Death/Dying

While I don't believe in any sort of being after death, I'm **** scare of being wrong and there being a heaven/hell/whatever. Absolutely nothingness like before I was born is what I'm hoping for.
 
I used hold the view that it'll be the same as it was before we were born.

But now I think that perhaps it may be different because we weren't what we are now, a being, before we were born. Now we are this collection of energy and perhaps it does just transform into heat or whatever but perhaps something different does happen?

Clearly nobody has ever come back from a period of long-term death so I guess we'll all find out one day.

I'm not really scared of it (don't see the point in being scared about it) but one of the biggest annoyances for me is not being able to see how far civilisation will advance. I mean can you imagine what life will be like in 1000 years time? Some researchers already suggest that we'll see people living to 150 in the near future, so perhaps things will change, for the rich at least.
 
sigma said:
I mean can you imagine what life will be like in 1000 years time? Some researchers already suggest that we'll see people living to 150 in the near future, so perhaps things will change, for the rich at least.
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Is that so...
 
The way I always look at it is that the world was fine before I was born and will be fine longer after i'm gone.

We are just a spec on this plant which in turn is a spec in the galaxy that's a spec in the universe. We really are of little importance.

Enjoy yourself, make the most of it and don't worry because at the end of the day we can do sod all about it.
 
Well this is a cheery Saturday evening topic! I'm off to wrestle a bottle of vodka and temporarily hide from my mortality.

The sooner the vampire menace comes to the fore the better!!!
 
billysielu said:
S'pose that's another part of the question.
Once your parents are gone presumably there's an element of "you're next".
I don't know how I'll react when my mum dies (should be a while yet).
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How about the other way... When the parents experience the death of their children. I remember a neighbour when their 19 year old daughter died of cancer.


Or the bin lorry crash in Glasgow? Where half of your family was taken out. Older brother, father and grandparent that was killed. It is heavy which ever way you look at it.
 
Ace Modder said:
It's the anniversary of my mothers death, she died aged 53.
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Lost my dad 3 years ago to heart attack at 64...

I never thought about death/dying until it happened to him as he was the first person in my family to die.. (not a close family) i still cant get around the fact hes never gonna be here again.. but everything you've said in this thread i've had the exact same thoughts..

Glad im not the only that has these thoughts.. i haven't spoken to anyone in 3 years about my dad dying other then my doctor when i was suffering from depression when i didn't even know i had it :( i am probably the worse person ive known to talk about my feelings and still dont know if its a good thing or a bad thing :(
 
Well my mum died in 96, my older brother in 01, so I fear the death of my dwindling family far more than I fear my own death tbqfh ( my older sister is 57 & my dad is 79 ).
 
There was a very good program on radio 4 last week about death, basically a there was a rather outstanding woman who`s job it was to talk about death with the terminally ill and be there with them (if needed) when it finally arrives. Aside from making me blub like Victoria falls the point of death is painless. The brain/body actually shuts down and you go into unconsciousness and never wake up. If memory serves we used to play a game as a kid when you tuck deep breaths and crouch down then your mate would squeeze till you pass out (ok we were kids) I just remember waking up from it with amazing dreams that seemingly lasted for hrs but in reality it was 2 or 3 seconds. So death could well be a never ending dream (maybe)
 
When you think about it were lucky to be born in a period where life is easy (the west anyway), but unlucky to be born so close to immortality because once we hit the technological singularity (which some people say could be in the next 50 years), aging will be cracked.
Fingers crossed some boffin gets quantum computing going so we hit the singularity before we die, reversing the aging process should be easy then.

We are all on the edge of eternal oblivion which is my worst nightmare , nothing forever and then what... nothing and then what... nothing and then what... nothing, ad infinitum.
 
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