How often do you think about dying?

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This thread isn't for bitches who think about killing themselves.

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My question is how often do you think about dying?

I don't know if it's an age thing or the recent arrival of my second child but I am fucking TERRIFIED of dying.

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Like randomly during a normal day I think "shit I'm xx years old, my kids are xx that means in 10 years they'll be this age and I only have about 20 years of life left in me"

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Sometimes when in bed trying to sleep I think "I only got 20 years of life and then I'm fucked. Every bit of knowledge, every thing I've learned, owned, experienced - it all means nothing. What happens when you die? Do you slowly fall asleep? How can you drift off peacefully when you're fucking shitting your pants with worry about how things will go for your family when you're not there?

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I worry about this stuff once or twice a month.

Then I forget.

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I've been fortunate enough to never have very close relatives to die. I've had my grandparents die, but that's really it. I've never thought of death or thought of it in a way that could happen to me, as if it was something so far away to happen, that it didn't matter and had no point of thinking about it.

However, I really liked a girl several years ago, and her mother was diagnosed with terminal cancer. When she died, it caused me an existential crisis. I started thinking about age, about the possibility of dying at anytime for any reason. It really messed me up. I have thought about death from any perspective possible that there is. It was the first time that the thought of death actually scared me.

While I've been able to push back those thoughts, they've been in the back of my head ever since.
 
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I'm aware that I have far fewer days ahead of me than behind me at this point in my life, but I'm not worried about dying. I don't really think about it and when I do it doesn't bother me. I've lived a good life.
 
Comes out of nowhere, but I don't really have like a number of times

I did everything I think I could do it. Everything now is just a matter of evolution of what I already got, and I don't really care for it

Still, I have to go after my folks passes. No parent deservers to see their child go to the beyond. Could be even a day and I would be fine - I mean, I would be dead, so my opinion won't even exist so... yeah
 
I had a friend from school who died to a freak accident. He got a puncture, pulled over to the side of the road to call for help. As he took his helmet off to make the call from the lay-by, a chunk of metal fell from a scrap truck coming the other way and it cut the artery in his neck. He died within a few seconds from the blood loss. To this day, his wife has never accepted it, and mourns him dearly which is understandable, she has not moved on 18 years later, still wears his old clothes from time to time because they give her comfort. She keeps a picture of him in her purse at all times, celebrates his birthday with his mum every year. We tell stories about him to his now 17 year old son, I tell him about his jokes and sense of humour, his favourite films we used to watch growing up together.

The moral of the story and my advice is to not think about death, but give your loved ones a person they will remember fondly when you pass because in the end, they are the ones who enjoyed you being alive the most.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. By becoming deeply aware of our mortality, we intensify our experience of every aspect of life.
 
I've been thinking about it a lot lately actually. I'm getting close to middle age and it's been on my mind a lot. I think I still have a lot of time left (hopefully) though.

One quote that has been on my mind a lot lately ironically is from Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike, from Gill:

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I have an issue with my heart and it makes me think about it more often than not. I love life and don't want to die young. There are plenty of things I still want to do and I don't want life to be cut short.
 
Occasionally when I'm falling asleep. That's when intrusive thoughts enter the skull. Never when I'm active.

The majority of the time it's someone else I worry about. Or my dogs.
 
At 50 now, so I have somewhere between 1 and 30 years depending on how I do. I'd like to at least hit life expectancy numbers, but poor food choices, a sedentary IT career & video games are my weakness.
 
I think about it more than the average person I think. We are designed to not think about it too much though, our brains tell us to move on. Consciousness is fascinating.
 
Sometimes I accidentally put a coloured item in with the whites, then it's the anxious wait to see what'll happen once I realise.
 
I think about it often due to health issues. Not even remotely scared of dying. Reincarnation terrifies me, though. Such bad luck that I may come back as myself.
 
About the way I may die? Not very often, but I've been there and I'll go there in the future.
About other people I know dealing with my death? Much more often.
 
Not really scared of dying because my both parents are gone and I hope one day to see them again

More concerned about how I will pass more than anything

Dying does remind me of this though

 
I feel you. More than I'd like, because I have beloved relatives in a "dangerous age" and I don't know how I will cope when they are gone.

As for my own death, it is what it is. I'm past my theoretical half life and time flies. Whenever the thought appears in my head at night, I think to get distracted with something else and then go back to bed. Working out helps a lot to keep your stress in check.

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Never. I worry everyday about getting old and not being able to enjoy young women. I guess that is worst than death to me.
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Actually, it's the same. Life slipping through our fingers.
 
More often than I'd like to admit.
I fantasize about it, not that I'm suicidal in any way but I make "what ifs" scenarios in my head. Who would miss me, what should i do to help those who stay in case something happens to me, how long would anyone remember me.

It is not a good thing to drown in these thoughts anyway, so after a while I stop.
 
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I think about it often due to health issues. Not even remotely scared of dying. Reincarnation terrifies me, though. Such bad luck that I may come back as myself.
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For me it's just the opposite.
Reincarnation would be a comfort.
But please can i will be born in Singapore or other good country, please not Africa or South America
 
I'm always been fascinated by the toddlers that remember their previous life. Non-existence for me is the source of my generalised anxiety.
 
