Anyone want to die alone?

anyone seems to list Dying Alone as their greatest fear, but some reason I think would actually prefer it than with Dying In Company. I have all ways been a bit of a loner but.

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I plan to take as many people with me as possible, so no.

Fight smart, not fair.

Apparently a lot of people change their minds on this when they're actually dying.

Me, I don't care right now. I mean, I won't be any more or less dead.

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well I would chalk that one to selection bias, for all we know the people Dying Alone are having a ball.

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I can't say it would be my favorite way to go, but I wouldn't mind it.

..because it can be arranged...

Seriously, what do you mean? Alone as in physically alone at the moment of death (both pros and cons there) or alone as in socially isolated, with no friends or family to mourn you (what is typically referred to as "dying alone").

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

Completly alone? With no-one to morn would be... sad on my part but since there would be no-one to morn and I hope to have been doing good up till the moment of death, well it would reduce the sadness, and thats not all bad.

This one does not understand what's so bad about Dying Alone. It seems to be better than dying in presence of family or friends...Their despair, their hope, their pain, their frantic attempts at comforting you do not make it better. At all. Does not let you forget about dying, to think about something else. And makes you somewhat feel somewhat guilty for leaving them too.

Ideally, this one would prefer to die in presence of a sympathetic stranger that has seen death before. If that is impossible, dying alone will do.

edited 21st Oct '10 10:32:16 AM by Beholderess

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I would think it depends upon the nature of the relationship you have with your family and friends. If you have found their presence to be of comfort during other times of crisis, then, dying generally being considered a crisis, one would logically want them nearby. If, on the other hand, their presence during emotionally stressful times just makes it more stressful, then not so much. Million Dollar Baby has an example of when having family around is not helpful.

Of course there is another side of the coin. When I start dying, I fully expect to have to help my family get through it. In some ways the survivors need more support than the dying individual may.

"We learn from history that we do not learn from history."

Ideally, this one would prefer to die in presence of a sympathetic stranger that has seen death before.

yes I think it would.

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The only time it is preferable to die alone is after you have slain all of your enemies on the battlefield and have their bodies strewn around you.

edited 22nd Oct '10 5:30:24 PM by MajorTom

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

I think I grew out of that when I realised the people I'd killed probably had families.

I dunno about die alone, but I would like to die forgotten and unmourned.

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When I die it should be either in my sleep or on smoldering heap of corpses of my slain enemies.

Who watches the watchmen?

That matters not on the battlefield. In honorable war there are only the victors and the vanquished. Choose your side wisely.

"Allah may guide their bullets, but Jesus helps those who aim down the sights."

On the contrary, I think it's something that should never be forgotten, especially not on the battlefield.

That said, if I went to war, I wouldn't plan on dying there.

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I think it matters on "the battlefield" (which is a mythic place since the battle of Kursk, since very few actual "battles" have been fought since then) because your killing human beings that you are opposed to, simply saying "it doesn't matter" is a bit silly.

And there is NOTHING honourable about war, its there to ensure your countries dominance and power over someone else with the least expense spared and the most of their troops killed without looking too bad for the international community.

I'd prefer to die alone, physically anyway. Seeing my loved ones there would make it far to hard to die.

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I hope to die alone in a vast forest.

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I don't think it really matters so much to me. I'll die in the company of my friends and family if it can be arranged and it's something that they want, but I'd be just as willing to die alone if they couldn't bear to see it.

Ruining everything forever.

Since I hope to one day cause my own death, I definitely want to be physically alone, so as to minimize the probability of Interrupted Suicide.

In the event that I die by some means other than suicide, I would still rather be alone. I don't want to have to spend my final moments feeling pressured to cater to other people's emotions and expectations the way I've spent the whole rest of my life in meatspace. Death is my last chance to be free from all this social bullshit.

Back when I was a teenager, I saw some degree of appeal in the idea of trying to use my death to hurt my family, but now I understand that how the living are affected by my death will be of no consequence to me. So I don't care if I have mourners, as long as they don't get there in time to "save" me.

I think I'd rather die alone. After all, if I die with people there, those people are going to be rather bummed.

They're pleasant while you're alive, but human relationships tie one to life in a sense that is at times constricting. I take comfort in the idea that a minimum number of people will have to cry at my funeral.

Provided they get the appropriate amount of time to consider their own mortality, yes. That amount of time is never enough: the sureness of death haunts most everyone, but almost never as an immediate concern.

Reading "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" exposes one to the dilemma of death: you want to talk about it, since it's the most important thing, to you, that you're going to experience. However, you have probably been in the presence of people who were near death in your life, and even when they were agreeable, the memento mori of the situation did not escape you. You wish to talk, but you'd have to talk knowing you would depress others in thinking about their own death. Provided you're not an absolute egoist, this is a problem for you.*

I'd probably prefer others care that I'm dying, since, well, that's the most likely outcome anyway. As it probably is for most people here.

* And if you are an absolute egoist, the question of whether you'd rather die alone or with people around is unnecessary since the egoist cares nothing for others.

I wrote about a fish turning into the moon.

When you reach a certain age there are chances that you are alone for a long time without wanting to be. So of course you don't want to even your final moments like that!