On the correct view of Death (again)

So there is that common view I hear that we a born, we live and then we die and there is oblivion. But of course this is only from a certain arbitrary perspective. Someone died while I was writing this and as far as I can tell it made not the slightest difference to the world. No great void opened up.. oh another just died then... yup still no great void. The great void people speak of is just the void that we think appears when I face my own death. No one else's death makes this void happen just my own. But that suggests a special connection between myself and myself. Does this sound like nonsense yet? Another person just died. They had a special connection between themselves and themselves too and still no great void has opened up. It must be a special connection between this person John and John himself for the void to open up. Why me, why am I so special that this special John void happens to just me? I'm not., The problem is that I carry an idea of John around with me. That sort of fits (though badly most situations) but doesn't fit dying at all. So John must be discarded and that's the void we only think happens. I can discard John right now, he is only an idea after all, just a belief that there is some fixed entity coming along on the ride of Life. There isn't. John is just a photo album that I've made with friends and family and my society, but has not real connection to me. Can throw in the bin any time I like. Don't have to wait for death. Now I'm not saying the Tibetan's don't know a lot about Death but it seems in all their teachings of reincarnation they don't emphasise enough the real point that no-one is there on the journey. Its not lonely (that only happens if you think John is there on the journey (by himself waiting for the His Void to open up) - so not realising that you made John and can discard him at any time with no void happening at all). Indeed loneliness and company in Life are just Ego illusions (there are billions of people and countless beings how can we be alone or together?). It's just that no one is there on the journey of birth, life or death.

So what of consciousness. Does the extinction of that make the Great Void? We get that ever night when we sleep. Indeed Death is often referred to as the Great Sleep. Good analogy. But again that misses the point. Consciousness comes and goes all our life and then then we return to the state we had before birth. The thing that causes the issue is not the ephemeral nature of consciousness flickering the wind. Its the fact we believe that someone is experiencing consciousness. In my case John is has consciousness. Hockum. John is just a photo album I made. Oh yes he's in the album. But I can throw that album away any time I like. John does noty have consciousness. No one "has" consciousness. There is just consciousness. (How much did you pay for it if you own it? Enough Capitalism already.) and one day there won't be consciousness. Oh look another consciousness extinguished in the world just now. Yup no difference. Oh look another consciousness just got born. No difference. Nothing special about "me" in any way whatsoever.