The only time I've truly faced my mortality was in 2004, when I was deployed in Baghdad....between the small arms fire and the haphazardly lobbed rockets and mortars that our less than hospitable hosts saw fit to entertain us with on a daily/nightly basis, going to sleep not knowing if that night was your last on earth was a sobering experience....after that, and the other shit that you see and experience, I've learned the value of the statement "Live in the moment"...

it's been after me since the day i was born..
it will catch me someday..
it's probably missed me more than the 3 times i know of..

....scared?? not too much..

as for after i'm gone..
no sense in cryin for me..
but they just might anyway..

Im curious about death. Does our memories become energy? Do we continue after we die? In that means that our life can be a figment. We have created everything around us. People exist because of our thought pattern? or maybe i am just candy hyper.

yes i am..but i try not to think of it.

I am not afraid of death itself.
I am only afraid of 2 things:
-Pain
-Missing Ron (or being aware of his missing me) if there is an afterlife and such an emotion exists, and not being able to do anything about it.

not really.

Sure.

I could say "no", but I would be lying. Having written a thesis on the use of death thematics in art / popular culture and having a band that's filed under a genre definition that contains the word "death" in it hasn't changed that fact either.

DesireeNevermind said:

Yes I am. I already was as a small kid and I didn't know anyone that had died so just had that in me.

I had trouble thinking my mom would be gone some day and the fact that life would end for me and I wouldn't be able to be around anymore, that scared the shit out of me. And thinking that your body has to be either burned or buried in a coffin, worms all over, goddamn.

But, I'm a little bit more calm nowadays. I sometimes dream about someone I know dying and the feeling I have that moment is horrifying, not being able anymore to see that person and that person not being able anymore to enjoy life.

Yes, I'm not a fan.

Afraid of a slow, painful, lingering death...yes-

watching my dad in his last few days was truly awful

prb said:

CJanssen said:

Thanks hun, he never complained right til the end, he even asked us if he could "go". Sounds morbid, but we had a viewing b4 his funeral, as he still looked in pain after he passed. The funeral home did a great job, he finally looked at peace.

i almost did pass away in 2004 during back surgery but it was not my time & i do not fear death, so no. i have a lot of things to do and i have to bring plenty more smiles on people's faces and exp love for many many years before i can go back home. i do think bout losing people close to me. It helps sometimes that I strongly believe in the spirit, but still you miss the physical.

I look at death as being the same as not being born. In both situations you have no existence. So therefore I am not really afraid of death its self, in the same way I couldn't be afraid before I was born.

What I am afraid of is the manner of my death. I would hope to die in old age in my sleep, as oppose to a long drawn out illness or a sudden, violent death.

yes

I used to be until I became a nurse, now I view death as a blessing for some people. My first night working as a nurse, fresh out of college and passing the nursing boards, I had to handle the death of a woman who handled it so graciously. I felt so blessed to witness her exit, it left a lasting impression on me.

...very good topic DesireeNevermind..
..i used be afraid 2 die but 10yrs ago i had the "Rude-Awaken'in"...and religion help me face death and not be afraid anymore...
..i'll explain...
...through the ages religion has sought 2 G-I-V-E men both comfort and courage in the presence of death..
..all religions have developed sacramental techniques 4 meeting the challenge of death..surrounding the end of L-I-F-E with the halo of sacred solemnity..
.
...we can certainly not b rid of it by NOT thinking of death..but on the contrary only by becoming accustomed 2 it...by LEARNING 2 b at home IN it..
.
..thus we snatch from it its greatest advantage over us...ITS STRANGENESS...
...in preparing ourselves 4 death..we prepare ourselves 4 FREEDOM..and only he who has learned 2 die is F-R-E-E FROM L-I-F-E'S SLAVERY...
.
...as far as our own deaths r concerned..we should remember what science teaches about the process of dying..
..Nature herself gives us courage..
...when i have been in perfect health..i have been much more afraid of sickness than when i have REALLY felt the sickness..
..so shall it b with death..
...if u have lived 1day u have seen all...1day is equal 2 all other days...there is no other light..there is no other night..
..mzsexybaby'WOULD ANY1 CARE 2 GET NAKED??'

