Embrace death or fear it?

[poido123]

Do you think about how you will die?


Where will you go?


Scared of it?



I'm scared of death. I've never been comfortable with the thought of dying and the unknown.


I have a faith of god, but what if I'm wrong? What if everything I believed in worked against me?


Would be interested to hear if anyone has seen the afterlife or had a near death experience.


Fire away

[iamgine]

...The Lord took me to Hell...I found myself in the cell, and these 4 creatures were in the cell with me...They were about 12 or 13 feet tall...it was all scaly....one had scales all over its body, giant jaws with huge teeth, and claws sticking out, along with sunken-in eyes...And the other one didn't looked like this at all, but it had razor sharp fins all over with one long arm and out of proportion feet. Everything was deformed and twisted and out of proportion...no symmetry, one arm longer and one shorter...they hated me with a hatred that I have never experienced on earth; way beyond what man has the ability to hate with...

...In Hell your senses are keener, you are just aware of more than our physical bodies are. I was aware of distances, I was aware of time...much more than you are here. I knew these things were assigned to me, to torture me forever in this place....

...The one picked me up, and the other one, with his razor-sharp claws; he just shredded my flesh right off. He just tore it off... It had a hatred that was so intense against me.... I wondered, "Why am I alive, why am I living through this? I don't understand why am I not dead." My flesh just hung there in ribbons. And there was no blood, just flesh hanging...

http://www.divinerevelations.info/documents/bill_wiese_23_minutes_in_hell/demon.jpg

[poido123]

^^^


:biggums:

[outbreak]

There's no god. Noone will remember or care about what you've done and if you by some chance become one of the rare few who do something of note chances are people will remember it wrong or portray you totally different to how you were (look at the Turong film and he was around recently ffs).

So no not scared of death, I'm more scared of people i care about not being there .

[fiddy]

Fearing the death is the worst thing you could do

[Dresta]

There's no god. Noone will remember or care about what you've done and if you by some chance become one of the rare few who do something of note chances are people will remember it wrong or portray you totally different to how you were (look at the Turong film and he was around recently ffs).

So no not scared of death, I'm more scared of people i care about not being there .
That sounds like death to me. As for those speculative assertions regarding the unknowable being expressed as certainties: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

[RidonKs]

death is the opposite of everything you have ever known

it is impossible to embrace death

though you can embrace your anxiety towards death

just don't try to get rid of it cuz that'll just make it double down harder

an embrace of death is in effect just letting yourself be a worry wart..

and not worrying too much about it






fear in its nature is unconscious and uncontrollable

well i should say no true fear is under your control

so the fear may make you "go"

but it has no bearing on which way you go

or it has the wrong bearing on which direction is most pertinent

so you run off a cliff






don't worry about it though

[fiddy]

death is the opposite of everything you have ever known

How do you know that?

[RidonKs]

How do you know that?
its intuitive to some extent

we must remember that we aren't just awaiting the mystery of death

our origins are equally mysterious

so equal that the process of coming into being, birth, is virtually indistinguishable from the process of going out of being, death

they are mirror reflections of one another




now ask yourself: what was it like before you were born?

lots of answers to that and i only provided one of them

it was like the opposite of after i was born

similarly death is like the opposite of before i die




to be clear, all i meant by what you quoted is that death is fundamentally unknowable, thus at the opposite end of the spectrum of knowledge you acquire throughout your life, knowledge that is necessary to make a decision such as to fear or embrace what is unknown....

something of a paradox i suppose

which is why at the end i suggest you grin and bear it

[UK2K]

Before we deployed, I always wondered what it would be like... to be walking and step on the wrong rock, or open the wrong door, or if I would be the one a sniper chose to hit.

But you realize, there's nothing you can do (besides mitigate the odds) if its your time, so just go with it. Eventually we walked around in sandals, sweatpants, and no PPE like we were in the Wild West.

If you're gonna die, I wanna die comfortable.

Memento Mori - 'Remember that you have to die'

Everyone dies. Everyone you ever knew or will know will die. It is what it is. No sense in worrying about it.

[Jailblazers7]

I had a moment where I realized that I don't believe in God about 4-5 years ago and haven't really been afraid of it since. Probably just my way to cope with death since a resolute belief in something (even if it's ceasing to exist) give you something to hold onto and get comfortable with.

[sdot_thadon]

A coward dies 1000 deaths.




In all seriousness I don't fear death, but I struggle with the idea of what I'll leave behind and undone. Having brushes with the other side snap it into perspective i suppose.

[Patrick Chewing]

Ahh the God and Afterlife topic.


I've always been scared of death, but I, as many others do, look for a black and white answer. I think as we get more advanced, we will able to prove that there is something after death. However, this does not conflict with my faith and belief of an afterlife. I just don't think the afterlife is necessarily pearly gates and all that. Afterlife to me could be another dimension or a continuation of life on another planet or plane of existence.


The Science is getting there though....slowly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11144442/First-hint-of-life-after-death-in-biggest-ever-scientific-study.html

[Lensanity]

You can't really answer this question if you have never taken shrooms

[RidonKs]

Ahh the God and Afterlife topic.


