Death

[OGLemon]

Was asked this today. What's your opinion?

[nousd]

No reason to fear death
but dying, for sure.

[Muncey]

'fear' is a weird word to describe it. I obviously don't want to die, I don't believe theres anything after you die and its a little depressing to think about but I don't fear something that's inevitable for everybody.

[ezza]

yeah the idea of not being here depresses me, doesn't really scare me tho

our generation will probably live for ages anyways, we'll probz wanna die

[m8son666]

not currently, in a way i look forward to it

i've been reading Schopenhauer and other pessimists recently and i don't really know what to think tbh

[kidshuffle]

not really scared or afraid of it, but you know, you always gotta think about it

[dickman69]

Ok when youre in the hospital waiting to die there is no way youre not scared shitless

Easy to say youre not afraid of it when you never encounter it

[m8son666]

yeah exactly that's why i say not currently

[Laszlo]

Conversing in whispers with a fellow soldier, Private Arnaud (Joseph Turkel) considers what his fellow soldiers are most afraid of,: poison gas, high explosive shells, a bayonet in the gut... He points out that what everyone is afraid of is pain, not death, since everyone knows that he's going to die some day. His fellow soldier, rolling over to get some sleep, replies "You're too smart for me professor. All I know is, nobody wants to die."



Anyway, no, I am absolutely not afraid of death.

[kay]

I'd prefer not to die.

[Shum]

For the vast majority of my life so far the answer has been no though a fear has gripped me from time to time.

[Laszlo]

Ok when youre in the hospital waiting to die there is no way youre not scared shitless

Easy to say youre not afraid of it when you never encounter it

Depending on how you read these two lines, with different inflections than I suspect they were intended, they seem entirely contradictory.

[Trichome]

i'm not afraid of dying.
i'm afraid of the pain that is caused by your death, both physically and the emotional pain that is inflicted on your loved ones.

also about there being nothing after you die
imo after death is the same as before life. its not "nothing" its so much less than that it doesn't even exist. you're dead, so how can you know that you're dead?

[dickman69]

So if some1 puts a gun in your mouth you wouldnt be afraid?
Theres no pain

[kidshuffle]

i dont think dying from having a gun in your mouth is really the scary part; it'd more be the "how the fuck did i get in this position?". you're not just dying, you're being murdered.

[dickman69]

U kno why murder is scary?

Because u die

[Laszlo]

You know why dying is scary?

Because you're holding on to misconceptions of permanence

[dickman69]

Are they misconcemptions or are u fighting ur minds intrinsic defense of death seeing as humans are the only species aware of their own mortality

Which i believe manifests itself as fear

So u can say im not afraid but u really would be if directly confronted with it

[Laszlo]

They are misconceptions, yes, because nothing is forever.

Fear of the unknown and unknowable is natural, of course, but you don't think that can be overcome??

[ehbes]

scared shitless