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Have you ever pondered your own mortality?

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Zysoclaplem

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It's so depressing to me. Yet so unthinkable. I cannot imagine what it would be like to not exist. Sometimes I don't know what to think.
 
Yup.

Death is just another part of life. I'm not particularly looking forward to it, nor am I particularly scared of it.
 
Don't waste your youth pondering your mortality. You'll have plenty of time for that later.
 
I do all the time, but instead of letting it get me down, i make a point to use that thought to really try and live my life to the fullest and best I can.
 
Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
It's so depressing to me. Yet so unthinkable. I cannot imagine what it would be like to not exist. Sometimes I don't know what to think.
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Yea, I think exactly the same thing sometimes. Scares the hell out of me. Sometimes I'm watching TV and see something about some space event or environmental event that will happen in like 100-200 years, and I start thinking "I won't even exist then" and it scares me. Then I think, now I'm 31, and 18 seemed like it was yesterday.
 
here's something more depressing. death happens and we've been taught to embrace it. people tell us that death is only the beginning and that the afterlife will be filled with glory or pain. what if they all lied to us? what if this is it?
 
Originally posted by: Vic
Don't waste your youth pondering your mortality. You'll have plenty of time for that later.
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I'm not worried about what's going to happen to me when I die - I'll have plenty of time to sort it out then.

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: amish
here's something more depressing. death happens and we've been taught to embrace it. people tell us that death is only the beginning and that the afterlife will be filled with glory or pain. what if they all lied to us? what if this is it?
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Then I won't be around to realize it, and therefore won't care.

- M4H
 
Originally posted by: amish
here's something more depressing. death happens and we've been taught to embrace it. people tell us that death is only the beginning and that the afterlife will be filled with glory or pain. what if they all lied to us? what if this is it?
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then you should seize every day as if it were your last.
 
Originally posted by: amish
here's something more depressing. death happens and we've been taught to embrace it. people tell us that death is only the beginning and that the afterlife will be filled with glory or pain. what if they all lied to us? what if this is it?
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You'll never know then so it won't matter.
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
death of others makes us ponder our own.
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Yup. About two years ago I was driving on a 4 lane going to the mountains of NC when up ahead of me about 200 feet this woman on a motorcycle (touring bike) just drifted off the road and hit the guardrail at about 55 MPH. She cartwheeled 4-5 times and slid about 50 feet and came to a stop face down. I stopped the car and went back to see if there was anything I could do. Unfortunately she was already dead. She was with three other riders, one of whom I think was her SO. He was calm but looked like he was in shock. It was very sudden and tragic and made me realize how fragile we are and how our life can just end in an instant.
 
I went through a period of obsession with mortality in my early teens. I found comfort in Zen and Taoist philosophy. I know it's considered very new age to be enamored of those two, but IMO they capture ones relationship to life and death more gracefully and with greater sincerity than any other philosophy.

I'm relatively at ease with my own existence nowadays and don't give it much thought, other than being concerned about my children.
 
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