Are you scared of death?

Can I trade my situation for the risk of a coconut falling on my head?

(and yeah, i rarely get in cars... don't trust em)

 

precisely. and that is why I do not fear dying. it's the only certain thing in life, it's going to happen, so I just cruise along and enjoy life while I have it.

 

Life is just a ride anyway

Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVnRzEjpUmE

Even if it isn't, oh well.

Enjoy life, and do not fear death so much that you become greedy.

 

When I ate that bad acid and ended up waking up in the hospital... that circle that encompassed life.. the line I was walking... while figuring out the circle... well, the circle was EVERYTHING... and fast and slooooow all at once and I didn't mention it before but it was down to the molecular level as well... even being able to feel and smell all the different molecules that make up existance.... it was... intense....

 

It is intense Lucky, and what I find to be striking is that when people have these episodes, their vision always gets enhacned first. It reminds me of PI when he says how he looked into the Sun, everything came into focus and for just a moment I understood...

 

All living things are guaranteed death, so it must be a benefit.

 

Yeah that's what my husband says...

But you know, it's really easy for people to say that and that it can happen any time and you can't stop it and all that stuff (all true enough but...) when you aren't confronted with having X amount of time to live...


Anyways
To make my original answer to "are you scared of death?" a bit more clear...
I am not so much afraid of death.
I am afraid of not living anymore... of leaving the people that I love so much... Of not living... Of causing them pain and sorrow... Of having to let them go....

It saddens me more then anything. I wish I could hold on to my husband forever and the thought of not being able to frightens me to death.

 

of course things are going to be different once you know the jig is up, when you're given a "maximum" amount of time to live. but that is a wildly different scenario to waking up one day and slipping in the tub or whatever. if I was told I only had a certain amount of time left, I would most definitely be worried about not living.

but the fact of death is what makes life precious. if you didn't have the knowledge that you were going to die, do you think you would make the most out of your life? that is a good motivator for me, anyways.

 

i agree with cate, there are things far scarier than death. and that being said.. im not afraid of NOTHING!!! i have stared death in the face.. death is a part of life.

 

Not really. I'm more scared of seeing the people I care about in pain...

 

to quote the late great bill hicks...life is just a fucking ride...

 

Well, I don't remember who it was, but someone said we are experiencing the best of the best and the worst of the worst, at this "time" in "history". I do believe that... I do believe that something is different about this time period we're living in... I don't think it's never happened before, but I don't think we've ever understood what these times have truly experienced in history.

So I wonder about whether I really believe in death at all, there was a time when I was obsessed and depressed with death... I fear losing family and friends, but I don't see death as an end to me, if I were to die, I think I would still have influence on this plane. I was close to death once, it was a really intense place to live, straddling everyday pain to a deep mysterious range of foreign emotions that I knew of some other world... commonly known as death.

But nowadays, I wonder if death is really mandatory, I'm not against it per se, but something in me makes me think it's not necessary, so no I'm not afraid of it, I see it as either an interesting adventure, or an imagined fairy tale, perhaps a metaphor for something that we can't actually understand at this point in human evolution... I don't know, it's intriguing.

 

Death is comforting, soothing. It puts everything in perspective.

 

I dunno. Maybe a little. I don't think theres an afterlife.

 

I am not afraid of death at all.
I am sure though that once I meet it (or come really close to it) I will change my mind.

 

Honey... that's a really interesting idea... I believe A LOT in illusions and things not being as they appear...

 

no, i'm not

theres been a few times i could have died or drowned. quite funny actually. hving some fat kid jump on your head from a diving board...yea, don't know how my neck did'nt snap. but i was out for a good 10 seconds on the bottom of a pool before i came to and swim back up

 

I'm not afraid of a sudden death.

I am afraid of sitting around for six months knowing I'll be leaving the people I love and they'll be sad.

 

And one reason I think hannah might be right with her theory... is that I strongly believe that everything happens at once and, of course, our minds just can't process it, hence- time. If everything happens at once... there would be no death- just a place. It's always just a place.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

i found that really fascinating to watch. Randy is dying of pancreatic cancer...thats his last lecture

http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/