[Bradford]

do you fear it?

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[A.Buttle]

ONLY IF IT TALKS LIKE THIS.

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[Bishop_Six]

I don't fear death, but I do fear being thrown in a jailcell with a big guy named "Bubba".

[Visigoth]

Bishop Six and I share the same fear.

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[sacrelicious]

I feel like i had an epiphany on this subject a short while ago. I had childhood fears of death equaling nonexistence; I couldn't come to grips with the fact that I some day might no longer exist in any form. This was a paralyzing, keep-me-awake-at-night type of fear. Then, a few weeks ago, I kind of said to myself, "Hey... that's okay." While I do believe in something beyond the physical, and hope that some new experience waits after death, I'm now comfortable with the fact that one day I might completely cease to be. If that's what's supposed to happen, and has happened to every person to ever live, then who am I to argue? I'm not that special. Of course, I don't want to die, but I don't fear death in that way any more. It was a very calming experience.

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DEA/
TH OF R/
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MORE.

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[Bugscratch]

I don't fear death, when talking about natural causes. I wouldn't give a fuck about dying of old age, since most of my friends will be dead then / will die soon anyways.

I would however fear death if it came in the form of a lethal disease or injury, because I wouldn't want to say goodbye to all the nice things in life, my friends, etc.

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A thing I was thinking about lately was whether I would be brave enough to decide at some point that the best part of my life is over and kill myself. It's better to burn out than to fade away.
However I likely wouldn't want to do this if my wife / many friends of mine were still around. But in a situation having no friends left and slowly withering away, I wonder if it wouldn't be the best to just put an end to your existance. But it's easier to say this than to actually do it.
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-bugscratch

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[peter]

sure, buddy.

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[Count Zero]

I don't think about death, and death doesn't think about me, get my drift?

[Duckman2]

I'm not scared of death but I really don't want to rush it. Know whatI'm saying.

[Spydur]

I was comfortable about the idea of dying till I read sacrelicious's post. Now I think the idea of not existing on any level is scary. Aaaahhhh!

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[Duk3Nuk4n]

it is proven that there is a 100% death rate. ahah everyone dies. i thing everyone fears death at one point or another. those who dont fear it are lying or scared of the thought. the fear of ph33r

[Realityshift]

I used to have the same keep me up at night fear of death because of the whole ceasing to be thing, but, in the last few years I've come to beleive in alot of other things.

I see this world as unbeleiveably complex. Each thing is simply a part of a larger thing, and within each thing are a million other things. These patterns are consistent in our own bodies, in nature, in everything. Why should a life be any differn't? Also, there doesn't ever really seem to be an end to anything when you think about it, only a change of form. Something burns and becomes ash, an idea is deceased when it prompts a better one, your time in school ends begining your time it the real world. Every end seems as a begining to something else.

As to what that something else is after death, well I don't know and anyone who claims to is lying, but hopefully they have the simpsons there too.

Death ceased to be scary for me when I really beleived these things.

[shahar2k]

"on a long enough timeline, everyone's survival rate drops to 0"
from fight club

people don't fear death... they fear an incomplete life

another quote I just learned
"If you'r afraid of death then when you die demons are tearing your life away, but if you've made your peace, the demons are actually angels freeing you from your life"

this is from Jacob's ladder, and possibly anyone who is interested with death should watch this movie.

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[Brue]

i dont fear death but if i were to tell you why we would get into another giant flame war

[kig]

My view: no afterlife, you turn from a refinery to raw material and your persona ceases to exists and donates to the entropy of the universe. Then maybe one day when this stupid quantum anomaly of a universe blinks out of existence so do your atoms and you're finally totally destroyed. Unless there's some freaky real-time that you leave a fingerprint into. Anyhow, it's not like your existence means anything. So who cares.

And if god is brought into this matter, let's just say that for an omnipotent being to exist, it would need energy to do it's stuff. And with that energy-matter conversion stuff, it would probably consist of matter and energy. And to be omnipotent, it'd need to have as much or more energy as there is in the universe. Which brings us to a pantheistic view. And philosophically, an omnipotent being could make a being that's more powerful than itself, which would make the it non-omnipotent. Silly la la la I'm too tired to typo any more of this crap.

[Count Zero]

kig, you might wanna check out one of the philosophy campfire threads some months back for a major figh- uh, "discussion" about the nature of god and religion.

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[kig]

then again, I might not want to. this issue has been talked to death and i cherish in the flawed integrity of my view of the world too much to introduce any revolutionary concepts to it.

[Sloth]

I Do not fear death, DEATH FEARS ME MUAHAHAH