NullPointer
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I'm expecting it to be something similar to how I felt before I was conceived.
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How do you deal with the fact that you will die?
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ManUnkindH
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TheVampire
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I've been suicidal the past 2 years so I don't really care and almost welcome it.
Buffy once said "the hardest thing in this world... is to live in it"
Buffy once said "the hardest thing in this world... is to live in it"
Gravy Boat
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It's really not even something I would think about. My life is much too busy to spend time thinking about what happens when I die.
Memento mori - Remember you are mortal said:
Basically realize you're time alive is limited and to live life to its fullest every day you have. Hard to live by thanks to routine, fatigue, and well just being human but it's worth trying because we only have one shot.
I had a dream where I died and went to this black void. Thought: "oh so this is what it's like to be dead." Then I woke up. It's probably something similar to that except you lack the sense of self and therefore are no longer aware. So ya, something similar.
Probablty crosses my mind once every month or so. Just shrug and move on nothing i can do about it y'know.
Lol the one thing ive told people is to make im really, really dead first. I remember seeing stories of people who waked up still alive in their coffins and it creeped the fuck out of me.
Lol the one thing ive told people is to make im really, really dead first. I remember seeing stories of people who waked up still alive in their coffins and it creeped the fuck out of me.
I don't have any problem with it. Had a scare a few years back where I didn't know if I was going to be ok so I kind of processed it then. I think it will be kind of cool to be like: "Ok, this is it. I can rest now. I won't have to work, or clean the apartment, or do any of the other things I don't like. I had a good run." At least to me life is like 60-70% stuff I don't like or don't want to do but have to, so that part I won't miss. The other 30-40% sure, but then again if you get a normal lifespan you will hopefully feel like you got enough time.
TheBlackMarvel
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What is dead may never die.
Zelenogorsk
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I just don't think about. While I'm alive I'm alive, ya know? And once i'm dead I won't give a shit about it because my brain function will cease. I won't care until I'll be too dead to care.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
I'm not scared of dying. I was big into casual Buddhism in my early 20s, so I've long been accepting of the idea of being this impermanent, temporary thing almost to the point of romanticism.
Like we're a bursting firework, burning bright for an amazing instant and then disappearing into the void. That sounds cool. It feels cool to me. The fact that we 'end' gives life a far more dramatic pathos than if we were immortal.
It's the wasting of this brief life that causes me existential panic and makes me a shitty not-at-all-a-Buddhist. I'm cool that I'm here for a short period... but I feel like I should fulfill the promise of my unique perspective on this life and do something really cool with it. And it seems very easy to waste this experience away with noting to show for it....
So everyday I race to fulfill whatever it is I'm best at. To make something out of my weird life. I win some and I lose some on that front everyday.....
Like we're a bursting firework, burning bright for an amazing instant and then disappearing into the void. That sounds cool. It feels cool to me. The fact that we 'end' gives life a far more dramatic pathos than if we were immortal.
It's the wasting of this brief life that causes me existential panic and makes me a shitty not-at-all-a-Buddhist. I'm cool that I'm here for a short period... but I feel like I should fulfill the promise of my unique perspective on this life and do something really cool with it. And it seems very easy to waste this experience away with noting to show for it....
So everyday I race to fulfill whatever it is I'm best at. To make something out of my weird life. I win some and I lose some on that front everyday.....
Irishmantis
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I wasn't OP till this thread
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I've always feared the World end since a child, could not like at the sky without feeling anxious because I was convinced the richest star was a meteor.
Onto the topic, if I'm lucky enough to live till I'm old I want to skip medication (unless family event) to not depress the shit out of everyone.
I say that because I believe when we are old it's good to feel depression and pain as I feel it's part of life at that age and a crucial step so I can actually welcome death without fear. It's a weird take but it's something I always believed.
Now that I'm moderately young, happy and may pass as healthy I dread it, but hopefully someday I welcome it... as dark as that sounds lol
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I've always feared the World end since a child, could not like at the sky without feeling anxious because I was convinced the richest star was a meteor.
Onto the topic, if I'm lucky enough to live till I'm old I want to skip medication (unless family event) to not depress the shit out of everyone.
I say that because I believe when we are old it's good to feel depression and pain as I feel it's part of life at that age and a crucial step so I can actually welcome death without fear. It's a weird take but it's something I always believed.
Now that I'm moderately young, happy and may pass as healthy I dread it, but hopefully someday I welcome it... as dark as that sounds lol
I just generally remind myself that I am doing the best that I can day-to-day with the opportunities and obstacles before me.
I may have a few regrets at the end but at the same time I don't want to spent my life in a mad panic to make my mark somehow.
"Run, rabbit run. Dig that hole. Forget the sun. And when at last the work is done, don't sit down, it's time to dig another one".
soxinthebox
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I try to take solace in that I didn't exist for billions of years before I did and that didn't bother me.
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I hate knowing that I could just die before achieving goals. Hate thinking even more about getting cancer, like the past three family members who've passed away have dealt with. I have the mental crises of fearing death, and a living death of cancer.
It's really fun!
No its not, I was lying.
I hate the entire idea of it, and in a way it makes me wish I was strongly religious. At least my sisters don't seem to have the existential dread I get at least once a week. They're fine (I mean, as fine as one can be with death) with the idea because of a second life in their cards...
