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How do you deal with the fact that you will die?
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Hey, that's pretty much what I do. Although I add two extra steps between your second and third:
1 - Try not to think about it
2 - Think about it
3 - Despair at the inevitability of the thing I fear the most
4 - Get depressed
5 - Try no to think about it
Sounds about right.
i try not to think about what happens when I think about it
but now im thinking about it
oh god
oh god
fierrotlepou
Member
It's okay, hopefully I'm not in too much pain leading up to it. The only thing that sucks is that you'll never be able to talk to the people you love anymore. Although I've got the feeling that you'll always want to say more and do more. You gotta enjoy every day. If you do that, you'll be alright.
Let's just hope we'll be able to see Artificial Intelligence and maybe some kind of mind-upload. Elon Musk is working on the neural lace, so we're headed in the right direction!
Let's just hope we'll be able to see Artificial Intelligence and maybe some kind of mind-upload. Elon Musk is working on the neural lace, so we're headed in the right direction!
This thread in a nutshell:
1. Science bro! We are physically recycled to the biosphere -camp 1
2. Religion bro! Laws of the physical world don't apply to where we are going -camp 2
How I feel about death? Curious, afraid, sad. In my lonely days I always figured I'd die without leaving my mark on earth. When I had my first child I somehow felt a little more at peace with dying, like I survive through my offspring.
1. Science bro! We are physically recycled to the biosphere -camp 1
2. Religion bro! Laws of the physical world don't apply to where we are going -camp 2
How I feel about death? Curious, afraid, sad. In my lonely days I always figured I'd die without leaving my mark on earth. When I had my first child I somehow felt a little more at peace with dying, like I survive through my offspring.
By not really caring. You die no matter what you do. Everyone dies in the end so it's not some unique tragic fate you will encounter. There is nothing a rational mind can figure out what happens to you beyond the fact that your switch gets turned off.
My human mind won't really let me figure out more than that to any degree of certainty so I mostly ignore the issue.
I think people should spend their time trying to figure out how to deal with life rather than death. The best you can do is get as much out of life as possible because unlike death, life is on a timer.
My human mind won't really let me figure out more than that to any degree of certainty so I mostly ignore the issue.
I think people should spend their time trying to figure out how to deal with life rather than death. The best you can do is get as much out of life as possible because unlike death, life is on a timer.
The real Butters
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Terrified
sechsterangriff
Member
I don't have a problem with dying. It's a very simple fact of life.
What I worry the most is my quality of life and maintaining my physical and mental capacities in my old age. If I'm at least clear minded when the time comes that would already be great,
What I worry the most is my quality of life and maintaining my physical and mental capacities in my old age. If I'm at least clear minded when the time comes that would already be great,
For those people who are saying they don't think about it, or it doesn't worry them, I wonder how they'd feel if they were given 6 months to live.
I think the reason why some people can not worry or think about it, is because it's one of those far off things in the distance, I think once the realisation kicks in, the result might be different.
I think the reason why some people can not worry or think about it, is because it's one of those far off things in the distance, I think once the realisation kicks in, the result might be different.
Berserking Guts
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Gandalf says it'll be okay.
Gandalf says it'll be okay.
He cheats though.
astroturfing
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death can be easy, don't worry too much about it. some of us won't literally even notice it, you might die in the ICU while you're unconscious, or you might end up so demented that you won't even be able to think about death. or hell, something heavy might drop on your head and you'll be gone just like that.
the hard way to die is being completely conscious and sane when it's happening, like choking on food, or having someone stab you to death or something .. just try to avoid all that.
nah man, thats exactly what you don't want. trust me i've talked to thousands of dying people.
the hard way to die is being completely conscious and sane when it's happening, like choking on food, or having someone stab you to death or something .. just try to avoid all that.
nah man, thats exactly what you don't want. trust me i've talked to thousands of dying people.
ThePeoplesBureau
Member
I'm sorry for your family loss. Cancer is, in many cases, a complete lottery. Take it from someone who discovered they had picked a winning ticket last year... I was fortunate in that it was detected early, I was treated quickly, and was fortunate to be given the all-clear. I will have ongoing active monitoring for the next few years to ensure that in the event it re-emerges (highly unlikely in my case, but still) it is caught early, which is very reassuring and makes me very grateful for the healthcare my country offers (I realise not everyone has such access, sadly).
Those few months of uncertainty were probably the scariest of my life, and when you have a scary health issue playing on your mind, it reveals how much of the stuff you considered to be important... really isn't. Things like the simple act of walking through the park on a sunny day, hanging out with family, listening to a favourite song or enjoying a nice meal became a whole lot more tangible to me, and although it sounds a little like a Hollywood movie cliché, my eyes had been opened to appreciate and enjoy what I have, and to live in the moment whenever I can.
sgtnosboss
Neo Member
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Yeah, that scene is all like,
"Gandalf, I'm scared, we're going to die!"
"Don't worry, Pippin, death is just another adventure."
"Really?"
"Yeah, you know, after this we respawn in the next colour. I'll be Gandalf the Taupe, how about you? You never did mention what colour you were."
"..."
Moose Biscuits
It would be extreamly painful...
