Babbling

[distorted_reasoning]

i wont lie, im terrified by death.

[FieryDoom]

I remember the first time i had one of those moments of epiphany, where you think, "oh ####, i'm going to die someday." and at that point, it's scary. But then you start to think about it and it's like, man, EVERYONE dies. EVERYTHING dies. Trees, animals, planets, the solar system, possibly even the universe.

And one time, I remember I passed out because I was overcome by a cloud of nitrogen at work. That nitrogen hit me and it was instant lights out. Next thing I know I'm waking up on the floor, and I had probably been out for about a half minute when someone came and shook me and told me to stop sleeping on the job. And like I said, it just hit me all at once. it wasn't like i started gasping for air or anything, i just passed out. From being awake, to being close to death to being awake again. And nothing hurt, no suffering, all i got was a small gash on my thumb, but nothing serious or lasting.

Then there are the times when i sleep and have no dreams whatsoever. and that's weird because i dream ALL the time. When I wake from those dreamless nights, it's like, wow, where did i go for these past 6 hours? So, I don't know, personally, it's not a big issue. I worry more about what would happen to my family without me than what happens to me when i die. and of course, i worry about my close family and that they don't die before their time, in other words, that they reach old age.

[GroovyAtlas]

I know how unsettling that can be. I blacked out when I was shoveling snow back in January. I went from going about a mundane task to picking myself up off the ground and literally crawling into the house. It was that sudden. And when I thought back to it, I remembered there was nothing. I wasn't cold, there wasn't a dream or an interior monologue, it was all  just blackness and quiet.

[Purrrrrrr]

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Cepheus84 wrote:
.... why are you thinking about this?

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Well, we have a lot of threads about religion on this board and I have rarely come across any that ask what people actually think about death.  That's what religion is about after all:  what we think happens after we die. 

[daethdrain]

Terrified of dying.
Don't exactly like living either.

[Llama_Fly_Aardvark]

one lives one's death

one dies one's life

[Saddy]

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Cepheus84 wrote:

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Saddy wrote:
i know. it's just... i worry about what will happen when me and blue are gone. so i can't die. he can't either. we need to live forever.

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There was a really depressing segment of This American Life recently that dealt with this exact same subject.

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i don't know why i listened to that. i knew it was going to make me cry. it's too early to cry. i'm gonna be crying all day now. it's not surprising though. people only care about themselves and maybe their own families, sometimes they don't even really care about them. that's why me and blue are trusting our other kids to step up. our son won't be able to live on his own or drive a car or any of that, so, we have to rely on others a lot more. we have to know that whoever takes care of him isn't going to just put him into a home or institution. that they're going to love him. but it's hard because we know that taking care of him will interfere in his brother or sisters' lives. we hate to put that responsibility on them, but the thought of him not being with someone who loves him and will actually care for him is just too much. when i say that i can't die i'm not joking. i mean it, with all of my heart and soul.

[GaiusIuliusCesar]

Stoically accept the inevitable end of all life and attempt to comfort people who can't accept it.

How I personally feel about it is entirely obvious. I don't like it, death is the end, period, there is no afterlife and the only future after death is decomposition to the point of absolute entropy. Naturally if it was thinkable I would try to avoid it. Of course its necessary to prevent the destruction of the planet, since if no one died we'd be pilled on top of each other like an overgrown mass of bacteria.