Do you fear death?

[Roxor]

Do I fear death? I'd have to say No.

The way I see it, it's just like turning off a computer. Nothing happens from the computer's perspective while it's off. No files are altered, no data is processed. The operating system reading the time when it's powered back on is likely the only thing which will tell the computer that anything at all happened, regardless of how long it was off.

Same idea for us squishy organic beings dying.

Now, while I don't fear death, that doesn't mean I'm in any hurry to die. Like everyone else, I have my survival instincts, and those are a pretty powerful motivator to keep living as long as possible.

However, I do think that anyone who wants to be immortal really hasn't thought very hard about the consequences of such a fate occurring, and pity those poor suckers who have bought into the whole afterlife idea, as that is essentially forced immortality. Didn't Star Trek Voyager do an episode about that featuring a member of the Q continuum who wanted to die?

 

[Brandon Strange]

Your fate is set. Fear profits a man nothing.

 

[mGoLos]

Not really no.

I was dead for roughly 14 billion years before this short interlude. I didn't mind.

It's the suffering that scares me.

 

[ssgt splatter]

Well, no one likes the thought of dying and I'm no exception.

I myself don't believe in the whole Heaven vs. Hell thing but I do believe in an afterlife, so when I die, I'll at least exsist in some form.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

our most grave problem?

was that pun intended or just coincidence...

and i would say next to pollution,overcrowding,food control, and every other thing in the galaxy that is trying to kill us on a molecular level (diseases), and id rather make human beings better/more efficient before we extend our time on earth, whats the point of living for 200-400 years if your still the same fat waste of space that you've always been? (not at you directly, just saying alot of people that don't do anything.)

Yeah, I totally forgot overcrowding. But that's not really a problem and neither is pollution to that matter. Those things are man-made. Death, on the other hand, is not. Neither is disease.

All it takes for overcrowding to become a non-issue is a lot of education and birth control. To take care of pollution we just need to be wary of our environment and manage our resources correctly, minimizing waste in the process. So, all in all, these particular issues can be brought down by what is known as "common sense".

P.S.: and a pun was part of the plan. ^_^

yeah they aren't *exactly* a problem, but with the way our world lives they will be eventually...

education and birth control are two things lots of people are not good at doing...if we could upload people with data labeled "common sense", matrix style, then yeah i wouldn't consider those problems, but until the last idiot is educated about it our population and diseases are still gonna spread like wildfire.

and nice, i love it when a plan comes together ;] (nutty bar for you if you know the reference)

like i said, i'd rather we become more efficient/better human beings before we live longer, but either or would be really nice.

 

[DasDestroyer]

Nope, because being afraid of it doesn't help nor change anything. And it's not like I'll be there to feel myself not being there and not feeling anything

 

[Teckdeth]

Hmm, interesting question. I'd like to say no, but I don't think that's true. I smoke in some excess mostly because I don't really care if I live to be old, but at the same time, I'm positive if someone held a gun to my head, I'd be begging to live.

I am an atheist, so I don't believe in an afterlife, and think that our time on Earth is all we get. I guess this makes me somewhat unafraid of death, since I'm fully aware that I won't know that I'm dead, so it'll make no difference to me. However, this also make me eager to preserve this life and not have it end abruptly.

Yeah, tricky one. I guess since I can't flat-out say no, I must be at least a little afraid of death.

 

[Zorg Machine]

How about this, I will go to any length to make sure that I do not die.

 

[PancakesSUCKTHEYDO]

Do I fear death? No. I fear how I may die, but not death itself.

 

[Sigmar ov The Hammer]

I have that habit were I tend to laugh manically at anything I'm scared of, which also tends to raise my spirits and get my adrenaline going.
So for all intensive purposes, I don't fear it. However, I would much rather be taken when I'm full of life, in the spirit adventure.
Say, I was saving someone from a burning building, or rescuing someone from some muggers. Something equal to an hero (If I really had my way, I'd die in battle, sword in hand, facing the enemy head on).
However, the modern world lacks those certain kind of heroics, so I'll properly be aware that I'm dying and will have to comfort myself with the fact that I'm completely helpless and whatever comes next, comes next.

