death

[Konx-om-Pax]

had quite a nice chat about mortality with a mate in the pub a few nights ago. Sadly he lost both parents within a few years and says the best way to cope is to talk about it. Most people see it as a taboo to talk about death but i think realising your own mortality can be one of the most important things you can do, puts things into perspective...

[Loz]

I talk about death all the time. It doesn't bother me at all. It's funny, a lot of people seem to think not believing in an afterlife makes life not worth it, or that you'd fear death because there is nothing after it. But I take the complete opposite view. Because there isn't an afterlife, you've got to make this life the best one you possibly can whilst you're here. And I can't fear death, because when I do die, since I believe there is nothing after it, it won't matter that I'm dead, since I won't know.

[nikrem]

Originally posted by Loz
I talk about death all the time

breaks the ice at dinner-parties..

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

I bet you mung, Loz.

[Hagbard]

Originally posted by Loz
I talk about death all the time.

I myself am not fond of the darkness – I sleep with the lights on now. It’s in the darkness I see the boy’s face. Eyes protruding, tongue out…black.

[Loz]

that's just Spandex trying to french kiss you, though, isn't it?

[kams]

Dying is fine - I know, I'm dead.

[Spandex]

Don't worry. Death comes to us all.

[Basic 2: The Revenge]

death is like a box of chocolates...

[Jeniffer Mills]

..As a believer in reincarnation, i`d say "hey! death is cool!" I mean, you get a different conciousness to death....Why do most of the people jerk together in fright when you say "death"...Ridiculous....Belongs to life like anything else......

Lets all have a party for our afterlife!!!!Yay!

[solitary_zen]

Originally posted by subscience
had quite a nice chat about mortality with a mate in the pub a few nights ago. Sadly he lost both parents within a few years and says the best way to cope is to talk about it. Most people see it as a taboo to talk about death but i think realising your own mortality can be one of the most important things you can do, puts things into perspective...

I think there would be far less angst in the world if everyone were able to come to terms with their own mortality. The way we go about life (in the west at least) you would think we were all immortal.
BTW, any of you guys got any thoughts on Ray Kurzweil and his idea of the singularity?

[Yer_Maw]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion

[spoon]

ah death...my old foe. it's just more paperwork really.

[Konx-om-Pax]

Originally posted by Yer_Maw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion

sounds lovely.

[Bobby Cleaver]

Originally posted by Yer_Maw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotard_delusion

never thought south africa sounded that appealing

[pille'ocheoni]

death is interesting. not the morbid part but the question part. sucks seing ppl hurt over lost ones, but i feel happy sometimes for the ppl that left, kinda like their going home.

[Konx-om-Pax]

Originally posted by pille'ocheoni
death is interesting. not the morbid part but the question part. sucks seing ppl hurt over lost ones, but i feel happy sometimes for the ppl that left, kinda like their going home.

yeh. know what you mean.