Your views on Death.

[Strawb]

What's to fear?

That the afterlife is a cinema playing only Uwe Boll movies...The horror...

I wish the afterlife is what it is in Grim Fandango. If I turned into a skeleton and had to buy consult a traveling agency to get to heaven, I would look forward to dying!

I believe that it ends with death. No heaven, no hell, no afterlife. I have often wondered what it feels like to die, though(natural death, though), and I keep wondering how I will feel...but then think again, and realise that I won't feel anything. I won't even be. I have lost a few family members, but I never found myself thinking: "They're in a better place" or stuff like that. I basically just got on with my life, even if that sounds a bit cold.

I also sometimes think about a quote from an old philosopher: "When you're alive, death is not present in your own life i.e. you're not dead. However, when you die, you cannot pity yourself because you won't be here anymore." I paraphrased.

 

[Dom Uk]

That the afterlife is a cinema playing only Uwe Boll movies...The horror...

I wish the afterlife is what it is in Grim Fandango. If I turned into a skeleton and had to buy consult a traveling agency to get to heaven, I would look forward to dying!

I believe that it ends with death. No heaven, no hell, no afterlife. I have often wondered what it feels like to die, though(natural death, though), and I keep wondering how I will feel...but then think again, and realise that I won't feel anything. I won't even be. I have lost a few family members, but I never found myself thinking: "They're in a better place" or stuff like that. I basically just got on with my life, even if that sounds a bit cold.

I also sometimes think about a quote from an old philosopher: "When you're alive, death is not present in your own life i.e. you're not dead. However, when you die, you cannot pity yourself because you won't be here anymore." I paraphrased.

I understand what you're saying and I know I may be completely wrong, but even if there isn't anything after life the way I look at it is that it will just be the same as before I was born.

Absolute nothingness.

Even though that is hard to comprehend since we can't honestly say we can remember experiencing it, I still don't think there's anything to fear about it.

 

[Strawb]

That the afterlife is a cinema playing only Uwe Boll movies...The horror...

I wish the afterlife is what it is in Grim Fandango. If I turned into a skeleton and had to buy consult a traveling agency to get to heaven, I would look forward to dying!

I believe that it ends with death. No heaven, no hell, no afterlife. I have often wondered what it feels like to die, though(natural death, though), and I keep wondering how I will feel...but then think again, and realise that I won't feel anything. I won't even be. I have lost a few family members, but I never found myself thinking: "They're in a better place" or stuff like that. I basically just got on with my life, even if that sounds a bit cold.

I also sometimes think about a quote from an old philosopher: "When you're alive, death is not present in your own life i.e. you're not dead. However, when you die, you cannot pity yourself because you won't be here anymore." I paraphrased.

I understand what you're saying and I know I may be completely wrong, but even if there isn't anything after life the way I look at it is that it will just be the same as before I was born.

Absolute nothingness.

Even though that is hard to comprehend since we can't honestly say we can remember experiencing it, I still don't think there's anything to fear about it.

That's also the problem with "before I was born" scenarios. Nobody has any memory of it, you weren't sentient or anything.
To put it simply, before you were born, you were not. Period.
And I agree with you that death isn't anything to fear. Since most people live to old age, I think some of them(maybe even a lot of them) welcome death. I think very few people enjoy their life at old age.

 

[Berethond]

I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH DEATH. HE'S A DECENT GUY.

I, however, have a problem with ALLCAPS.
So please stop shouting.

 

[bodyklok]

I've seen death first hand. It's not as bad as people say it is, really.

My own death I don't look forward. But one day, I think I'll welcome death. Of course, that won't be until I'm bored of life.

 

[Strawb]

I've seen death first hand. It's not as bad as people say it is, really.

My own death I don't look forward. But one day, I think I'll welcome death. Of course, that won't be until I'm board of life.

This almost calls for a rigor mortis joke...

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH DEATH. HE'S A DECENT GUY.

I, however, have a problem with ALLCAPS.
So please stop shouting.

Someone hasn't read any Discworld books.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

I am writing this on the fly with whatever guy feeling padded by my own personal nonsense I can convey.

Death requires many things to be fully explored, be it religion which is well defined or even scientific. Even from a irreligious scientific perspective, psyonics(telepathy/empathy the mind functioning with out a body) and group consensus and almost impression of the psyche upon a place life my have more meaning after death that the nothingness science try's to re afrim.

The one must delve into the soul, death can not be fully explored without sentience and what we are deep down inside is more soulful than not.

But just because you may define the parameters of the soul dose not mean death of the flesh sparks a journey into the afterlife.

In the end death is a function of life its not something to be feared as much as causally welcomed and the emotions/sentiment that arises from the living respected.

Personally I believe in souls and reincarnation, but I do not take much from divisive and exclusive religion other than its more a means to a end to poltics and order than a devive path we must follow.

I always tell myself if the light is not warmth caring and forgiveness, then its not the light, just another shade of gray that binds us to our mortal fears.

 

[Berethond]

I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH DEATH. HE'S A DECENT GUY.

I, however, have a problem with ALLCAPS.
So please stop shouting.

Someone hasn't read any Discworld books.

Someone hasn't read the Forum Guidelines, where it states that allcaps are against the rules.

 

[rickthetrick]

he wears a black cloak and carries farming equipment.

No, no, no. That's the Grim Reaper. Death's his boss. He rides a pale horse and comes last.

He comes last? Is death taking some kind of male enhancement drug?

 

[Calobi]

he wears a black cloak and carries farming equipment.

No, no, no. That's the Grim Reaper. Death's his boss. He rides a pale horse and comes last.

He comes last? Is death taking some kind of male enhancement drug?

You know, I thought about rewording that then I was like "Nah, people here would never stoop to such a crude joke." I was mistaken, clearly.

 

[ReZerO]

either there will be nothing, and we won't care (because we have no being to care with) or there will be something and the adventure will begin anew.
we as a species don't know enough about to universise to say that there is nothing after deat, on the same token we don't know enough to say there is something. so why bother caring, it'll happen sooner or later and you'll find out (or won't find out if there is nothing, but once again you won't care)

i'm not afraid of death, slightly curious and in no rush to get there, but not afraid.

 

[rickthetrick]

he wears a black cloak and carries farming equipment.

No, no, no. That's the Grim Reaper. Death's his boss. He rides a pale horse and comes last.

He comes last? Is death taking some kind of male enhancement drug?

You know, I thought about rewording that then I was like "Nah, people here would never stoop to such a crude joke." I was mistaken, clearly.

Glad I could be of assistance to you.

 

[The Jackyl]

Pretty decent metal band.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH DEATH. HE'S A DECENT GUY.

I, however, have a problem with ALLCAPS.
So please stop shouting.

Someone hasn't read any Discworld books.

Someone hasn't read the Forum Guidelines, where it states that allcaps are against the rules.

No need to be a stick in the mud. Sheesh.

 

[grimsprice]

he wears a black cloak and carries farming equipment.

actually being sort of an expert on this... he is actually a she. and she wears lots of plaid skirts. trust me. i dated her.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Pretty decent metal band.

Chuck Schuldiner rules. As does Gene Hoglan.

 

[Oldmanwillow]

I dont die. my world comes to an end.

 

[antipunt]

Death isn't anything to fear logically.

But when you staring at it in the face...it can be somewhat intimidating...

 

[The Jackyl]

Pretty decent metal band.

Chuck Schuldiner rules. As does Gene Hoglan.

truth