Dying

[rudeguy]

I don't go to funerals anymore. I have lost too many people who were too close to me. I don't really know how to put it into words, but I don't have the strength to go to any more funerals.

The weird part is that the thought of me dying doesn't bother me at all. I am ready to leave this rock at any time.

 

[KK]

I don't care if I die. What bothers me is how it will affect my post count.

 

[her209]

Originally posted by: tasmanian
Some people dont cry, even at funerals.

That's because they're happy they're not the body in the wooden box.

 

[Inspector Jihad]

I've only had one person actually close to me pass away and I took that pretty hard.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Think about what it was like before you were born. Pretty sure that's all that happens. It does bug me when I think about it a bit, I mean, I really, really love my wife and son and it makes me kind of sad knowing that a day will come where we'll just be gone.

Of course I keep that small glimmer of hope that there is something more after death, but the older I get the more I think that it's just something to make peope feel better about their loved ones passing and to help them cope with their own eventual passing. It sure does sound much nicer to think their in eternal paradise. But really, I think your conciousness is just snuffed out and that's that. Pretty sad really, but it makes you appreciate the time you have, to make the most of it. It doesn't last forever.

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: KK
I don't care if I die. What bothers me is how it will affect my post count.

If you don't plan ahead it can really hammer you posts/day number. However, with just little bit of effort no one will even know you're dead.

Bot script with random postings of:

Pics?
I like cake.
Your mom.
QFT
What's your favorite movie to watch while undergoing groin surgery?
Religion causes cancer.
Discuss.

should leave you covered for years to come until the mods finally give you "after-lifer" status.

 

[IronWing]

Funerals gross me out. It's hard to get past the tackiness and embalming thing to get to the grieving part while at the funeral. Do you know what is inscribed on my grandmother's coffin? Her name, date of birth, date of death, something about her life? No. "18 gauge steel" That is how future archaeologists will define the life of this woman, the "18 Gauge Steel Woman" found in a mass burial site in the central lowlands of Laurentia.

I grieve for dead friends and relatives but not at the funerals, they are too ghastly.

 

[Born2bwire]

You're born, you work hard, and then you die. That's life.

 

[hclarkjr]

Originally posted by: her209
It bothers me that in 100 years, over 6 billion people will have died. Where the hell do you bury 6 billion people?

i have my will made out that i am to be cremated and no showing and be burned up the day i die. no fuss no muss

 

[Regs]

I just want to die quickly. No hospital, no last words, or no lawyers. In either case it's not exactly healthy mentally to be thinking about it.

 

[Modelworks]

I refuse to go look at someone I cared about laying dead in a box, while everyone stands around and lies about how much they cared, and what a nice person they were.
I'll keep my last memory of them as they were, not of what others wanted them to be, and certainly not of them laying there dead while everyone acts like they cared.


As for myself, can't say I fear dying, but then I haven't done it yet, so who knows

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: ironwing

Originally posted by: KK
I don't care if I die. What bothers me is how it will affect my post count.

If you don't plan ahead it can really hammer you posts/day number. However, with just little bit of effort no one will even know you're dead.

Bot script with random postings of:

Pics?
I like cake.
Your mom.
QFT
What's your favorite movie to watch while undergoing groin surgery?
Religion causes cancer.
Discuss.

should leave you covered for years to come until the mods finally give you "after-lifer" status.

Along the same lines, people are being buried with their cell phones, and the wife or whatever keeps their husbands accounts active so they can call the voicemail and hear the voice.

 

[Modular]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
Think about what it was like before you were born. Pretty sure that's all that happens. It does bug me when I think about it a bit, I mean, I really, really love my wife and son and it makes me kind of sad knowing that a day will come where we'll just be gone.

Of course I keep that small glimmer of hope that there is something more after death, but the older I get the more I think that it's just something to make peope feel better about their loved ones passing and to help them cope with their own eventual passing. It sure does sound much nicer to think their in eternal paradise. But really, I think your conciousness is just snuffed out and that's that. Pretty sad really, but it makes you appreciate the time you have, to make the most of it. It doesn't last forever.

