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How do you deal with the fact that you will die?
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thechristoph
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I'm much more bothered by the fact that I have to waste my life working every day until I die.
Escape Goat
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Near-death studies suggest that dying is not an altogether unpleasant experience, so I'm not frightened of dying in a hospital someday, which is most likely how I'll go. I worry about dying in traumatic experiences and am extra careful when doing things like driving. I'm much more troubled by my family getting older, though. That shit's gonna be rough when it's their time to go.
I'm not really sure how to explain how I deal with it. All I know is that I am at peace with dying. I do not believe in any religion, afterlife, souls or spirits. I also don't believe our lives have any kind of inherent purpose or meaning. When I think about death, I simply realize everything that has ever lived dies and feel that it's nothing to be upset about. It's just the way things are. Death seems peaceful to me and I am prepared to go at any time.
justjustin
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When I'm dead I won't care, so it doesn't bother me now.
CitizenCope
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I hate the idea and I probably think about it far too often.
Still madly in love with my wife who I've been with for 26 yrs and it makes me ill thinking we'll have to say bye forever one day. If we are lucky enough.
She believes in an afterlife, I don't. Hope I'm wrong.
Still madly in love with my wife who I've been with for 26 yrs and it makes me ill thinking we'll have to say bye forever one day. If we are lucky enough.
She believes in an afterlife, I don't. Hope I'm wrong.
NullPointer
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As a fact.
Maintenance
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Rules of nature.
Warrior_Keoni
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I've learned to accept that one day I'll be gone from this mortal coil.
It's a part of life. How you live that life is up to you.
It's a part of life. How you live that life is up to you.
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Schadenfreude
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Yus!
RumblingRosco
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I live.
You can turn to religion. Over the years I feel that is the biggest motivation for people to join a religion, the fear of dying. The need of reassurance there is something after death to keep you going day after day without losing your mind. I stopped believing in religion when I was a kid for reasons I don't want to get into and it was fine at first.
Several years ago when I had my heart issues there was a span of two hours before a surgery where I was flatlining for about 10 to 30 seconds every 10 minutes. It had a really bad effect on my mind that i'm still dealing with today. Never saw a white light, it was just a blank time skip and coming back. I think about that blank spot and how that nothingness is inevitable, its unescapable, we are destined for that end from the moment we are born and there is nothing you can do about it. People say they won't care about it but thats the thing. You won't be able to not care because you won't be anything, you won't be thinking, you won't be dreaming, you just blink out of existence. Once that thought was burned into my head, its hard to explain and its been impossible to fully get out of my head. It's not something you want to dwell on or get stuck in your head, it will drive you mad and has caused me so many nights of insomnia. Finding constant distractions.
Several years ago when I had my heart issues there was a span of two hours before a surgery where I was flatlining for about 10 to 30 seconds every 10 minutes. It had a really bad effect on my mind that i'm still dealing with today. Never saw a white light, it was just a blank time skip and coming back. I think about that blank spot and how that nothingness is inevitable, its unescapable, we are destined for that end from the moment we are born and there is nothing you can do about it. People say they won't care about it but thats the thing. You won't be able to not care because you won't be anything, you won't be thinking, you won't be dreaming, you just blink out of existence. Once that thought was burned into my head, its hard to explain and its been impossible to fully get out of my head. It's not something you want to dwell on or get stuck in your head, it will drive you mad and has caused me so many nights of insomnia. Finding constant distractions.
It's just a simple part of life. I barely even think about it to be honest. Death is something we all eventually have to come to terms with and eventually have to face the inevitably of it.
Focusing on the present, rather than my eventual death, is more important. I want to be able to say that I had a good, full run at life on my deathbed and can close my eyes one last time as satisfied as I could be with my life.
Focusing on the present, rather than my eventual death, is more important. I want to be able to say that I had a good, full run at life on my deathbed and can close my eyes one last time as satisfied as I could be with my life.
Forerunner
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Im religious so Im not really worried about it. If Im wrong about my religion then Ill just be nothing. Death really doesnt bother me, Ive always been curious if there is anything on the other side. Im more afraid of how I will die.
You will because it's not bad enough we die, death is eventually going to make you beg for it.
If those robots take all our jobs then at least you'll only have to worry about dying poor as fuck.
