How do people deal with their inevitable death?

Skeptic · 20 Aug 2011 at 22:35

theforce said:
I guess the sad part is that because of our technology in an X number of years, humans will reach a certain technological state that people could no longer die. I would hate to die just before that technology becomes available.

Read one of the books about the 'singularity' by Ray Kurzweil. Might interest you.

Dj_Jestar · 20 Aug 2011 at 22:36

People normally deal with it by dying. Sorry; Grammatical semantics joke.

mehuk · 20 Aug 2011 at 22:42

I dont really think about it, bar that id prefer to have the choice of when to go - so before I go 'nuts' ill ensure ive a gun packed away for a quick easy finish/or whatever there is out there thats an insta-death option, without pain/it going wrong and ending up in a worse state.

Plus although im not religious at all, I do believe that we are just born again but just cant remember our old lives.

Narj · 20 Aug 2011 at 22:44

MisChief said:
This thread makes me sad

I used to think about death all the time when I was younger, and would end up crying myself to sleep
But I think the older you get, the less you worry about death - you learn to appreciate life more because you realise life is only short.

It makes me sad too.... Trust me to choose a hobby where there's absolutely no way you'll manage to learn everything you want to in a lifetime.

Deific · 20 Aug 2011 at 22:46

I will help you find out how you deal with it kenmare, if my new PSU blows and takes my components with it

Lightnix · 20 Aug 2011 at 22:49

Basically what Nix said. I'm much more afraid of the idea of wasting my life and not living up to my potential than I am of being dead. Personally I have no problems with the idea of actually being dead - it's not like I'll be able to appreciate the fact.

SkeeterUK · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:01

I get some panic attacks sometimes. At night just lying in bed i think omg im really going to die and start thinking what it will be like, hold ur breath as much as you can and then you realise what it will be like your last breath i imagine it will be like and the decay thing i picture myself decaying kinda and it makes me feel really scared that my body will decay and eating maybe by bugs and wonder what it looks like half way through and urgh it scares me. Then their is the thought i will be dead so no more thinking, breathing, seeing, feeling, just things i would freak out if i lost.

Just the whole thought of it scares me, if i knew all this i would certainly prefer not to have been born and then i think at all the things in the world giving birth and you know all them things will die and think whats the point.

Weighs heavy on my mind now and then, really does. I really dont want to die.

Deific · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:04

^

If you want, I could dig you up after 6-12 months and let you know how you looked when I see you in the afterlife

SkeeterUK · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:10

lol

But you know what i mean i hope i mean you see dead things and think oh god i hate for that to happen to me. Worst fear is which i know isnt possible but what if you could actually be somehow aware of it or feel it. As i said its stupid but its a fear that somehow you know whats happening after you die, while maybe not for a long time but maybe a small amount of time you could.

Personally when i think im gona die id probably get cryo or if that isnt possible a one way trip to the north pole to preserve the body as i really wouldnt like to decompose.

Castiel · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:11

Some people in this thread think about death far too much and in far too much detail for their own good.

Chill out, worry about life while you have it, otherwise you will find that you haven't lived at all.

godinman · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:11

Man, I shouldn't leave tabs open and then reply to them, it makes you look like a thick ****ing piece of ****ing ****ing ****.

Castiel · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:13

godinman said:
Man, I shouldn't leave tabs open and then reply to them, it makes you look like a thick ****ing piece of ****ing ****ing ****.

PermaBanned · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:13

Castiel said:
There are a significant proportion of people who have lived lives who would disagree that they were the lucky ones.

Doesn't make them right.

godinman · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:14

Castiel said:

I suppose I should have left my unedited comment in place while posting that.

Pate · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:15

godinman said:
Man, I shouldn't leave tabs open and then reply to them, it makes you look like a thick ****ing piece of ****ing ****ing ****.

0_0

Castiel · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:16

PermaBanned said:
Doesn't make them right.

Right about what?, that living a short, hard, horrific life full of pain, anger and torture makes them lucky?

:rolleyes:

godinman · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:18

Castiel said:
Right about what?, that living a short, hard, horrific life full of pain, anger and torture makes them lucky?

Well it does sort of, if you think about it? In a way.

Castiel · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:26

godinman said:
Well it does sort of, if you think about it? In a way.

No it doesn't. You do not know what the alternative is, you can only assume and that assumption is based entirely on your own morality and belief structure.

Dawkins believes that experience whether good or bad is preferable to nothing, but that is based on his atheism and not on being the one experiencing the life of the person who might question his definition of what it means to be lucky.

PermaBanned · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:29

Castiel said:
No it doesn't. You do not know what the alternative is, you can only assume and that assumption is based entirely on your own morality and belief structure.

Dawkins believes that experience whether good or bad is preferable to nothing, but that is based on his atheism and not on being the one experiencing the life of the person who might question his definition of what it means to be lucky.

Beliefs don't have anything to do with it, because beliefs are formed during a lifetime. If you haven't lived then a belief is worth exactly as much as a turd pile to you.

Castiel · 20 Aug 2011 at 23:39

PermaBanned said:
Beliefs don't have anything to do with it, because beliefs are formed during a lifetime. If you haven't lived then a belief is worth exactly as much as a turd pile to you.

That Beliefs evolve during your lifetime and experience doesn't meant you do not have any just because you are young.

We are weighing the belief of a 70 year old Evolutionary Biologist against the Experiences of specific people who have lived a life of utter deprivation, pain and hardship as to their relative luck to have lived their respective lives.

So of course Richard Dawkins beliefs have something to do with it.