I don't know about others, but I find that Death is a scary thing to think about. When we die, where do our thoughts and feelings go? The idea of simply not existing is, of course, not really something that we can comprehend, but it's still pretty scary stuff.
What do you guys think?
IT'S ALL FUN AND GAMES UNTIL SOMEONE GETS HURT.
A rather similiar thread exists
[url]http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1119118[/url]
I don't find death scary. What scares me is how it's going to happen.
I think the OP needs more content, and you need the search function.
I know it's silly but I want to believe in an afterlife with no memory of the past. Makes me not want to go and cry in a corner all the time.
I am not scared of death, just 'dying' Unless it's painless.
But actually, I believe you stop worrying about death until you start doing great things. When you know that you have a had a purpose in life, it doesn't go away in vain, so to speak.
A physical system is said to be in equilibrium with its surroundings when there is no net energy transfer, in the form of heat, between the two systems. I.e, they are at the same temperature. For example, a cup of coffee left to cool to room temperature. Everything in the universe is trying to get to equilibrium, including the constituents of our own body. When we are in our equilibrium state, we are dead.
Death is when our bodies reach thermal equilibrium with their surroundings, meaning no energy can flow between us on our environment, so no useful work, so you are dead.
I'm not sure if I just used [I]SCIENCE[/I] to make death less scary or more scary...
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxiLCMb6Q4[/media]
I seriously don't see what's with everyone being afraid of death...
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;32095101]The thought of not being conscious for the rest of eternity scares the shit out of me. I try to put it out of my mind.[/QUOTE]
This. Fuck now I'm thinking about it akjsfdfkjas
Thanks OP :c
Not scared of death, but i'm terrified of the coming of death.
I don't find death scary. At all. Life will just carry on without me.
Edit:
I don't think facepunch is the appropriate place to talk about philosophy, but there has to be more to life. Is this seriously it?
I felt like I was dying after I took a ton of DXM one night. I'm not afraid of too much now, but I never want to feel that way again, that was a dumb plan, and yet, and enlightening experience. I felt cold and numb and unconscious, my thoughts were grasping and chaotic, and when they weren't, there wasn't any at all. I gasped for words but couldn't move my mouth, and could just barely whisper out fragmented sentences. I felt like I was bleeding out, like the blood had rushed out of my body through some gaping wound.
What a fucked up feeling.
That's deep.
Talking about this makes me want to say fuck to everything.
English homework? Fuck you. I only have at the [b]most[/b] 60 more years on this planet, and I'm not wasting anymore time doing pointless crap.
[QUOTE=yuki;32095462]I felt like I was dying after I took a ton of DXM one night. I'm not afraid of too much now, but I never want to feel that way again, that was a dumb plan, and yet, and enlightening experience. I felt cold and numb and unconscious, my thoughts were grasping and chaotic, and when they weren't, there wasn't any at all. I gasped for words but couldn't move my mouth, and could just barely whisper out fragmented sentences. I felt like I was bleeding out, like the blood had rushed out of my body through some gaping wound.
What a fucked up feeling.[/QUOTE]
Why the hell would you get high off of DXM?
[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;32095695]Why the hell would you get high off of DXM?[/QUOTE]
Why not?
You only live once.
Which is why I plan to stuff my body with candy and jump off a building above an elementary school.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;32095705]Why not?
You only live once.
Which is why I plan to stuff my body with candy and jump off a building above an elementary school.[/QUOTE]
You only live once.
So I'm going to fuck up two hundred other lives!
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~~~deep~~~
[QUOTE=Smug Bastard;32095695]Why the hell would you get high off of DXM?[/QUOTE]
I didn't, I [i]tripped[/i] on DXM.
DXM's pretty safe as far as recreational usage goes, it's the CPM they put in the CCC pills that will fuck you up.
[QUOTE=superdinoman;32095705]Why not?
You only live once.
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Pretty much. I used to be all about not doing unhealthy shit, but now I simply don't care. You really do only live once, you have one chance, and one chance only to experience life, which is why my overall goal for the next few years is to trip balls as responsibly often as I can. I went from straight-edge, someone who would NEVER smoke pot, to someone who now wants to fill his drug resume with psychoactives, and I'm a MUCH better person now than I was a year ago, but that's not really the point.
Really, that's all there is to it. To answer your question; One life, not a lot of time. I've still got to drop acid, do MDMA, Salvia, Mescaline, and DMT.
If your question was more "Why did I do something that made me feel like I was dying", then I retort with: Even if the experience itself was hellish and unpleasent, I'd rather have experienced it than lived without knowing. I've never felt closer to death, and I never will for a long time. I can say, "Hey, I didn't live a boring and mundane life, I experienced, felt, and saw things that the greater majority of the population will never know, and that's pretty awesome". Death really puts that type of thing into perspective.
[QUOTE=Dwatring;32095733]You only live once.
So I'm going to fuck up two hundred other lives![/QUOTE]
During recess or at end of school day when everyone rushes out the doors and right before I hit the ground I'll be sure to yell FREE CANDY.
hell, shits gonna happen, we're all gonna die, it's part of life.
so, live life as much as you can, while you still can.
Inb4 Death lurkin
Sometimes I wonder if after death there is something that no one living has ANY idea about. Not heaven or hell of nirvana or any other religious afterlives. Not just the end of existence and the loss of all consciousness for all eternity, but something completely different that we could never imagine until we die. Hopefully it would be something super kick ass!
[QUOTE=thedeadfatbean;32096376]Sometimes I wonder if after death there is something that no one living has ANY idea about. Not heaven or hell of nirvana or any other religious afterlives. Not just the end of existence and the loss of all consciousness for all eternity, but something completely different that we could never imagine until we die. Hopefully it would be something super kick ass![/QUOTE]
The brain is a complex multi-part [b]material[/b] system. When that system breaks down any processes being done break down and stop too, that includes consciousness.
How about everybody just stops making these depressive threads about death.
"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
I think. When you die. You die. Forever.
I'll be enjoying my new life as a squirrel after i die
Why is it that everyone is afraid of death, but never afraid of conception/birth?
[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;32097275]Why is it that everyone is afraid of death, but never afraid of conception/birth?[/QUOTE]
Well for one, a species that was afraid of birth but didn't give a shit about death wouldn't survive very long.
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