I think the idea that there is nothing is more comforting than believing that there is something. If you believe the former, then you don't need to make a decision as to where you're going to end up in the end. If the latter, then you need to make that decision. Believing in nothing is simple apathy, don't let it happen to you...

 

[pcslookout]

It doesn't bother me one bit. I have seen the one movie that I needed to see before I died several times so I will die very happy no matter if I die today or plenty of years from now.

 

[KeithTalent]

My Grandfather was in the war and when I was very little he told me never to worry about death or dying, that it's inevitable and the worst thing you can do is dwell upon it, or let it get to you. He told me if he had let every death he had seen get to him, he would have killed himself years before. He told me all you can do is toast your drink to their memories then move on.

Pretty heavy stuff for a 9 year old, but it stuck with me and because of it, and some other, less significant things, I've never been bothered by death at all, even my own (I never worry about it). I'm not sure this is a good thing, it probably is not in fact, but that's just the way I am and there is nothing I can do about it now.

With that all said I am still very respectful of and sympathetic to other people's losses as I know not everyone is like me.

KT

 

[gsethi]

I thought you respawn at a different randomly chosen place and start the game all over again. Would be awesome if there was a "Save" and "Load" option

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: CallMeJoe
Shit happens. I don't expect everybody's world to come crashing down when I croak.

 

[thecoolnessrune]

I told my girlfriend and I sincerely hope everyone will smile upon my grave at my death if i were to die untimely. I'm dead, you dont need to do anything for me now. I want my family to live on for themselves and i'd want my girl to find another man to make her happy when she's ready.

I hope that most everyone who doesn't deal with me on a daily basis is over their grief by the end of the day, and to my close family and SO I hope they can smile as soon as they are able. If I could make it so I would wish there to be NO mourning of my day. Burn me to ashes and scatter me into a nice field. Dont hold on to me, dont mourn me, dont look at my picture everyday and start crying. Move on and be happy. I believe in a God and believe that upon death I will go to a better place. If I'm wrong its not going to make a difference. Just believe that I am happy if I still exist.

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy
The ultimate kegger bon fire!!!

Not to pick on you specifically, OP, but . . .

I've noticed lately that the new blithe ignorance here -- TraLaLaLaLaLa -- is to make two words out of what, in the English language, is only one word because the poster has apparently never read an entire non-picture book in their short, stupid lives and is so sadly semi-literate they can't even spell "semi-literate" or "bonfire."

 

[IGBT]

..we go back to the earth from where we came. only to return.

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: Modelworks

I refuse to go look at someone I cared about laying dead in a box, while everyone stands around and lies about how much they cared, and what a nice person they were.
I'll keep my last memory of them as they were, not of what others wanted them to be, and certainly not of them laying there dead while everyone acts like they cared.


As for myself, can't say I fear dying, but then I haven't done it yet, so who knows

That's exactly how I feel about weddings. I've only been to one thus far, but it was a very difficult experience. It was for a parent's best friend's daughter, whom I knew since I was a kid, but fell out of touch for many years. No one recognized each other, so I went as a favour for my parents (ok, she made me go). While there, it was painfully obvious that too many people were invited. Only one table out of maybe 7 or 8 was filled with friends of the bridge/groom.

Everyone else looked like they were there cause the parents of the couple wanted to kiss ass to their friends. Meanwhile, everyone was there pretending to be happy, smiling on their face, but whispering gossip and talking shit about others. Personally, I felt it was a sham considering how in the now everyone was, and the likelihood that they would be divorced/dysfunctional in a few years. When that happens, the wedding just becomes a joke. Or maybe personal experiences have made me a cynical asshole.

I got invited to a second wedding for two co-workers, whom I didn't know well, but was good friends with friends of both bride and groom (also co-workers). With the past 2 paragraphs in mind, I openly refused to go, which may have soured our relationship. Oh well...

Edit: One more thing. Last week, I actually 'died' in my dream and it was one of the most screwed up feelings I ever felt after waking up. Hopefully, when it happens, it's not like that. Otherwise, if I'm gone, I'm gone, whatever.

 

[Kadarin]

Actually, I don't really fear death itself, so much as I fear dying in some horribly painful manner. I want to go in my sleep.