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What concerns you most about dying?
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Pankratous
Member
That I'll be halfway through a good season of TV or videogame.
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
People should fear dead, because that way it motivates them to do great things...
...however dead is super fine, one of the best feelings I have ever experinced. "Pass away" is correct term in what I experienced. Your brain has some gift for you at the end of the journey.
If I need to reiterate how fine dead is, after they saved my life, I was pissed of on them that they won't let me die....
...however dead is super fine, one of the best feelings I have ever experinced. "Pass away" is correct term in what I experienced. Your brain has some gift for you at the end of the journey.
If I need to reiterate how fine dead is, after they saved my life, I was pissed of on them that they won't let me die....
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
Yeah this is it, what dampers the good feeling while dying is "how others will do without me", it's selfsish, but if I am going to die again, it would not be in someones arms, I need to crawl to some hole and there I will peacefully pass away...
Musky_Cheese
Banned
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
Honestly funeral seems excessive, you already celebrated live before dead, so like throw the body to the animals or something like that. Obviously cremation is preffered way how to became one with thee nature, just throw ash everywhere.Seems unnecessary but if that is your wish...
OnThePathToWisdom
Member
Interesting. How great a tree?
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TaySan
Banned
Funerals are a huge waste of money. Seriously, spend that money on better things.Seems unnecessary but if that is your wish...
Tesseract
Banned
Tree of life - Wikipedia
when slipping between veils, i also saw both my grandfathers
hard to say what was going on since recall of the event is hazy
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MastAndo
Member
I'm fairly certain I'm going to spend my latter years (if I'm so fortunate as to have them) spending most of my time alone, since that's basically my life now. I absolutely love my solitude and freedom because I'm able to do what I want when I want - I'm able-bodied and have my wits about me. I fear the thoughts of losing all that in my twilight years, losing the close friends and family I have right now that I can see whenever I want, and spending my final days just waiting for the inevitable - all on my own when I can no longer really enjoy much of what this life I have chosen brings.
Happosai
Hold onto your panties
Not much. The manner of death does scare me. I would be able to handle a plane crash more than a car crash. I love being in the air but I hate how unstable I feel in a car. Other than that, heart-attack, cancer, being shot, poisoned, drowning...not much of that scares me. If / when it happens...I'm ready. I've done about everything I want to do in 33 years and I'm grateful for what I've lived.
November 2016 I was told I had 3-days to live after contracting a strange blood disease in Mexico. The 2nd to last day before my white and red blood cell count dipped below 500...a hemotologist withdrew a blood sample from my bone marrow (extremely painful). He found the source of the problem and switched me to a stronger treatment and I recovered by December. Don't trust someone to pronounce you dead before your last breath. They were ready to do that and because I didn't understand Spanish back then...I really didn't know what was happening to me.
LaughingStock
Member
I worry about my mom and my cats. I don't care about death itself. We came from nothing. We return to nothing.
I just hope to die a painless death.
I just hope to die a painless death.
OnThePathToWisdom
Member
Tree of life - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
when slipping between veils, i also saw both my grandfathers
hard to say what was going on since recall of the event is hazy
Very interesting. Did you have any knowledge about the tree of life prior to your experience? How majestic was it? And how did you see it exactly (what POV etc.)?
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Punished Miku
Banned
When you really think through the first fear you have of it, or work in a line of work where you're exposed to it a lot, it can start to feel like a more normal part of life. In the end, you may die and not even be aware of it. You wont be around to be upset you died. You wont feel regret or pain or anything like that. You may pass away in your sleep.
People will move on; they have to. You will be forgotten eventually, like everyone else. Life is like playing an MMO, in that its never permanent. You ride the wave in a large ocean at that one specific time that the wave exists. You have your moment, and then it disappears. The wave will no longer even be visible when its gone, or remembered. The ocean will continue to exist the same.
When all that sinks in, really the only thing worth worrying about in regards to death is the people around you that you care about that are still alive after you're gone. You want to make sure they have the ability to live a happy life with the time they have left. The wisest people in my opinion are people that try and have some kind of celebratory atmosphere in the funeral, and even plan some of it before they die. Because it's really not about you at that point, but about the people left alive and trying to make them feel better and acknowledge you in a positive way that helps them carry on.
Or, if you genuinely care about being remembered, you try to live your live in a way that lasts after you're gone, or create things that last after you're gone. That's what great people do. They start from the perspective of knowing that they will be forgotten and life is not permanent, and then work to surpass that somehow. But that too, is really not for you either. You're dead after all and will not even be around to know if any of what you did worked. It's for others to somehow learn and carry on something you contributed.
Basically death is about everyone else but you. When you die, you're the least important person in the room, and everyone else left alive is what matters (because they're alive). So, spend time thinking of others and not yourself and you'll be well prepared for death in my opinion.
