How do you deal with death?

[Pekka]

Sprayber, Thanks for sharing that..

[st_swithin]

I just got one of those 'something to think about' quotes that says "Death is nature's way of saying howdy."

Nature sucks.

[Zero]

I don't take death to seriously.

[Whaleboy]

And whaleboy: You sig is rather... um... scary

Well... I do!!

[Q Classic]

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[Az]

I almost got killed today.

[Pekka]

Azazel, how, why, be more spesific?

[Az]

I was driving on the right lane, near an 18-wheeler truck with two containers as cargo, that was going on the middle lane. he started slipping to the right lane, for some reason, without signaling that he wanted to pass to the right lane, or anything. I started blowing the car's horn so he would notice. In the end, I just hit the brakes, and left him in front of me.

[JohnT]

There's death everyday, so I don't mean that kind of death. I mean deaths that are very close to you. By this I don't even mean a relative etc.. I mean you, yourself. How do you feel about that? Yes, we are all going to die, so are you and me.

I deal with it precisely the way your last sentence implies.

Everybody is going to die, myself included. Why worry about something that is inevitable and unsolvable? I'm kind of like that with childrearing - billions of other couples have successfully raised children, why should I expect myself to be any different?


The big issue, as far as I'm concern, is what are you going to do with the time you have, and more importantly (to use a business analogy here), what are your balance of accounts going to look like when you die?

Did you give more love or take it? Did you create more wealth or destroy it? Did you spread happiness or angst? Were you wasteful or a spendthrift? Of the people you know, have their lives been enriched by your existence or impoverished by it?

Sorry if all I did was answer your question with seemingly more questions, but imho the big fear one should have is not death but the possibility of spending ones life in unhappiness, fear, and anger, and forcing others to do the same by sheer dint of personality and repetition.

Death is easy, it's life that is hard. Worry about that instead.

[st_swithin]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
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[Jethro83]

In terms of my own death, I would be lying if I said I had no fear of death at all.

However, I face that fear with the realisation that death is just the completion of a cycle.

I simply strive to be the best person I can be, striving for a life where I make the most of my time, and can look back when I'm on my deathbed and have no major regrets.

Maybe the dead have a heaven or hell to look forward to. Maybe the dead only face oblivion, a complete end to their existance. Maybe there is rebirth or reincarnation to start the cycle over again (I personally believe in rebirth)


As for the death of family, friends or even of a person I simply knew within my community, I also face that with the realisation that death is the completion of a cycle.

I also foster the hope that the cycle will begin again for them in rebirth. And that when they are reborn, they'll have things better than their previous life.

[Dis]

I wake up each morning expecting to die.

I can honestly say I have accomplished everything I wanted to do in life.

Not that I've had a full life, I just hate most things, and have done all the things I enjoy.

I like to think I won't be one of those people who look at death coming and realize there is much they haven't done.

My goal in life is simple. To survive the day.