Board 8 > How much have you thought about death

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Its such a mind boggling, baffling phenomenon

it something I can never become hard to

A person or an animal cease to be what they were. They become things

the bodies

it becomes an issue of, what do we do with the body. Where do we bury it, do we cremate it, etc

They were once alive. They felt, they feared, they get happy. They can't do those things anymore

Its like...how ..does that happen. Yes, I know, body dies. But you know what I mean

and not only that..they just become a memory. They go from being there to being a thing in your mind.

I just lost my cat today. I used to be able to stand up and play with him, pet him, hug him as much as I wanted. I can only THINK about those things now. I guess this is where people regret not doing more things with them when they had the chance, but yea, I can't do that anymore, it was taken away

I can only pretend to remember how his fur felt or just thinking about seeing his smile instead of actually looking at it now. Its too much of a sudden switch

I sometimes think about what happens after, IF something even happens after.

I know people turn to religion, but we really don't know. I like to think theres an afterlife. I think we're too unique, we're too different, theres gotta be something else.

but at the same time, humans are probably just freak mutations culminated from millions of years of more mutations and we somehow ended up as we are now.

we were some sort of weird accident lol

I digress though

the point is, its possible we just end when we die. and thats a scary thought too. I can sit here, close my eyes and cover my ears and try to desensitize myself but in reality I can still think. You don't even think when you die. Its possible you cease to be, you lose yourself and disappear

Despite me thinking logically and even a bit cynically, I personally am a god fearing man. I just want to hope it doesn't end here. I know its about leaving a legacy and other MGS2 stuff, but ...it would just be a waste, like, 70 years or so is just...way too short. Ya know?

I think about alot of these things, especially this past decade.

It life 101. But when you get older, the older people die out. I remember my mom said all of her favorite actors are dead or they're old as hell now to the point she doesn't recognize them. Another comment I've heard is "you will watch all of your heroes die" same thing

I'm now becoming middle aged here in an another decade and I'm experiencing deaths way more often

so I'm now thinking about all of this way more often too

I know I'm all over the place but yea, theres alot to think about

how about you


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Not much

It's inevitable, not much use thinking about it

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way more than i wanted to thanks to my fighting topic. particularly Supernatural's death. asshole

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I live every day like it's my last

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pretty much every day for years

MZero posted...

Not much

It's inevitable, not much use thinking about it

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isn't being alive really the baffling phenomenon when you think about it

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The fundamental dimensions of reality as i know it? all day every day. death specifically? 2-4 times a week

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I've thought about it a lot more than usual since my grandmother died last year. But it's still something I accept as unavoidable and I'm not really scared of it personally. Just, when it happens, it happens. You probably won't even know it happened.

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Sorry about your loss, friend.

I didnt go to your other topic because I was afraid to see the diagnosis, but when I saw this one I knew.



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nonexistence is something I'm incapable of wrapping my head around, if I knew for sure there was something after death I wouldn't care much, but I don't and sometimes I'm kept up at night thinking about this

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Punnyz posted...

I just lost my cat today. I used to be able to stand up and play with him, pet him, hug him as much as I wanted. I can only THINK about those things now. I guess this is where people regret not doing more things with them when they had the chance, but yea, I can't do that anymore, it was taken away

Sorry man =(

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Shonen_Bat posted...

nonexistence is something I'm incapable of wrapping my head around, if I knew for sure there was something after death I wouldn't care much, but I don't and sometimes I'm kept up at night thinking about this

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nonexistence is easy, what were you doing before you were born? same thing youll be doing after you die. theres no use worrying about something that doesn't affect you in any capacity

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I always worry more about life, like, will I miss my chance and turn out a failure and a liability. It's hard to be afraid of a random death when it would be a release from that. But that's selfish. I know other people don't want me to die.

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kateee posted...

pretty much every day for years

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paperwarior posted...

I always worry more about life, like, will I miss my chance and turn out a failure and a liability. It's hard to be afraid of a random death when it would be a release from that.

Ha I feel the same but like the opposite. Death is what will cement my legacy as a do nothing if it happened now. As long as I'm not dead I can procrastinate on life!

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I was thinking about it a lot a couple years ago.

As intimidating as it is to think about I find it to be incredibly motivating and gives you a greater appreciation for life.

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I used to fear it, but I'm more resigned to it now. It helps that some people have come back from near-death states (not referring to the "visions of Heaven and the afterlife" but "I was clinically dead and resuscitated"), and that they consider the dying process to not be as horrible as we're expecting.