Discussion Have you really thought about DEATH?

[Deleted member 1768]

I mean, have you?

Have you realized about the fact that you won't EXIST anymore in this world? (probably)
I mean, you might believe in some kind of afterlife but nobody can be 100% sure about that!

This thought is making me go crazy!

Not to exist...just, WOOOWWW!! This is too much to cope with!


Note: I know, you could easily answer that dying is just like the time before we were born but still, once you're conscious about this planet and the universe, it feels so strange and unexplainable!

That is what I wish for. Complete release. Just...nothing. Wonderful thought for me. Hugs WornOutLife.

 

[signifying nothing]

I think that death is beyond our comprehension, seeing as though once we're dead we no longer have this brain with which to comprehend anything?

 

[x~Sophia~x]

I think that death is beyond our comprehension, seeing as though once we're dead we no longer have this brain with which to comprehend anything?

Hopefully, coz my brain's already fu*ked, I don't think it could withstand yet another life

 

[Deleted member 1768]

Hopefully, coz my brain's already fu*ked, I don't think it could withstand yet another life

At least there is no memory when reincarnated. I would prefer nothingness, but complete erasure of memory is better than mythical heaven/hell. Nope I want no more of living.

 

[Nodscene]

I've definitely thought about it when I was a teen and I truly believe that once we die that's it. We cease to exist. Wether it actually confirms my suspicions I died for an unknown period of time (long enough to be put on life support and they thought I'd be brain dead). I went from a short period of time of the most amazing feeling of peace I've ever known and then absolutely nothing.

I can't wait to go back :)

 

[EmbraceOfTheVoid]

Yes


I haven't watched the movie, but from the wikipedia it pretty much seems like what I would want were it is your experience. Although , in the movie it seems that you can't "edit" yourself. you just get jammed into whatever you think up which sounds pretty bad.

From what I remember the main character in the movie meets his daughter in Heaven as a entirely different person; at the very least she chose to look like a different person.

 

[JayDog]

Yes, I've thought a lot about it, even as a child. For most of the people, I guess it is scary, I remember how I used to be afraid of it (how silly it sounds to me now).
One of very few good things about my mental health now is that atleast I'm not scared of it whatever happens.
Also do you ever think that in about 100 years everyone you know will be dead and gone for good? How crazy is that!

 

[fred farkle]

I encounter non-human death on a daily basis at work, and this has definitely diminished if not completely eliminated any fears I might have had about death and what comes after.

are you a cop in the ghetto?

 

[Nymph]

Yeah I think about it a lot. At first it used to scare my that there would be absolutely nothing, no consciousness, no me, nothing.. but now I find comfort in it. Just simply not existing is awesome, it's gonna be as if I was never born.

 

[140 bpm]

When I'm just sitting and staring into horizon, I'm thinking that this ocean and seagulls will still be taking a part in sunset show even after I'll be not present here, it feels so peaceful.

most likely, there're gonna be some other seagulls, but ocean and sun will be the same, nothing really gonna change.

reality still gonna act same way, just without my subjective view. It's gonna b ok

 

[stygal]

It's kinda unsettling in a way that all of those struggles were for nothing and none of my knowledge or thoughts will remain.

I wish someone told me this as a child instead of "feeding" me this "you need to do better/need to be productive all the time to have decent life"-bullshit. That only created unnecessary stress in my head.

I also wish I had enjoyed my free time or special moments I shared with certain people more.

Now it's too late and I'm already at the end of my unsatisfying time here on earth.

 

[Misantrope]

I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid of the process of dying, precisely of the pain and suffering. That's why I'm still alive.

I don't believe in the concept of afterlife. In my opinion death is the void and our souls are our brains. After our brain ceases functioning we no longer exist..

So yeh, the thought of not existing doesn't really bother me. I'm afraid of the miserable existence..

 

[Sherri]

Almost everyday hun. Everyday she tries to come and get me and I fight her off, until when I'm unsure.

 

[Endeavour]

Being dead doesn't phase me at all, I think it will be a nothingness (I hope), but the actual dying bit.. hmm, yeah, scares the shit outta me.

That's me too, being dead there will be nothing so it won't feel like anything, it's just getting there that's the problem.

 

[nowhere2befound]

I have been thinking about death a lot when i was a child even and the thought used to teriffy me. I came to peace with it a long time ago. What i found was quite astonishing for me is that what i will call 'mentaly healthy' people don't come up with those thoughts until much later in their lives. There is some sort of a pattern to it and it is triggered by something. Since i was a kid I don't know what caused me those thoughts but people that get them later in life have almost direct cause. After that came all these other things where i started not just doubting everything but also believing it all. Coming to the place i am at now with my mind there unfortunately is no way back making me not afraid of death at all, not even dying itself. The only thing left is SI and that's it. That's the main purpose of the brain i think and it will be there even after everything is gone in us.

 

[Endeavour]

SI is a biatch!

 

[Pookie]

Yeah, I already feel dead inside.

 

[sadworld]

I actually think we still exist after death. We won't have a human form of existence but some other one. I don't believe in god or heaven and hell but consciousness is much more complicated than we think.

 

[yetme]

I think general anesthesia offers the best clue because it's the closest the brain gets to death without being dead. And there are no memories or even perception of lost time. It's just nothingness.

and then you awake... continuity of consciousness

 

[Symbiote]

I'll let you guys know one day when I come back as a ghost. I don't think about death as a negative thing, it's part of the natural cycle and that death doesn't discriminate. Death always will be there for you, with open arms. Death always wins at the end. It's okay to be fearful of death, because death understands, but can soothe your worries with an endless shroud of darkness.

