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

[Animated Rope]

I used to think of it quite a lot even though I knew it was pointless.

But accepting that it's utterly unavoidable, even if you rule out aging, and finding some sort of meaning with life made me feel a lot better about it and not think so much.

EDIT: Also, for some reason I think that the human mind would react negatively if you were alive for too long. So I don't really want to live forever. I still hope for an afterlife though, and figure that the equivalent of your soul are better suited for eternity than your brain.

 

[Cody211282]

A lot, mostly because I'm studying to be an EMT and you get to see some very messed up stuff that makes you think that could be you, but damn if it isn't almost the funnest thing I have ever done.

Where at? I did the EMT then EMT paramedic in Houston, finished in 2000 but it was life changing. Loved it, although it was hard work.

Cedar City Utah, we are the only semi-large town on this part of the I-15 so we get all sorts of car crashes, also a fair amount of drugs and rapes because of the college and hicks.

Houston was in the top 10 cities for shootings and stabbings, the army sent their medics to Ben Taub hospital to gain experience while I was there. Its a really rewarding job, wish I was still doing it.

Wow that must have been something, I have the state test in 2, I've really loved the training and ride alongs I have done so far.

 

[Srdjan]

It crosses my mind frequently, but I'm not bothered by it or think too much about it.

 

[darkhawk918]

I'm a smoker. I smoke a lot. 20 a day since the age of 14 - I'm now 18 and I've not cut down at all. I also drink a hell of a lot.

I'll probably die of liver failure or cancer but we all die some day.

Here's a big "meh" to mortality

 

[Saknika]

Sadly, I find myself contemplating it a lot, and I feel like it's because I have an irrational fear of death. Sometimes it really bothers me, and other times I can totally accept the fact that we all die. My brain is a weird place, and I'd like a new one please.

 

[TheLazyKnight]

I had a sort of "break down" in my third year of high school about how fast my life seemed to be going. I sorted it all out, and now it doesn't really bother me that much. I mean sure I think about death, but I'm not affected as I once was.

 

[RabidusUnus]

I'm Christian. As long a the physical part of death isn't painful, I'm (hopefully) all good for eternity. .

 

[bjj hero]

A lot, mostly because I'm studying to be an EMT and you get to see some very messed up stuff that makes you think that could be you, but damn if it isn't almost the funnest thing I have ever done.

Where at? I did the EMT then EMT paramedic in Houston, finished in 2000 but it was life changing. Loved it, although it was hard work.

Cedar City Utah, we are the only semi-large town on this part of the I-15 so we get all sorts of car crashes, also a fair amount of drugs and rapes because of the college and hicks.

Houston was in the top 10 cities for shootings and stabbings, the army sent their medics to Ben Taub hospital to gain experience while I was there. Its a really rewarding job, wish I was still doing it.

Wow that must have been something, I have the state test in 2, I've really loved the training and ride alongs I have done so far.

Well best of luck and keep reading.

 

[Latinidiot]

I think a lot about it. It's strange, death. I wonder what it's like. How it is to not exist. for ever.

 

[Bosola]

With my twenty-third birthday approaching, I'm on the cusp of my 'prime'. I will have all the vigor of youth, and all the self-determination of adulthood. I'll be a full third into my lifespan. And once the twenty-fifth passes over, it's downhill each day. That worries me, somewhat.

 

[Uncreative]

I haven't gone three days without thinking about it for a very long time. It's just become something I do sometimes.
I also have a habit of basing a large number of my social decisions on how I would feel if the second party were to die. Usually resulting in a "Why the hell am I upset over something this trivial?" moment, or whatever is appropriate to the specific circumstances.

As a sidenote, when I opened this page 'Don't fear the reaper' immediately started running through my head, and I am now giggling uncontrollably.

 

[baconfist]

This is where being an atheist really backlashes, and a benefit to being religious. Which I, unfortunately, am not. Still though, I don't really think about it too much, but maybe that's because I'm still 17 and have a while ahead of me.

As an atheist myself I can't say that I think of the afterlife as a good thing. I hope that when my time is up it's like it was before I was born. The alternative of things like heaven and hell scare me. I hope I don't end up in either of those places.

 

[The_Graff]

fairly regularly - having actually technically died for a few seconds it kinda sits on the brain.

 

[Tharwen]

I'm one of the two 'every day'-ers so far

I often play games where you kill people, but sometimes I think about what the situations depicted in the game would actually be like. In a game, your avatar can be mortally wounded or killed, and it doesn't happen to you, so it doesn't matter. You can just try again. Any real-life combat situation is terrifying by nature, and if you really thought you were going to die, the horror that you would experience is unimaginable to someone who hasn't. I think that until a gamer actually feels like they are part of a game like this, there is no risk of anyone being directly affected by the violence depicted in them.

I don't think about death in fear, but often I get to a 'what is the point of life' train of thought that results in 'what's the point when everything is finite and nothing will matter in a few thousand years anyway?' That's when I just fall back on 'my species has impulses to stay alive, so I have no reason not to follow them'.

The only thing I absolutely fear is that when you die, you just stay conscious, but without a body. Eternity spent in your own mind with no input is the most horrific destiny I can imagine. In that situation, I'd just hope for insanity to make it more tolerable. Luckily for me, though, I understand enough biology to know that that isn't possible.

This was a bit of a ramble, but I hope it all made sense.

 

[Doitpow]

Wow this is really great for me to read. I am terrified of death. I mean the fear litterally dominates my life. There are days when I can't get out of bed because of it. Have been terrified of it since I was about 7.

Glad you guys are also if not terrified then at least pre-occupied with it.

 

[rabidmidget]

About once a week, how deep I think about it varies though, almost every time I think deeply about it I just come up with more pessimistic ideas about the afterlife (or lack thereof) and the meaning of life

(so far i have come to the conclusion that the main goal someone can have in life if they don't want their life to be considered pointless, is to exert as much change on the external world around them, AKA existence is validated by power, there's more to it than that but I won't go into that right now)

 

[rabidmidget]

The only thing I absolutely fear is that when you die, you just stay conscious, but without a body. Eternity spent in your own mind with no input is the most horrific destiny I can imagine. In that situation, I'd just hope for insanity to make it more tolerable. Luckily for me, though, I understand enough biology to know that that isn't possible.

This was a bit of a ramble, but I hope it all made sense.

Funny, that is one of the exact same fears I have been having recently, for some reason I find the idea of nihilism more comfortable

 

[aww yea]

hmmmm im okay with the fact that everybody dies

when its over its over, so i dont think about that side of it too much. more thinking about things that kill me, like a car crash or falling etc

i barely noticed i do that though so its not really a big deal

 

[AVATAR_RAGE]

about once a week it's like the only thing keeping me from being a complete and total anus. I mean come on, we could die at any moment and who wants to be remembered as THAT guy (you know the one I mean, the one who sleeps with your sister and then gives her tips on improving her performance)

 

[Soxafloppin]

Not very often, once a month i would guess.