WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE.

Eventually. And that bugs me...it makes me cry not knowing what's going to happen. I'm afraid. I don't know what to do...should I believe in God even though the logical part of me is telling me not to believe in him? Should I turn into a ghost or a necrophobe when I die? What will happen to my body? What happens if I end up back in my body a couple days after I'm buried?

I'm scared IJBM.

>:3

I feel so alone at times. I hug my pillow at night but it doesn't help. The breathless darkness of death makes me stare blankly at the walls. I cry and talk to myself but it doesn't help...

My only wish is that before I die I want to see the world devolve in the face of a Zombie Apocalypse. Perhaps you could be a zombie?

edited 31st Oct '10 8:24:12 PM by SandJosieph

Meh. You cant do anything about it, so why worry? Either look forward to heaven, or the sweet embrace of nothingness.

Everything dies.

Can't you find a little comfort in that?

edited 31st Oct '10 8:25:41 PM by Shichibukai

Here's some things to consider:

Life's too short to worry about dying.

Reality is largely based on perception. If you learn to control your perception, you can make your own reality.

I'd complain about how this thread—and, more generally, the concept of death—creeps me out, but it's about a half hour till midnight on Halloween, so I'm just gonna roll with it.

I've accepted the fact that I am going to die and burn in hell very soon (from a geological standpoint) and have become a better person because of it. No more living in fear, no more wondering how I'm going to make it into Heaven-should it exist; I'm not. I don't know if it's the right path for you, but realizing this has made it possible for me to do nice things for other people because I genuinely enjoy bringing a smile to another person's face without worrying that I'm only doing it because I need them as a morality pet to get me on the good side of someone else's deity.

I go through similar bursts of despair myself. The only way we mortals can fight the hopelessness of death is by living a life worth treasuring, and sharing the experience with people worth having met.

Strangely, I actually believe in reincarnation because my mind simply cannot comprehend the notion of the mind simply blanking out for eternity.

Did anyone else think of that one .gif? We, are going, to die! =(

On a serious note, I sometimes worry about this, but I figure I can worry about that when I'm older. Much, much older.

Cryonics might be worth looking into if you're really concerned about this. It's not guaranteed to work, but anything that brings P(death) below 1 for presently understood values of "death" would help.

Think of it this way; you won't care about being dead when you're, well, dead. So why worry about being dead when you're alive?

Just do things whilst you're alive. And if you feel the need to cry into a pillow about it, well, er, I won't stop you?

Death is natural. It makes life worth living and interesting. Think of it this way, an eternity to do everything doesn't leave much room for those what-if scenarios, the advancement of humankind,or anything for that matter

You also won't care about being alive when you're dead, So Yeah...

Not to start a fight, otaku, but that doesn't make sense. At all.

I think he means that death is good because it makes life worth living. and, if we lived forever, the what if situations wouldn't mean anything because then you could do everything, and wouldn't be able to appreciate as much as you would like to.

I think s/he's talking about Who Wants to Live Forever?. Personally, if I were immortal, I'd live for a few centuries and see how technology advances. I'd want to die eventually, but I've got all the time in the world for that.

edited 31st Oct '10 8:40:48 PM by Videogamer07

Yes, I know what he means. It's just logically incoherent. On its face, it seems clear that the termination of life doesn't have any direct influence over its value: lifetimes being non-transferable, scarcity economics don't apply, and it seems odd that we'd prefer them to post-scarcity scenarios if we did.

I've also never been presented with a convincing indirect mechanism by which death provides us with all these wonderful things; I have, however, been exposed to a variety of concepts, such as adaptive preference formation, which suggest other reasons why we might imagine it does so.

edited 31st Oct '10 8:47:11 PM by Nornagest

I - I agree with Nornagest. Unfulfilled what-ifs are bad! Unless they're bad, in which they're good.

Simple.

^^^^

You might be right, but I'd rather had the chance to regret my eternal life than regret the lack of it.

edited 31st Oct '10 8:41:33 PM by eX

Of course, even if we could live forever, what if we get torn apart by rabid zombies? Would we still have feeling or would we simply black out...forever? forever? forever? forever? forever?

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I AM THE LORD OF ROT!!!!

THE KING OF DECAY!!!!

THE DEATH THAT LURKS IN THE NIGHT!!!!!!

This is why eternal life must be found. Now.