How do people deal with their inevitable death?

[Aedus]

Dying itself isn't the bad part, it's just wondering how you will die which is the *******.

When you're dead you won't realise you're dead, it's just knowing those minutes or second before you die, that this is it, you're going to be gone.

 

[Deleted member 77746]

Don't worry, be happy.

 

[Pate]

Dying itself isn't the bad part, it's just wondering how you will die which is the *******.

When you're dead you won't realise you're dead, it's just knowing those minutes or second before you die, that this is it, you're going to be gone.

Agreed.

Don't worry, be happy.

Give me some cash and I will be.

 

[Haggisman]

Might sound weird, but I'm not that bothered about my own death - as many have already said, it's inevitable, just make the most of the time you have. What does bother me is how it will affect the people I leave behind, be it friends/family, or the people who have to clean up the pieces (depending on how it happens =P).

 

[Deleted member 66701]

How do people deal with their inevitable death?

I'll be re-incarnated - death holds no fear for me.

In common with others I'm not afraid of being dead but dying, depending on it's manner, does concern me.

 

[Nix]

Definite black box around him. And man has never been in space

/tinfoilhat

Odd, doesn't show up on my screen.

Nevermind, new sig time!

 

[sigma]

And man has never been in space

I can't see a black box Nix. Keep the sig!

 

[Jokester]

Doesn't bother me, just have to accept it. What worries me though is my method of death.

 

[hyperst]

It bothers me more recently these last two years as I lost my dad two years ago and it get's you thinking and makes you re-evaluate your life

 

[Castiel]

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

~Leonardo Da Vinci.

This sums up what I feel about my own death. Death is like life, it is not a thing to be feared, it is something to be experienced.

 

[LOAM]

I'll be glad when the time comes. It'll be a nice rest.

Hahahaha this.

 

[Narj]

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

My plan is a trip to Switzerland as soon as I start getting fragile. No way am I having someone else wiping my bum for me.

 

[Speedy]

I have a terminal condition myself (DMD), if you have something like that (or cancer) you're gonna think if you have achieved anything in your life when the time comes (in terms of, "can I be proud of myself then?").

Or you really want to know the answer to the famous question "is there life after death?" in advance. Are you going to be born again (maybe in a parallel universe), do you go to heaven, are you trapped in a black room forever, do you become a ghost or do you still feel something when you're dead and feel the worms eating your body? All those things go through your head (I personally believe in reincarnation, so I don't worry about that much).

 

[freak2002]

I'm not scared of during I just don't want to......Robbie Williams.

Always loved that saying. As long as I always do my best for myself and those I care about then I am happy.

Personally dead = it. nothing else except the circle of life.

I do however hope I live on in peoples memories.

 

[freak2002]

double post......Bloomin phone

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

I've said this before in a couple of the death threads and will say again: yes, we don't remember life before birth or after death. However, I do believe that I have manifested as someone else in a previous life and I will be yet someone else after death. It could be human or animal. In the case of animal, there is that concern about ending up being in the food chain. But yeah, something have to happen before and after our lives otherwise it would be boring just being nothing.

 

[Pate]

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

~Leonardo Da Vinci.

This sums up what I feel about my own death. Death is like life, it is not a thing to be feared, it is something to be experienced.

Best explanation I've ever heard!


Been thinking of this topic today. Reminds me of when I was younger. I fell onto the train tracks with a train oncoming (not stopping at platform)(Thankfully managed to escape it ). Later that week someone died on the same platform I was on. For me the terror was absolute, so what must it have been like for the person who knew they were not escaping the 12,000 tons hurtling towards them?

 

[Grimley]

I'm just going to get completly blotto knowing that I wont wake up with a hangover in the morning.

That's quite a nice way of looking at it. It's one of those few things that every person has in common.

Not for my nan. She's 93 & I'm convinced She's immortal.

Doesn't bother me, just have to accept it. What worries me though is my method of death.

Me - I'm convinced that I'll get murdered in the end. At least it'll be quick, I don't want to expire slowly & in a lot of pain.

 

[Spit]

My Nan died a couple of weeks ago aged 95. She was ok until about 3weeks before and she just began to shut down. She just about had all these symptoms...

http://completingalife.msu.edu/audioon/tc/signs_death.html

RIP Nana

 

[Slade2]

I have not really thought about death until I had kids of my own and my grandparents started to die. My grandad was an amazing bloke and I was called at work one day to say that I should make my way to the hospital, he has been Ill for sometime. I went into the room to see my grandma just sat there stroking his hair and telling him it was ok if he wanted to go and she would be ok. I dont think my own morallity really matters that much to me I worry about the pain suffered by my family. Having kids of my own i think always throws up questions like this becuase you do question the what ifs.