The Ultimate Orgasm

Every life experience ends in an orgasm, because every incident, large or small, has a typical story arc of beginning, middle, and end. In all stories there is a climax followed by a denouement -- not unlike lighting a cigarette after lovemaking or drinking a cold glass of milk after a particularly rich dessert).

Life, too, has a beginning, middle, and end. As we near the end of the third act most of us begin to experience labor pains that increase in number and intensity preceding the final orgasm of our delivery into the next world.

For many of us, death is not an enemy to be resisted at all costs to the very end. It is a friend come to deliver us from this world when it no longer affords us any pleasure.

Like a woman in labor or a couple making love, life in this world usually ends in what appears to be a series of violent, painful convulsions, but to the soul moving from one world to the next, perhaps the experience is as ecstatic as winning the World Series or hearing an exquisite violin sonata.