nope im more annoyed that if i live i don't get to go out on my terms and will most likely end up sitting in a chair not knowing my own name because some religion believe's it's a sin to take one's life. and apparently im goverened by there rules not my own beliefs
Are you sad that you're going to eventually die?
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In a word: maybe.
In a lot more words: I worry a lot more about what death will be like than the fact that I am going to die. It doesn't make a lot of sense to 'worry' about a known fact that you can't do anything what-so-ever to change or even really appreciably delay. On the other hand... the unknown of "what is death, what am I after death?" is a huge worry - when I think about it, which I try not to because I realize I am not going to get an answer of any concrete nature by thinking it through rationally or even emotionally.
As I see it either A) there's nothing after death, you cease to exist - and what will non-existence be like?! I can't fathom and it is pointless to try to imagine what it would be like not to exist, since you won't even have an imagination when you don't exist so... futile there. Or, B) there is something after death - in which case you have a myriad of options to consider, reject, accept, or invent. Some of them are more appealing to me than others - like a nice luxurious limbo land of "wait here while we assign you a next life" before doing this again or a cloudy city full of what I can only imagine are very bored but content people adoring their ultimate creator for all eternity as their highest reward for spinning the wheel of religion and landing on the right peg... this, however, has an upsetting side due to the fact that, should we fail to win the saving throw vs. being born into the wrong region/family/situation to have lucked into the right religion we're going somewhere considerably less pleasant as an alternative. That, and the fact that even if we did 'win' some of our friends won't have been so lucky.
So, yeah, there's a good bit to be worried about regarding death in my opinion... but I agree with many of the above posters who said we can't spend life worrying about death, because that would be to waste what we have being worried about the day we won't have it anymore - a day we can't do anything to prevent happening anyway.
In a lot more words: I worry a lot more about what death will be like than the fact that I am going to die. It doesn't make a lot of sense to 'worry' about a known fact that you can't do anything what-so-ever to change or even really appreciably delay. On the other hand... the unknown of "what is death, what am I after death?" is a huge worry - when I think about it, which I try not to because I realize I am not going to get an answer of any concrete nature by thinking it through rationally or even emotionally.
As I see it either A) there's nothing after death, you cease to exist - and what will non-existence be like?! I can't fathom and it is pointless to try to imagine what it would be like not to exist, since you won't even have an imagination when you don't exist so... futile there. Or, B) there is something after death - in which case you have a myriad of options to consider, reject, accept, or invent. Some of them are more appealing to me than others - like a nice luxurious limbo land of "wait here while we assign you a next life" before doing this again or a cloudy city full of what I can only imagine are very bored but content people adoring their ultimate creator for all eternity as their highest reward for spinning the wheel of religion and landing on the right peg... this, however, has an upsetting side due to the fact that, should we fail to win the saving throw vs. being born into the wrong region/family/situation to have lucked into the right religion we're going somewhere considerably less pleasant as an alternative. That, and the fact that even if we did 'win' some of our friends won't have been so lucky.
So, yeah, there's a good bit to be worried about regarding death in my opinion... but I agree with many of the above posters who said we can't spend life worrying about death, because that would be to waste what we have being worried about the day we won't have it anymore - a day we can't do anything to prevent happening anyway.
>.> dood, i know I've only got XX amount of time an i still don't get anything done XDFenring said:
... >.> wait ...
but no, dosen't bother me at all, a better question is WHY SHOULD IT bother you.
all that is will end, might as well make the most or the least of your time
the thought of death doesnt make me sad, ill leave my beliefs out, but they are the reason that i can come to the peace that i have. ill say i used to be in denial about dying, thinking that i wasnt scared at all, but honestly how can one have peace with something they have no answers too, my faith gave me that peace of mind.
I somehow doubt that the guy that jumped from the WTC tower did so "calmly", but I digress.
Worrying about the inevitable makes no sense to me at all. We are here, we live, we die. What you choose to do during that time is entirely up to you, but sitting around wringing your hands in fear of the unknown is just a waste of the short life you have.
Whoa, that was deep.
Worrying about the inevitable makes no sense to me at all. We are here, we live, we die. What you choose to do during that time is entirely up to you, but sitting around wringing your hands in fear of the unknown is just a waste of the short life you have.
Whoa, that was deep.
I think about it from time to time, but looking forward to what might happen in death. That and I will finally be able to catch up on all the sleep I missed in my life.
I'm not sad knowing that one day i will die because i know its fudimental that as humans we all die eventually.
I realize that it does scare me,
That's why I tend to value my time more nowadays, it's all we have before the Reaper takes us out on his '65 ford mustang of doom
I have no qualms about death, but I'd still like to think that there's enough time to do something about it
That's why I tend to value my time more nowadays, it's all we have before the Reaper takes us out on his '65 ford mustang of doom
I have no qualms about death, but I'd still like to think that there's enough time to do something about it