<p>Given my age, I don't think about death at all yet. Everyone says they don't fear death now; come back in 50 years and let me know how you're feeling.</p>
<p>in terms about how i think about death, the truth is, i really dont take the time out of my day to consider the fact that i'm going to die. it's probably there subconsciously and therefore i innately try to live life to the fullest. but, if for example, i'm dancing around in my underwear to some awesome music (my fav pastime haha) i'm not directly thinking "i better enjoy this because i'm going to die someday". if asked about it, i'll address it and i don't think it to be a biggie, but on a daily basis, my mortality is the last thing on my mind.</p>
<p>And this is what I find ironic, Brand and Morangotango</p>
<p>1) We treat with complete hurried the only thing that's proceeding unhurriedly toward us.</p>
<p>2) To oversimplify it and because it's the most undesirable to people (us), we think of our death as a matter of statistics and percentage laws, although it's the only thing that doesn't abide by any rules or laws. </p>
<p>3) Because our society has became so sterile, so clean, and so perfect and organised, we don't realize how fragile our lives are and how thin is the curtain between us and death. We don't see people dying, and when it happens, we immediatly put it out of our mind and sight, and it easily becomes unavailabe to our memory as a considerable event. IMO It's lovable to have such a sterile society, but we must not allow that to reduce our humaneness of which mortality (an being attentive to it and aware of it) is a big part.</p>
<p>4) read 1 and 2 again.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>Again, I don't know why you guys think the subject here is fear of death. Fear isn't the apropriate word to be used in this discussion, I think.</p>
<p>I pretty much agree with what gzhang has said.
for my own death I really just don't think about it. yes it will happen eventually, hopefully it will be a long time off, but there's really nothing to do about it. everything ends.</p>
<p>I'm going to Heaven so why should I be afraid of death? I think it is just process of getting rid of the physical body.</p>
<p>Good for you mr_chipset! Now can you plz read before you post (I hate to be so harsh). But no one asked if you're afraid or not (LOL, Im actually repeating this for the 3rd time just today).</p>
<p>It's not that easy just to reduce intimations of mortality to simple reflections about death. The former (a sense of mortality) is bigger, more omnipresent, less pointed and increasingly in the background as well as more and more in fore as well. A sense of this thing happens creepingly. It involves thoughts like "why did I hold back earlier?" So, for instance, if a woman purrs at me, beautiful or even not so, and I feel the urge, I reach for her and kiss her and hopefully more. I was always so hesitant before. Why?</p>
<p>It comes in thoughts like "what is really important?" Quoting Bob Seger: "what to leave in, what to leave out." </p>
<p>It comes in the realization, intermittently recurring, "wow, I could die, if for instance, I try to cut corners getting into that next lane." It makes you a little more careful in all things.</p>
<p>This may sound hokey all of this. If so, chances are I am older than you. And at some point you are likely to see what I am talking about, even if you object to the way I express it.</p>
<p>Life is long, but at a point, you realize, not endless.</p>
<p>I don't really challenge the inevibility of my death. For the most part I accept that its going to happen and put that in the back of my mind. But I have thought about what the reaction of everyone I know would be. I just imagine myself floating up above my body, observing everyone around me. And then I would think that I would be born again in another form, reincarnated. And so life would begin again.</p>
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Good for you mr_chipset! Now can you plz read before you post (I hate to be so harsh). But no one asked if you're afraid or not (LOL, Im actually repeating this for the 3rd time just today).
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I answered that question. I consider death as a next step. I know that I don't know where and when I will die but isn't that the point of life -- to not know what's going to happen?
Death is natural.</p>
<p>I've actually had many dreams in which I have died, several of which were very realistic seeming. That said, I think if I knew I was going to die tomorrow, I'd go more with the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ideology and just be, like, "Oh, I'm dieing. Whatever." I wouldn't care about what I'd left undone because I wouldn't be in existence to recognize that it was still there.</p>
<p>How do you cope?</p>
<p>I forgot who said it but they said something like "death is like sleeping after a days hard work, you welcome it."</p>