"Childhood's over the moment you know you're gonna die"

[IzisviAziria]

I don't understand, how could you know what death is and not realise that you will one day die? Once you grasp the concept of death it seems strange to me that you wouldn't see that you will die as well.

I understood the concept of death way before I came to terms with it. I've known that people and animals and whatnot die and stop living since I was 3 or 4. But it's only really since I was about 16 that I actually came to terms with the weight of my own mortality, when I realized there were things I needed to do before I left this existence. Knowing what death is and accepting it are two completely separate things.

 

[spartan231490]

Can't remember when I realized I would someday die. It was probably when my great-grandpa died. I was about 4. I can't really remember much about it, just trying not to cry at the funeral.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Pretty much when my brother told me that I will die someday. Mind you this when was like 5 or 7 years old so my mum pretty much had to stop me srying and saying "I don't want to die!"

 

[GodofDisaster]

I was around 9 or 10 years old, my Mum's cousin had just passed away, he was killed by Meningitis. After we got home from his funeral which wasn't untill late at night I went to bed, where suddenly I broke down into tears. It finally hit me the same thing will happen to me I'm going to die some day. I actually started to overthink, treating the disease that killed my Mum's cousin as a pandemic and a serial killer with it's own select targets and that I was its next victim.

It didn't take long for my Mum to talk sense into me and I haven't thought about it since.

 

[Nimcha]

No idea, but I remember watching Lion King and being incredibly sad Simba's dad died.

I never really had a big revelation, death is just a part of life to me.

 

[BristolBerserker]

Luckily i'm immortal so i don't have that problem.

 

[Freethinker101]

Interesting thought, I realized I was going to die when I was 5. I cried at the thought, then got over it, now I joke about my death, and almost don't even care when someone dies to me its an inconvenience, a regular part of life. Yes you can say that's being heartless, but if you worry about such things it clouds your mind. (Atheist)

 

[Pinkamena]

I have no idea, I've never thought about it. I don't see how realising you're gonna die is a big deal.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I can't remember not understanding that things die.

I cried when Jaws the shark died, I remember that. It was slightly odd in retrospect. I think my young mind misunderstood the film and that it was about this shark who was hungry.

 

[DanielBrown]

When I was around 5 perhaps. At least it was by then I got my first experience with death.
Remember that we were going on a vacation for two weeks. Mom said we had to put down our pet bunny(she didn't want to pay for someone taking care of him -_-) and while I understood what it ment it didn't really hit me until the day I came home from school and saw the bunny cage standing empty in the staircase.
Broke mah hart!

 

[pirate64]

probably at about age 5 or 6 followed by lots of wondering about what it would be like to suddenly not exist ect..

not really something I trouble myself with thinking about.
yes it's going to happen to me, the variables being where, when, how?
but I just don't think about my life as something slipping away, I just enjoy the ride I guess.

 

[SckizoBoy]

So Escapists ... when was the moment you knew you were gonna die? Can you place the moment?

Shit... you've just made me dredge up a very, very, very scary experience. I was clinically dead for about ten seconds when I was six... the bizarre thing being that no-one can explain why it happened. When I regained consciousness, I was shitting myself, and the subsequent explanation for what occurred... first exposure to the death talk, or rather 'died' talk that my parents were OK me listening to.

 

[BabyRaptor]

I've been clinically dead. Does that count?

When did I first realize I was going to die? I really have no idea. I think I've just always known...My grandmother has Neurofibromatosis, so I grew up around doctors, surgeries, needles, medicine, ETC. (Grandparents raised me.)

 

[Rin Little]

Awesome quote, I love The Crow =^.^=

And I never really thought about it, I think I've always accepted the fact that at some point I will die from a younger age because my great-grandmother died when I was about 4 or 5 and I guess it just got me thinking, "If she can die, I will too at some point." Never really ever let it occupy most of my thoughts though.

 

[uzo]

So Escapists ... when was the moment you knew you were gonna die? Can you place the moment?

Shit... you've just made me dredge up a very, very, very scary experience. I was clinically dead for about ten seconds when I was six... the bizarre thing being that no-one can explain why it happened. When I regained consciousness, I was shitting myself, and the subsequent explanation for what occurred... first exposure to the death talk, or rather 'died' talk that my parents were OK me listening to.

Wow .. you mean people didn't know why it happened as in you just dropped dead suddenly, or they don't know why you 'came back'? Sounds interesting - first hand experience n' all. Obviously, no pressure to discuss it though!

 

[doggie135]

4. Didn't ever think twice.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

I suppose I'm the only one who misread this as "Childhood's over the moment you die". Now, that's a philosophy. Anyway, I have no clue when I realized I was going to die, really, no idea. The moment I realized that an afterlife was unlikely, that I clearly remember...

 

[gabe12301]

.....wait what? death is permanent? Everything I know is a lie!!!!!

 

[ManInRed]

I'm going to die?

Way to ruin my childhood.