Are you sad that you're going to eventually die?

[Addendum_Forthcoming]

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What happens if you have both, but still no control over death?

Then whatever time I do have just got a whole lot more exciting!

Yeah ... I'd pay good money for genetic engineering that would let me control wild animals with my mind like some animal shaman o.o

But no fair ... stupid ethics getting in the way of making me a superhuman <.< ... and possibly stupid reality given I don't think it would be possible to empathically control wild animals o.o

Guess it wouldn't be magic if it was the birthchild of science ... of course those people perceiving it might call me a witch, in which case it would be high time to spread terror >

Might make an interesting game concept for an action-rpg .. you're a living embodiment of Nature. A superhuman on the loose to unite eco-terrorists across the world to bring down modern society through transmutative 'magics' like choking pollen clouds that poison people and hordes of wild animals co-ordinating an assault against major cities of the world as well as generating massive storms and King tides to destroy coastal cities o.o

I'd play that game o.o

Stupid reality <.< I want magic powers <.<

Why'd you have to bring up lamenting not having magic powers? :.; Wish I was a 3.5 ed D&D druid .... (*mutters and raves*)

 

[Bradd94]

I can understand death in a logical, academic sense as anyone who has any sense of the world does. The thing is, I can't decide whether to be scared or intrigued by my own death.

Think about it - death is the great beyond. I'm atheist, don't get me wrong, and I'm pretty sure that once you're dead, thats it.

But I don't know for sure. The fact is, nobody will ever know what happens 'after' death until they actually experience it.

In the worlds of Gandalf:
End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it

- Seems, to me at least, like an awfully big adventure.

 

[smithy_2045]

I want to avoid death, but knowing it's going to happen doesn't affect me emotionally in the slightest.

 

[Daveman]

Sad isn't the word. Terrified is.

 

[Reep]

I try not to think of it because it freaks me the fuck out, its my greatest fear knowing that i will die. Although its not the death that scares me, its what i perceive as completely not existing after it. I enjoy consciousness too much.

 

[SadakoMoose]

Well, While I can't say that I'm elated by the idea, over the years I've come to accept death as just another part of life. Nothing really wrong or scary about it. No one death is going to be this game changing, melodramatic, crisis. It'll all pass along and everything will be ok in the end.
Ultimately

 

[Skuffyshootster]

I'm more scared of the fantastic, absolute nothingness afterwards, but once I get to that point I won't even feel anything, because I would be, like, dead. It's quite a thought to wrap your head around.

 

[MindBullets]

I think (or hope at least) that it'll be like going to sleep. Peaceful.

That said, it is a near-complete unknown what death is like, so naturally I'll be at least somewhat scared when my time comes. Perhaps I might actually be nervous, rather than scared. But at the moment, I'm not especially scared of death.

 

[Dan From Aus]

I get sad thinking about it. But just try not think about it.

 

[hurfdurp]

I'm sad that people I know are eventually going to die.

 

[Defective_Detective]

Of course I am. The thought chills me.

 

[OmegaAlucard777]

No. Why fight something that you cannot control? It's going to happen and you have to accept it. The sooner you do, the quicker you can move on. I know and accept that there is a 50/50 chance that I will die each time I get into a car, cross a street or talk to some random person or . If I die, I die. Oh well.

 

[JourneyThroughHell]

No.

Kind of happy, actually.

Wouldn't want to live forever, life is not good enough for that.

Makes me sound like a huge cynic, doesn't it? I am.

 

[Geekosaurus]

"Death frees you from freedom."
- a quote from the book I'm writing...

Are you saying that freedom is a fabricated concept that is merely and illusion? Or are you just dishing out a low blow to America?

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

"Death frees you from freedom."
- a quote from the book I'm writing...

Are you saying that freedom is a fabricated concept that is merely and illusion? Or are you just dishing out a low blow to America?

No, none of that, it's just the force in the book is fighting to free america from socialist control, and the leader of the main characters squad has mental trouble, and is partially suicidal, he finds it Ironic how people are fighting for freedom, when he believes death truly frees you.

 

[omicron1]

Nope.

I may leave things undone when I die, but I am confident that heaven will make any concerns or regrets I may have completely irrelevant.

 

[FamoFunk]

Im not that bothered tbh, it's not something I think about.