What do you think about DEATH?

Question

do you think about it often?

what does it feel like knowing that the same fingers you type the answer with will someday be life-less?

Answer 1

My goodness, how very morbid.
If you spend all your time dwelling on death, that's not really living, is it? Death is a part of life, but the thing to do is make the most of the life part.
Additionally, I'm a writer. My words will live on long after I'm gone. I suppose that's a sort of immortality.

Answer 2

When I was little, every time the thought that one day I would just stop thinking and feeling came to me, it'd physically hurt in my chest.
But that was then. Now, I don't think about it often, but it doesn't bother me much when I do. I've accepted that it happens to everyone. If there's life, there must be death. I can't imagine a world where everyone would live forever.
Besides, it's not like I'll be the first to ever die. Why should I fear something that so many others have already faced?

Answer 3

Are you obsessing about it? Death is a natural end to life, without it life would have less value. All living things suffer this fate. My life-less fingers will breakdown and be absorbed back into the earth to be recycled back into the circle of life (no embalming for me, it's in my will).

People who think about it a lot are most often trying to come to terms with the idea. No matter your religion (or lack thereof, I'm Atheist) we can all agree that you return from whence you came. In death you will return to the state you were in before you were born.

Answer 4

Death is inevitable, I'm not in any hurry to get there but when it comes it comes...

Nope don't think about death very often... No real point in dwelling on the end when I can enjoy the now...

It feels like normal, we are all going to die someday... Should the fact that you have just mentioned that we are going to die (something I already knew) make me feel any differently?

Answer 5

I don't think about it often, and even when I do think about it, and don't realize the nature of it, how, like you said, these hands and fingers that I see move every day will someday be lifeless, with no more blood flowing through them, and the nerves will only be connected to a dead brain.

Answer 6

It is quite fascinating and surreal to think about things like that. It's almost a form of escapism for me.

I guess for me, thoughts of death are always informed by the knowledge that I will finally be with my Father and with Jesus Christ. Yes it is strange to think of myself as a corpse, but at the same time I know that my soul was created for another world, whether or not my body stays here and rots. Furthermore, I am also fully confident that Jesus will raise up my body in the End of Days, so just as decay did not touch Him, neither will it touch His true followers.

Answer 7

I think it is inevitable, it is scary, but it is something we will all go through, and to spend time thinking morbid thoughts about my fingers being lifeless seems like a waste of the precious time we have here on Earth.

I also think that fear of not existing after death is THE MAIN REASON HOMO SAPIENS INVENTED RELIGIONS. Religion is a way to escape not existing after death, ie, by inventing an after life.

Answer 8

Death...
I have attempted suicide twice in my life. Someone that loved me always rescued me.
Death is highly inevitable. Someone once told me that "isn't it wonderful that they're making people live longer these days?"

Well... no. Humans were designed to burn out at 50. that's why bone loss, hearing problems, and all that jazz exist today. humans were not truly meant to live to be 100. sure, in history there have been few who have lived to be over 100, but that's highly rare and unnatural.

We were meant to die. we were designed to be birthed, grow up, learn, and live. then it is our turn to die, as another one is reborn.

Your body is just that- a body.
If you take an engine out of a car and all it's connected parts, hook them to the correct wires outside the car and turn it on, the engine will work. but the body just lies there. it is just a shell of our souls. we die, then become reborn again, to repeat the cycle over and over again, until we reach out full enlightenment.

Lots of Buddhist love. Good question!

Answer 9

I think about it from time to time. But I don't dwell on it. I think the natural fear of death is just driven by our carnal survival drive, to the point where people started making up crazy notions like afterlives and deities just for the sake of self-comfort.

Answer 10

Honestly, it doesn't bother me in the least. I don't want to die until my children are grown, but I am so confident in where my spirit will go afterward that death has absolutely no fear value in my life, it's not even a thought in my head. I won't need these physical fingers where I am going.