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How do you view death?

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hamilton
 
Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 01:44 pm
what's your opinion of death?
scary? not scary?
what are your thoughts about it?
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wayne
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 01:53 pm
@hamilton,
It appears to be a rather humbling experience, at least physically.
I sometimes think I'd rather be dead than dying, but then, aren't we all, dying?
So I guess, when the dying becomes unbearable, then I'd rather be dead.
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Sturgis
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 01:59 pm
@hamilton,
I view it in the same way I did in your earlier thread along similar lines
of Why fear death>
www.able2know.org/topic/174574-1
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Reyn
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 02:48 pm
@hamilton,
hamilton wrote:
How do you view death?

http://photos1.fotosearch.com/bthumb/UNZ/UNZ008/u17872921.jpg
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ossobuco
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 02:56 pm
Sudden death soon is something I want to avoid while I get my worldly goods and various thoughts in order, re dispersal to family and friends.

A lingering painful dying is very unappealing, besides being expensive, and I can imagine then wishing for death to be coming soon. I can also envision not feeling that way, wanting to keep on going, seeing the preciousness of life all around me.

I've a preference for knowing, for at least a bit, so I can deal with it mentally, emotionally.
Or, at least I think I do.
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 03:36 pm
How do you view death?

as inevitable
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George
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 03:41 pm
I'd rather there be an exception made in my case.
Reyn
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 03:46 pm
@George,
George wrote:

I'd rather there be an exception made in my case.

Quote:
Human Cryogenics At $14 Per Week!

http://stylefrizz.com/200903/human-cryogenics-at-14-per-week/
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 03:47 pm
one of my favourite poems from ee cummings

dying is fine)but Death

?o
baby
i

wouldn't like

Death if Death
were
good:for

when(instead of stopping to think)you

begin to feel of it,dying
's miraculous
why?be

cause dying is

perfectly natural;perfectly
putting
it mildly lively(but

Death

is strictly
scientific
& artificial &

evil & legal)

we thank thee
god
almighty for dying
(forgive us,o life!the sin of Death
JLNobody
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 05:56 pm
@djjd62,
Sorry to repeat myself, but dying we will do, but there will be no death for us. After dying there will be no one who is in a state of death (neither subject nor predicate). I have no fear of the situation after my dying. Before birth was no problem; after life should be no more problematical.
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Ben Smith
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 05:59 pm
@hamilton,
Quote:
How do you view death?


I look him straight in the eye and say "**** You"
hamilton
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 06:00 pm
@Ben Smith,
is that the best time to make immortal enemies?
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 06:05 pm
I think death sucks but if nobody can live forever how ya gonna stop them? As jl says, once we are dead, we will simply not exist. So, I don't mind so much, if it will only give me time to finish wearing out this body, and not make me suffer overmuch when my time comes.
edgarblythe
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 06:06 pm
@edgarblythe,
A tip of my hat to Yogi Berra.
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Ben Smith
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 06:27 pm
@hamilton,
What's the worse he can do, kill me?

He's death, that's what he does.

Plus I have found in life you get respect for standing your ground, maybe it's the same in death.
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQH6Joj9-wDyQxRmZ0D2mD0xTMroRT40I26sLTAb8G8ADF60dOf
hamilton
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 06:31 pm
@Ben Smith,
http://www.vamp.org/Gothic/Images/images/s-death2.jpg
he???
i always thought of neil gaimans Dream series about death...
sorry, its a big picture...
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djjd62
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 06:36 pm
@Ben Smith,
"it's a Mr. Death, He's come about the reaping"

gotta love Monty Python

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nucko
 
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Reply Sun 31 Jul, 2011 09:48 pm
@hamilton,
DISCLAIMER: im not suicidal

I have no fear of death. If my life ended tomorrowis be fine with it. I feel like I've done what needs doing here anyway. Its a part of life, and we all die some day. It all comes from fear. We fear death because it means this **** is over, and who knows what's on the other side. And I guess you could think about all the things you may have potentially missed out on. Well imagine what we could be missing out on by being alive?
hamilton
 
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Reply Mon 1 Aug, 2011 10:17 am
@nucko,
weeeelllll....
im glad you dont want to kill yourself.
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hamilton
 
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Reply Mon 1 Aug, 2011 10:18 am
@Ben Smith,
Ben Smith wrote:

What's the worse he can do, kill me?

painfully???
 

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