ah death... a touchy word at times but I named my nickname after it to not forget death's importance.

I've experienced a lot of death in my life and I have made many mistakes in dealing with it. What I decided to do was to completly forget the person... in doing so I had made my life miserable. Of course it is quite understandable for a person to choose to forget his loved ones, but doing so can cause him to forget even more. Names, faces, places and things all of those I had forgotten. I wanted to get away from it all and so I did... all of it.

I learned that it is important to remember the good times I had with the ones I loved rather than forget them. Of course I am sure many have learned this lesson, but it is important to remember.
Always remeber who you loved and lost lest you be trapped in a dark pit. Alone with no one to reach you because you don't call for help and even when help comes, you don't reach out your hand to be pulled out of the darkness.

2. our mind can separate from our body

You're assuming our mind is one with our body. There are many beliefs that they are two separate things.

4. dreaming equals temporary death

Actually, I was thinking the complete opposite. I was poking at the thought that death is a permanent dream.

Do you have any idea what physiological function/effect that dimethyltryptramine has?

Actually, nobody has a concerte idea why Dimethyltryptramine is found in all of us (I also forget to mention the fact that it is found in many many plants as well, but obviously not for dreaming), but there are handfuls of theories. Dimethyltryptramine (or for short, DMT) can also be made and taken as a psychedelic drug. In fact it's one of the most powerful (and not to mention illegal) as we know it. When in the user's system, they experience a total loss of connection to  reality with the encounter of spiritual/alien realms. If you'd like to read more about it, there's a really great book/movie called The Spirit Molecule, I recommend it if you're interested!

Sorry for kind of going off topic, and I am only supplying information to enlighten others, so please don't go off and ban me.

You're assuming our mind is one with our body. There are many beliefs that they are two separate things.

Key word: beliefs. I am not assuming, I am deducing from what we know from neurosciences.

Actually, I was thinking the complete opposite. I was poking at the thought that death is a permanent dream.

Well, that would surely help you deal with death, as does any kind of belief in an afterlife. Which is fine. My own problem with these kinds of beliefs is that it escapes the terminal nature of death and denies life it's unique value.

So I'd be interested to know what deductions you're making and based on what.

Is it so hard to imagine that this "phenomenon we call consciousness", as you put it nicely, is simply resulting from a collective network of our different brain areas? I don't think there has to be a central "mind" area for our brain to work as it does. But I know neurosciences cannot give a real answer to that yet; the deduction I meant is what I said above, deduced from how nervous systems work in general. To lead back on topic, this means death is total and inevitable as our nervous system decays sometime, and the only thing I can do is accept that, and if I'm wrong, the bigger the surprise will be ;)

I am only thirteen and I hate living well I am dead so needless to say I also hate death bit less and life

You're assuming our mind is one with our body. There are many beliefs that they are two separate things.

If this duality is true then we are left with questions as to what is happening in situations of brain damage affecting conscious states. Two classic examples are where a person suffers serious brain damage resulting in a completely different personality and conscious state. Another example is with split brain, where the two hemispheres of the brain don't communicate. Each side can express different behavioral patterns, different likes and dislikes and even different personal beliefs.
It would seem based on just these observations we can deduce that the mind is a product of the body as the mind can be altered by altering the body.

I love how human beings are curious by nature, asking questions that hold no answer...yet.
With my personal experience I've been quite close to death several times, but I haven't really felt anything towards the idea of dying. Neither sadness, nor agony, as some might experience if they see their lives a valuable one, fleeing away in front of their eyes, nor fear, as most feel because of not knowing what lies after death.
I do, however, feel curious. There are a lot of religions that have their own theories of what happens when we die, but non hold any sort of solid ground that could give me some sort of conclusion, as to what to believe. There is a lot of controversy and misleading stories that leads you into circles, not even science holds any rational theories. Not that they have any more shot than religions to give the truth about death, but what is the truth then?

The matter of the fact is, we will never know what happens after death until we actually die. And after that, if we still exist, just a sliver of ourselves, the question is if we will remember anything from our past life, if we're still able to hold rational thoughts.
Buuut I won't be too narrow-minded, since humanity is sometimes pretty incredible, so we might one day discover what happens after we die. At the best, a plausible theory that will please most people.

It's best to assume you cease to be as this means you try to make the most of your life, because you can't get a second chance.