I'm really too busy living to concern myself with my death ~ it's a 100% given i'll craok and No i'm not scared

and no ... not interested in the details of my death

JerseyKRS said:

are you fucking kidding me? please, to pull a line from a song:

"It's life that scares me to death"

JerseyKRS said:

are you fucking kidding me? please, to pull a line from a song:

"It's life that scares me to death"

it used to...until I got reconnected with my religion.

Most people in here sure as hell aren't afraid of lying.

Militant said:

Death is not inevitable in this day and age.

Within 30 years, the rate of medical advances will exceed the rate of "aging".

Death is only caused by decaying of cells causing parts of our body to age. There are many things that act as a catalyst to this decay - toxins, bad diets, etc.

We will soon be able to choose to live forever....if we want to. Of course it will likely be a luxury afforded to the rich...

Alternatively we can become cyborgs also.... a professor here in the UK has already done it and envisioned a future whereby non-cyborgs are a relic, kept in zoos....

I'm down with it.

But to answer the original question - no I'm not....but I would rather not.

who wants to live forever

Dewrede said:

Militant said:

Death is not inevitable in this day and age.

Within 30 years, the rate of medical advances will exceed the rate of "aging".

Death is only caused by decaying of cells causing parts of our body to age. There are many things that act as a catalyst to this decay - toxins, bad diets, etc.

We will soon be able to choose to live forever....if we want to. Of course it will likely be a luxury afforded to the rich...

Alternatively we can become cyborgs also.... a professor here in the UK has already done it and envisioned a future whereby non-cyborgs are a relic, kept in zoos....

I'm down with it.

But to answer the original question - no I'm not....but I would rather not.

who wants to live forever

I'd love to make it a thousand years or so, just to see how the world has changed, or if it even lasts that long. Mostly because I want to travel in space and I know that's not going to be available any time soon (even though that may be the only way our species eventually survives).

^

me too

Not scared, but I just don't wanna die before I'm, at least, 90...

what truly pisses me off is that, once you're dead, your body depends on the "charity" of others, I wish my body could disappear once I'm dead, like a Jedi Master ...

and I'm not scared of the afterlife...the major secret/doubt of humankind finally revealed? how cool is that?

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JoeTyler said:

...what truly pisses me off is that, once you're dead, your body depends on the "charity" of others, I wish my body could disappear once I'm dead, like a Jedi Master ...

I don't like that part either, or the part where "someone" has to come into your place and sort through your stuff, probably throwing half of it away. I would prefer, like you, to disappear like a Jedi Master. With my luck, I'll wind up being the cadavar for some first year medical students, or left in some pile of sheet-wrapped unidentified corpses in some morgue.

I fear all that much more than The Ever After. Ideally, I would sell or giveaway all of my possessions that I could within my final weeks, and then be cremated immediately after it's certain that I'm gone.

PDogz said:

JoeTyler said:

...what truly pisses me off is that, once you're dead, your body depends on the "charity" of others, I wish my body could disappear once I'm dead, like a Jedi Master ...

Ideally, I would sell or giveaway all of my possessions that I could within my final weeks, and then be cremated immediately after it's certain that I'm gone.

No, I'm not scared.

And no, I don't want to know when I'm going to die.

Hopefully, I'll die like my grandfather did - sleeping peacefully. I don't want to die screaming and crying, like the people in his cab did.

Timmy84 said:

I nearly died as a newborn so no.

Do you have any memories at all of any of that time, with all that you must have been going through? You must have put up a fight, albeit as young as you were.

PDogz said:

Timmy84 said:

I nearly died as a newborn so no.

Do you have any memories at all of any of that time, with all that you must have been going through? You must have put up a fight, albeit as young as you were.

I remember my mother saying I was fighting for my life. I was actually fighting against what was inside her to get out. I had to have a lot of blood transfusions and I struggled to breathe for a bit. Because I was so tiny, my mother said doctors told her to take me home because they felt I would be better off with my parents than them...they were right.

I think had I stayed there, I'd died.

My mom used to say when I was little that I told her that I saw God or something to that effect and God helped me live or something to that effect. I was so little.

Timmy84 said:

PDogz said:

Do you have any memories at all of any of that time, with all that you must have been going through? You must have put up a fight, albeit as young as you were.

I remember my mother saying I was fighting for my life. I was actually fighting against what was inside her to get out. I had to have a lot of blood transfusions and I struggled to breathe for a bit. Because I was so tiny, my mother said doctors told her to take me home because they felt I would be better off with my parents than them...they were right.

I think had I stayed there, I'd died.

My mom used to say when I was little that I told her that I saw God or something to that effect and God helped me live or something to that effect. I was so little.

WOW! What a powerful story of survival. Glad you hung in there. You're a fighter, no doubt.

PDogz said:

Timmy84 said:

I remember my mother saying I was fighting for my life. I was actually fighting against what was inside her to get out. I had to have a lot of blood transfusions and I struggled to breathe for a bit. Because I was so tiny, my mother said doctors told her to take me home because they felt I would be better off with my parents than them...they were right.

I think had I stayed there, I'd died.

My mom used to say when I was little that I told her that I saw God or something to that effect and God helped me live or something to that effect. I was so little.

WOW! What a powerful story of survival. Glad you hung in there. You're a fighter, no doubt.

Thanks. Yeah I'm always a fighter. That's why to me, death's like . It happens. People didn't think I'd make it past six months because of how tiny and frail I looked. Well I'm 26, 5'7 and about 160 lbs.

Timmy84 said:

PDogz said:

WOW! What a powerful story of survival. Glad you hung in there. You're a fighter, no doubt.

Thanks. Yeah I'm always a fighter. That's why to me, death's like . It happens. People didn't think I'd make it past six months because of how tiny and frail I looked. Well I'm 26, 5'7 and about 160 lbs.

I can relate to that, Tim. Thanks for putting it like that.

NMuzakNSoul said:

Timmy84 said:

Thanks. Yeah I'm always a fighter. That's why to me, death's like . It happens. People didn't think I'd make it past six months because of how tiny and frail I looked. Well I'm 26, 5'7 and about 160 lbs.

I can relate to that, Tim. Thanks for putting it like that.

Timmy84 said:

...Well I'm 26, 5'7 and about 160 lbs.