..MOREOVER...no man dies b4 his hour..
.
...the time u leave behind was no more urs than that which was b4 ur birth and concerneth u no more..
..make room 4 others as others have done 4 u..
...like a full-fled guest..depart 2 rest..
..the PROFIT of L-I-F-E consists NOT in the space but rather IN THE USE...
...some men hath lived L-O-N-G that has had a short L-I-F-E..depart w/o fear out this world even as u came in2 it..
..the same way u came from death 2 L-I-F-E...return from L-I-F-E 2 death..
...yeild ur torch 2 others as in a race..
..ur death is but a piece of the world's order...but a parcel of the world's L-I-F-E..
.
.
...i often F-E-E-L that death is not the enemy of L-I-F-E..but its friend...4 it is the KNOWLEDGE that our years r limited which makes them SO PRECIOUS..
..we r like children privileged 2 spend a day in a great park...a park filled with manygardens and playgrounds and azure-tinted lakes with white boats sailing upon the tranquil waves..
...mzsexybaby

...TRUE..the day allotted 2 each 1 of us is not the same in length,in light,in beauty..
.
...some children of earth r privileged 2 spend a L-O-N-G and sunlit day in the garden of Earth..
..4 others the day is shorter,cloudier,and dusk decends more quickly as in a winter's tale..
.
.
...but whether our L-I-F-E is a L-O-N-G summery day or a shorter wintry afternoon..we know that inevitably there r storms and squalls which overcast even the bluest heaven and there r sunlit rays which pierce the darkest autum sky..
.
...the day that we r privileged 2 spend in the grEat park of L-I-F-E is not the same 4 all human beings..but there is enough beauty and joy in the hours IF WE WILL TREASURE THEM..
..then 4 each 1 of us the moment comes when the GREAT-NURSE--->death..takes man,the child...by the hand and quietly says.."it is time 2 go home..night is comming..it is ur bedtime,child of earth...COME...ur tired...lie down at last in the quiet nursery of nature and sleep...SLEEP WELL..the day is gone..stars shine in the CANOPY OF ETERNITY"..
...mzsexybaby'THEORY-IS-GETTING-D-E-E-P'
[Edited 9/19/09 10:08am]

Yes, I m afraid of death.

Life and death are the same movement and how many of you on here welcome death into your life every day?

read my sig

No. I just don't want to linger or go horribly.

No.

My mother passed away 2 weeks ago. You think you're prepared for it, but when the time comes and you have to face it, well, it's not that easy.

DesireeNevermind said:

I'm more aware of the fact that this minute you're here, next minute you may be gone, sort of carpe diem.

DesireeNevermind said:

They may feel sad, lonely, hopeless... But with the relief that I will not longer suffer, that my soul and my love to them will always remain, and that one day we will meet again.

That's how I feel.





.

I don't know if I am afraid of it in itself, and maybe look to it as an adventure or great ultimate rest/peace.

Growing physically old is whole different issue... especially when:

But I am very stressed sometimes in that I feel anxiety on trying to get basic goals and needs in life fulfilled as the clock keeps ticking. And the hope that my dreams come true in my lifetime.

I wish we could be immortal

unaviodable, so it's a waste of energy.

yes

i lived a whole life just to black out into the void.

all i can do is wonder why.

DesireeNevermind said:

You put that very well I thought, sorry to hear about your mother and my condolences.
[Edited 9/24/09 1:26am]

Interesting that most of u have said pain and or suffering of death and ur loved ones suffering...and I do agree ..however .. For me at least that is tangible ... It is the unknown that scares me more...

DesireeNevermind said:

I'm afraid there'll be no afterworld..no sun, no never ending happiness..just absolutely nothing

NMuzakNSoul said:

my grandmother...thank you