I've always been scared of death, but I, as many others do, look for a black and white answer. I think as we get more advanced, we will able to prove that there is something after death. However, this does not conflict with my faith and belief of an afterlife. I just don't think the afterlife is necessarily pearly gates and all that. Afterlife to me could be another dimension or a continuation of life on another planet or plane of existence.


The Science is getting there though....slowly.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11144442/First-hint-of-life-after-death-in-biggest-ever-scientific-study.html
smart man

neither embrace death nor fear death

just use it as a useful topic of conversation to link a nde study :lol

[UK2K]

A coward dies 1000 deaths, a soldier dies but once.




In all seriousness I don't fear death, but I struggle with the idea of what I'll leave behind and undone. Having brushes with the other side snap it into perspective i suppose.

Julius Caesar quote. I have it tattooed on me. :lol

[sdot_thadon]

Julius Caesar quote. I have it tattooed on me. :lol
:cheers:

[senelcoolidge]

More like acceptance. I've seen a lot of death. I saw the eyes of someone that meant a lot to me. She looked like she accepted it. She fought hard. I think when it's my time I will accept it as well. I just hope to have my loved ones near by. I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to go too young I still have somethings to take care of before I go.

[nathanjizzle]

please watch this video if youre contemplating death.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioFG999aOCs

[nathanjizzle]

More like acceptance. I've seen a lot of death. I saw the eyes of someone that meant a lot to me. She looked like she accepted it. She fought hard. I think when it's my time I will accept it as well. I just hope to have my loved ones near by. I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to go too young I still have somethings to take care of before I go.

i think holding on to life is a false sense. i think when you are going to die and about to die, you realize that you are moving on for the better, and almost glad that its over.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Death is the ultimate freedom

[DonDadda59]

Indifferent to it.

What the hell is the point of fearing something that is inevitable? Kick, scream, cry, plead all you want. Like a night with Kobe Bryant... it's gonna happen no matter what :crazysam:

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Indifferent to it.

What the hell is the point of fearing something that is inevitable? Kick, scream, cry, plead all you want. Like a night with Kobe Bryant... it's gonna happen no matter what :crazysam:

:oldlol: When I first read that I thought you were actually talking about Kobe going off for 81 which is also hilarious

[~primetime~]

When you have a kid, your views on life and death change drastically.

I fear an early death...My family depends on my existence. They need me. I want to die in my 90s, while sleeping. That probably won't happen, that only happens to those of us that are lucky. I could die tomorrow in a violent car crash for all I know. Or in my 50s after a long painful battle with cancer.



More than my own death, I fear the death of my son. If that happened I would never recover, I would probably be suicidal. Every time I see a child with cancer on TV or the internet, or a child that was murdered, or hit by a car, etc I just can't help but to imagine what it would be like if that was my child. It is something that I think about all the time and from what I understand it is common with most parents and it never goes away :/

Being a parent is being in a constant state of worry and it really sucks sometimes.

[Patrick Chewing]

Death is the ultimate freedom


http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OU6Cx5EVlBc/UXuHERothNI/AAAAAAAALb0/lkt9I8X3E3k/s1600/ied.gif


Look at all that freedom.

[Im so nba'd out]

Death is the ultimate freedom
this guy is a confirmed cutter + slipknot fan


nothing better than locking yourself in your bathroom with a slipknot album playing in the darkness while you cut your skin over and over huh?

[outbreak]

That sounds like death to me. As for those speculative assertions regarding the unknowable being expressed as certainties: zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Anyone who still believes in an after life is a clear cut moron these days.

[poido123]

Anyone who still believes in an after life is a clear cut moron these days.


Feel free to have an opinion, but people who have faith in a god are in the billions...


You saying they are all morons>

[~primetime~]

Anyone who still believes in an after life is a clear cut moron these days.
Don't be so ignorant. There are lots of brilliant minds with spiritual beliefs.

[~primetime~]

Why be afraid of something that's inevitable? Seems like a pointless exercise to me.
Everyone has a fear of death, that's why you're alive. If you didn't fear death you would have walked into traffic already. Or shot yourself in the head out of boredom.

[~primetime~]

Not being afraid of dying =/= Wanting to die

If someone had a gun to my head would I rather they not shoot me? Sure. But if there was absolutely no way I could survive I wouldn't be bummed about it. That's an instinct of life, but that instinct isn't fear. At least for me it isn't.
So if you had cancer, 2 years left, you wouldnt be bummed?

If someone put a gun to your head you wouldnt want them to pull the trigger because you're scared if they did you would die.

It's a necessary fear for survival. The fact that it's inevitable means nothing.

[~primetime~]

Well now we are just debating the definition of fear.

IMO, avoiding bullets because you don't want to die does equate to fear of death. You just like to call it natural instinct.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

this guy is a confirmed cutter + slipknot fan


nothing better than locking yourself in your bathroom with a slipknot album playing in the darkness while you cut your skin over and over huh?



Anyone who still believes in an after life is a clear cut moron these days.

Look up the concept of an "etheric" body.

[lil jahlil]

Embrace the fear.