Describe death without resorting to clichés.

[Kramer]

Part of why I haven't ctb yet is because the words to describe death aren't very inviting. "Eternal nothing, etc" sounds cold like this world.

I kinda wish I was still Christian. I'd believe I was going to heaven. I'd acknowledge I tried my best and God will forgive me because God is Love, etc (other rationalizations).

 

[SmellyRat]

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[Superdeterminist]

Death - the permanent cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

-Wikipedia

 

[Kramer]

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Lol is that the singularity?

Death - the permanent cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism.

-Wikipedia

I don't know how to feel about that response even though it's true. It's probably why I never liked science. It's just facts and figures, no emotion.

 

[SmellyRat]

Lol is that the singularity?

No, it's nothing

 

[Kramer]

No, it's nothing

Cool visual.

 

[Dead beat dad]

Part of why I haven't ctb yet is because the words to describe death aren't very inviting. "Eternal nothing, etc" sounds cold like this world.

I kinda wish I was still Christian. I'd believe I was going to heaven. I'd acknowledge I tried my best and God will forgive me because God is Love, etc (other rationalizations).

Death; a permanent setting at the all you can eat buffet of dreamless sleep

 

[StuFin]

It isn't going to be "cold like this world", that's a feeling or concept you experience because of how your brain interprets data.

You won't be capable of doing that so there will be nothing, not nothing like space or darkness or silence, literally you will not exist so you won't be able to think about your life, or remember what it was like here, or compare, everything will simply cease.

For you nothing will exist to experience nothingness or anything else.

 

[Kramer]

It isn't going to be "cold like this world", that's a feeling or concept you experience because of how your brain interprets data.

You won't be capable of doing that so there will be nothing, not nothing like space or darkness or silence, literally you will not exist so you won't be able to think about your life, or remember what it was like here, or compare, everything will simply cease.

For you nothing will exist to experience nothingness or anything else.

It's weird. What's the point of this life when we won't even know we were ever alive? At the end, a male porn star will be no different from a male virgin who couldn't get a single woman.

 

[Superdeterminist]

It's weird. What's the point of this life when we won't even know we were ever alive? At the end, a male porn star will be no different from a male virgin who couldn't get a single woman.

I think that's one of the few good aspects. I definitely don't want to remember the horrible experience I had here.

 

[Kramer]

I think that's one of the few good aspects. I definitely don't want to remember the horrible experience I had here.

We should've all stayed in oblivion. This is all a waste of energy.

 

[StuFin]

It's weird. What's the point of this life when we won't even know we were ever alive? At the end, a male porn star will be no different from a male virgin who couldn't get a single woman.

It is very weird, the only reason we know anything exists is because we are alive right now, a weird biological, electrical and chemical combination that lasts for a short time before ending.

What's the point and how does it happen?

We didn't exist at all and didn't know this universe or planet etc existed at all until we were born and alive, and when we leave we cease and won't even know we were here or what we experienced.

It won't exist again and neither will we.

Makes you wonder if anything actually really exists at all, a bit like if a tree falls in a forest...

 

[SmellyRat]

I think that's one of the few good aspects. I definitely don't want to remember the horrible experience I had here.

Yep, same here.

 

[Kramer]

It is very weird, the only reason we know anything exists is because we are alive right now, a weird biological, electrical and chemical combination that lasts for a short time before ending.

What's the point and how does it happen?

We didn't exist at all and didn't know this universe or planet etc existed at all until we were born and alive, and when we leave we cease and won't even know we were here or what we experienced.

It won't exist again and neither will we.

Makes you wonder if anything actually really exists at all, a bit like if a tree falls in a forest...

We're freaks of nature. If we emerged from nothing, who's to say it won't happen again eons from now? This all seems like a dream.

 

[SmellyRat]

We're freaks of nature. If we emerged from nothing, who's to say it won't happen again eons from now? This all seems like a dream.

 

[woxihuanni]

Your corpse shits itself and you rot. That is the reality.

 

[BLUE1970]

Death is still, silent, cold and solitary but freedom from worry, pain and regret.

 

[Soul]

After my death everything will be just the same, but I won't be part of it.

 

[SmellyRat]

After my death everything will be just the same, but I won't be part of it.

For you the universe will have evaporated into nothing.
Since time is an illusion of the brain.

 

[Soul]

For you the universe will have evaporated into nothing.
Since time is an illusion of the brain.

Nah. There won't be any "for me". Otherwise it'll all be the same.

 

[KiraLittleOwl]

To die means to join the majority

 

[Soul]

What's the point of this life when we won't even know we were ever alive? At the end, a male porn star will be no different from a male virgin who couldn't get a single woman.

... I find this extremely odd. Have you truly been contemplating a porn-star having a better afterlife than a virgin? Why, because of bragging rights?

 

[StringPuppet]

The end of suffering

 

[SmellyRat]

Nah. There won't be any "for me". Otherwise it'll all be the same.

The dream of being a person will be gone.
The ego will realize it was nothing more than a puppet animating a machine.

 

[OopsIdidntwanttodie]

No, it's nothing

you always crack me up XD

 

[Soul]

The dream of being a person will be gone.
The ego will realize it was nothing more than a puppet animating a machine.

No ego to realize anything, either.

A tiny surface bubble merges back into the river. It doesn't realize. It's not there.

 

[SmellyRat]

No ego to realize anything, either.

A tiny surface bubble merges back into the river. It doesn't realize. It's not there.

Alright smarty pants
Knock knock
Whos there?
Nothing
Nothing who?
Nothing

 

[Kramer]

After my death everything will be just the same, but I won't be part of it.

Best answer

To die means to join the majority

If we were conscious, we'd be surrounded by ancient people that we'd have nothing in common with.

... I find this extremely odd. Have you truly been contemplating a porn-star having a better afterlife than a virgin? Why, because of bragging rights?

Not a better afterlife. The afterlife could be ordinary for both and the male porn star would still be ahead. I don't know about you, but I like sex. I want a lot of it with very attractive women. Books, movies, etc don't compare.

 

[illbeinthegarage]

a return to chemical equilibrium

 

[Kramer]

a return to chemical equilibrium

A return to the periodic table. There was an episode in breaking bad where he has the components of a human in little piles -iron, etc,