What are your views on death?

[Fightgarr]

The ultimate evolved life form will no longer need to pass on genes and thus not need to reproduce. As a result death becomes unnecessary because population control is no longer a concern. Or at least that's how this hypothetical "ultimately evolved being" theory would work. Its the reason why Lavos lives forever, its the ultimate in evolution.

Its really messed up for me to think that I will die. I just won't exist any more. None of this will ever continue. I can't think about it for longer than a few minutes before I become afraid. It is my greatest hope that there is some form of existence after death. I do not know what I would be without my sentience.

 

[wulfy42]

Death is only temporary and time is only a human concept and doesn't really exist so in effect you never really die.

A quick rundown of how it works is like this.

The universe is created by a big explosion.
Before the universe retracts back apon itself you live.
The universe eventually is drawn back together into a center and explodes again.

This happens over and over with new lives that are not repeated until eventually the universe is drawn back together into the exact same center as the last time it exploded.

This causes everything to explode and happen exactly the same way over and over again (it doesn't initially happen identically, but over enough recreations the smaller variables work themselves out as well).

So between each reset of the universe you live your same life.....over and over again.

The time between your lives isn't really important...so in effect you live forever.

So there really is no death.

 

[Dorian]

The ultimate evolved life form will no longer need to pass on genes and thus not need to reproduce. As a result death becomes unnecessary because population control is no longer a concern. Or at least that's how this hypothetical "ultimately evolved being" theory would work. Its the reason why Lavos lives forever, its the ultimate in evolution.

Its really messed up for me to think that I will die. I just won't exist any more. None of this will ever continue. I can't think about it for longer than a few minutes before I become afraid. It is my greatest hope that there is some form of existence after death. I do not know what I would be without my sentience.

I was half expecting you to go into a dragon reference. Darn.

 

[Fightgarr]

I was half expecting you to go into a dragon reference. Darn.

Well if you'd like:

This is my ultimate best case scenario of dying. I am dragon, I am a sleeping dragon. When a dragon sleeps it creates a whole new reality. I am that dragons existing in the reality created by its dream. When I die I will awake again, still a dragon, with all the experiences of the me that was the dream. Then, when I'm done dragoning around for a while, I'll go back to sleep, creating another reality and another me.

That good enough for yah?

 

[Sweep117]

Not so much as I would go out of my way to kill myself and I'm not at all unhappy, I've just always been curious.

Well said. Me too.

As a Chirstian I believe I'm going to heaven when I die but it's not like I go around wishing I were there all the time. I try to enjoy life to the fullest. Death'll come, yes, but why bother thinking about it? Right now I don't have dependants. I don't really have anything to my name. If I die now, who cares? Not me. If/when I have a wife and/or children, I'll make necessary arrangements. I'm not an idiot. Until then, I die, people mourn for a while (I'd like to think...) and get on with their lives. I end up eternally happy.

 

[sheic99]

Death. Inevitable and permanent. Life's final cure to the scourge that is old people.

Maybe one day, after we conquor aging, we'll conquor death, then we'll all be immortal youths, free to indulge in hedonistic pleasures for eternity. Or just go find some stinking aliens and war them into extinction.

As awesome as that would be, that would probably not be a very good thing. Culture would stagnate. Imagine if the people who thought the world was flat didn't die, where would we be now?

About 3 inches from a person at all times.

 

[Arsen]

I believe in an Chriatian afterlife.

 

[Reaperman Wompa]

1-Nothing
2-Something that is part of me spends eternity in the dark
3-I go to hell
4-I go to heaven
5-Purgatory

Either way there's nothing I can do, so I might as well enjoy it and when it comes, hope for the best.

 

[Jesterz]

I really don't want to die for 2 reasons.

1. I like living, I enjoy thinking and posing questions to myself.

2. I'm uncertain as to what waits beyond. I'd like to believe in Heaven or an afterlife, but coming from the Bible, It seems that it's way too easy to just make up and use it as a plan for money, loyalty and so on...

Either way, I'll accept death but i'm not going to do anything to shorten it.

 

[Aardvark]

As awesome as that would be, that would probably not be a very good thing. Culture would stagnate. Imagine if the people who thought the world was flat didn't die, where would we be now?

Flat earth wasn't something that died with people, it's something that was disproven and caught on quickly when people realised that this new, wonderful, unexploited land was just waiting for them to come and exploit the hell out of it.