I almost died due to health issues. When the process of actually thinking you might actually die in the next few hours is pretty freaking scary and makes you want to live as much as possible. Regularly though I am very curious what actually happens after death and want to experience it.

*dies* -WOW there is a God!- -I'm BURNING IN HELL- -I'm a FISH- -What in the sam hell am I seeing here?- -blank... oh well who cares right?... as long as I'm not aware of it- etc.

Death is like a gatcha. Don't know what you're gonna get.
 
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"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. Although the two are identical twins, man, as a rule, views the prenatal abyss with more calm than the one he is heading for (at some forty-five hundred heartbeats an hour). I know, however, of a young chronophobiac who experienced something like panic when looking for the first time at homemade movies that had been taken a few weeks before his birth. He saw a world that was practically unchanged -the same house, the same people- and then realized that he did not exist there at all and that nobody mourned his absence. He caught a glimpse of his mother waving from an upstairs window, and that unfamiliar gesture disturbed him, as if it were some mysterious farewell. But what particularly frightened him was the sight of a brand-new baby carriage standing there on the porch, with the smug, encroaching air of a coffin; even that was empty, as if, in the reverse course of events, his very bones had disintegrated."
 
I've been a Christian for 35 years and thinking about my mortality gives me a helpful perspective and genuine peace. I have never feared death.

  • Genesis 3:19 – "By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
  • Job 14:1–2 – "Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not."
  • Psalm 39:4–5 – "O Lord, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am! Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath!"
  • Psalm 90:10, 12 – "The years of our life are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty; yet their span is but toil and trouble; they are soon gone, and we fly away… So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom."
  • Ecclesiastes 3:19–20 – "For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other… All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return."
  • Ecclesiastes 7:2 – "It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting, for this is the end of all mankind, and the living will lay it to heart."
  • James 4:14 – "Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes."
  • 1 Peter 1:24–25 – "All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls, but the word of the Lord remains forever."
 
Most days tbh

That can range from the philosophy of the after life or the fantasising about not being here

Depends in which mood you catch me
 
I think I'm good for another 50 or so years. I'm not worried about dying, however, as I'm happy with my accomplishments to date. I can't say I really think about it much. What I do think about is how young I still feel despite being in my forties.

Not what I expected.
 
A fair bit lately. My mother in law died earlier this year which was tough on the wife and I.

Since then, I've been reflecting on it a fair bit and making sure my family is protected in the event I were to die.

I make the money in our home and my wife runs the house so I need to ensure that her and our kids are taken care of if I die. I've set up life insurance for a large cash payout, everything we own gets paid off and through my work she gets 3 years of my wage.

I've noticed my fear of death had diminished over the last decade or so as well. I used to be incredibly scared of death, I still am, but less so. I still plan on living forever of course.
 
I do a lot of cardio. I swim laps everyday. I surf. I run when I can (currently injured with a stress fracture).

I'm going to live as long as possible to where we hopefully have the technology to significantly extend our lifespans. I'm 32 and this is only the beginning of the AI revolution so I have time
 
Quite often these days, usually when I drift off to sleep. I've found no comfort in religion, so what I expect what waits me is oblivion.

The thing that really upsets me is everything I will miss out on. Look at how young our civilisation is and all the wonders we as humans have done. All the stories, art, media, buildings, cultures, etc… now imagine if humans stick around for another few million years, all of that we will not have a chance to experience. Sucks a bit.
 
Played Cyberpunk for the last few weeks, so I´m constantly thinking about it. Watched Edgerunner and it became even worse, lol.
But then I remember: There´ll be peace when I am gone. Lay my weary head to rest. Don´t you cry no more.
 
Nocty said:
I had a friend from school who died to a freak accident. He got a puncture, pulled over to the side of the road to call for help. As he took his helmet off to make the call from the lay-by, a chunk of metal fell from a scrap truck coming the other way and it cut the artery in his neck. He died within a few seconds from the blood loss. To this day, his wife has never accepted it, and mourns him dearly which is understandable, she has not moved on 18 years later, still wears his old clothes from time to time because they give her comfort. She keeps a picture of him in her purse at all times, celebrates his birthday with his mum every year. We tell stories about him to his now 17 year old son, I tell him about his jokes and sense of humour, his favourite films we used to watch growing up together.

The moral of the story and my advice is to not think about death, but give your loved ones a person they will remember fondly when you pass because in the end, they are the ones who enjoyed you being alive the most.

To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. By becoming deeply aware of our mortality, we intensify our experience of every aspect of life.
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Damn, but Im not surprised with those shitty roads in the UK.
 
When that fear comes to my mind I think of Jesus and his promise of hope for the resurrection in his new kingdom.

I believe we are a creation by God and the bible offers the answers to all these questions. I dont believe in religion though, this is man made but I do believe that the creator of life left us a book explaining what happened during creation, what went wrong, and what can we hope if we put our trust in Jesus Christ
 
I don't worry about death. In some ways I'm very curious to see what, if anything, happens next. I'm comfortable with the idea that something incredible will happen or that nothing will but I won't exist so it wont be a disappointment anyway.

By the same token, I do worry about the process of dying. I'd prefer to be hit by a bus when I'm 95 rather than suffering through a long illness at an early age. Basically I hope it doesn't hurt but if it does its quick.
 
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