Yeah, I hope it will be easier to accept in older age. But I'm talking like 70. I want to live healthy into at least my early fifties, dang it...
Barajas_201
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I will forget everything and return to the Cosmos, to start anew.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
Yeah, the "mad panic" is probably not entirely healthy.
Then again, it might be the kick in the pants to do something really cool with this life.
Maybe the answer is: everything in moderation, including existential "mad panics".
Irishmantis
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Also the problem I feel with being humans, is that we are too aware for our own good.
Which allows to create delusions that we are entitled to some special purpose after death like we are special snowflakes lol
Which allows to create delusions that we are entitled to some special purpose after death like we are special snowflakes lol
It's something I've been struggling with ever since I realised that I had already lived over half my life expectancy.
It's something I never used to think about, now it haunts my every waking hour, the weirdest thought is that the world will go on living without me being in it.
It's something I never used to think about, now it haunts my every waking hour, the weirdest thought is that the world will go on living without me being in it.
Kain-Nosgoth
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i don't really care
I just hope that if i die too young, i will not know it (like an accident, instant death etc...)
I just hope that if i die too young, i will not know it (like an accident, instant death etc...)
Knuckle Sandwich
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I don't think about it much but when I do I usually say stuff like this to myself:
I'm not special. Billions of people lived and died before me and billions will live and die after me.
That makes me feel better.
I'm not special. Billions of people lived and died before me and billions will live and die after me.
That makes me feel better.
I think age might play a part, I never gave it a thought / didn't care till I hit my 40's
Baron Doggystyle von Woof
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I am not afraid of it.
I am not suicidal at all, but I'm actually curious what happens. But sleeping forever sounds good.
I am not suicidal at all, but I'm actually curious what happens. But sleeping forever sounds good.
Professor Lexicovermis
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I mean; given the extreme stress my education put on me, I'm pretty sure I'm already dead on some metaphorical level.
When will it end? Will I see my kids grow up? Will I die an old man? Will I be dead in 6 months, or maybe by this afternoon? It's the not knowing that gives me pause sometimes, this arbitrary moment when I cease to be. I fool myself sometimes into forgetting I'm just an organism, on a planet that will spin on without me, with no greater higher purpose than those notional goals I have created for myself.
Generally just try to enjoy the moments you're in, because there is a lot to love about being alive.
Generally just try to enjoy the moments you're in, because there is a lot to love about being alive.
Death is the easy part, the part after is were I would worry. What had a beginning will have an end and I think that justice will be done for all the actions that have ever happened in this world. Otherwise I would've spent my life chasing my desires or getting into a position where nobody could stop me from doing whatever I wanted. I'm not saying I don't enjoy the pleasures of life, but a world where everyone thinks there is no consequences sounds dangerous.
When I was around 18 I started thinking about my future, like what should I be doing? I feel strongly that I've found it and so I guess that's how I face death, it's a part of that truth that was right in front of me. I consider death the end of this test we call life and a change from one stage of existence to another. It's the one truth that everyone must follow at some point so talking about it serves as a reminder of our short lives and mortality. Might even get us to consider our actions and whether we believe they have long reaching consequences or not.
When I was around 18 I started thinking about my future, like what should I be doing? I feel strongly that I've found it and so I guess that's how I face death, it's a part of that truth that was right in front of me. I consider death the end of this test we call life and a change from one stage of existence to another. It's the one truth that everyone must follow at some point so talking about it serves as a reminder of our short lives and mortality. Might even get us to consider our actions and whether we believe they have long reaching consequences or not.
nekkid
It doesn't matter who we are, what matters is our plan.
Endorphineforeverybody
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Wonder how many of us faced death or were on the point. I have been there and it's all about finding your peace. Be grateful how it was, what you did. Shit I remember the day, sitting on a hill looking down on the city crying my eyes out and after some hours I came to peace and excepted even if it's over now, it was a great ride and I had a life millions of people would like to have, so who I am complaining.
TheVampire
Banned
Is anyone worried if the afterlife is actually real?
What if it's boring as shit? And stuck like that for eternity?
Unless it's like the matrix and you can create your own new but fake reality.
What if it's boring as shit? And stuck like that for eternity?
Unless it's like the matrix and you can create your own new but fake reality.
Red Liquorice
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You don't have to deal with it - it's happening.
veryslowhand
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I sometimes get physically ill thinking about it as the concept of death terrifies me.
TatteredHat
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I take comfort in the fact that all of this, my whole life and all my experiences, are just a temporary state of being until I go back to zero. And in zero, we are one.
VanMardigan
has calmed down a bit.
Jesus. I believe I'll be resurrected one day.
Kingpin Rogers
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I don't. Stop reminding me of that.
I'm terribly afraid of not existing anymore.
But i plan on dying of old age - and luckily, by that time, i guess i'll be "senile enough" as to not be able to think / worry about these kinds of things too much.
So the worst way to go for me would be due to some terrible illness like cancer, or something like drowning or something.
When i'm still at my full mental capacities and i know that i'll be dying.
But i plan on dying of old age - and luckily, by that time, i guess i'll be "senile enough" as to not be able to think / worry about these kinds of things too much.
So the worst way to go for me would be due to some terrible illness like cancer, or something like drowning or something.
When i'm still at my full mental capacities and i know that i'll be dying.
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