 

[AlternativeHealer2]

The elite are hiding the nature of our reality, therefore, it's highly likely that they are also hiding who or what we are. You can bet your bottom dollar that the truth has nothing to do with the fairy tales given to us by either science or religion

 

[L951788]

The elite are hiding the nature of our reality, therefore, it's highly likely that they are also hiding who or what we are. You can bet your bottom dollar that the truth has nothing to do with fairy tales given to us by either science or religion

Lol I like this conspiracy theory

 

[Symbiote]

The elite are hiding the nature of our reality, therefore, it's highly likely that they are also hiding who or what we are. You can bet your bottom dollar that the truth has nothing to do with the fairy tales given to us by either science or religion

The answer lies within Kanye West....he has the keys to the inner workings of life for he is one of the elites.

 

[Green Destiny]

I've thought about death plenty. For me, when you die you just go back to not existing. Your body gets left behind but your consciousness goes away. But that's just my take on what comes after, people can believe what ever they want.

 

[Darrenloses]

Once you're dead you cease to exist, enveloped in darkness.. my opinion.... I wish I had the same courage to ctb as LetzteAusfahrt I don't think he believed in an afterlife but he looked forward to seeing what came after death, I miss his posts.

 

[WornOutLife]

Once you're dead you cease to exist, enveloped in darkness.. my opinion.... I wish I had the same courage to ctb as LetzteAusfahrt I don't think he believed in an afterlife but he looked forward to seeing what came after death, I miss his posts.

He ctb like a boss.
Excellent plan, he was quiet and calm, livestream and then goodbye world.
I wish I could be as determined as he was!

 

[Girliwanttokillmysel]

I mean, have you?

Have you realized about the fact that you won't EXIST anymore in this world? (probably)
I mean, you might believe in some kind of afterlife but nobody can be 100% sure about that!

This thought is making me go crazy!

Not to exist...just, WOOOWWW!! This is too much to cope with!


Note: I know, you could easily answer that dying is just like the time before we were born but still, once you're conscious about this planet and the universe, it feels so strange and unexplainable!

Yes a lot actually, I've been cutting for 4 days I think, my arms and hands are full of big red scars but I like it I enjoy the pain, I've thought about dying for a month at least! I still think about how people would react if I were gone and things like that but I realise no ine except my family and my bestfriend would really be touched by my death, people showed me and made me understand maybe not intentionally that I am not an important person, if I die it's gonna be a few tears to yk show "sympathy/respect" but 3days later back to normal... :)

 

[hoffnungstod]

I'm not afraid of death as a state. Sometimes I'm more scared about the finality of death, because I don't believe in any afterlife. Thats often on my mind.
What I'm really afraid of is the dying process...

 

[Deleted member 17949]

I do think about this a lot, I have to say I like the idea and don't find it very scary

 

[paininme]

I've thought about it, and continue to challenge my thinking on the broad topic.
physical sensation in moments of dying? honestly, that one doesn't really trouble me. I can't say I can predict every outcome, but I'd think it's somewhat dependent on whether or not one is aware death is what's imminent, and if death was one's goal or not. I'd think the physical sensation aspect and the thought/feeling process would play into each other and of course be highly unique to individual experiences.
the aftermath, in terms of affect on people still living? people will deal with/process death and grieve in their own unique ways. as much as I'd love everyone to intimately and completely understand my level of comfort and take solace in that, that's not realistic to happen. people might respect whatever (if anything) one might want done with their remains/with regard to services, and they might choose not to respect one's wishes if they were aware of them. when I contemplate affected others, unfortunate as it may be, how they might think about and process things is not something I feel I can sway.
the aftermath, on my remains? I know what I would and wouldn't want done. ultimately, it's just flesh we decorate while we're living in.
the aftermath, mentally/philosophically, 'what's next?'? that one stumps me and keeps me guessing. I do adhere to a belief system, but there is always discussion with regard to the existence of an afterlife and what, if anything, that might entail. personally, the knowledge that I won't know until it happens, if I have any awareness at all, is comforting. the thought of reincarnation isn't exactly an idea I love - but then, there's suggestion that past life information is generally, relatively inaccessible. even if one were to be reincarnated into another human life, not 5 minutes post mortem, with no knowledge of just having died, to exist in yet another less than enjoyable situation, one still would not be conscious of past suffering, as that theory goes, unless copious amounts of effort were put in to learn about past lives. and even then, one rarely would be able to recount exactly the way that life was experienced. and then I dwell equally on the notion of oblivion/nothing/a numb unconscious void, which frankly often seems the most plausible to me, and might even be able to coexist with the reincarnation theories as one's experience in this, their current body, would become a virtually inaccessible set of memories.
the world and the people I know/knew going forward, detached from the grief aspect? that's another I return to to consider. how many generations before everyone I knew, and everyone who had been told about my life, are gone as well? people so often talk about their departed friends and family etc., about that person's memory being the last living aspect of their life, and to an extent I can understand, but that's only continuing my existence in someone else's mind, likely misinterpreted in at least one aspect to some degree. it's whatever narrative people carry on about the dead person that becomes temporarily preserved in memory - inaccuracies, I would think, are likely.

so, yes, I think about the topic in trying to create sub-topics to ponder.
in my thinking, the running theme is that.. there is no running theme. individuality is a primary factor in this inconsistency.

I love how you write, you are very intelligent I really enjoyed reading your views