NorthAndSouth
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I believe in an afterlife. The question of what is before the beginning and what is afer the end is something I think only faith can answer.this in conjunction with the intricate complexity of our current world honestly makes me so much more sure in that there is a higher power.
Without the feeling that there is something after we die, what's the use in living? Why bother following standards of being good or bad? its also incredible to me that of all the equalizers in our current knowledge, none is so effective as death. No matter what knowledge, wealth or power that you amass you cannot escape it
Just my personal opinions informed by my religious beliefs. It's interesting to read the other responses as well. In med, close contact with people who are dying or near dying is pretty constant. The complexity in which we as humans behave around the subject is pretty fascinating
Without the feeling that there is something after we die, what's the use in living? Why bother following standards of being good or bad? its also incredible to me that of all the equalizers in our current knowledge, none is so effective as death. No matter what knowledge, wealth or power that you amass you cannot escape it
Just my personal opinions informed by my religious beliefs. It's interesting to read the other responses as well. In med, close contact with people who are dying or near dying is pretty constant. The complexity in which we as humans behave around the subject is pretty fascinating
sixteen-bit
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travisbickle
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I'm guessing I won't even know about it when it happens, unless there is some judgemental arsehole waiting for me on the other side?
SolVanderlyn
Thanos acquires the fully powered Infinity Gauntlet in The Avengers: Infinity War, but loses when all the superheroes team up together to stop him.
Would you rather live long and die slowly or live fast and die hard
Hidden One
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I don't really think about it but I feel like i'll come to terms with it and be a peace ready to accept whatever fate I have waiting for me when I die.
Elitist1945
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Every now and then I'll stop and think about it for a while and then I'll break down and cry.
, I'm at peace with it.lvl99 Pixel
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too doped up on meds to worry about that
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Living = Dying
Death is nothing to us
Death is nothing to us
SlickShoesRUCrazy
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It's one of the few guarantees in life.
Liljagare
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GKSilKamina
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I have a moment or two where I'm stricken with terror.
But then I start thinking things like "Well, I as a consciousness, or rather the collection of memories and thoughts I am now, can cease to be while my body still exists. Like, I could lose all of my memories from a traumatic head injury or some freak incident. Then the person I am now is pretty much dead and gone even though my physical body still exists. There will be a new personality in this body that will have new experiences and form new memories, and will never fully understand who I was or why I liked anime so much. FUCK."
...and then that line of thinking eventually turns into "Damn it I fucking hate people. Thank goodness I won't have to deal with them anymore when I die."
And then I'm not worried anymore.
But then I start thinking things like "Well, I as a consciousness, or rather the collection of memories and thoughts I am now, can cease to be while my body still exists. Like, I could lose all of my memories from a traumatic head injury or some freak incident. Then the person I am now is pretty much dead and gone even though my physical body still exists. There will be a new personality in this body that will have new experiences and form new memories, and will never fully understand who I was or why I liked anime so much. FUCK."
...and then that line of thinking eventually turns into "Damn it I fucking hate people. Thank goodness I won't have to deal with them anymore when I die."
And then I'm not worried anymore.
Stilton Disco
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I'm definitely not happy about it.
Oblivion is inevitable, and I accept that, and have made what peace I can with it, but I'd be lying if I don't hope to somehow be able to cheat death in some capacity, regardless of the logical impossibility. It's just a very sad thought I mostly try not to dwell on. We live such short, limited lives, most barely aware of the astonishing beauty of the universe they're in, and it's tragic that even those of us that appreciate only have one short century at best with it before a most likely painful, terrifying cessation of existence.
In the meantime, I strive to live the best, most kind life I can, experience and cause as much happiness as possible, so at least I can know I did as much good in life as I could before it's stolen from me.
Oblivion is inevitable, and I accept that, and have made what peace I can with it, but I'd be lying if I don't hope to somehow be able to cheat death in some capacity, regardless of the logical impossibility. It's just a very sad thought I mostly try not to dwell on. We live such short, limited lives, most barely aware of the astonishing beauty of the universe they're in, and it's tragic that even those of us that appreciate only have one short century at best with it before a most likely painful, terrifying cessation of existence.
In the meantime, I strive to live the best, most kind life I can, experience and cause as much happiness as possible, so at least I can know I did as much good in life as I could before it's stolen from me.
cryptosporidium
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Im just gunna ask Shenlong for immortality.
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