How Do You Deal With The Fact That You Are Going To Die?

People who try to do my talking for me...for one thing....

I was responding to Scratcho with his stay out of the way.....death can stay out of the way......
If I died right now....sure, I am happy with who I am and what I have done so far......be happy with yourself is key always....are you happy with who you are, OP?

 

I don't know.

 

Said Lode's Necromancy School dropout...

 

I deal with that one day at a time. I try not to ever waste an opportunity.

 

I just wanna keep working out until I can't. And then I'll get an euthanasia.

 

I don't see how buying an Asian youth is going to help.

...without necromancy.

 

Two quotes from HST come to mind.

"You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life."

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"


I've never been afraid of death. I find it much easier to live a meaningful life when I'm not constantly wondering if my life has any meaning.

 

Death has visited quite alot around me in the last 10 years....and I am sick of it and talk of it. I do not want to think about it anymore than I have to...There is nothing I can do about it anyway....so I kind of get angry when I read alot of mention of it...only because I have had to deal with it so much........andit has been a real hard fight tough bounce back, as it is.....

 

My dad knew he was dieing.....and one of the last things he said from his bed at the hospital, was that everyone has to die sometimes. He was quiet about it...matter of fact......and still was able to smile and have a sense of humor. I was the one with the broken heart....but I would not let him see that. i put on a brave face....and tried to stay happy and positive. shit, was that tough...and no chance to know about my mom...I do not think she expected to die right after seeing me......but I think she knew she was dieing more than I. She was always bigger than the tiny 5'2" frame she was....so she always seemed huge to me even at her 75-80 pounds in the end, as she was bigger than life....and I was shocked helping her bathe one of the last times I saw her....looked like one of those humans that are nothing but bones you see in starvation commercials.......I should have known, but I guess I did not want to see what was in front of my face either.....

Dammit...here I go again.....sorry.....

 

Human rights for all of mankind is bigger than human rights for all intelligent Life. Thus when the weak win the wars for not listening to the wise and faithful, there shall be eternity to deal with. Intelligent life and l have the strong like the Gorilla to Dianne Fosey to start over again.There always were the common human rights by definition.

Dying becomes original and patient. The distortion of Life is bigger.

 

One hallmark card at a time.

 

You never know when it's gonna be your turn! Think about it, it could happen in a week, in a day, in 5 minutes... That's the beauty of it, we never know when death will come for us. At best it should give us the impulse to live our lives to the fullest, as we don't know when this is gonna stop.

I personally don't fear death, or the reality of it doesn't bother me. I see it as another step in the life cycle, simply, it's neither good or bad, it just is. Until my turn comes I try to learn as much as I can, while I do my best to live a good, happy and fulfilled life in the meantime.

 

I'm sorry for your losses, Moonglow.

 

by remembering having been born. by remembering having been aware of being born.

 

I plug Flinstones vitamins. Yabba Dabba Doo!

 

There are certain questions I have that will only be answered or not answered when I do finally shuffle off this mortal coil.

I once had an out of the body experience. Since then I have had the question in my mind was this actually out of the body as it most definitely seemed to be at the time? Can consciousness continue independently of the functioning of the brain?
Over a long time, I've leaned towards different views on that, and these days I just don't know.
But I want to be clear that I don't think that any kind of survival of death by consciousness would be anything like the version of the afterlife pedalled by the various religions.
And maybe it all just switches off with death.
Only one way we're ever going to know for absolutely certain.

But like most people I'd rather go on as long as my life is tolerable and I'm getting something out of being alive.

 

consciousness, being an organized state requires a regulated input of energy to maintain. therefore, i do not see any mechanism of consiousness persisting independant of the body or brain (where metabolic process can provide the energy). oxygen deprivation, or lack of circulation to the brain leads to rapid loss of consiousness because the brains metabolism is slowed.

reasonably it would seem that consiousness independant of the body would violate the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics. the reality inside your head is a virtual one, constructed from whatever information can get gathered about the external environment from the brains sensory inputs.

 

i suppose there could exist some complex yet unknown mechanism that consiousness could continue to exist disembodied without violating the laws of thermodynamics .. but this can be rather easily disregarded simply by applying occam's razor

 

So you would think in that case, that people who have died technically and have been brought back and talk about white lights and seeing loved ones that have passed, etc....is just sort of an LSD mind trip that the mind does to make death not painful and acceptable?

 

something like that moonglow .. the pineal gland in the brain produces and stores DMT (dimethyltrypamine). during a near-death-experience (NDE) the pineal gland may release a large dose of DMT.

DMT is found in many plant species, and i have seen otherworldly entities after smoking DMT, as well as having an experience where i was surrounded by white light.