Death

• Shanghai wrote on 2013-05-06 02:57

  Quote from Sumpfkraut;1082821:

  You don't need to be immortal for that, just saying.

  
  
  You're more likely to do it if you were immortal because then you would realize any contact with anything won't end well in the long run as they cease to exist while you still do.
• Leopher wrote on 2013-05-07 00:54

  Quote from Cucurbita;1082515:

  My personal theory on this is that if there was, it wouldn't have anything to do with the life you have now.
  
  Your entire memory, personality, etc are all stored in brain cells, like a computer stores its information in its hard drive. If your brain cells go, so does your mind.
  
  So if you die and an "afterlife" begins, your brain isn't exactly there for it.

  
  
  What part of you would continue "living" in this theory? Can something lacking your knowledge, memory, and personality properly be called "you" at all?
• Cucurbita wrote on 2013-05-07 01:07

  Quote from Leopher;1083524:

  What part of you would continue "living" in this theory? Can something lacking your knowledge, memory, and personality properly be called "you" at all?

  
  
  Thats why I think life after death wouldn't be much of your life at all.
  
  I've seen people talk about the existence of souls. Now souls enter a pretty magical voodoo territory of discussion, so it can really be defined as how each person perceives it. At the very most, you could say souls pretty much are a copy of your physical state of being, without the physical state. In this case, life after death can exist as yourself.
  
  I've also heard people try to explain souls in a scientific manner. They say that souls have weight and a person's body becomes lighter when they die. I don't think this is ever proven, and there is probably another explanation if its true, but assuming that this is the process of a soul leaving the body, you are admitting that souls are a physical existence with matter, since things cannot weigh anything if it doesn't have matter. This tiny, near-insignificant amount of matter probably can't hold the memories your brain cells did, so its probably not like being yourself at all.
  
  If there is life after death, it probably isn't a conscious one. You'll probably feel like you're in eternal sleep, a vegetated state, or it might be like being brain-dead. In certain versions of purgatory, you go there to do nothing, think nothing, and just walk in a straight line forever. I wouldn't think it is the exact scenario, but it probably is the more accurate. I'll just quickly place emphasis that this is really just baseless conjecture thrown around randomly by my opinions.
  
  In Buddhism, you're reincarnated and your former life no longer applies to you, with the exception that there might be karma attached. In this belief, life after death "exists" but not in the western sense that you are still yourself eternally.
• Drifter wrote on 2013-05-08 00:19
  To be completely honest, I fear eternity more than I fear death. The idea of outliving the people I love is ridiculously terrifying.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2013-05-09 22:38
  Yeah, probably after 150 years death won't be so bad. Then again, the reason I like to be alive is so I can experience more joy, maybe I can live forever and be happy if good things happen now and then.
• Kaeporo wrote on 2013-05-10 01:46
  Those who find no peace in life shall find peace in death.
  
  If something is headed your way and there is no way to stop it, why concern yourself with the impact?
• Hanna wrote on 2013-05-10 01:50

  Quote from Drifter;1084168:

  To be completely honest, I fear eternity more than I fear death. The idea of outliving the people I love is ridiculously terrifying.

  
  this omg
  I'm overly protective of my sister because if anything happened to her.. I don't know how I could live with that. I think my heart would just.. implode.
  
  "No you may not go out this late"
  "No you may not walk the dog alone"
  "No you may not go to your friends house before I meet their parents"
  "No I will not just drop you off at the mall"
  
  If she sleeps in late on the weekends I automatically assume she's dead so I do not go into her room because I'm afraid of seeing that.
  
  "Hey, Jenny, go wake up Emily, please"
  *holds breath*
• Froglord of DESTINY!!! wrote on 2013-05-13 14:25

  Quote from Space Pirate Nithiel;1082031:

  I think death is one of the few things in this world that actually scares me.
  
  Sometimes I wish I was religious so I could believe in a heaven or whatever, but I'm not so I don't.
  
  When I die I will close my eyes and then never open them again, ceasing to exist and my corpse will be dropped in a hole to rot and that is terrifying.
  
  I would trade anything in this world to live forever. The fact that it could happen any day doesn't help matters any, I could die tomorrow. Or in 5 minutes. Or in 50 years.
  
  I think that, when faced with death even non-religious people will pray, you know, just in case.
  
  What are your thoughts on death?

  
  
  I think the same way, I experienced the awareness of my mortality when I was 10, it frightened me alot.
  
  I just hope within the next 50 years they can extend life with stemcells.
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2013-05-13 20:09

  Quote from Hanna;1085494:

  lotsa text

  
  Honestly, you need to change this. Your excessive protectionism does not aid her nor your wellbeing.
• TLCBonaparte wrote on 2013-05-15 13:23
  I love my grandfather very much and he died of cancer. (It couldn't be helped, and he lived a good life and lived past 80). Sometime I think do I have the right to prolong my life when those I love didn't get the chance?
• Quantity wrote on 2013-05-15 16:06
  I agree with you, I will pray to any god I have to when death comes to take me.
  
  Though I am not scared, since death is inevitable.
• RB2temp wrote on 2013-05-17 02:27
  I won't. What if you pray to the wrong god and mess up your chances with any of the other potential gods?
• Mentosftw wrote on 2013-05-17 02:37
  You technically don't experience death, just the moment prior (unless younot get the rare near death stuff) so itonly temporary and nothib to worry about.
• RB2temp wrote on 2013-05-17 02:48

  Quote from Mentosftw;1090356:

  You technically don't experience death, just the moment prior (unless younot get the rare near death stuff) so itonly temporary and nothib to worry about.

  
  Those typos.
  
  You still feel the pain of dying.
• Sumpfkraut wrote on 2013-05-17 13:58
  What makes you think death itself is painful?
  
  As far as I am aware it's only the diseases and wounds that are painful. I never heard stories about people writhing in pain shortly before dying on the deathbed.