Peoples reaction to your death?

No it isn't. This isn't WebMD, keep your rubbish medical diagnosis to yourself.

Rubbish or not, it is also it wasn't a diagnosis but that's fine if you want to assume it is.

Anyway thoughts on death:

I find (or have found) that it's a dark thing to think about because the answer to the whole thing is that really there is no point to life, at least not an apparent one. We hope that there may be something after we die hence religion and hence it being described as "opiate for the masses". So you have children? They'll remember you when you die, so will their kids and maybe their kids too but eventually your name will fade away with time unless you do something great. But even then what happens when the sun explodes and Earth is annihilated the human race is finite and will die eventually. Sure we'll do things to prolong ourselves for as long as we can but we must end and everything that I do, you do and all of us do will be forgotten.

and this is why I don't like to think about it

Thoughts on peoples reaction:

Immediate family will probably be quite upset, maybe a few friends however I'd love to see some of the friends who aren't really your friends but people you knew for some time who would come out all upset. Saying nice things about you when in real life apart from when you bump into them they were barely your friends and didn't have much time for you (I'm not spiteful about this, you only really have a select few good friends). A girl at school who was very ill all the way through died in the final year barely anyone knew her really because she wasn't there often and maybe had 1 or 2 real friends from school. Well when she died it was as if everyone was her best friend she was this and she was that. I get it, it's awful that she died and she was a part of my year group and I had spoke to her a few times and it's sad she died at such a young age. But the way some people went on about it I honestly think they did it for attention themselves. Maybe I'm being very cynical.
 
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A girl at school who was very ill all the way through died in the final year barely anyone knew her really because she wasn't there often and maybe had 1 or 2 real friends from school. Well when she died it was as if everyone was her best friend she was this and she was that. I get it, it's awful that she died and she was a part of my year group and I had spoke to her a few times and it's sad she died at such a young age. But the way some people went on about it I honestly think they did it for attention themselves. Maybe I'm being very cynical.

No you're quite right, I've seen this happen as well, people using the deaths of people they hardly even knew to gain attention on facebook and what not. Pathetic.
 
Anyway OT:

I find (or have found) that it's a dark thing to think about because the answer to the whole thing is that really there is no point to life, at least not an apparent one. [/spoiler]

What a sad uninspiring thing to say. If that is truly how you feel about your life, I genuinely pity you.

Religious people aside. The point to life, as I see it, is that you make your own point. You find meaning in your life by setting your self realistic goals and then striving to achieve them. Try and treat people fairly and decently. Try and live your life in such a way, so that when you die, you leave this world a slightly better place than it was before you arrived. If you have children, try and bring them up well and give them the tools they need to do at least as well as you have, but hopefully a little better.

Each of us has within us the ability to by kind and to be unkind. None of us can get through life simply by being kind all the time. We are all fallible. We do and say things we regret. At the end of my life, I hope that on balance, my kind deeds will outweigh my unkind deeds.
 
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I don't care. I'll be dead. If a thousand people attend my funeral, so what. If nobody attends so what.

The only thing I will insist on about my funeral is that it will be a secular/humanist one. No religious nonsense of prayer or hymns etc.
I insist on not having a funeral.

I want my organs harvested, the rest of me?

Grind it up and feed it to pigs.

Fly dump it in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

Give it to a necrophiliac

I won't care, I'll be dead, a body is just meat, the mind is the only thing which matters and once it's gone the body ends up being parts and garbage.
 
What a sad uninspiring thing to say. If that is truly how you feel about your life, I genuinely pity you.

Religious people aside. The point to life, as I see it, is that you make your own point. You find meaning in your life by setting your self realistic goals and then striving to achieve them. Try and treat people fairly and decently. Try and live your life in such a way, so that when you die, you leave this world a slightly better place than it was before you arrived. If you have children, try and bring them up well and give them the tools they need to do at least as well as you have, but hopefully a little better.

Each of us has within us the ability to by kind and to be unkind. None of us can get through life simply by being kind all the time. We are all fallible. We do and say things we regret. At the end of my life, I hope that on balance, my kind deeds will outweigh my unkind deeds.

I get it, our life times are far shorter than our environment around us and so it's possible to lead a life without even thinking about all you do being wiped out but you can't ignore that that will happen eventually. It's a sad truth unfortunately. And I get the whole positive attitude, why think of the negative when there is so many good things going on around us? But for me it's always there, I can't ignore it. Don't get me wrong I'm not depressed or suicidal although it may seem that way, I'm just a realist. I'm a pretty happy upbeat guy and I enjoy life very much but I don't think that I have any particular special purpose, if I can go through my life and help make someone else's life better then that pleases me to some extent but happiness fades because for every person making someone happy there is always someone else making them unhappy.
 
I've thought about it and how age would make a factor.

Like if I died this week what would life be like for everyone I know following it, that would be more interesting than if I died when I was 80+.

Also how would friends and family react if I just 'disappeared'.

I also wonder how I would react if say all my family or all my friends died..

:)
 
I've thought about it and how age would make a factor.

Like if I died this week what would life be like for everyone I know following it, that would be more interesting than if I died when I was 80+.

Also how would friends and family react if I just 'disappeared'.

I also wonder how I would react if say all my family or all my friends died..

:)

Given the context, that is the single most disturbing smiley face I have seen.
 
I imagine about ten or so people would genuinely care if I died. Maybe slightly more.

I think about my death every day though. Not in a frightened way but in an inquisitive way. I don't think it's unnatural to wonder about it since it's the only guaranteed thing in life.
 
I've thought about it and how age would make a factor.

Like if I died this week what would life be like for everyone I know following it, that would be more interesting than if I died when I was 80+.

Also how would friends and family react if I just 'disappeared'.

I also wonder how I would react if say all my family or all my friends died..

:)

Agree with this, if I died tomorrow at 20 it would be a lot more tragic and effect people more than if I died at 85 after living a long life.
 
I have close family and friends that I think would miss me but I've never given it much thought to be honest.

What worries me more is losing one of those family members or friends.

My girlfriend's last grandparent died last year and that was tough but I didn't know him very well as he had a stroke before we met.

No one close to me has died since I was very little and I didn't really understand what was going on back then.
 
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