Views On Death?

Am I afraid?, not really. I am afraid of what my death would do to my family however.

I will re-iterate something I posted some time ago.....

I am not religious in any way being agnostic since I was 35, prior to this I held an atheist view similar to those of Dawkins and his ilk.

Without getting into too much detail, I was almost killed when I was 16 and I had what I can only describe as a near death experience, I am not talking about seeing a bright light or Angels or anything like that, but while I was lying in hospital on the brink of death, a woman (who at the time, I thought was a nurse) sat with me through the days and nights until I pulled through.

While this woman sat with me I felt a sense of well-being and peace, the pain I was in seemed distant and inconsequential. Strangely (although it didn't seem so at the time) she did not speak, not once, she just sat there holding my hand.

Anyway I pulled though and when I asked after the nurse who sat with me through that time, I was met with blank looks and was told that there was no such woman. I put it down to being so ill and didn't really think about it.

When I was 35 I was seriously injured and again found myself on the brink of death, you can imagine my shock when on the transport to the medical station that this same nurse (the exact same woman, the same age and everything) is sat next to me throughout the time on the transport (I felt the same feeling as before and again she said nothing), before I got to the station I slipped into a coma and the next thing I remember is waking several days later, the woman was gone. Again no-one saw this woman.

Was this a case of errant brain chemistry or something more, I cannot say, but it did open my mind from the certainty that there is nothing more after this life and I now accept that maybe there is more to spirituality and a supposed afterlife than I first thought.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18202439
 
Fascinating stuff. I hope your post isn't ripped apart by the logical naysayers [it was a projected hallucination, chemical imbalance etc] but it definitely seems like some guardian spirit. Amazing.

I think it extremely naive to say this is all there is there can't be anything beyond this life. There is so much that is still unexplained and we've barely scratched the surface of understanding this universe at a quantum level.
 
Nice post Castiel - thanks for taking the courage to write it down for us to see.

I have similar thoughts - I'm not religious at all (even denying the existence of God in the Abrahamic sense) but I am HIGHLY spritual.
 
Fascinating stuff. I hope your post isn't ripped apart by the logical naysayers [it was a projected hallucination, chemical imbalance etc] but it definitely seems like some guardian spirit. Amazing.

What's wrong with that? Is it not just as seemingly ludicrous to straight away claim "amazing!", that it must have been an angel?
 
lol death

Probably would be a bit more concerned about it, if I had a child/family to support but right now I don't. Obviously I'm not going to run across a motorway just cos', and I'd probably be bricking it if I was put in a life and death situation as I've grown quite attached to living but in terms of death being out there and inevitable, I couldn't care less.

Something I have noticed though, is I am quite emotionless about death in comparison to others. Obviously I feel sad when someone I know has died but I just get over it then and there.

Maybe its because the only people really close to me that have died have been old grand parents and not any shock deaths, I don't know, but I just see it as an inevitable fact and nothing to mourn over.
 
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I simply fear that I did the wrong things in life.

I'm 23, smoke, drink and generally eat ****.

So let's estimate I last till 70...

I have 47 years left... Not long. In that time, I want to have gained up a nice life savings, retire from work, own a house with no money owed, have a family ect ect.

By the time I have kids, I will be 27+, meaning at the age of 50 my kids will be around 20+... I won't see their 40th in the most likely outcome.

It's depressing... But, live for now. What I am doing over the next 20 years is simply setting my self up for the rest of my life.

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I want to die during a family occasion with my grand kids running about as I quietly slip away in my chair...

Probably end up in a hospital bed though :(
 
I should have been dead decades ago when all my mates died/killed themselves/murdered so for me I think it's different. I've lost 15 close friends/family in the last 20 years so I'm just Thankful to wake up in the morning. I even play a game in my head where all my friends are still alive but just live far away, It helps a little not to have to face up to so many losses.
Having lived as long as i have all i can say to Younger people is Enjoy every day like it's your last as it actually may be your last day. Death has a way of snatching people there is no sense or reason to it.
 
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