How do people deal with their inevitable death?

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Morbid thread, agreed, but it's playing on my mind last night. Had a terrible dream in which I died. I knew I was dying and lived my last few moments. Absolute desolation, complete nothingness.

Needless to say I woke up very shaken.


Anyway, was just wondering how people approach the subject of their own mortality. Is it something you ever think of? How do you deal with it?

Whilst I'm obviously not keen on the idea of death, it's the process of dying that frightens me. Those last few seconds must be terrible. :/


Sorry again for the morbid thread. :)
 
It all boils down to, what's the point of doing anything. And all it leads to is depressing thoughts.

E.g. what's the point of working hard? So you can live longer and earn lots of money.

When you die you can't take your money with you.

But it gets passed on to relatives

And so on and so on,

Until the sun explodes, the human race dies and no one remembers you.

See how it gets depressing...
 
I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens. To paraphrase Woody Allen.

Nothing I do will change the fact that one day I shall die. No amount of worrying, no amount of money and no amount of praying. So why let it bother me?

How I die is another matter. As long as it's relatively painless I'll be content.
 
Be rational.

There's a Japanese proverb "Shikata ga nai" meaning "It can't be helped". It's somewhat similar to accepting ones fate. Whenever I fly or something bad happens, it's what I say to myself. Many things are out of my hands, and those that aren't, I couldn't have predicted.
 
I'm more bothered about getting old than dying, I wouldn't mind dying in my sleep at a decent age but getting old (70+) and putting up with everything shutting down sounds like hell
 
There's no point stressing about it, death will come for us all in the end. As long as I've lived a worthwhile life, have done as much as I can and left a legacy behind, I'm okay with it.

As for how I die, preferably in my sleep at a ripe old age. Definitely not like my dad who suffered a massive heart attack at the age of 62.
 
I hate the fact I know its going to end.

Not because of the process, but because i don't want to miss anything.

advancement, discovery, evolution and just general life. It'll all go on when I'm dead, and I dont want to miss it!!! I want to see it all
 
I think the question that will answer your question is:

How did you deal with things before you were born?


Mason- said:
See how it gets depressing...
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It can do yeah, or you can flip it around and think that whilst you are alive you might as well make the most of it. :)

By the time the Sun explodes we'll hopefully be nowhere near it.
 
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You hear that Kenmare?

That is the sound of inevitability... it is the sound of your death.

Goodbye, Kenmare.
 
dirtychinchilla said:
Exactly this. We all day, that's just how it is.

Alternatively pretend there's a god and you won't feel so bad about it.
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A belief in God itself implicitly requires fear, which won't do much good for acceptance of your inevitable fate. It is the belief in an afterlife that stems the tide of anxiety about death.

And to quote C S Lewis
"It is as hard to explain how this sunlit land was different from the old Narnia as it would be to tell you how the fruits of that country taste. Perhaps you will get some idea of it if you think like this. You may have been in a room in which there was a window that looked out on a lovely bay of the sea or a green valley that wound away among mountains. And in the wall of that room opposite to the window there may have been a looking-glass. And as you turned away from the window you suddenly caught sight of that sea or that valley, all over again, in the looking glass. And the sea in the mirror, or the valley in the mirror, were in one sense just the same as the real ones: yet at the same time they were somehow different - deeper, more wonderful, more like places in a story: in a story you have never heard but very much want to know. The difference between the old Narnia and the new Narnia was like that. The new one was a deeper country: every rock and flower and blade of grass looked as if it meant more."
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My take on it is that I'm not going to know I've died so why bother. When I die I will almost certainly cease to exist so...

Dieing is something I may worry about, 20 minutes slowly bleeding to death or something would be rather painfull but if I died tomorrow I wouldn't care, it's not like I'll be looking back and thinking "I should have done that, that and that"...:p
 
I don't worry about death as such since you can't prevent it.

TBH the only thing that bugs me is I am 42 years old and I have a 3 year old daughter and I sometimes think about the possibility that I may not be around to see her get married or have kids and such.

Now I realise the same thing can happen if you have a child at 20 but when you do it at 39 the chances are so much higher
 
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