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| The Nature of Death | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 21 2007, 10:58 AM (1,082 Views) | |
| Reaver | Jul 21 2007, 10:58 AM Post #1 |
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I've seen many people voice many opinions about Death and I want to formally see how people view death. While a lot of people consider death as something to be feared and many more see death as a fitting punishment, I merely see death as an event that happens during the course of life. It cannot be as terrible as it's made out to be, if death was the worst thing that could happen to any one person I'm sure that people would collaborate to make stopping death their main priority since it is a universal issue. Discuss. |
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| Wirtjr | Jul 21 2007, 11:17 AM Post #2 |
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As one who managed to cheat death (I had cancer, and I lived three months longer than what I should have, than the cancer receeded.) Death shouldn't really be frightening, death is our last, with a lack of a better term, fieldtrip. Who knows where we will go? Will we go to an actual heaven or hell? Will we reincarnate? Or will we just cease to be? No one knows, for all we know if we die we could be better for it. To quote a book I read, "Everything dies. But not everything has an ending." |
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| Psiwri | Jul 21 2007, 11:22 AM Post #3 |
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Harrr I consider death as a complete cease of existance, nothing happens afterwards. |
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| Kombat_911 | Jul 21 2007, 01:14 PM Post #4 |
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i love how dorky that sounds
final destination much?
i do too, but i wanna elaborate more on what i think of it (big word :o)^ for me anyways moving on, i think when u die, its over, and ur just gone. there's no heaven, there's no hell, there's no moving on, it's a blunt stop. all ur memories and crfap are in ur brain so when u die ur brain rots and.. so do ur memories and basically ur entire life. people work like machine, very sophisticated machines, but machines nonetheless. people think otherwise because we're so complicated, but i just think we have crazy variables(like health wise n stuff) so genetic technology stuffs kno what they're talkin bout too much thinking o yea, death isnt bad. if anything, its one of the best things that can ever happen |
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| Hollie | Jul 21 2007, 01:48 PM Post #5 |
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^This I gave up a long time ago in Christain teachings. |
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| Kombat_911 | Jul 21 2007, 02:18 PM Post #6 |
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yup yup rationality is beazt |
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| Crysta | Jul 21 2007, 03:17 PM Post #7 |
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I don't know what happens, but I do know what it entails. Anyone who thinks death is just another bump doesn't strike me as knowing death very well, or simply saying so for the sake of an underlying political argument. All you ever cared about is gone and you have no way of absolutely knowing what is going to happen to you afterwards. Pretty damn scary. Do you always choose how and when you die? Hardly. You very rarely do. Think about it for a second. |
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| Wirtjr | Jul 21 2007, 03:23 PM Post #8 |
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*Does so* Nope...Still not frightening me in the least. If nothing awaits us when we die than I really do look forward to it. Peace and quiet at last. |
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| Yzarc | Jul 21 2007, 03:35 PM Post #9 |
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qft If I were to die right now, I don't think you realize how horrible that would be. All the people I'd be leaving behind, all the memories, all happiness. I don't want to die. I fear death because I enjoy life, simple as that. I also hate to imagine the people that I care about and that depend on me (My little siblings, for example) have to deal with my death. The way I see it, if you don't see a problem with dying, you probably don't have much to live for. |
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| Reaver | Jul 21 2007, 09:19 PM Post #10 |
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I don't see why you're so eager to rule out any sort of afterlife, despite how afterlife is more than "Christian teaching". Many cultures believe in a life after death and the fact that our existance is shrouded in mystery means we cannot really rule out what happens after death. Why fear death? It is to happen and it is the once undefeatable force in the universe as of now. |
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| Psiwri | Jul 21 2007, 09:27 PM Post #11 |
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Many cultures have afterlife becuase they fear death and it makes the fear not as strong. That's why. |
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| Minstrel | Jul 21 2007, 09:37 PM Post #12 |
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Hockey mom
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I wouldn't say it's so much fearing death as it is thinking "lol, i guess we won't exist anymore, lawlz." |
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| Psiwri | Jul 21 2007, 09:53 PM Post #13 |
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Back in the day, the common person's life was shit, worse than most of the lowlier things of today. The afterlife, in any cultural form, was something for these people to look forward to so that they didn't feel so bad with their craptastic present life, knowing that there'd be something better later on. This was used in part to help keep the poverish masses content with their lives enough to continue it, as a social device to keep the civilization alive and not run out of food. Even the idea of reincarnation was working towards that if not more slowly. It's a thought designed to make the present "horrible" real life we all knwo for certain more acceptable. |
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| sephiroth667 | Jul 21 2007, 10:22 PM Post #14 |
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And this is a foolish opinion, in my opinion. Then again so is this opinion. The question is: why rule out the thought of afterlife? Why not live life in hopes that when you do die you go on to better things? How do you think it feels to someone who just, say lost a parent to understand that "lawl they're dead, never to come back. They're worm chow, kid. No heaven 4 u" The thought of an afterlife gives hope where there might be none. So the question is: why not? Does it comfort you to think you're going to rot in the ground? |
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| Psiwri | Jul 21 2007, 10:40 PM Post #15 |
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Why think there are better things than this life? Does that not simply degrade the worth of this existance? I'd like to live knowing I'm in the high life, not the low, why would I bother being alive then? My instinct certainly tells me to hold on. |
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