People will move on; they have to. You will be forgotten eventually, like everyone else. Life is like playing an MMO, in that its never permanent. You ride the wave in a large ocean at that one specific time that the wave exists. You have your moment, and then it disappears. The wave will no longer even be visible when its gone, or remembered. The ocean will continue to exist the same.
When all that sinks in, really the only thing worth worrying about in regards to death is the people around you that you care about that are still alive after you're gone. You want to make sure they have the ability to live a happy life with the time they have left. The wisest people in my opinion are people that try and have some kind of celebratory atmosphere in the funeral, and even plan some of it before they die. Because it's really not about you at that point, but about the people left alive and trying to make them feel better and acknowledge you in a positive way that helps them carry on.
Or, if you genuinely care about being remembered, you try to live your live in a way that lasts after you're gone, or create things that last after you're gone. That's what great people do. They start from the perspective of knowing that they will be forgotten and life is not permanent, and then work to surpass that somehow. But that too, is really not for you either. You're dead after all and will not even be around to know if any of what you did worked. It's for others to somehow learn and carry on something you contributed.
Basically death is about everyone else but you. When you die, you're the least important person in the room, and everyone else left alive is what matters (because they're alive). So, spend time thinking of others and not yourself and you'll be well prepared for death in my opinion.
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Me being vegetative and not being able to cash out.
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Foamy
Unconfirmed Member
Like a John Holmes great tree?
Tesseract
Banned
cursory knowledge, i studied plenty of the hyperlinked info on the wiki page
the eerie thing was my grandfathers, one i grew up with but the other i never met or even had pictures of
was shown pictures after the fact and it was an exact match
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hariseldon
Unconfirmed Member
Seems unnecessary but if that is your wish...
OnThePathToWisdom
Member
That's great. These NDE stories always make you think.
Tesseract
Banned
agree, don't gaf what happens to my body after i'm dead
carve me up and feed me to sharks if you want, don't waste money on funerals or caskets
don't even want a gravestone
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
I thought about it, and if some organs were still fine, use me to power others. I am already in the game due to transplant.
Also being in casket and rot away seems rather gruesome and that I do not want....
teezzy
Banned
It's weird to me that people always talk about missing their loved ones.
I don't see myself missing my friends or family at all.
You know what I'd miss though? All the cool new media and technology that I wouldn't be able to experience.
Humans are largely disposable for me, unless I'm dating them... but even they get annoying af eventually.
I don't see myself missing my friends or family at all.
You know what I'd miss though? All the cool new media and technology that I wouldn't be able to experience.
Humans are largely disposable for me, unless I'm dating them... but even they get annoying af eventually.
and 3 others
Banned
Blow me. Now KYS
The Bloody-Nine
Member
The being dead part is my main concern.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
I don’t fear dying, I fear being brought back.
Being brought back by technology in a future run by BigTech and sanctimonious individuals who would condemn me to some virtual version of hell for my opinions.
Being brought back by technology in a future run by BigTech and sanctimonious individuals who would condemn me to some virtual version of hell for my opinions.
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The Bloody-Nine
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Mobile Suit Gooch
Grundle: The Awakening
My browser history.
SketchyGamerMan
Neo Member
Literally nothing. I mean it's a change of state like water becoming clouds or vice versa. I only concern myself with now just as the cloud only concerns itself with the sky.
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Kev Kev
Member
id prefer to die without shitting and pissing myself but apparnetly thats part of the deal so... i mean who gives a fuck beyond that, not only is there the uncertainty of what happens after death but you have to piss and shit yourself too? yeah, fuck it, just take me im done lol what a gyp
appaws
Banned
Very materialistic. Ritual is a part of being human. The funeral is for your loved ones, not you (obviously). It’s a process that needs closure, that’s why every society and religious faith in the history of man has some sort of funerary event.
MetalAlien
Banned
That I might have to wait a very long time before it happens.
Richard Packer
Member
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
No fear. Mostly regret about potential experiences not experienced. The universe is a vast place - too vast to explore fully in one lifetime.
If there's anything to fear at all, I think most people attribute that to the manner of death - in one's own bed, with a belly full of wine and a beautiful woman's mouth around one's cock, at the age of eighty; or in a Saarlac pit. Some ways are scarier than others.
HotPocket69
Banned
I’ll toss your body into a dumpster myself. DM me for deets and my PayPal info.
MaestroMike
Gold Member
Only who I'm gonna give my savings/assets to. Most likely if I had a business I'd just give my dough to all my workers as a bonus and probably some to the schools that I attended especially my elementary school. Might use a chunk to throw a huge as$ party for everyone. Might end up dying broke who knows.