Let's talk about Death

If we did not die the earth would be piled up with a bunch of stupid fucks with no where to go....

Death has been going for a couple years now, death and taxes are the only guarantees in this life.

The only thing you really own in this world are you thoughts and actions, pick and choose carefully... If you can master your thoughts you have mastered life, but good luck with that....

I am thinking there is something after you die, I don't think the lights go out and it all over. No one knows for sure, as we all on the same playing field when it comes to this.

Embrace Death it is the only thing you know will happen for sure in the future could be today or 100 years.

I worked the E.R for almost 6 years, got my far share of death first hand...
 


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Unfortunately, if we didn't die, life would be totally meaningless.

It's a bit like pick'n'mix sweets. When I was a kid, pick'n'mix sweets were awesome. I was only allowed them in a small doses, and they were really special.

Then one day, as an adult, I went out and bought £20 worth of pick'n'mix sweets, just to see what it was like. £20 is for all intents and purposes and infinite quantity of small sweets.

It was AMAZING for about 10 minutes, and then I never wanted another one again.

I'm pretty sure we'd feel the same way about life if we were immortal.
 
We all die. You can't avoid it.

Even if technology somehow extended our lives by 50-100 years, if you get shot in the head or get in a deadly car accident, there's nothing to save you there.

I agree. Don't think about it. I got kinda depressed today thinking "man, wtf is the point of working and making money if it doesn't mean anything in the end since we all die?"

I personally think there is no afterlife just as there is no beforelife.

Do you guys remember what it was like before you were born? No. But there has been civilization for the past 10,000 years and none of us knew it. And to be honest, for the past 10,000 years of nonexistence, we felt nothing. No pain, no happiness.
 
Danc1122 said:
Thinking about death is by far the fastest and easiest way to get depressed. I try to be ignorant to it. I mean seriously we work so fucking hard and the truth is none of it even matters once we die. Just thinking about it just makes me want to say FUCK IT and enjoy myself as much as possible. And that of course means hookers and blow, which would lead to a very fast downward spiral. lol

So I try to avoid talking about this shit because it's the ultimate motivational buzz kill.
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I actually believe the opposite. The more I come to terms with the very scary fact I'm not going to be around forever, the more poignant and beautiful today seems. It motivates the fuck out of me. I only have X days left of my life, so I'd better stop sitting around on WF and get on with it :D

Also "I" am going to die, but what is "I"?

My body? That's a collection of hundreds of billions of cells, all of which are dying and renewing themselves throughout my lifetime?
My sense of who I am? My sense of who I am is very different to who I was a year ago. That 'death' didn't hurt.
My genes? Those will live on, for a while at least, in a mixed and matched format.
My ideas? So will they.

Not sure what's left. Thinking about dying throws up a lot more questions, many of which are more pressing.

So.. bottom line: quit worrying about death. get busy breeding and writing books.
 
amateursurgeon said:
I actually believe the opposite. The more I come to terms with the very scary fact I'm not going to be around forever, the more poignant and beautiful today seems. It motivates the fuck out of me. I only have X days left of my life, so I'd better stop sitting around on WF and get on with it :D
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I do share that "I just have X days left" point of view. Then, when the day's over though, I usually ask myself "What does happen after the X days I have left?"
 
gbmack said:
Even if technology somehow extended our lives by 50-100 years, if you get shot in the head or get in a deadly car accident, there's nothing to save you there.
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True but if/when we have the ability to download MEMORIES (because thats all we are if you think about it. Memories shape emotions, thoughts, and learning over time) to a backup device, you're fine.

e.g. like your own data, you backup your memories once a week, daily, whatever. You go outside to get the newspaper, get shot in the head, you wake up next day from your local BIO-CLONE store with your last downloaded memories, etc and you carry on.
 
Roundabout said:
True but if/when we have the ability to download MEMORIES (because thats all we are if you think about it. Memories shape emotions, thoughts, and learning over time) to a backup device, you're fine.

e.g. like your own data, you backup your memories once a week, daily, whatever. You go outside to get the newspaper, get shot in the head, you wake up next day from your local BIO-CLONE store with your last downloaded memories, etc and you carry on.
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Thanks for summing it up in this way.

It kinda makes sense, a lot!
 
Roundabout said:
True but if/when we have the ability to download MEMORIES (because thats all we are if you think about it. Memories shape emotions, thoughts, and learning over time) to a backup device, you're fine.

e.g. like your own data, you backup your memories once a week, daily, whatever. You go outside to get the newspaper, get shot in the head, you wake up next day from your local BIO-CLONE store with your last downloaded memories, etc and you carry on.
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A clone, no matter how biologically similar - will never be you. We as individuals only get to live once, and die once. Doesn't really matter how much your clone feels alive, you'll still be completely dead. Your thoughts will cease, and you will rejoin the place you came from, eternity.

Circumstance, time, natural laws and coincidence is the reason we're here, and the same reason we're heading out.
 
If nobody died then the world would be entirely way too overpopulated for me to want to live on it, that's for sure. ;)

amateursurgeon said:
Unfortunately, if we didn't die, life would be totally meaningless.

It's a bit like pick'n'mix sweets. When I was a kid, pick'n'mix sweets were awesome. I was only allowed them in a small doses, and they were really special.

Then one day, as an adult, I went out and bought £20 worth of pick'n'mix sweets, just to see what it was like. £20 is for all intents and purposes and infinite quantity of small sweets.

It was AMAZING for about 10 minutes, and then I never wanted another one again.

I'm pretty sure we'd feel the same way about life if we were immortal.
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Roundabout said:
True but if/when we have the ability to download MEMORIES (because thats all we are if you think about it. Memories shape emotions, thoughts, and learning over time) to a backup device, you're fine.

e.g. like your own data, you backup your memories once a week, daily, whatever. You go outside to get the newspaper, get shot in the head, you wake up next day from your local BIO-CLONE store with your last downloaded memories, etc and you carry on.
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Nah, I'd rather regenerate than have to deal with a clone. One day we'll be able to grow limbs and organs back like lizards.

Similar to your backup idea, why not backup the state your body was in? If you get shot, have cancer, a tumor, etc.; you just revert your body back to a snapshot and it grows back to replace what is damaged.
 
Lol don't worry look at most old people. By the time you die of old age you'll be fucking over the whole life thing.
 
mattfca said:
fml .
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Couldn't help but laugh. ahahah.

Also "I" am going to die, but what is "I"?

My body? That's a collection of hundreds of billions of cells, all of which are dying and renewing themselves throughout my lifetime?
My sense of who I am? My sense of who I am is very different to who I was a year ago. That 'death' didn't hurt.
My genes? Those will live on, for a while at least, in a mixed and matched format.
My ideas? So will they.
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Exactly what I needed. For the moment, there sure is a grieving process I have to go through and well who knows after that. In a certain way I still have a lot to live, and probably will have a better understanding of the whole meaning of life when I get older (ie having children, etc).
 
“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” — Mark Twain
 
Death is no ominous calamity. It is a step into the auspicious brightness beyond.
 
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