The quandary of dying is being able to accept that we all do die.

[Rational man]

The quandary of dying is being able to accept that we all do die, whichever way we exit life.

And yet so many people are in denial , invincible, but in the end we all do die 100% guaranteed.

Whilst we fear death, we will find difficulty accepting it as part of the life cycle.

 

[bed]

Similar to optimism bias, people feel like they are less likely to experience a negative event when in reality we all have the same chance to experience it. People like to believe bad things won't happen to them and are immune to it.

 

[Emu]

It is actually what we are all definitely born to do in the end.. whenever that end maybe..

 

[ClownMe]

Whenever I think of death I think of Robert Alton Harris' quote before his execution:

"You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper."

In my opinion, it perfectly sums up our existence, were just waiting to die and death doesn't discriminate.

 

[Teddybear]

For me that fear of death is the root cause of our current Corona politics - and leads us from one lock down into the next. My life - yes, my whole existence - was based on my abillity to travel freely. I work in a profession, that is so stressful, that it can make even a healthy person get depressed. Yet genetic depression runs heavy and deep in my familly.

So I used to "medicate" myself with travels to pleasant places, after each year of stress and despair. I used to pride myself on the careful planning of my life. On the skills of a "have laptop will travel" jack of my trade.

Then came the 11th of September, the real estate crash and the banking crisis. Travelling the world turned into an obstacle run, and then my best friends started dieing away one by one. Finally Corona came and I found myself with no money and no job prospect in lockdown for over a year. I looked in the mirror and I saw an old man, with no more future left.

I earned most of my money back now, but the next lockdown is already starring me in the face. I feel the grip of old age and can find no answer to that one question: "Why should I go on fighting? What is there left for me?"

I know the answers I would get from family and the few friends I got left. But they don't have to live my life. If we go into another lockdown, then I will go into my final exit.
I fear neither pain nor death, for they have been a part of my life since I saw my father rot away, one limb at a time. I was 6 years old back then, and those were my "easy days" in life.

To fight for bare knuckel survival is as normal as breathing for me. But to fight if there is nothing left to win? Why? Because society says so? Because my relatives might feel incensed by my decision?

I don't care about their agony and I accept the fact that that is utterly selfish. But its *my* life and *my* judgement call to make. Fear of death makes no one immortal.

 

[Rational man]

For me that fear of death is the root cause of our current Corona politics

Your story is,,like so many now. There's many despairing people here in UK. The fallout of the pandemic has not unravelled fully because we dont know the end to this. We do know that in addition to direct loss of life, many people have lost everything including loved ones, jobs, business and more. In London, ctb is very much higher. Also people have died because they couldn't get medical treatment for other diseases. Im not sure global.governments have grasped this fully. Im a bit of a loner but its been hard on me. Last Year i struggled to find some food as selfsish shit heads cleared the shelves.

 

[Teddybear]

I know that in my current place of residence, next to nobody cares about the plight of "older single males". Politiceans here are dead set on treating Corona as a mere medical issue and for the economic impact, well you got government loans for that.

I did apply for one of them during the first lockdown - and then had the district attorney's office breathing down my neck because they changed the rules *retroactively*, so as to disqualify freelancers from economic loans. I mean, I was threatened with actual jail time and had to spend thousands of € to get out of that quagmire.

When I told them:"Your lockdown stranded me in this place, so I can't qualify for any other help and my temporary lease is under no Corona protection either" they truly replied to me:
"Just move into a homeless shelter then."

And then I am supposed to be a head case for wanting to die instead?
@Rational man - Please don't be sorry, as for me death is nothing to fret about. I wanted to die since I was six years old and even when I didn't feel "suicidal", I brought myself into life threatening situations many times over.

It was that fight with death - and my temporary triumph over it - that proved to me, that I deserved to live. I just underestimated that guy's ingenuity - and my own frailty to the obstacles old age and government policies could throw at me.

I had a long run and won a lot of victories. But in the war with death, there can only by one victor in the end. My surrender to fate is just accepting the ultimate reality: All roads in life come to an end.

 

[FuneralCry]

Of course we all die, it is our only true purpose. Everything we do is just a distraction from death. I think so many people have a hard time accepting it, as existence is all we know, we cannot comprehend what it is like being dead. After all, humans are programmed to live and survive. Death is the only thing I look forward to, I was perfectly fine not existing until I was forced to live and I want to return to that state of non existence. Death is freedom from all suffering and it is true peace.