Views On Death?

All our conciousness is, is memory. So I think we have already died many times over, that when we die the milisecond before our brain shuts down, we start again from birth and so on until the issues we have had in this life, and the regret etc are gone. Until its just pure good energy which will then find its way into the collective conciousness of everything.

Heh

I dont fear death, but do you not find it weird that every single thing we know of as reality will be gone. We WILL die, were going to find out what happens. See exactly why everythings so scared of dieing.

we could come back as someone else, with 0 memory of this life, and a lifelong memory of "theirs" and we would be none the wiser
 
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Radiation said:
If the universe is infinite then we'll probably all appear again in some form, even if it takes a trillion big bang events to happen, sooner or later something with the right conditions for your particular consciousness should exist, think of it as the atheist afterlife.
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maybe that is what makes up the conciousness your in now?
 
i don't think it's fear of dieing, i think the fear is when is it going to happen.

but it's also about embracing life and enjoying it, it's like when your driving down the road, when you seen things behind you thats the past, and things in front of you are the future.
 
I think the issue is that unti you are ready to die (when it sets in that you are going to) it is less of a problem. The problem itself is mainly presented to the people who think about it somewhat prematurely. The end is in-concievable for must and it's normal to fear what you don't understand.

If you die unexpectedly theres nothing you can do or worry about it. But most people who die old haveplenty of time to come to terms with it.

Thats all i can be arsed to say on this morbid matter Life is too much fun to think about this!
 
TwsT said:
I think the issue is that unti you are ready to die (when it sets in that you are going to) it is less of a problem. The problem itself is mainly presented to the people who think about it somewhat prematurely. The end is in-concievable for must and it's normal to fear what you don't understand.

If you die unexpectedly theres nothing you can do or worry about it. But most people who die old haveplenty of time to come to terms with it.

Thats all i can be arsed to say on this morbid matter Life is too much fun to think about this!
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Good first post, and welcome. All you can do is live life so you have no regrets, you hurt as few people as you can, you make an effort for yourself and others - but most importantly you stay true to yourself. That is more important than anything. Most people are not scared of death, they are scared of the act of dying because they don't know whether it will be quick or prolonged. Death is only the transition between states, nothing more.

By the way, your signature is too long, only four lines of text are allowed!
 
It's strange... I fear no longer living, but noway near as much as I fear living forever (be it here or in 'heaven'). I feel no fear whatsoever about being in the state of death, as like you said, we will not know that we're in it.
 
Having had family member die, also friends... the most worrying thing for me is to go before my parents/friends because id hate to give them the heartache tbh...

Only the other hand im pretty excited to find out if dieing is like moving onto another stage... not that i want to go right now but its quite intriguing
 
I find it strange that so many here are not fearful of death, and yet i wonder, how many would risk their lives to do what is right? Is it simply a matter of cost/benefit. Is it right when mugged at knife point to cower before an assailant, because the cost of losing your phone or wallet isn't worth dieing for? What is worth dying for? What are you willing to risk to die?
 
BunnyKillBot said:
I find it strange that so many here are not fearful of death, and yet i wonder, how many would risk their lives to do what is right? Is it simply a matter of cost/benefit. Is it right when mugged at knife point to cower before an assailant, because the cost of losing your phone or wallet isn't worth dieing for? What is worth dying for? What are you willing to risk to die?
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It's more to do with self-preservation. The human brain has an inbuilt chip that lets it not put itself into serious danger. Risking your life to do what is right is a huge undertaking and it's something which 99.9% of us will never have to do.

Losing your phone and wallet isn't worth dying for, no. But if putting up a fight meant risking my life, I wouldn't do it. I'd rather cower and let him have them if it meant I live. I don't think your example's a very good one.
 
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I honestly don't know.

It is something I think about more since my little 'un popped along.

I do wonder sometimes as a lass up the road went to a spiritualist after her brother died and the medium knew his name and what he died of without any prompt or previous information. She also knew things that were known only to the lass so one does wonder.

My sister did the same after my dad died and I went ballistic.
 
Lysander said:
It's more to do with self-preservation. The human brain has an inbuilt chip that lets it not put itself into serious danger. Risking your life to do what is right is a huge undertaking and it's something which 99.9% of us will never have to do.

Losing your phone and wallet isn't worth dying for, no. But if putting up a fight meant risking my life, I wouldn't do it. I'd rather cower and let him have them if it meant I live. I don't think your example's a very good one.
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I agree, however, in that moment when the knife is pressed into your back, do you respond out of logical rationalization, or out of fear?
 
BunnyKillBot said:
I agree, however, in that moment when the knife is pressed into your back, do you respond out of logical rationalization, or out of fear?
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Do you mean me personally? Everyone will react differently. I honestly couldn't say without being there. I just hope I'd do whatever I could to come out of the situation best.
 
I don't fear death exactly, but I would prefer to keep living as long as my quality of life was good enough. Too much good stuff in life that I would rather not miss.
 
naffa said:
It's strange... I fear no longer living, but noway near as much as I fear living forever (be it here or in 'heaven'). I feel no fear whatsoever about being in the state of death, as like you said, we will not know that we're in it.
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Then you might not like my post above, because if the universe really is infinite and we can exist again, then it also means we will exist repeatedly without end, as soon as you die an incredible amount of time could pass in an instant from your perspective, so you will exist forever in a sense without even realizing it, this also means you will experience everything the universe has to offer both good and bad. :eek:
 
Reldar said:
As an atheist that does not believe in an afterlife.
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Are you adding that as an additional - "I dont' believe in God or an afterlife" or "Because I don't believe in God therefore an afterlife can't exist" ? Because personally I believe theres likely to be something beyond this life, while not specifically believing in God or gods.

salami1212 said:
All our conciousness is, is memory. So I think we have already died many times over, that when we die the milisecond before our brain shuts down, we start again from birth and so on until the issues we have had in this life, and the regret etc are gone. Until its just pure good energy which will then find its way into the collective conciousness of everything.

Heh

I dont fear death, but do you not find it weird that every single thing we know of as reality will be gone. We WILL die, were going to find out what happens. See exactly why everythings so scared of dieing.

we could come back as someone else, with 0 memory of this life, and a lifelong memory of "theirs" and we would be none the wiser
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My personal belief is (at this time until I see evidence otherwise) that specific memories stay with and expire along with the physical body in this dimension, but that the "soul" stores "patterns" based on our emotions/experiences here.
 
RDM said:
I don't fear death exactly, but I would prefer to keep living as long as my quality of life was good enough. Too much good stuff in life that I would rather not miss.
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That sounds a bit circle logic to me. You don't fear death, but you do fear losing all the stuff that you can you can do in life that death takes away, therefore you fear death.
 
I'm not afraid of death but I am somewhat concerned about the mechanism of it (i.e. HOW I will die) - happy with a smile (or blonde) on my face hopefully!
 
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