 

[Spaggiari]

Marcus Aurelius said that anyone who fears death is either afraid of a new sensation or is afraid of a complete lack of sensation.

I say there is no afterlife. All that there is beyond that final shutting of your eyelids is the dark embrace of eternal sleep.

Some find that a scary thought; they fear they will miss all that they had during their life.

To these people I say only that there can be no regret, nor longing, nor remorse when all sensation has ceased to be.

Imagine one of your dreamless slumbers. Now simply imagine that you never wake up.

I wouldn't mind that level of relaxation at all.

 

[WeedWorm]

actually the human body does not start to die from the moment you are born as Humans are not a closed system but rather an open system that performs entropy and constantly recycles energy. therefore what actually kills you is trauma to the organs or some from of disease or clot in the artery's or blood. This means that if technology manages to catch up in the next few decades Humans could live indefinitely through organ replacement and regeneration. Death can piss off as I plan to live forever

"Hey, Death. Suck it."

 

[Whobajube]

Death? It scares the fuck out of me. I don't know what will happen when I die, and that's why. Sure, I'd like to believe in a blissful afterlife, but how do I know there is one? No one can possibly know until it happens, and by then it's too late. What if I'm just gone? Everything about me, who I was, just gone? My consciousness simply ceases to exist? That's hell, right there.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

I find the concept of death reassuring it gives a definitive end to things, it's less messy than concepts of an afterlife.

I don't welcome death though, it will always seem premature and unexpected regardless of whenever it happens. Nearly everyone wants to live as long as possible and I'm the same.

 

[jthm]

Life is, by and large, unpleasant and trying, with just enough good moments thrown in that you don't just give up on it. Why should death be any different. Personally, I believe we are all one Oversoul of an entity (See Brahman or Oversoul) that is experiencing itself a million different ways by interacting with itself in other aspects. When we die, we just move onto the next incarnation.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

My ethos: Live hard, die old and leave a crater the size of Staffordshire.

 

[AgentNein]

meh, your atoms will be around for ever though so what does it matter!

atoms aren't conciousness. I don't give a crap about my atoms.

 

[D_987]

Are you MAD!? The world is not cruel! I don't know where you get your information from but your source is seriously misguided. The world is great!

Good for you, your not living in a 3rd world country, or being bombed in a war you had so say in, or being over-run by a vicious dictator - the world is cruel because humans are cruel - just because your doing all right at the moment doesn't mean others are not suffering all around you.

 

[mokes310]

Meh, I'm not to worried about it.

 

[AgentNein]

Death is only temporary and time is only a human concept and doesn't really exist so in effect you never really die.

A quick rundown of how it works is like this.

The universe is created by a big explosion.
Before the universe retracts back apon itself you live.
The universe eventually is drawn back together into a center and explodes again.

This happens over and over with new lives that are not repeated until eventually the universe is drawn back together into the exact same center as the last time it exploded.

This causes everything to explode and happen exactly the same way over and over again (it doesn't initially happen identically, but over enough recreations the smaller variables work themselves out as well).

So between each reset of the universe you live your same life.....over and over again.

The time between your lives isn't really important...so in effect you live forever.

So there really is no death.

Couple of things wrong with this. First, time is definetly an existing 'thing', and it exists independently of humanity. What we HAVE created are ways to measure said time, so that it has meaning to our daily lives. Also, the human brain might 'experience' time in it's own manner, and that might definetly be different than how time actually exists out side of human perception. If there was actually no such thing as time though, and it was simply an idea thought up by humanity, nothing would 'happen' (time is the medium as well as space that things 'happen' in).

Secondly, the prevaling theory these days is that the universe is not actually going to go into a big crunch one day and collapse back into itself. We thought that eventually the momentum of the expansion of the universe would give way to gravity, but it turns out that everythings sort of...speeding up! Even if this is the case their is still the possibility of an infinite number of univers(i?), and if this is the case (infinite realities) you'd definetly be correct on the idea that doubles (and triples and so on!) of ourselves would certainly exist, living the exact same lives/almost exact same lives/completly different lives or just not existing at all in many of the many many variations of our world. They wouldn't however neccesarily be 'us'. Our particular conciousness for all we know exists only here. These other 'us' probably wouldn't have the same conciousness, so chances are, when we die we are gone (at least this version of our conciousness).