhere too small for our big dumb brains to conceive-of), Heaven's true purpose is 'so that the people still living don't "lose" us—so that they can tell the children "where we are" when we're not "here" anymore.'
'That name & -word' (below-hyperlinked to Memory Alpha's summary of that episode) is built on an even-deeper source ... something crucial that firms the foundation upon which our lexicon stands ...
The word “Resurrect” is built on ancient words that mean "|Rise |Again (from the |Dead), |Re|appear (|Resurgent)."
The name “Neelix” is built on ancient words that mean "|Traveler."
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