Death

[Hopelessness2022]

Is anyone nervous about dying and what do you think happens when you die?

 

[Hurt]

I am not afraid of something that will eventually happen. For me, the sooner the better. Tired of being around trying to improve without seeing any change. But when I attempt if I ever do it I will be nervous because if I fail things wiml get worse.

 

[Idontmatter]

I'm definitely nervous, not going to lie. I've been really thinking about death the last few months because my suicidal thoughts have been so strong.

 

[Antigonish]

Everyone should be nervous about dying, because simply no one knows.

But since I'm a writer I love to toy with fantasy. I imagine we just change energy forms. Nothing dies. We just join the cosmic entity that is the universe. Unaware of anything but in tune with everything. Like how grass absorbs sunlight, then is eaten by herbivores, who are in turn eaten by carnivores, who die and nurture the soil for more grass. Just like that but on a much larger and more complicated scale.

When I die worms will eat my flesh. Then defecate me out. Me in stool form will go on to nourish 100s of generations of life. Death isn't totally meaningless. That's why I want to be cremated, and try to escape this shitty cycle.

 

[FuneralCry]

No, I am scared of life instead. There is unlimited potential for suffering in this life, there is no limit as to how bad things can get. I believe there is nothing after this, just like before we were born. In death there is true peace and freedom from suffering. I was perfectly fine not existing until I was forced to live. I want to return to that nothingness. It is where I belong.

 

[Antigonish]

 

[Antigonish]

What if whatever religion you believe in determines what happens after you die.

 

[looseye]

For me it's the uncertainty about what happens when you die. Years ago I read a paper in which the idea is presented that our brain can recognize innevitable death and preserves consciousness for a seemingly infinite time (kind of like in the Christmas episode of Black Mirror). Obviously we can't know if this is actually true but thinking about it still freaks me out to this day.

 

[Peaceisnear]

I wanted to make a similar thread as my day is coming. Telepathy? No?
Pretty nervous though not in I am afraid way but more of like excited it's finally happening way

 

[sadbadpsychogirl]

Everyone should be nervous about dying, because simply no one knows.

But since I'm a writer I love to toy with fantasy. I imagine we just change energy forms. Nothing dies. We just join the cosmic entity that is the universe. Unaware of anything but in tune with everything. Like how grass absorbs sunlight, then is eaten by herbivores, who are in turn eaten by carnivores, who die and nurture the soil for more grass. Just like that but on a much larger and more complicated scale.

When I die worms will eat my flesh. Then defecate me out. Me in stool form will go on to nourish 100s of generations of life. Death isn't totally meaningless. That's why I want to be cremated, and try to escape this shitty cycle.

i believe pretty much the same, except i want to be buried and become worm food. its time i give back something to the world.

 

[jusbug]

when i die i believe i will sleep without conscience, i didnt harm anyone, beeing unfair or conspire against anyone i hope

 

[The Divine Comedy]

We come from dust and so to dust do we return.

 

[Antigonish]

After Death there is nothing. There is no afterlife , no reincarnation no consciousness. what is consciousness? i give my opinion in this post.

Are we even really conscious when we are "alive"? I don't hardly remember anything that happened in the last few decades. The last 5 years passed by really fast didn't they? to me decades passed by in a blink of an eye: this is more apparent for older people.

Who can remember what specific things they did any date of 2020,2019,2018 and so on?

Who can remember what people were wearing the last time they went to the super market, the cars when the last time in traffic, what they ate every day of March this year?

Many think that consciousness will continue for trillions of years after Death. how so when we are hardly conscious when "alive"?

And the few memories we have many are them are vague , all of them are reconstructions by the brain and many of them are false memories completely fabricated by the brain

Our brains sometimes create 'false memories' — but science suggests we could be better off this way

Sometimes we remember things differently to how they actually happened.

www.businessinsider.com

How False Memories Are Formed

False memories are surprisingly common, but they can have dire consequences. Learn more about how these misleading memories form and how to recognize false memories.

www.verywellmind.com

What is consciousness? imo the few moments of consciousness we experience (which are soon forgotten) consciousness is just some low resolution model of the brain states , the result of battle between competing beliefs. Those competing beliefs are wired in brain nuerual networks each competing for the conscious attention.