Personally, I hope to die as I've lived so far: as a massive inconvenience for all people involved.
I see people who feel some hope that they'll return to the soil, or free up some space for future generations to grow. I say, fuck future generations. They never did anything for me, and if time flowed in the opposite direction you know they'd fuck us over.
I wanna make plans in future so that when I die, my corpse gets mummified like what they did in Ancient Egypt, then gets bombarded with enough ionising radiation that it becomes dangerously radioactive for a long-ass time.
After that, eh. I'd like to be stored in one of those deep nuclear waste pits they're planning to dig in Finland or the Nevada desert, stuck in a hole along with all the spent fuel rods and waste from Chernobyl or whatever. I like the idea that my dessicated corpse would remain in some pit under the earth for centuries, actively malignant.
That's what keeps me going.
I see people who feel some hope that they'll return to the soil, or free up some space for future generations to grow. I say, fuck future generations. They never did anything for me, and if time flowed in the opposite direction you know they'd fuck us over.
I wanna make plans in future so that when I die, my corpse gets mummified like what they did in Ancient Egypt, then gets bombarded with enough ionising radiation that it becomes dangerously radioactive for a long-ass time.
After that, eh. I'd like to be stored in one of those deep nuclear waste pits they're planning to dig in Finland or the Nevada desert, stuck in a hole along with all the spent fuel rods and waste from Chernobyl or whatever. I like the idea that my dessicated corpse would remain in some pit under the earth for centuries, actively malignant.
That's what keeps me going.
ShaoranWright
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I'm on the same boat, except that i've been suicidal for the last 6 years. And also, i think of death as a long sleep so there isn't much to be afraid of really.
Baconsaurus Rex
Member
Looking forward to it.
kraspkibble
Permabanned.
i don't think about it. well of course i do sometimes but i don't let it worry me much. there is nothing i can do about it so just need to focus on living my life while i can.
friskykillface
Banned
Eh
It'll happen
Dunno when
Dunno how
But it'll happen
Just gotta live each day
Personally I'd wanna die in my 60s x early 70s because I've worked with, volunteered at nursing homes and it ain't pretty. Not just physically, mentally but emotionally I've seen some residents have no family come at all and they get bummed out
It'll happen
Dunno when
Dunno how
But it'll happen
Just gotta live each day
Personally I'd wanna die in my 60s x early 70s because I've worked with, volunteered at nursing homes and it ain't pretty. Not just physically, mentally but emotionally I've seen some residents have no family come at all and they get bummed out
Quintin DM
Member
I just don't try and think about it to much. Every so often I do think about it but then I just think "well I'm young, I still got probably like 60 years at minimum in me, so whatever", but usually then I start thinking about getting old (like really old) and that fucks me up even more than thinking about dying tbh.
Correctomundo
Member
I look forward to it. I've never died before.
I imagine that death is much like before I existed. Say, 1925. I didn't exist in 1925, so it'll probably be exactly like that.
I imagine that death is much like before I existed. Say, 1925. I didn't exist in 1925, so it'll probably be exactly like that.
SocksAndShoes
Banned
I'm already dead inside so it'll be fine.
Bruce Springsteen
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Grizzle_Dat
Banned
show me my dead body or it didn't happen
LordOfChaos
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Not being alive for billions of years never bothered me, so I console myself that it won't bother me after. In the meantime, I try to be happy, I try to make others happy, and that's about that.
I'm at peace with it, trying to place worry or anxiety towards it helps me in no way. When my time comes, I'm sure I'll be relieved knowing there was nothing I could do to prevent it anyways.
Plus the alternative is to live forever which is legitimately terrifying to me when you unravel the implications of that because even the current state of the universe is finite.
Plus the alternative is to live forever which is legitimately terrifying to me when you unravel the implications of that because even the current state of the universe is finite.
Bruce Springsteen
Member
So not much involving anthor human
You won't feel anything. You'll be dead.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
By listening to Circle of Life and hoping my remains are useful to some sick ass plant
MrS
Banned
Want to see as many memes as possible in the days I have left
Machines > humans
Blue Submarine No. 6
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I've kind of got two views on it:
First, this is the natural order, the way of things, it's as it should be (and we all know the myriad reasons why)... ie: Acceptance
Second, the simple realization that death is a metaphor really; nobody dies to themselves.
First, this is the natural order, the way of things, it's as it should be (and we all know the myriad reasons why)... ie: Acceptance
Second, the simple realization that death is a metaphor really; nobody dies to themselves.
I am terrified.
I saw some people answered that it does not bother them because "you will not even realize you are dead". That's strange, because this is why death is so terrifying according to me: this is an off switch, you will not be aware of anything after that, you will not exist anymore, you will not be able to think, to feel, to realize anything.
I would gladly prefer to know that I am dead, because it would mean that something of me still exists and still is conscious of something.
I saw some people answered that it does not bother them because "you will not even realize you are dead". That's strange, because this is why death is so terrifying according to me: this is an off switch, you will not be aware of anything after that, you will not exist anymore, you will not be able to think, to feel, to realize anything.
I would gladly prefer to know that I am dead, because it would mean that something of me still exists and still is conscious of something.
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