Poll: How often do you think about Death?

[Johnny Impact]

Hadn't thought of her in quite a while. She's not really my type. All skinny and pale, with the tattoo on her face and the crazy hair. Goth chicks just don't do it for me, even if she is the anthropomorphic personification of one of the universe's larger forces.

 

[HooterNanny]

Weirdly I used to think about it more when I was younger. I honestly don't know why. Might just be because I've got loads of other things going on now

 

[SilentCom]

Define "death". Death as in death itself and the possibility of an afterlife, Death as in when you might die, Death as in how you might die or Death as in suicide?

I think about all four every now and then. I find death fascinating. It's mankind's last adventure, into the darkness of oblivion and eternity ...

Death is defined as the end of life. What you take out of that is up to you.



Personally, I think about death too often for it to be healthy. I obsess over my own death. I'm not really afraid of dying but rather I'm afraid of living. I'm afraid that it doesn't matter what I do in life, that my life has no value to anyone and therefore my death will have no impact either. I'm afraid I will merely slip away just as I do in life. Living is difficult and death is the end of it all. I don't want to die knowing my life has been worthless.

Also, before anyone says I should speak to a psychiatrist, I will reply here that I will do no such thing. I will not spend what little money I have to hear the words of someone who wants to tell me I'm messed up and how to live my life. I want to live my life and keep my character somewhat intact.

 

[SilentCom]

Not too often anymore; I went through all my existential crises and profound contemplation of reality a few years ago and pretty much figured it out; not in the sense that I have solutions, but in that I know what I believe and how I feel about it and what is important. Death is something you can't do anything about, so why worry? What happens will happen.

I've gone through some existential stuff as well, however it isn't really death that I'm afraid of. I worry about living a life worth living until death takes me. I don't want my last thought to be "my life has been a complete waste" as I lay dying.

 

[Dawns Gate]

Yeah, since my dad was discharged from the army and I'm at the age where he tells me everything he has experienced since joining in 1991, I have been thinking about it a lot, especially how he can tell me with a straight face that his friend got blown up by an RPG in Bosnia, or can say with a chuckle that he took down five Taliban fighters close enough to see their horrified faces.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

Sometimes think about it. Like getting old, leading up to death, and so on. Actually I think more about other people's perception of it rather than my own, as everybody has their own idea. And if anyone has seen/tasted what it's like? Is the theories on what comes after merely a comfort for those who face it?

Strange to see people think about it when playing games, I honestly hardly ever do, except when I was a child and my dad would look over my shoulder and make some funny comment about making someone's mother/wife/family utterly miserable with my actions. I find I think about it more when I see tragedies on TV, like people's homes and families getting washed away with some tsunami flood or earthquake or something like that, or being buried underground alive.

 

[teebeeohh]

regularly.
i died for about a minute after being hit on the head with a paddle by some douchebag. i came to terms with the fact that i will die that day. It's rather easy to freak people out if you consider dying more inconvenient than anything else.
I was in a car accident in early 2010 and i the only thing i remember thinking was "if i die now i will never know how mass effect ends"

 

[SulfuricDonut]

I do often. I'm only 18 but i've lived through the deaths of several close friends from medical conditions or accidents.

I generally think about what kind of effect my death would have on people. Such as who would visit me in the hospital on my deathbed, who would cry at the thought of me etc.

I have figured out that if I die, a small few people would be utterly devastated, as I have very few, but very close relationships. However the majority of people would either not particularly care, or not actually ever learn of my death as I have graduated high school and will probably never have seen any of them anywhere anyway.

 

[Pegghead]

I used to a fair bit when I was younger, but not so much now. Maybe that's just a side-effect of being Catholic, but I eventually concluded that I won't truly know until it happens to me (which'll hopefully be as far off as possible) and that thinking about life is far more satisfying and relevant.

 

[Tucker154]

Death is something I think about alot. I think about how certaint peoples death will effect/effected the life others and me. I think about how I will die. And I think about why poeple fear death so much. Personally, I never think about my personal death, just others.I have no fear of death and am ready to embrace is win it comes.

 

[0p3rati0n]

I try not to think about it a lot. I'm a person who believes in an afterlife. There are time though when I go "Okay, forget for a moment that there is no afterlife." When that happens it's almost freaks me out. To think that when you die there is not place for your conscience to go that it just stops. No more sight, smell, feeling, hearing, touch, or thought. I find it more mind numbing than the most disturbing horror film ever. So once again, I don't think about it a lot.

 

[The Hero Killer]

Occasionally, and when I do my head hurts and I start to feel sick. I have a deep fear of not existing anymore not being able to move, or think, or feel, or even dream as if I were asleep. Just the thought of everything being over scares me. Its not even the dying part, its not knowing what comes afterwards.

 

[Kaymish]

not often sometimes i just feel morbid but im only 25 fo i dont oput much serious thought into it

 

[infinity^infinity]

I just think that there are more important things to be concerned about, and also it is inevitable that I will, someday, die so what's the use in fretting over it?

 

[ShotgunZombie]

I think about death both in terms of my own mortality and the concept of death itself on occasion. Mainly I think about how mysterious the whole thing is.
Is there a heaven waiting for me when I perish? A hell? Do I just rot in the ground forever?
Can I come back to life? If I do will I remember my previous life?
Can I truly transcend death? Would I even want to?
Hell, I could post several pages of questions just like these...
Anyway the point is that I find death terrible frightening yet at the same time fascinating. Though I'd rather find out what happens when we take that final dirt nap later, not sooner.

 

[BGH122]

Whenever I'm trying to lay down and get some sleep,if my mind isn't entertained I get straight to the depressing shit.

Yeah, me too.

I think about death (specifically my own) an awful lot and worry incessantly about what comes after it. Perception is all we have? Without it what is there? What is nothing, the imperceivable? How can that concept even make any kind of rational sense to an organism which interprets everything through perception?...

And so it goes on and on into the night.

 

[Zaverexus]

Not too often anymore; I went through all my existential crises and profound contemplation of reality a few years ago and pretty much figured it out; not in the sense that I have solutions, but in that I know what I believe and how I feel about it and what is important. Death is something you can't do anything about, so why worry? What happens will happen.

I've gone through some existential stuff as well, however it isn't really death that I'm afraid of. I worry about living a life worth living until death takes me. I don't want my last thought to be "my life has been a complete waste" as I lay dying.

Exactly. You have to make sure that the things you are doing and working towards are things that you really will enjoy and believe to be worthwhile. What more can you really do?