Soldato
Considering I’m anxious and worry about most things, I’ve never worried about my death or pending death.
Death
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I don’t worry about things I have no control over.
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Plot twist - We're already dead and this is hell
Soldato
Its all about karma in what animal form you return in the next life ( by the way i am vegan did you know that, just saying )
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Nothing you can do about it , sure as taxes and nurses you day will come . Enjoy life until then.
When will I get this nurse I’m owed?
Rarely until I was in quite a big crash on my bike where I am missing a couple of seconds of the impact. One moment I was happily going along and then nothing, my memory fades back in where I am actively trying to get back up when I really shouldn't have. It makes you wonder how quickly and if I never got up, painlessly, go...
I also generally think about those who died suddenly and unexpectedly more often then their closeness to me would suggest. Suicides and a motorbike accident.
I've never talked about this before...
What's that faded memory like? Must be weird. What's the very first thing you remember after the blackout?
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I've read accounts from other soldiers about how living on the edge can give you that feeling and that it can be addictive. To a lesser degree, fighters feel it when they get in the ring. Adrenaline, I guess!It's a strange place to find yourself in I'll be honest and you're right, nothing can prepare you for it, I watched rambo like 100 times before joining the army and it didn't help at all
But even now many years later I find myself thinking back, the stuff we did and I truly wonder how it's even possible to exist physically and mentally in those situations, let alone do a job.
Also that feeling of being so close to death really does make you feel more alive than anything else.
You'll find that after and during a decent contact on tour most soldiers will be smiling, maybe laughing at certain points, it's just such a crazy feeling.
I remember vividly the first op we did and hearing the cracks of the rounds past my head, I laughed a bit, it seems alien to me now but it's just want happens.
I don't think it's a coping mechanism, it's just the "thrill" of it.
It's definitely a feeling that if you've experienced it, you'll seek out more and more later in life I find, certainly for me much to the disappointment of my wife.
But you can only appreciate what you have, when there's a very real risk of losing it.
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Not really that interesting, just me trying to free my legs while wiggling my toes and then noticing people starting to surround me. I wasn't really that aware of what I hurt. I walked into hospital with several broken vertebrae and I didn't know I hit my head until a few days later when I left hospital and saw the state of my helmet.
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I had much the same experience in September, came off the bike at 102mph, I remember feeling the slide control kick in as I exited the corner, off the throttle to lean it into the following corner and then nothing..just emptiness, a space where a memory should be but isn't.
My next memory is 8 hours later having an MRI scan.
Yeah adrenaline has to play a huge part in it, it seems almost a primal thing, I don't know, so difficult to describe the feeling.
Off at 102, ouch! Hope you're OK!
Soldato
Yeah I'm good thanks bud, thankfully helmet, leathers boots and gloves did the job.
Airbags deployed and probably saved my collarbone etc, apparently I was knocked unconscious as soon as I hit the tarmac.
Suffered bruised ribs, back, and messed up my wrist a little, the concussion was the worst part, felt absolutely horrendous for the next week at least.
The wife gave birth to our son 6 days later, which is why like I mentioned in my previous post, she's so disappointed in my escapades
I know this thread is about death, but death is linked to life, which is linked to the Big Bang:
bigthink.com
Things happen fast in the earliest stages of the Universe. In the first 25 microseconds after the start of the hot Big Bang, a number of incredible events have already occurred. The Universe created all the particles and antiparticles — known (as part of the Standard Model) and unknown (including whatever makes up dark matter) — it was ever capable of creating, reaching the highest temperatures it ever attained. Through a still-undetermined process, it created an excess of matter over antimatter: just at the 1-part-in-a-billion level. The electroweak symmetry broke, allowing the Higgs to give mass to the Universe. The heavy, unstable particles decayed away, and the quarks and gluons bound together to form protons and neutrons.
And then a few years later here we are messaging each other using 1s and 0s on the Internet.
What was it like when the last antimatter disappeared?
In the early stages of the hot Big Bang, matter and antimatter were (almost) balanced. After a brief while, matter won out. Here's how.
bigthink.com
Things happen fast in the earliest stages of the Universe. In the first 25 microseconds after the start of the hot Big Bang, a number of incredible events have already occurred. The Universe created all the particles and antiparticles — known (as part of the Standard Model) and unknown (including whatever makes up dark matter) — it was ever capable of creating, reaching the highest temperatures it ever attained. Through a still-undetermined process, it created an excess of matter over antimatter: just at the 1-part-in-a-billion level. The electroweak symmetry broke, allowing the Higgs to give mass to the Universe. The heavy, unstable particles decayed away, and the quarks and gluons bound together to form protons and neutrons.
And then a few years later here we are messaging each other using 1s and 0s on the Internet.
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Soldato
So you are going to come back as a brussels sprout then?
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Maybe a Panda ln captivity with a sexy female Panda (i don't have these feelings currently about female Pandas just to make that clear)
edit/ scrub the captivity bit if i am predator free high in the mountains but keep the sexy Panda companion
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