Incognito by David Eagleman

This is a book summary of Incognito by David Eagleman. Read this Incognito summary to review key ideas and lessons from the book.

jamesclear.com

Is it me or does this post keep getting longer?
I wasnt tryna be rude. Thought I was just tripping balls.

 

[Hopelessness2022]

I'm definitely nervous, not going to lie. I've been really thinking about death the last few months because my suicidal thoughts have been so strong.

Same here. I've been thinking about it for awhile too. Having a mental illness doesn't help when thinking about suicide. My mind goes back and forth about it. Some days I think it'd be better if I wasn't alive and others I'd tell myself I can't go through with it.

 

[Idontmatter]

Same here. I've been thinking about it for awhile too. Having a mental illness doesn't help when thinking about suicide. My mind goes back and forth about it. Some days I think it'd be better if I wasn't alive and others I'd tell myself I can't go through with it.

Each day I think about it more and more which now I'm getting everything to do it or at least the stuff I'm able to get.

 

[Hopelessness2022]

Each day I think about it more and more which now I'm getting everything to do it or at least the stuff I'm able to get.

Same here. I got a bag of sodium nitrate and a bottle of sodium nitrite. Gonna prep both just so I have a option of which one I want to take

 

[Idontmatter]

Same here. I got a bag of sodium nitrate and a bottle of sodium nitrite. Gonna prep both just so I have a option of which one I want to take

My only concern is the vomiting because I won't have anything for it but from what I've read and what people have commented to me as long as I fast at least 8 hours it will get absorbed pretty quick.

 

[Rational man]

Is anyone nervous about dying and what do you think happens when you die?

No. We have a binary choice. There is or there is not an afterlife, Regardless, we all do die

 

[toforigivelife]

Those who have come very close to death or who experienced clinical death and have what are known as near death experiences have described a place where there are no words to describe how loving, beautiful and peaceful it is.

They have stated that all are welcomed there, even those who have died by suicide, and that everyone is given a chance to "come home", receive an indescribable sense of unconditional love, reunite with those they love and find peace and healing.

And then there are those who believe that there is nothing after death. That our brains are simply shut off and that there is a sense of nothingness or non-existence that we conscious mortals cannot comprehend.

It sounds like either way we have nothing to fear.

 

[Hopelessness2022]

My only concern is the vomiting because I won't have anything for it but from what I've read and what people have commented to me as long as I fast at least 8 hours it will get absorbed pretty quick.

That's what I've read too. I know with sodium nitrate it has to be in high quantities and for sodium nitrite it only needs to be a teaspoon

Those who have come very close to death or who experienced clinical death and have what are known as near death experiences have described a place where there are no words to describe how loving, beautiful and peaceful it is.

They have stated that all are welcomed there, even those who have died by suicide, and that everyone is given a chance to "come home", receive an indescribable sense of unconditional love, reunite with those they love and find peace and healing.

And then there are those who believe that there is nothing after death. That our brains are simply shut off and that there is a sense of nothingness or non-existence that we conscious mortals cannot comprehend.

It sounds like either way we have nothing to fear.

I read an article about a doctor who has studied what happens when someone dies or is clinically dead. He said that the patient who were clinically dead describe it as peaceful and that there were memories of loved ones. Other patients describe it as peaceful but there was nothing, as if they went to sleep. The doctor described the memories that the other patients saw was due to the brains activity of trying to stay alive. I tagged the article below if you wanna take a look at it https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ex...ens-when-you-die-sam-parnia-afterlife-evg/amp

 

[avoid_slow_death]

Death hasn't scared me for a long, long time. Overcame that fear at a young age.

That said, I DO worry about how it will affect those I leave behind. And honestly? I don't think it's going to have much of an impact on anyone. Are there people who care about me? Sure. But not in a way where it will affect them in anything more than a "that's sad I am sad better a week later" type of deal. Why? Because I have little to no value whatsoever. And please, don't tell me I have value or am someone because if I did or was I wouldn't feel so fucking hopeless right now.

 

[ihatemyselfsomuch]

I am getting a bit worried, my date is only a few days away. I hope it's peaceful, that's all I want. I just want to slowly drift asleep with minimal discomfort and then die.