Death

[Jersay]

So what is wrong with death.

Now for some people it is sad, and if you get into the nitty gritty it is real sad for the family of someone who dies to be that sad. They have lost a mother or a father, a sole-bread winner maybe a grandparent a friend, a cousin a sister a brother and the list goes on and on.

But I just don't understand it. Why be sad? And the other question why do some people, not all fear death?

I'll start with the first, now lets say all biblical and all religious after life places were correct. So if a Hindu you are reincarnated, Christian you go to Heaven or Hell, Aethist you float around in some dark cool place with all other dead aethists. Muslim you get to go to Paradise

with my religion you get to go to Valhalla, if you die in combat and get a suckling pig each day. And a big breasted woman.

But that's not the point, the point is so if all this stuff was accurate if a family member dies why be sad. Yeah your not going to see them again but they are in a happier place now they are away from the chaos that is occuring on Earth.

And why do some people fear death?? With a closing something new has to be open.

Can anyone help me on this subject.

 

[Finder]

It's easy to find something worth dying for. Do you have anything worth living for?

 

[fuzzylogix]

I dont fear the dying. I have tried to pack in as much as I can in my life and have got a lot out of it all ready. Once you are dead you are dead. But I worry over how loved ones who depend on you and need you would cope, and the sadness and fear I feel over my death is only for the sadness and fear that it would bring to them.

But then again, maybe they'd have a big party....

 

[Jersay]

Interesting. Thanks for your post fuzzylogix.

And where does the quote come from Finder??

 

[dekhqonbacha]

me, I don't fear death. But I'm scared of my imagination.

 

[Jersay]

Well I am glad you don't fear death dekhqonbacha. But are you sad when another person dies??

I myself I don't fear death, even though I've got a lot to live for. I have to be U.N Secretary General.

However, I get to go to Valhalla so that is one plus to death.

 

[Canucklehead]

I don't personally fear death, not in the least. I have lived my life,so far, to be as fun as possible without excess so there's no regrets there. There may or may not be reincarnation or what have you but I believe in the theory that energy is neither created nor destroyed. Add to that other beliefs like genetic memory and ghosts and I can't see anything to be fearful of, it's not like I'd know it in any way comprehensible now if it turned out to be a void anyway.

As for feeling sad when someone I know dies; not particularly. I am happy for them and take time to be sad for MY loss and the others left behind since wherever they are is likely better than here. There is a slight caveat; if the person is older or sick when they die I am genuinely happy for them. If they were healthy and young it doesn't sit as well... but not to a point of sadness for them.

 

[Vereya]

I am not scared of dying, because I know that I will go to Veles' fields, I know the right way to die and to say good-bye to this world and to everyone I leave here. But I can understand why a lot of people are afraid of dying. They just don't know what is going to happen to them. Very few religions really explain what is going to happen after you take your last breath, and the explanations that exist are usually very vague and contradictory. And as for atheists - their belief is that they just stop existing after death, so that is what scares them, I guess.
And as for being sad for a person who dies, I think that it is mostly egoistical sadness. You are mostly sad for the things that you are going to miss after that person is forever out of your life, and out of life in general. In my religion it is in fact considered to be a bad thing to grieve too much for a deceased person, because your grief hindres his or her progress in afterlife.

 

[Finder]

Well I am glad you don't fear death dekhqonbacha. But are you sad when another person dies??

I myself I don't fear death, even though I've got a lot to live for. I have to be U.N Secretary General.

However, I get to go to Valhalla so that is one plus to death.

The best show every. Babylon 5... The last episode made me cry... =-( Well the last episode of the forth season and the last 4 of the 5th season. The show is so emotional if you watch it from start to finish. *sniff* I'd say the quote (which takes place in the third season) makes you really think. Oh I cried at that moment too. So yeah once in the 3rd season, 1 in 4th season and at least 3 or 4 times in the 5th season.

 

[dekhqonbacha]

...
I myself I don't fear death, even though I've got a lot to live for. I have to be U.N Secretary General.

...

it depends who dies.
if it's an old person, there is nothing to be sad. because that person has lived the life and the longer the person live the less enjoy s/he gets. So, i guess they want to die.

If it's a young person. That's another story. I don't get sad either. Because that must have been ther person's fate. Whatever is gone is gone. There is nothing to be sad about it.

The only thing that makes me sad about death is that we don't prevent, sometimes, it happen to young people. Like young drivers, stressfull young kids etc. Which will lead them to death.

 

[Said1]

I'm afraid to die, yet morbidly facinated by it. Has anyone see the web site that logs all the myspace users who have died? Morbid, yet facinating (to me) at the same time.

 

[dekhqonbacha]

no I have not

 

[Said1]

Re: RE: Death

no I have not

Want the link?

 

[the caracal kid]

people fear what they do not know.

and there is a great deal people do not know.

 

[Said1]

I don't fear what I do not know, I fear what i can't control. There is a difference.

 

[Said1]

But I've heard it's pleasent, so I'll take their word for it.

 

[the caracal kid]

when you can not control something, you do not know the outcome.

you fear what you do not know.

 

[Said1]

Re: RE: Death

when you can not control something, you do not know the outcome.

you fear what you do not know.

For people like me, the anxiety lies between then and now, the fear of running out of time. There are plenty of situations I can control, yet don't know the outcome until I make a move in one direction or another, this does not scare me, because there is a choice involved. I'm not sure how much control I'll have over my death, so that irks me a bit too. But overall, it's the fear of running out of time that's the scariest. I think there's some type of pill for that, but I prefer to eat chocolate, the holistic route.

 

[Finder]

How can you be scared or fear death when death just is. we might think we can run and hide form it but it will find all of us sooner or later. I doubt I'll have a long life. Too many cheese burgers.. I can't say no to them. mmmm Cheese Burgers or 20 years more years... it's a hard dession......

 

[Jersay]

How can you be scared or fear death when death just is. we might think we can run and hide form it but it will find all of us sooner or later. I doubt I'll have a long life. Too many cheese burgers.. I can't say no to them. mmmm Cheese Burgers or 20 years more years... it's a hard dession......

Thoose cheese burgers are irresistable aren't they Finder.