Another theory is that, once I die, I'll awake in a station and be given a ticket to a particular afterlife. Once at the platform, the spirit train will pull up and I'll be on a one way trip to Valhalla (Hopefully).

 

[CrawlingPastaHellion]

like i said, i'd rather we become more efficient/better human beings before we live longer, but either or would be really nice.

Yes, I suppose you're right. Quality before quantity.

 

[6037084]

Nope, If I had to chose between dying and staying alive, I'd try to not die but otherwise I'm not scared of death. I'm actually a bit anxious to die so I could prove all religious people wrong once and for all, not that I'd care much about that when I'm dead though since I'd be you know, dead.

 

[Bonecrusher]

Yes, I have death phobia.
I couldn't go to school (university) 2 years because of it.
It creates a lot of questions in your mind, makes you anxiety, seperated from this world yet deeply rooted to the social life...
When you see a tombstone on the TV, you feel bad.
When the weather goes dark, you feel worse.
When you trying to sleep, you feel much worse.
You don't want to die, you don't want to dissolved, you try to find an exist from born-live-die loop...

Not a good thing, it makes the person pessimistic, nihilistic.

 

[Bloedhoest]

If Death is like Death in the Discworld series, than no.

 

[Kreett]

I suppose death is scary. i dislike it mostly cuz what happens afterwards? i mean i have so many plans... and so many ponies to live for!

 

[curty129]

Life is so beautiful, and death must exist to create life, so how could it not be seen as beautiful too?

"Life" being a vague term, I'll apply it to childbirthing process up until the baby is literally outside of the vaginal canal: screaming, pain, distortion of bodily parts.

We are, however, throwing opinions at each other on what is "beautiful", so we'll never have a productive discussion about this, but the process, I am saying, of creating something beautiful, does not at all have to be beautiful also.

Life referring to the act of existing and perceiving. And yes, childbirth is painful and nasty, but such pain makes the act of life intense and meaningful so yes, it is beautiful.

Touché. The act of death is what makes life meaningful, and if life is to be deemed beautiful, then yes, I suppose in the same sense of 'beautiful', death is also.

And here I thought this wouldn't be productive

'tis still highly dependent on one's opinions, however.

 

[curty129]

I feel pretty secure knowing that when I die, I'll be going to Heaven.

I'm merely wondering why you believe that more so than other beliefs about what occurs after death. Do you have personal experience that indicates, to you at least, that there is an afterlife?

Well, just as it will probably always be impossible to truly know whether God is real or not, or there is an afterlife or not, it really is impossible for me to know with 100% certainty whether my version of the afterlife is true, or if there is an afterlife at all. But suffice to say that the things that I have learned, observed, and experienced have been enough to convince me of my beliefs.

Ah, that's what I'd thought.

I won't ask what these experiences were, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to hear them.

CONVERT ME.

 

[TiloXofXTanto]

Only on the third Tuesday of March every three years.

Only then mein freunde.

 

[doomspore98]

If I think about it enough it's scary. Being a not terribly religious christen I believe in heaven. Fingers crossed I make it in.

Well shure, even tho the religions christianity copied won't get in if your right. : p

I happen to believe that all faiths are right. Quaker Baby!

 

[Mr.logic]

Death I have only a minor problem with. It's the possibility of ceasing to exist that scares me. But I'm also curious.

I'm just very good with coming to terms with what I can't change.

You are not going to vanish into thin air, but what will happen might make you wish you had depending on what you do.

You got any evidence for that?

the absense of evidence is NOT the evidence of absense. No I have no proof. I wonder so many escapists say whats going to happen like they know.
I know but I can only show those who are willing to see.