| Author |
Topic:
What's so bad about Death?
|
slobadog
Registered:
Aug '02
|
Date Posted:
8/31/06 6:41pm
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
- Date Edited:
8/31/06 6:43pm (2 edits total)
Edited By:
slobadog
|
|
The Japanese samurai sought death to avoid hesitancy in battle. Maybe we can model ourselves in a similar way.
-----signature-----
I hate The Force.net and their stupid glitchy signature system!!!!!!!!!
Wii Friend code 8329-8935-6247-4332-Wiibert
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
icqfreak
Registered:
Mar '99
|
Date Posted:
9/1/06 7:42am
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
|
I at times have a fear of the infinity of death for some reason. I'm a christian, so I believe in heaven, which sounds like a great place, but i'm there forever, and for some reason it scares me to be "alive" (in spirit anyways) forever. Likewise if christianity is false and I die and I'm done for good, I have a fear of the opposite type of infinity, being out of existence forever, although at least in that case I'd have no idea of that, as I'd cease to be, but that's kinda scary too. In some ways reincarnation seems like the best way to do it.
-----signature-----
Your focus determines your reality. - Qui-Gon Jinn
For shame... - Homer Simpson
I have no idea what's going on right now! - Towelie
Heh Heh...Allll right! - Quagmire
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
JediCouncilMaster
Registered:
Jun '05
|
Date Posted:
9/6/06 11:24pm
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
In my view, there's nothing bad about it. The only problem is that it can be unexpected. Look at Steve Irwin. But the good thing about his death was that he died loving at what he did, I sure like to die like that about the career I am part in.
But suicide is never an answer. Why kill yourself, when life will do it for you...
-----signature-----
"Traditor carved out his heart, never to let love kill him...his evil kept him alive." - Shaman
iTunes - How To Save A Life (The Fray) - POTC The Kraken (Hans Zimmer)
"Life is cruel! Why should the afterlife be any different?!" - Davy Jones
doomgiver007
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Espaldapalabras
Registered:
Aug '05
|
Date Posted:
9/7/06 12:16am
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
|
I find it ironic that someone would consider Reincarnation the best way to go because from what I know of the religions that believe in it the whole point of all your lives is to stop being reincarnated. Because life sucks and then you die, and then you get another sucky life.
-----signature-----
A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.
Theodore Roosevelt
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Darth-Ghost
Registered:
Oct '03
|
Date Posted:
3/3/07 7:29am
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
|
Bringing this old thread back up too. The fear of death seems to be what drives life, and I don't think we can conquer that fear until we know WHY we fear death. Could it not be anything logical at all, and just purely be a biological response we can never get rid of?
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Darth Mischievous
Registered:
Oct '99
|
Date Posted:
3/3/07 7:38am
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
I can tell you one thing, seeing it all the time like I do in my profession can both numb you to it and be emotionally taxing (as oxymoronic as that sounds).
I've seen so much grief, so many people die, that it makes you almost feel like you're having a mini mid-life crisis and are faced with your own mortality all the time.
That said, there is reward in helping these families get through such a very painful time.
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Gonk
Registered:
Jul '98
|
Date Posted:
3/3/07 8:55am
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
As well as it [The Bible] can just as easily be right.
Oh, I don't know about that...
-----signature-----
What shall we do to fill the empty spaces
Where waves of hunger gnaw?
Shall we set out upon this sea of faces
In search of more and more and more?
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
ForceJumpAnakin
Registered:
Dec '06
|
Date Posted:
3/5/07 11:48pm
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
|
What I hate is that anyone who knows you will be grief stricken once you are dead. For the person that is dead, who knows how or what they will feel afterwards. It could be scary once you get into the different kind of world (whatever it is), then good or bad after the deeds and sins are counted. Or just wait in a good or bad place until the judgement.
-----signature-----
Milk, Got. Hmmm?
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Lord_Horus
Registered:
Feb '06
|
Date Posted:
4/5/07 5:46am
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
Meh...I guess I'm always ready, in a way, to meet my maker.
Whether he is ready to meet me is an entirely different matter 
However, death...I dunno...seems kind of distant. The problem could also be the awareness of death itself. You can't see it, but, especially when you do something dangerous, and are aware of it, its "unknownness" clings to you in a very uncomfortable fashion. It's like that chill up your spine you get when you hear a sound you can't identify, but you know it's close, or closing.
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Eleventh_Guard
Registered:
Dec '05
|
Date Posted:
4/5/07 11:42am
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
On the immortality question - I wouldn't want to be entirely immortal. I would just want control over my own death - that I could forestall it as long as I wanted to, and when I was finished with life, accept death.
I no longer have the luxury of thinking "death is something that happens to old people." I've been too close to it myself, and it makes me uncomfortable. I think the dying is worse than death, though.
The idea of hell is the only thing that frightens me about death. Non-existence... well, I wouldn't know, so how could it bother me? And I'm not sure if hell exists, but the possibility of it is enough to bug.
-----signature-----
A conversation on Dathomir:
Welk: My daughter did that... I am blameless. I'm not even armed.
Jacen: And you just let her do whatever she wants?
Welk: You're new here, aren't you?
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Lowbacca_1977
Title: Senate Moderator
Registered:
Jun '06
|
Date Posted:
4/5/07 12:41pm
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
Re: immortality, I quote the scholars Queen
Who wants to live forever?
Who dares to love forever?
When love must die
Personally, I'm not a fan of immortality, in general. Cuz, other people aren't.
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
JMJacenSolo
Registered:
May '06
|
Date Posted:
4/5/07 4:56pm
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
This is a very interesting thread that I never noticed before.
I guess one distinction to make is; do people fear death, or the cessation of life? I personally fear the former. It's easy to say "why fear it, it's just nothingness". Well, to me that's a concept you can't quite wrap your mind around, because its sort of inherently impossible to ponder what a state of unconciousness would be like when every way you ponder it you are doing from a perspective of conciousness.
-----signature-----
"What good would it do me to switch tests with the guy who got the lowest score in the quarry?"
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Darth-Schwartz
Registered:
Apr '02
|
Date Posted:
4/6/07 3:37pm
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
|
If there is a God, i'm in big trouble. That's why I fear death.
-----signature-----
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
ROTSFan
Registered:
Jul '06
|
Date Posted:
4/7/07 12:49am
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
It can be scary not knowing exactly what's on the other side. Many who have researched it believe death is not an end, but only a beginning to something much large (this plays into afterlife obviously).
This topic was interestingly addressed in the movie Flatliners. Although extremely risky and unethical, I wonder if such an experiment could be possible and if so, has it ever been done? This was slightly different than near death experiences, as these deaths were staged and more carefully controlled, by Dr.'s themselves.
-----signature-----
 Fics in profile; ask me to unlock ~I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing, and it was everything I hoped it would be." - Office Space
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
Vaderize03
Title: Manager Emeritus
Registered:
Oct '99
|
Date Posted:
4/10/07 1:40pm
Subject:
RE: What's so bad about Death?
|
By medical convention, death is the condition from you do not return.
Even if such an experiment were to pass ethical muster (which would never happen), by rigorous scientific standards, it wouldn't prove anything, as a person who can be revived is never "really" dead.
From the standpoint of the medical/scientific community, there will never be a definitive answer to this question without a fundamental redefinition of what constitutes "death".
Peace,
V-03
-----signature-----
"Bring your pretty face to my axe....."
B-O-H-I-C-A !! (that was funny DM!)
"I'm what Willis was talking about"
|
Locked Topic |
Active Topic Notification |
Private Message |
Post History
|
