KILL....MEEEKentpaul said:people who worry about death are depressed
actually, we are dying younger again.demon said:Many scientists say due to medical advancements we're seeing and will be seeing, the first person to live to 150-200 (whichever it is) is already alive.
XHPrime said:I'd like to think we're in an oscillatory universe and when we die we are reborn in the next iteration of the universe (instantly of course since we would no longer be observing time).
The jury's still out on this one.grumble said:Well, considering that the galaxies are actually expanding away from each other at an increasing rate (ie speeding up due to vacuum energy), it looks like this is it. One long journey into infinity.
XHPrime said:I'd like to think we're in an oscillatory universe and when we die we are reborn in the next iteration of the universe (instantly of course since we would no longer be observing time).
Indeed. And why is it so hard to comprehend?.. Just think of your memories from before you were born/ made. That's what's being dead is like. Nothing.Holepunch said:I don't see why oblivion is so terrible. You no longer exist. Can you feel sad that you no longer exist? No. You're gone. You lost the capacity to feel sadness when you died. Regrets? Nope. You can regret while you're dying, to the millisecond before you die but once you're dead? No regrets. You're returning back to the time before you existed, and I don't think any of us remember that time as "bad" in any way.
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RdN said:The only thing I know is that I don't want to die drowned.. I don't have water panic or nothing like that.. but it's a way of dying that really creeps me.
No, that's pretty fucked up and most likely you won't be taking any experience with you since you cease to exist.wmat said:I'd love to die a horrible brutal death that makes people throw up when they see the pictures in the news. I also would prefer it if a lot of pain was involved. Because after all, if I'm gonna blip out, I might as well take some extreme experience with me, right?
But experiencing the worst just before you die is the best moment for it. If you're curious enough, that's a pretty tempting prospect since it's the last chance to really go over the line in terms of what would be deemed fucked up. So why not then? Especially since it sounds like a realistic experiment, as opposed to, for example, experiencing your lifetime's pleasure highpoint.Wickerbasket said:No, that's pretty fucked up and most likely you won't be taking any experience with you since you cease to exist.
wmat said:But experiencing the worst just before you die is the best moment for it. If you're curious enough, that's a pretty tempting prospect since it's the last chance to really go over the line in terms of what would be deemed fucked up. So why not then? Especially since it sounds like a realistic experiment, as opposed to, for example, experiencing your lifetime's pleasure highpoint.
So if you have a choice between a meh death and an ohmygodwhatthefuck death, why not go all out if it's over after that?
Well, you have a point. I was being facetious anyway.McNei1y said:I like your reasoning. I just don't want to experience pain before I'm out. Not only are you going to die, your going to have to suffer through awful shit beforehand.
jakncoke said:For the past 3 nights, I've had the same nightmare or what I perceive as so. So to defeat my will to fidgeting I have toothpicks and mess around with in my mouth. Anyways the past 3 nights I've had a these dreams...nightmares or whatever that I fall asleep with one in my mouth and accidentally swallow it. I then feel sharp pains in my throat and then wake breathing heavy. I know it's stupid to think but perhaps it's a premonition or some shit..I dunno.
Holepunch said:This and other forms of reincarnation are always a mixed bag, in that I really can't see how any of them are very good. For example, do we remember our past life? How many other lives do we get to live out?
If we don't remember our past life: Then what is the point? If we lose all memory of our former life or lives then it might as well be a new person. The person you once were is completely dead, and the experience you receive would be the the same as a person who doesn't reincarnate and dies into oblivion.
If we do remember our past life: Then we're just shifting the dread. How many extra lives are we going to get? If we run out at any point eventually we're going to run into the same quagmire of "not wanting to die." If we get infinite lives and therefore eternal life we're just going to burn out as our mind exhausts itself as time stretches on indefinitely.
I don't see why oblivion is so terrible. You no longer exist. Can you feel sad that you no longer exist? No. You're gone. You lost the capacity to feel sadness when you died. Regrets? Nope. You can regret while you're dying, to the millisecond before you die but once you're dead? No regrets. You're returning back to the time before you existed, and I don't think any of us remember that time as "bad" in any way.