Death, how do you feel about it?

Precipice · Tar Sands Joined: Mar 04, 2008 Posts: 39

Some times I fear it, sometimes I feel eerily peaceful about it, and sometimes I both fear it and feel eerily peaceful about it.

I think what really adds to the fear is the sheer incomprehensibility (especially from an emotional pov) of going unconscious and then never waking up ever again.

eastbay

Avoid 'bad' and practice 'good' and you'll have nothing to be concerned about. Smile

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hardtootell

It's a part of life. I like to think of it as "the great liberation"
w/o it where would we put all the old folks? Smile

wisconsin_cur

#4

How one feels about it is irrelevant.
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Precipice · Tar Sands Joined: Mar 04, 2008 Posts: 39

I think Bill and Ted had the best response to the finitude of conscious existence:

Bill: "Be Excellent to Each Other"
Ted: "Party On Dudes!"

smallpoxgirl · Moderator Joined: Nov 08, 2004 Posts: 5210

Honestly...scares the hell out of me. Pain doesn't scare me. Being uncomfortable as I die, doesn't scare me. Being dead scares me. Actually, it's not being dead that scares me. It's the absence of being alive that scares me. I like being alive. It's really a cool experience. I think it's absolutely intriguing to watch it all unfold. Life feels to me like 100 pages out of the middle of a novel. If you study hard, you can deduce some of what went on towards the front of the book. The ending, that's complete unknown. I don't like the concept that I'll never know how so many things turned out.

Also I'm a pretty cerebral person. Learning new stuff is a big defining aspect of how I see myself. The idea that all that stuff that I spent so much time learning, in the end it's gonna be nothing more than a snack for some earthworms. That's a pretty hard idea for me to stomach.
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hope_full · Heavy Crude Joined: May 27, 2008 Posts: 173

bl00k

I'm not afraid of death, i'd be sad if i'd die 'young', but no fear. I'm more afraid of becoming handicapped in some way, paralysed for example, than death. I'm not sure how i feel about it in the future but right now i'd rather be dead than handicapped which restricts my movement and freedom.

Sure i like being alive, life's good for me right now, and i'm certainly not suicidal, far from it. But why fear something that's inevitable? I don't know what 'is' for me after my death, therefor the only thing that makes sense is to not fear it. I don't fear the unknown.
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BigTex

idomar

I am not scared of dying, I am sick of being told the way in which I will die by the British Gov't.

Thier unhealthy obsession with making people live longer only adds to the annoyance. In a radio show called The Now Show on BBC Radio 4 Good British Comedy
they comment that after WWII life expectancy was 68 yrs and the occurence of cancer was 18%, today life expectancy is 78 years and cancer rates are 36%, so we now live longer just to catch cancer.

They want us to live longer so that we can live in poverty in our dotage, now that's logic.

The most unbelievable manifestation of death avoidance is the Health and Safety Executive, due to litigation prevention and ensuring that no one comes to any harm doing anything there are now risk assessments for everything.

example: I was putting some archive boxes onto the top shelf of a filing cabinet by....shock, horror.....lifting the box over my head and putting it on the shelf. The HSE nazi at work, 'spotted' me doing this and I was summoned to attend, LADDER USE TRAINING!!

I then had to sit through a 30 minute training 'workshop' on how to file archive boxes on the top shelf using a ladder. I was instructed to use both hands to climb the ladder until I reached the top, stable platform.

Question, How do I carry the box AND climb the ladder with both hands holding on for safety?

Question, I am 6'2" the top of the Filing cabinet is 6'10", the ceilng is 7'6", the ladder is 3' to the top stable platform?

Answer, just sign the form to say that you were trained, OK!

Read, you cant sue us if you dont use the facilities provided, you were 'trained'.

Screw it, I want an entry in the Darwin Awards!

darwinsdog · Heavy Crude Joined: Jun 27, 2008 Posts: 170

The Ocean Planet is a wet space rock infested with an organic redox scum we call "life." We are part of that scum. Anything that can be characterized by autocatalysis & self-replication can be considered to be "alive." Selection occurs inexorably because self-replication is never perfect. Elements of low atomic mass (Fe is an exception) cycle thru the biogeochemosphere on various periods, various dwell times in the biosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere... Some would consider the planet itself to be "alive." Is the xylem of a tree alive? Is your hair, mineral bone, keratinized epidermis... alive? How about a given carbon atom in a functional enzyme - is it "alive." What about that same carbon atom after you rot & it becomes carbon dioxide? We are dying continuously. Apoptosis or "programmed cell death" begins in the early embryo. Cells are dying by the billions in your bodies right now. What even is this thing called "you," that you may/may not be afraid of it dying? Is it the mere purveyor of your ancestors' genes or is it something "special"? How do you know? This thread is stupid.

manu · Intermediate Crude Joined: Jul 26, 2006 Posts: 710

Olaf

lper100km

Sh*t happens.

mmasters

I chose #3

I think we're all infinate beings temporarily trapped in this world because we went down a bad path.
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