Your Death......

[The Speaker]

Never really understood people being interested in, much less afraid of, their own death. It doesn't affect you in the slightest, because you don't have to live with the consequences.

The consequences of what?

 

[Caesar]

Dying.

 

[Jethro!]

Never really understood people being interested in, much less afraid of, their own death. It doesn't affect you in the slightest, because you don't have to live with the consequences.

sounds like you have an entry for the 'things in life you don't understand' thread

 

[de_LICA_ish18]

Same here. I hope it's sudden and unexpected. If i die tomorrow, it'll suck for my family and friends, but shit, i've done plenty already. There's more i want to do but i wouldn't be upset at what i've done so far. The only thing that would really piss me off is not being able to see what the next Star Wars film is like.

That last part reminded me of my brother. April 2011 he was told his cancer was terminal and he had 12 months to live. Natutally it was a massive kick in the guts but the thing that really upset him was that he wouldn't see the next Batman movie which I think was coming out July 2012. He actually passed away July 2011 so didn't come close to seeing it.

I'm not worried about dying but the process scares me. I'm pretty sure it will be cancer. Both my parents died of cancer when I was reasonably young and then my brother. Cancer scares me a lot.

Death doesn't scare me so much. In some ways I've detached myself to the point that I cope well with people dying. Lost my mum at 5 and for so many years I feared so bad my dad would die. I thought I would stop breathing, I always hoped we would go together. Then it happened when I was 18 and it was really hard but I was still breathing and realized I could still keep going. Then for my brother i grieved his cancer but not his death. I was almost happy for him once it was over, yet his friends aren't coping at all.

So yeah I'm not fussed about dying, just the process.

 

[Mooster7]

Death is the nature of the business and the business is life. I personally don't give a rat's. Every morning that I have to work, I'm pulling my boots on knowing I'll probably see a dead guy before lunch. If not, then good. I don't want to see a dead guy before lunch.

They've been talking recently at work about these (non-mandatory) yearly physicals. I've elected not to go. I feel fine. My gf told me to go because, "What if something's wrong and you don't know about it? You could die." My honest response was, "Why would I care if I die? Why SHOULD I care if if I die?"

Weird Story: I had this dude in the back of my ambulance. He was only 50-something years old having chest pain. There was some ectopy on the monitor, and he was definitely having an MI. We were going to run hot to the hospital and hopefully bypass the ER and pop him right in the cath lab, but he was otherwise "relatively" stable and I was really expecting a positive outcome. We were ready to transport and I asked him how he felt. He said, "Fuzzy." Then he coded on us. F***. However, you can't get a better situation than this if you're going to conk. In the back of an ambulance with two paramedics, IV established, tube ready to go and defibrillation immediate. Your odds just don't get any better. We lost him anyway. We fought like hell (as you do) but we never got him back. Then I thought, "What if you could know what your last word was going to be?" His was 'fuzzy.' What if someone told you that? Your last spoken word on this planet before you die will be 'fuzzy'. What the hell?

But yeah. That was his last word. He never spoke another. So if you want to know what it's like and what it's all about, I would say it must be fuzzy. Because that's the first-hand report from a guy who was 2 seconds away from taking that plunge. Fuzzy.

 

[Papa Juggs]

Holy shit Mooster, that's as real as you'll ever get.

Actually watching people die like that seems scary to me.

We see people die all the time in the movies but it's not real.

At the very best you'll only get 110 years.

The best thing you can do is try to respect your own mortality and try not to think too much about it.

Don't trash your body too much or you might be that 50 something guy that feels fuzzy in the back of an ambulance.

Don't Blink.

This song is really emotional and deals with this subject really well.

 

[skilts]

i wouldnt care when i died, i havent achieved accomplished anything in my life, nor do i think i will

Except for a scarifying assessment of self. Good on you. Most go through life not knowing this is available to them. Better to live this way than in a deluded fantasy. At least you can say you've been here.

 

[skilts]

My ambition (and plan) is to maintain some sort of contact with the type of devious characters I've known most of my life. If it is established that I have a terminal disease which is going to result in a painful, drawn-out death, I will top myself. This is because I am, and always have been, a devout coward. My preferred method is a massive heroin overdose, thus the dodgy characters. Never having been game to try heroin, I want to find out what there is about it that sends people into paroxysms of ecstasy, but I only want it to happen once. To spend the rest of your life trying to replicate that ecstatic experience is the stuff of madness.

Otherwise, suitable pain control, eventually leading to a less hideous demise is OK by me. I have a possibly unwarranted feeling that not being able to breathe might be a bit disturbing.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

I've never had anyone close to me die in my 22 years. Pretty sure when it does go down, I'll be a mess, having not experienced it before in my younger days. Not looking forward to it. In saying that, I'm not too worried about myself, although I'll be pissed when there's a day I can't watch Seinfeld any more.

 

[Summer Nights]

I used to think about death a lot as a child and young teen and it scared the absolute crap out of me. Then I hit about 15 years of age and for some reason I just got sick of thinking about it. Since then, I guess the basic animal fear of death is there but it's never really front or back of mind. I don't want to die of course because I find life to be great and want it to continue, but I am by no means preoccupied with trying to wrap my head around the psychology of dieing or death.

I think my way of looking at the universe is very nihilistic but in a comfortable sense. I'm ok with knowing deep down that I'm just a bunch of atoms arranged in a certain way; that some or all of these atoms were used in previous life forms before me (fruits, animal meats, grass etc) and that the atoms will continue to do whatever they're required to do once my body disintegrates. In some way or another I feel connected to the universe in a scientific sense and this is enough for me. My day to day life is just a normal one, focussed on career, family, friends, hobbies, learning, fun etc.

I fear fearing death like I did 15-20 years ago. I wouldn't want to go back to that (I'm 29 now).

 

[bkozican]

They say death is in the tongue,
If you talk about death enough, then death is going to come

P.S Death is not a fear of mine, Dying alone is though

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it, you've got to go some time.

 

[FootyJunkie]

I think about it more now than I did before due to my father passing away suddenly last year. It really drove home the fact that life is short and it does not last forever. That just never really registered on my thought radar before, even though I did know it was true. My perspective on life has changed as a result.