Death.

its late so im gonna join in.

death is a part of life and life is a part of death. it happens at anytime , without warning to anyone. Im a firm believer of enjoying life as much as you can.
Me, i dont care much about my own death at all. Im not afraid of it. having a congenital disorder & being told you might die when you're a wee bab makes you get rid of your fear of death really damn quick. the thought of my friends dying or getting sad when i probs die before them is a topic that eats at me for days.
My thoughts of the afterlife is that it would suck big old nasty balls. One life is enough & the thought of a unending life after death really sounds exhausting and i want none of that shit. Ill take the void instead please.

Im okay if reincarnation somehow ends up being real tho. Being a tree would be a nice change of pace.
 
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Death as a concept scares the shit out of me. In most cases the scenario that leads to death is very unpleasant and potentially very painful. thinking about how your last moments on earth are possibly engulfed in agony before feeling nothing at all for the rest of time is one of the most dreadful things and sometimes it creeps up on me late at night.

Other times thoughts of death are comforting because you will have essentially ascended to the Buddhist idea of nirvana, a level of existence with no suffering.

Mostly I worry about dying before I experience everything that I want to, but I think that's normal.
 
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If you are dead, your senses die with you; so you won't even know you are dead.

Although, on a more personal level I've always felt that death is like a dream but permanent. So its like you'll be in a pleasant fantasy forever
 
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One of the strangest things to think about with regards to life is the fact that matter cant be created or destroyed, every atom in your body was technically once part of something else. That's kind of a huge twist in most peoples idea of consciousness. Would that be recycled too?
 
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Some religious people will claim they have no doubt that their loved ones are in heaven and one day everyone will reunite, but the very fact that they subscribe to a religion or a philosophy or belief they themselves did not create clearly proves that there is plenty of doubt in their minds -- even if they ignore it or fail to see it. A lot of people aren't in the state of mind, and in the proper position, where they are aware of the fact that death is an illusion, so they can't accept the illusory nature of death with no doubt. And a lot of people love to say that death is an illusion, but they don't understand why, or only partly understand why, and are just parroting other people with more authority. So they always hold some doubt. The thought of slowly 'dying' scares me, but death is nothing more than passing into a parallel universe, which I know is totally painless because it happens trillions of times each second to each of us and almost no one is the wiser.
 
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Ebola said:
Some religious people will claim they have no doubt that their loved ones are in heaven and one day everyone will reunite, but the very fact that they subscribe to a religion or a philosophy or belief they themselves did not create clearly proves that there is plenty of doubt in their minds -- even if they ignore it or fail to see it. A lot of people aren't in the state of mind, and in the proper position, where they are aware of the fact that death is an illusion, so they can't accept the illusory nature of death with no doubt. And a lot of people love to say that death is an illusion, but they don't understand why, or only partly understand why, and are just parroting other people with more authority. So they always hold some doubt. The thought of slowly 'dying' scares me, but death is nothing more than passing into a parallel universe, which I know is totally painless because it happens trillions of times each second to each of us and almost no one is the wiser.
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Hmm. Okay.
 
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I don't know if there's a god, I don't know if there's an afterlife, but in the bigger picture these things don't mean much to me anymore. I'd rather live in the moment. Trying to get some sort of handle on eternity (even if it's an eternity of nothing) isn't something the human mind is built for. And in trying to do it I feel like most people just end up making themselves miserable.

When I die, for better or worse, I'll know that what is happening is supposed to happen, one way or another.
 
I think death is one of the last big taboos in Western society.
People tend to ignore their own mortality, buying loads of anti-aging cream, getting plastic surgery, trying everything they can to "stay young" the nearer they are to the grave.
It's the same with the new "healthism" hype, people staying away from meat, gluten, alcohol and tobacco, and for what? To squeeze a few more meager years out of your wrinkly old body? Instead of trying to live their lifes to the fullest, living in the moment and striving for maximal happiness at the current point in their lives, they seem to desperately cling on to the illusion that more time will solve all their problems, as if they'll be scared any less if they spend more time ignoring the unknown.

Let's be honest for once: I am fucking scared of dying, and so are you.
 
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Im not going to lie, death scares the shit out of me. Not so much my own personal death, but that of all those i know. Its hard not to cry uselessly some nights realizing everyone close to you has the possibility of dropping out of existence at any moment.
Also I actually did have a near-death experience as a teenager. I wont go too much into details, i just remember it started as an unbearable pain that faded over a few days into a peaceful nothingness up until the surgery i had that fixed the problem.
Since then, ive got a tremendous anxiousness to finish everything i want to do before its all over.
 
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Even though most of us like to ignore it, death is everywhere. Let me enlighten you all with this fact: 99% of all species are dead, and some of their bodies have likely been recycled into the soil we walk on. Every lifeform on the earth, human or not, all walk upon a mountain of death (or swim upon? I dunno) so what's the use in trying to constantly avoid the topic of our own mortality?
 
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AlanRickmanIsDead said:
As you get older, your mind and body start to decay.
Once you pass a certain threshold, death becomes something to accept and even embrace.
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Are you old? I personally know plenty of people who got a lot more religious the older they were. Sure, they become wiser and don't seem afraid on the outside, but every man, young or old, feels terror facing absolute uncertainty.
 
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Are you old? I personally know plenty of people who got a lot more religious the older they were. Sure, they become wiser and don't seem afraid on the outside, but every man, young or old, feels terror facing absolute uncertainty.
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I'm old-ish, yes. And I do not fear death anymore.
I do fear pain and suffering, so death will be a merciful release from this mortal coil.
 
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