do you think about dying? even tho we all have to die someday?

Question

dying.

Answer 1

I think it's so funny that so many people are concerned about the end of the world, but nobody is concerned about the end of their life!

St. Paul said, "I die daily". I wonder what he meant by that. Perhaps he conquered death while he was still alive, and so death to him was not a mystery. We should all be so lucky.

Answer 2

I think about dying way too much. I wish I could just opt out of the whole deal. It sort of seems like the Ultimate Unhappy Ending, you know? Sort of like old German fairy tales: they lived happily until they died. Yes, there's always that DYING business we all have to get around to. Rats.

But then again...I don't regard with dread those depthless eons that went by before I was born...there was no me then, and it doesn't bother me too much; why should I be bothered by the concept of there being no me after I die? This is from the depressingly atheistic point of view, of course (although I'm agnostic).

Then, on the other hand...it is sort of like a great big fascinating mystery, isn't it? I mean, if there is a God, and he created man, why would he have bothered to do such a thing? What's the one thing God, in his omniscience, couldn't know? What it's like NOT to know something. And as humans we're fascinated by the unknown; if we knew all there was to know then why bother to get up in the morning? Maybe that's why we're here, and maybe that's why nobody knows what happens when we die: it's the Ultimate Unknown, in all its mysterious glory, there for us all to experience in the end.

Boy, it must be getting late; I'm rambling incoherently again...I'll shut up now...

Answer 3

Yes one time I used to do that a lot wonder what will happen to me if I died, but then I came to realize while I am wondering about death I should be wondering about living. I have so much to live for and thank God for, my husband of 18 years (June 10) my children who are healthy and I have a extended family who loves me very much.

I at this point of my life I don't think about it anymore because I have something to live for and one of them is not thinking about my death even though I do know when my time comes it will come and I will also say I lived my life the way I was suppose to live it with passion and life, and just being happy! That is what we are suppose to do and instead of thinking of death think about life and live free!

Answer 4

All thinks in the nature born and eventually died including animals, plants, mountains, rivers, planets, solar systems , constellations, galaxies, etc. Dying is a part of been alive.

Answer 5

All the time. You really cannot read, watch, or in any way follow the news without thinking about death.

It really is the most fascinating of epistemological questions. For an interesting discussion (mostly re 'brain death' AKA Republicanism.): http://www.pitt.edu/~cep/41-3.html

Answer 6

Don't waste your valuable brain, time and energy, thinking about those things. Live a day at a time, enjoy every day, without troubling or creating problems to others, thinking you may never see tomorrow. Make the best of the day. The death strikes without warning. It is meaningless to think about births and deaths.

Answer 7

Unfortunately yes.I have lost several people in my life who died young.I think it is a shock to our own mortality and causing a preoccupation with death. I also had a dream once of my own funeral during the exact same time that an intruder was trying to kill me as I slept!!

Answer 8

Death is the great unknown, the last real adventure. Everything that lives dies, so just try to really live your life and be nice to other living things along the way, you never know when or where you might meet them again.

Answer 9

Yes, I worry about not being right with God, I hope that I don't suffer and that if i am still alive on the second coming of Jesus Christ that I am one of his chosen to get the Rapture.

Answer 10

I wonder what I'll see, feel, and then I wonder even more; What does Heaven look like? and Wouldn't eventually eternity get boring, even an eternity in hell? I mean, pretty soon you would get used to the heat wouldn't you?