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Do you ever get sad/depressed about dying?

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when you think of dying and missing whatever achievements man will eventually stumble upon?

Makes me depressed to think any blocks we lay now will give birth to a future we will never experience. (Good or bad). Almost makes life seem like a position on an everlasting assembly line where we do our little part or job and never see the finished product at the end.
 
Nope. Having been near death, I can honestly say I no longer give a damn and try to live for the moment. The future is just icing on the cake.
 
No, but the two times I came close to dying I do remember not being so much afraid as sad and disappointed, so I guess if I thought about it more I would be.
 
Nah, not really.

Besides, within my lifetime I believe technology will be available to artificially extend life or even transfer consciousness over to a machine. Will probably be prohibitively expensive for most of us peons, though. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Farang
No, but the two times I came close to dying I do remember not being so much afraid as sad and disappointed, so I guess if I thought about it more I would be.
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Was it health-related? It seems that when you're sick (at least in my experience with the people I know that have died of Duchenne muscular dystrophy) death is peaceful and natural. To them, and I, the future becomes much less important and anything great that happens is hugely amplified in terms of joy and satisfaction. Sometimes I think that they have lived more than any of us despite their suffering.
 
I do get depressed when I think about life on Earth suddenly ending, resulting in no humans ( except maybe the few in space ) in the universe. Oh and the thought of having no conscience, not being able to think.
 
I get depressed about loved ones dying. About me dying? No, but I do feel pity that some people will probably have to endure suffering after my own death.
 
I think I might freeze myself and wake up every 100 years to see how you guys are doing.
 
My own death does not really bother me as I'm Christian, but it does bother me to think of people around me who are non believers, and will die.

It's also creepy/sad to think that at this very moment, there are people in hell suffering beyond imagination, and they'll be there forever. It's not like a painful wound where you know it's going to eventually get better. It's forever.
 
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Nope. Sometimes look forward to it. I got over the concept of dying a long fucking time ago.
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exactly. I'm not afriad of dying or being dead. i am afraid of what that would do to my family.

i really do not want to die until my kids are old enough that they really don't "need" me.
 
Originally posted by: waggy
Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Nope. Sometimes look forward to it. I got over the concept of dying a long fucking time ago.
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exactly. I'm not afriad of dying or being dead. i am afraid of what that would do to my family.

i really do not want to die until my kids are old enough that they really don't "need" me.
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Military or military related?
 
Bull fucking shit you're all like "oh... death is not big deal, I don't really care".

I never think about it, so in a way I guess I could say I don't care either... but when I really, like really think about it, it scares the shit out of me. Honestly, the thought of lack of consciousness does not scare me anywhere nearly as much as actually thinking something will happen after death.

Humans have a natural fear of the unknown, so I prefer no to think about it, since it does me no good anyway. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: RedSquirrel
My own death does not really bother me as I'm Christian, but it does bother me to think of people around me who are non believers, and will die.

It's also creepy/sad to think that at this very moment, there are people in hell suffering beyond imagination, and they'll be there forever. It's not like a painful wound where you know it's going to eventually get better. It's forever.
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lol.. please don't keep yourself up at night worrying about it.
It used to bother me people would spend their lives living for an afterlife that will never come rather than live for the life they have now. Neither will they realize their hopes nor their folly as they will just simply cease to be. They will again be as they were before they were born. Being nothing and remembering nothing.

Just as for death, I stopped caring for the most part as its nothing I can change.

I want to delay the inevitable as long as possible, and I'm sure I'll be quite angry if I realize its near, but mostly I am upset for the inevitable deaths of others rather than my own, and my impotence to prevent them. I do not want to see my parents, brother, wife's nor especially my children's deaths. At least fate has shown some mercy in that its probable that I will miss most of that, but even then there are no guarantees.

I am sad I will miss out on the fate of humanity, the progress, our evolution and likely extinction given a long enough time scale. Eventually the Sun will die itself, and if our decedents manage to escape that fate, the other stars in the sky as well as the galaxy itself will eventually decay and grow cold.
Entropy is inescapable.
 
I get depressed thinking about my parents dying and what life is going to be like afterwards. The circle of life still seems a bit unreal to me. As for myself I'm not exactly depressed when thinking about it, but it is weird, and if I had to say it's not all that plesant.
 
I used to, until I realized that the passage of time is just an illusion, and that all moments in time in fact exist forever. That they pass us by is the fault of the way our consciousnesses work.

All journeys have a beginning and an end. Do not fear to start down a path because you know it must have an end.

Some years ago, I read a slogan that said, it's not that life is short, it's just that that there is so much time before you're born and after you die. This might be correct from an outside observer's point of view, but you are not an outside observer to your own life. In which case, life is forever, and there is no time before you're born or after you die.
 
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