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The reality that we'll die some day

Started by SoldierofFortune, April 06, 2017, 10:25:29 AM

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God Not Found
"There is a sucker born-again every minute." - C. Spellman

Baruch

This is the after-life, here and now, that is why it sucks.  Heaven isn't as high, nor hell so low ... as we expect.  Valuing this ... is indeed a problem.  But I continue my struggle.
Ha’át’íísh baa naniná?
Azee’ Å,a’ish nanídį́į́h?
Táadoo ánít’iní.
What are you doing?
Are you taking any medications?
Don't do that.

Cavebear

Quote from: Munch on April 25, 2017, 07:11:59 PM
Usually, in my outlook, I approach so much stuff with cynicism and humor, since I know theres so much bad in the world, the only way I deal with the bad is with those tools, and try and take the good where it comes. This is why I usually just don't think of death as best I can, yet I can remember when young being faced with the thought of death, the fear it gave me, not in my own, but people I love, dying. I remember when I was like 9, and thinking of some day, my mum dying, and busting into tears, where she reassured me she would be around for a long time.

I've been through family and friends dying, and while it gives to experience in what you expect, your never really prepared how your deal with it, since you are always changing, probably people you know dying is part of that. I first faced death when a school friend of mine died, and was so shocked by it, I ran home from school alone, and was found by my teacher, who helped me deal with it. Next was my dog, who was put down early, then my cat who lived till he was 18.

The first real family member to die that effected me was my grandmother, since I was so young when my grandpa died I didn't know how to feel about it then. When I saw my grandmother on the bed in the funeral home, she looked nothing like the woman who I visited all the time, the smiling sweet old lady, she was now a pale withered husk, and it stuck with me, seeing someone i loved become that. That really was the first real time I think I was faced with death.

When my dad died several years ago, I went to see him in the hospice before and after he died, and it looked like he was just sleeping. Maybe that was better, after my experience with seeing my nan like that, I didn't want to see my dad as a pale husk.

Thats been my experience with death anyway, I felt like I kind of came late to experience it, probably my mum shielding me from it, but like say, I don't think anyone is ever prepared for it, its just the kind of person your shaped into as you grow in how you deal with it.

I think though, when it comes to my own death, whenever that will be, I fear the idea of being on a hospital bed, alone, without people I love around me. My grandma and dad died alone, because it happened when we were away from the hospice, and couldn't get there in time to be with them, and that really is something I fear. I'm not going to have children, though I have my nephews and brother and my boyfriends. I suppose whatever will be will be.

All living things die.  Most in pain, some in terror.  Some eaten alive.  I'll take a calm hospital bed...
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

SGOS

Quote from: Cavebear on May 09, 2017, 07:50:26 AM
All living things die.  Most in pain, some in terror.  Some eaten alive.  I'll take a calm hospital bed...
I'm hoping for a sunny day in nature lying on my back looking up through a canopy of trees at the sky.  I used to say I wanted to be mauled by a grizzly bear, but that was a failed attempt to convey an outdoor event of a manly nature.  But the only response I ever got was, "Eww," so I changed it to a more peaceful venue, possibly in a bed of wildflowers next to a babbling brook.  But as I get older, it's more likely that I'll be discovered slumped over my computer desk @ atheistforums.com writing a response to Drew.

Gawdzilla Sama

My doctors keep saying "How is it you're still alive?" I'm running out of ways to die.
We 'new atheists' have a reputation for being militant, but make no mistake  we didn't start this war. If you want to place blame put it on the the religious zealots who have been poisoning the minds of the  young for a long long time."
PZ Myers

aitm

Quote from: SGOS on May 09, 2017, 08:41:48 AM
  But as I get older, it's more likely that I'll be discovered slumped over my computer desk @ atheistforums.com writing a response to Drew.

Ha! Dat funny shit there.
A humans desire to live is exceeded only by their willingness to die for another. Even god cannot equal this magnificent sacrifice. No god has the right to judge them.-first tenant of the Panotheust

Cavebear

Quote from: SGOS on May 09, 2017, 08:41:48 AM
I'm hoping for a sunny day in nature lying on my back looking up through a canopy of trees at the sky.  I used to say I wanted to be mauled by a grizzly bear, but that was a failed attempt to convey an outdoor event of a manly nature.  But the only response I ever got was, "Eww," so I changed it to a more peaceful venue, possibly in a bed of wildflowers next to a babbling brook.  But as I get older, it's more likely that I'll be discovered slumped over my computer desk @ atheistforums.com writing a response to Drew.

Even worse, there will be typos in your last response...  ;)
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

simplyalex

We don't know when will it happen and I must agree I don't have any plan at all. I just live my life the way I want to be and hey I don't want to be stress just because of the fact that we will all die someday. Nothing is constant and that's it.

Solomon Zorn

Quote from: SGOS on May 09, 2017, 08:41:48 AM...But as I get older, it's more likely that I'll be discovered slumped over my computer desk @ atheistforums.com writing a response to Drew.
I have to echo aitm, about this one...I am still laughing. :histerical:
If God Exists, Why Does He Pretend Not to Exist?
Poetry and Proverbs of the Uneducated Hick

http://www.solomonzorn.com

Cavebear

Stock some pills.  Going out numb is better than going out in pain and gasping for breath.  And I'm debating going out listening to Firesign Theatre or Canon in D Major.
Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

trdsf

Quote from: Cavebear on July 14, 2017, 07:08:46 AM
Stock some pills.  Going out numb is better than going out in pain and gasping for breath.  And I'm debating going out listening to Firesign Theatre or Canon in D Major.
o/` Oh blinding light / Oh light that blinds / I cannot see / Look out for me! o/`
"My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution." -- Barbara Jordan

Mike Cl

Quote from: Cavebear on July 14, 2017, 07:08:46 AM
Stock some pills.  Going out numb is better than going out in pain and gasping for breath.  And I'm debating going out listening to Firesign Theatre or Canon in D Major.
Or get a source for insulin. 
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

Cavebear

Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!

Mike Cl

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

Cavebear

Atheist born, atheist bred.  And when I die, atheist dead!