Poll: How often do you think about your own mortality? (No emo, bro.)

[King of the Sandbox]

Without getting to morose up in this piece, how often do you find yourself thinking about the big KO? I tend to go for stretches where the thought never even crosses my mind, but then, after a few months of blissful ignorance, I'll be lying in bed one night, trying to go to sleep, and BOOM; it's time to fear the reaper.

This'll last usually until I fall asleep (after a couple hours), but when I wake up, the whole cycle repeats again.

This got me wondering; 'just how often do other people normally think about death?'

 

[delet]

A lot less now that I've finally discerned a meaning for my life, and then I've refined his meaning a little more so now I don't even feel empty anymore upon pondering death. I think the last 'session' was some time at the end of last year though...

 

[aPod]

Its hard not to try and explore your mortality. Its something all of us will deal with at least once in our lives, although, most us will experience some event that nearly kills us and life becomes all too clear.

I dont fear death, but my mortality makes me uneasy none-the-less. Its more of a sinking feeling in my stomach akin to stage fright than crippling fear.

I'll usually have some sort of "reflection" once a week at least. Odd, but it comes up from diving into other areas of my thoughts but i cant help but come to the final conclusion to everything at some point.

 

[atol]

Almost daily.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

not much until i hit 30, then I sorta freaked out, now a couple of months down the line not so much.

once you accept that one day you will die you will be unstoppable.

I think my frequency of pondering my end has increased drastically since I turned 30 as well... but now that I'm nearing 31, it's not as frequent, you're right.

Mid-life crisis, maybe? /shrugs

 

[Deleted]

I want to change the world before I die, but what I'm scared of is: once I reach my goal, and am helping the world, I don't want to die. I want to keep doing what I do, but I know thats impossible. So the world will have accepted that I'm going to die, but I don't want to let them down.

Pretty narcissistic but true.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

I'm usually to busy doing stuff or being asleep to worry about death, but about once a year it comes creeping and I think about it. Usually I just listen to the song Atlantic City after that and I feel better.

 

[Queen Michael]

Every day. I need to in order to plan my life.

 

[MurderousToaster]

Almost every day, I guess. My mind tends to wander. Everyone's going to die, though, so it's all good.

 

[Deleted]

I want to change the world before I die, but what I'm scared of is: once I reach my goal, and am helping the world, I don't want to die. I want to keep doing what I do, but I know thats impossible. So the world will have accepted that I'm going to die, but I don't want to let them down.

Pretty narcissistic but true.

Douk, you are wrong. Scientists have said the cure to aging is about 30 to 40 years away. The way it would have to work would also allow you to deage.

We can't just give the cure to everyone because then we will have to somehow make every man on earth fertile to prevent overpopulation. It will come to a point where only deserving people get to live forever, and people who don't 'deserve' it will riot and it will be world wide chaos.

 

[Kiju]

Mhn...I s'pose it does enter my mind often enough. I really do think that death is confusing...it's something that no one can really stop, or prevent for very long. I've had some times when I just watch some action movie, seeing people getting killed, and wondering to myself what that must be like. To be doing something...and then it just all goes away. It's...kind of scary in that sort of thought-frame, but it's what I look at it as.

Everything you've done, will do, or will be will suddenly just...up and vanish. All your dreams will vanish as well, and sometimes there's just nothing you can do about it. It's...frustrating, and kind of scary to think about, to know that one day it will happen, and you can never really know when. But...while I fear it, I also know that it's not something I can prevent, so there's no real reason to be afraid. To just live my life and deal with it when my time comes.

 

[Crystal Cuckoo]

I while ago it used to be every couple of days...

Now, it's less, given that I'm having more fun with it, partying and whatnot. =D

 

[paranoidhalfbreed]

Literally every day.

I know I'll get crap for this but oh well. I never cared if I lived or died until I finally found something worth living (and dying) for, and that would be my wife. The interesting thing now is I'm still not afraid of dying, but I am afraid of being alone if she died or vice versa for her. The thought of being away from her, even in death, truly makes me appreciate life and also scares the hell out of me.

 

[Bat Vader]

Not much really, I don't any goals or anything but that is alright with me.

If I don't accomplish anything in life than I don't accomplish anything.

I don't want to die but if I do die than there is nothing I can do against it.

 

[ethaninja]

Right now I'm just hoping to go out naturally and not get stabbed (yes I'm talking to you, fellow Australians who have a knack for stabbing other fellow Australians ). I only think about it once every couple of months or so, and I don't panic about it I just go... meh.

 

[Josho18]

I don't really fear death, ofcourse id like to stay alive becouse there are alot of things i want to do, like travel the world and such, But if i die, i die. Nothing to do about it, i have no fears of what comes after becouse im in the belief that my mind, and toughts and such just cease to excist, maybe a boring view on death, but it's calming.