Should we fear death? Should we embrace it? Should we do something else with it? Does it need to be done off with? What are your thoughts on it in general?
Death... Should it be embraced, feared, both, other?
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Why should we choose between extremes?
How about being indifferent towards death. That's pretty much what I'm doing.
If I had to say one of them though: Embrace death. There is nothing to fear in death.
Now dying. There's a scary concept.
I'm not big on pain.
How about being indifferent towards death. That's pretty much what I'm doing.
If I had to say one of them though: Embrace death. There is nothing to fear in death.
Now dying. There's a scary concept.
I'm not big on pain.
I shouldn't fear death, but I'm pretty sure that I like living. My life is going well and I have no problems (except finding a summer job). In comparison to history, our lives are short. Death is pretty much a big motivator. Humanity wouldn't be where it's at if there wasn't a *deadline* or a circumstance of death.
Depends ENTIRELY upon the person who's about to die. Are you about to die with a guilty conscience? A life full of regret? Belief in hell and that you might be going there? Then I'd imagine Death is something to be absolutely terrified about.Mournful Crow said:
Did you live a happy life? Have few regrets? Belief in heaven and that you might be going there? I'd imagine in that case Death is something to be embraced.
Both of those are considering you're going to die of old age/natural causes. But that's really the only time you should even be concerned about Death. You shouldn't walk around thinking at any given moment you're about to get run over by a bus...we call those people paranoid.
Neither. It should be accepted for the inevitability that it is then feelings of it should be indifferent. Cross that bridge when you come to it.
EDIT: I mean of your own death. I'm not saying don't mourn the death of loved ones as that would be absurd. Personally I worry more about loved ones dying and not being able to see them again than my own death.
EDIT: I mean of your own death. I'm not saying don't mourn the death of loved ones as that would be absurd. Personally I worry more about loved ones dying and not being able to see them again than my own death.
Altho death is scary in general to me.. there isnt much that can be done its just part of our future at some time so i guess in a way its scary but you have to just be happy with the fact that it will happen at one point
I used to fear death when i was younger, now i embrace it. I think it sort of has to do with your beliefs; I embrace death, i know, it's just another part of my existence.
Hey, it happens. One of my childhood family/friends actually got run over by a bus. :CRJ 17 said:Both of those are considering you're going to die of old age/natural causes. But that's really the only time you should even be concerned about Death. You shouldn't walk around thinking at any given moment you're about to get run over by a bus...we call those people paranoid.
In a sense, I agree. Death makes life finite, and therefore precious.LastGreatBlasphemer said:
I don't think our physical bodies dying is something we can totally comprehend whilst living. And that which we don't know does inspire fear.
I'm very sorry to hear that.Chemical Alia said:Hey, it happens. One of my childhood family/friends actually got run over by a bus. :CRJ 17 said:Both of those are considering you're going to die of old age/natural causes. But that's really the only time you should even be concerned about Death. You shouldn't walk around thinking at any given moment you're about to get run over by a bus...we call those people paranoid.
My point was just that we shouldn't walk around terrified of death. Tragic accidents of course are going to happen, but it's not good to live in fear that any given moment something horrible is going to happen.
Its hard to say. I have a lot i want to achieve in this reality. And a lot of invested interests for lifetimes to persue. I would hate to leave to early. And yet i always know that death, when it finally comes, will be the ultimate answer to all the questions we ask and fight over. All that we debate and dont understand will be made clear. Is there life after death? Is there a god? Ill finally know for certain.
Well, it obviously deserves a small measure of fear. Anyone who walks blindly across a busy city street, or drives around at reckless speeds without a seat belt because they "don't fear death" is an idiot. But beyond that fear of death only gets in the way of your life.
The only thing about life that anyone can be sure of is that you'll die at the end of it, and people who accept that and live in spite of it are the people who genuinely enjoy their lives. At some point, most people will be faced with the fact that they are about to die, and if you have already accepted your own mortality it will make this significantly easier.
As Richard Feynman said ?It?s hard to explain. If a Martian (who, we?ll imagine, never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures ? these humans who live about seventy or eighty years, knowing that death is going to come ? it would look to him like a terrible problem of psychology to live under those circumstances, knowing that life is only temporary. Well, we humans somehow figure out how to live despite this problem: we laugh, we joke, we live.?
The only thing about life that anyone can be sure of is that you'll die at the end of it, and people who accept that and live in spite of it are the people who genuinely enjoy their lives. At some point, most people will be faced with the fact that they are about to die, and if you have already accepted your own mortality it will make this significantly easier.
As Richard Feynman said ?It?s hard to explain. If a Martian (who, we?ll imagine, never dies except by accident) came to Earth and saw this peculiar race of creatures ? these humans who live about seventy or eighty years, knowing that death is going to come ? it would look to him like a terrible problem of psychology to live under those circumstances, knowing that life is only temporary. Well, we humans somehow figure out how to live despite this problem: we laugh, we joke, we live.?