ever feel stressed about death?

[[.redacted]]

Oh, most certainly, but that's still just as depressing - it's an unsolvable, unfinishable loop of what ifs that lead to the inevitable conclusion that there is no goal.

Which is why we have to rise above the problem and give our own lives meaning. I recommend reading some Albert Camus - he covers the subject quite eloquently.

If the world is absurd then we have essentially three options:

1) Suicide (Not recommended).
2) Faith (Belief in a God or afterlife that is rational).
3) Absurd Heroism (Living a robust life despite the world, standing tall against fate, and laughing about it the whole way).

I choose the third option, but your results may vary.

Or, option 4, which I chose:

To live life solely in order to enjoy oneself, at any expense or cost.

Sure - hedonism works too. Technically anything where you live without faith falls under option 3, I just embellished it a bit .

Well, thanks for the debate, it was interesting =)

 

[SalamanderJoe]

I did when I was younger but now I just imagine that death is like a long Sunday lie-in without having to go to work for a bloody change.

 

[Jezzascmezza]

Death can't be all that bad- You just completely cease to exist.
You can't remember how it was before you came into existence, right?

So how exactly isn't that all bad?
Personally, I'd rather burn in some kind of hell than cease to exist.

Because you won't know how it will feel!
You won't be able to think about it.
There'll just be nothing.
I don't know, my brain hurts.

 

[TWRule]

Well, thanks for the debate, it was interesting =)

Yep, thank you too haha.

 

[Fridge]

hey guys, I just wanted to know and get a feel from fellow escapees on their view of Death and how they approach it. I feel like everytime I see a picture of an elder person who has passed away(especially) family my mind starts working overtime as I piece together that person's life story, and how they were at my age. I begin to wonder what death must be like because this person I am staring at in the picture is no longer walking this earth, I start to worry about my eventual death that will come whether in old age or from doing something stupid. I guess the best thing one can ask for is not to see it coming, and in your sleep.


what do you think?

There's been a thread to this before and I will say now what I said last time. I don't fear death or stress over it, that would be like stressing over the table, its there get used to it. If it happens then it will happen and there's not much I can do about it, best thing to do is live your life as best you can.

 

[Kortney]

I don't fear death in the slightest.

 

[Hader]

I didn't fear death hat first. So I tried to make myself fear it.

Yet to this day, I still don't fear it. I am at peace with all I feel I must be.

 

[PurplePlatypus]

Oppsy, two posts.

 

[PurplePlatypus]

Not for a while now, then again I figured out it?s not the death I?m worried about it?s the manner of dying and I don?t find that hard not to worry about.

Death can't be all that bad- You just completely cease to exist.
You can't remember how it was before you came into existence, right?

So how exactly isn't that all bad?
Personally, I'd rather burn in some kind of hell than cease to exist.

Because you won't know how it will feel!
You won't be able to think about it.
There'll just be nothing.
I don't know, my brain hurts.

And it should hurt your head because it?s pretty incomprehensible and imposable for us to relate to. It?s why people say silly things like they would rather burn forever. People doesn?t seem to realise they won?t be around as a conscious, sentient being for it. I find it?s best explained by comparing it to the nothingness that was before life because that is a tad more relatable and nothing we remember as being so awful we would rather burn for an eternity.

 

[ninetails593]

As long as you're faithful to your religion you don't have to fear death.

No.

I agree that it may be way of coping with the fear of death, and that it may be effective at that job - but religion should never utilise the tactic of telling people that they're screwed if they don't believe.

That's just wrong.

I don't know whose comment you were reading but it wasn't mine. And to prevent further wastes of messages: I get what you're saying, but I wasn't saying that. Do you have a problem that I actually care about my religion? Do you have a problem that I believe that death will bring me to Heaven, and that thus death is not something to be feared, if unavoidable? I was never talking about religion trying to get you to believe with threats, I was talking about being faithful to the religion you chose so that you would get the good ending.

 

[[.redacted]]

As long as you're faithful to your religion you don't have to fear death.

No.

I agree that it may be way of coping with the fear of death, and that it may be effective at that job - but religion should never utilise the tactic of telling people that they're screwed if they don't believe.

That's just wrong.

I don't know whose comment you were reading but it wasn't mine. And to prevent further wastes of messages: I get what you're saying, but I wasn't saying that. Do you have a problem that I actually care about my religion? Do you have a problem that I believe that death will bring me to Heaven, and that thus death is not something to be feared, if unavoidable? I was never talking about religion trying to get you to believe with threats, I was talking about being faithful to the religion you chose so that you would get the good ending.

Fair enough, I can understand and appreciate that.

For the record, yes I do have a problem with religion in general - but it's not something I want to argue about, as it often gets into flamewar territory.

 

[Koroviev]

I don't want to die, but I think it's illogical to worry about it. If I'm dead, I won't mind.

 

[EcHoFiiVe]

I have accepted death, because it is inevitable, and I don't feel like I fear it. However, I do fear a painful or untimely death, for example I do fear getting say, hit by a car which would kill me at this early an age, because then I feel like I would be cheated out of a full life. I also fear dying of something to the effect of cancer or even drowning, because it is a slow and very painful death.

 

[nunqual]

I think about death ever day. The concept has cursed me ever since I was around 8, when I first came to question what happens when we die (i was brought up agnostic, effectively).

Death scares the living shit out of me, both because I dont want to lose my loved ones, and the idea of infinite non existence is shattering. I feel physically weak when I think about it. Infinity is a long fucking time.

It's basically the only thing I worry about. And the only thing that could ever persuade me to be religious.

I am pretty much the same. I was brought up agnostic. The only thing that gets me about death is not feeling anything. Sometimes I just tell myself, well, I'm not going to feel anything so I won't care. But I just can't imagine it.

 

[alandavidson]

No, I don't worry about my demise nor do I fear death. I've been in enough situations that have placed me close to death that it has lost its charm. I can tell you that when you are in the heat of the moment you don't stop to think about it, you just focus on what is going on in front of you. The second you stop to think "I could die" is the moment you do. There are plenty of times where I could have and even should have died. Honestly, you get to the point where you just laugh at it.

But honestly, there's no point in dwelling on it. He who dwells on his demise will be a coward when it comes.

 

[Berethond]

I don't fear anything, not even death.

 

[loc978]

Some eight years ago, I was fed up enough with my life that I made a half-hearted, torturous suicide attempt... by joining the US Army.
I'm still fed up with people, but I don't mind myself so much anymore... I don't welcome death anymore, but I still don't fear it... which, ironically, is a big part of why I'm still alive.

 

[ninetails593]

As long as you're faithful to your religion you don't have to fear death.

No.

I agree that it may be way of coping with the fear of death, and that it may be effective at that job - but religion should never utilise the tactic of telling people that they're screwed if they don't believe.

That's just wrong.

I don't know whose comment you were reading but it wasn't mine. And to prevent further wastes of messages: I get what you're saying, but I wasn't saying that. Do you have a problem that I actually care about my religion? Do you have a problem that I believe that death will bring me to Heaven, and that thus death is not something to be feared, if unavoidable? I was never talking about religion trying to get you to believe with threats, I was talking about being faithful to the religion you chose so that you would get the good ending.

Fair enough, I can understand and appreciate that.

For the record, yes I do have a problem with religion in general - but it's not something I want to argue about, as it often gets into flamewar territory.

You're the third person in a row I've seen on escapist say the old 'I don't want to start a flame war' cop out.
With the interests of stating the facts: You messed up.