Jambomo Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 I am not bothered about being dead. I’ll be dead and will have absolutely no knowledge of it. I am more worried about the variety of ways that I come to be dead though. If I could guarantee that I’d just go to bed and not wake up, painless and quick, I wouldn’t care. I worry about stuff like drowning, or being murdered etc. I just don’t want it to be drawn out and terrifying. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONKMAN Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 The thought of being dead genuinely terrifies me, it always has. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richey Edwards Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 I'm not afraid of my own death. I have openly supported the hastening of my own death at various points in my life. I am afraid of the death of loved ones though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scary Bear Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 3 hours ago, invergowrie arab said: I am not afraid of dying. Any time will do, I don’t mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There’s no reason for it. You’ve got to go sometime. If you put that to music I think you could have a hit on your hands. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 1 hour ago, Alert Mongoose said: length was too short We’ve all been there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 1 hour ago, MONKMAN said: The thought of being dead genuinely terrifies me, it always has. It's OK, Jimmy Saville is long gone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Pete Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 I don't fancy a long, slow, painful protracted death, but I'm not afraid of dying. My wife and kids lives are the only ones I'm afraid for. But hopefully I'll be long dead before any of them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thistle_do_nicely Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 tbh this thread is coming at a funny time, its something that's weighed on me increasingly over the last few weeks. in a few months ill be the same age my fiancee Amanda was when she was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer, and she only survived for 2 years after the diagnosis. it wasnt exactly pretty to watch but they just hit her with increasingly strong doses of morphine and valium towards the end. I'll try to deal with it the same way she did; one of the last times she spoke to me and her family in the weeks before she died she literally said "Ok. So I'll be dead soon. Woohoo! *two thumbs up*". i get what you mean and in theory the closest approximation or refernce point we have is a deep sleep, although even at that we dream, but my consciousness will eventually just... end. *metallica guitar riff* and time marches on, on, on, on. i guess we might not ever get to have a single point of consciousness again? i like the thought of getting to see amanda/amanda's spooky ghost spirit at some point, so maybe Time And The Universe will do some cool unravelling and unfolding thing where I get to live almost the exact same life again in, oh, lets just say 400 billion years, but this time around there'll be a weird memory that makes me drag her to the A&E in enough time for it to make a difference, or better yet her body remembers and does some fancy DNA repairs to itself that stop it happening altogether. (note to self: put money into bitcoin while its affordable and cash out as soon as Elon Musk gets involved.) Whatever the case, Amanda knows what happens now, one way or another. Or she doesn't know, which is fine too, I suppose. I'll find out too, someday. at no point have i ever hit full on suicidal thoughts (and given the subject matter i would STRONGLY ADVISE giving the samaritans a call if any of you feel the need) but i 100% have hit a point where, more days than not, there's a feeling that life has peaked, i didnt even realise or appreciate that fact properly, and its all downhill from here on out. just going through the motions at this point. on the better days i recognise that it's not quite a write off yet. that trainspotting 2 line comes to mind occasionally and bothers me; if you gave me 2 years to live i could probably think of plenty to do with that time, but 20? 30? 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 I'm a bit of a sky fairy man, so it's a dinnae ken from me 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Scared of death? No, as I believe in the afterlife. Scared of the manner I'm going to die? Absolutely. I would just hate to go out in some freak accident without being able to say goodbye, or give the kids some final words of encouragement. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
invergowrie arab Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Maybe this will help 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 I’m more worried about the death of mankind than I am of my own personal death. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HI HAT Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Watched my dad die a long drawn out death,bowel cancer did for him. That's my fear of dying, not the death bit but the manner of it. Hope the government has enough guts to vote for assisted suicide. We treat our pets better than we do people. I know I wouldn't let my dog suffer. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eindhovendee Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 I'm firmly in the no afterlife camp and not scared of dying but I do hope when it comes though that I've enough time to say my goodbyes. Rather than worry about dying I feel blessed to have been alive at this time, great music, TV, films, cars, internet, travelling by plane to the sun for holidays and not having to sign up to WW11 like my Grandad and feel lucky because he only lost one arm. On 4 August 1842, a law was passed that stopped women and children under ten years from working underground in mines in Britain. Before this law was passed, it was common for whole families to work together underground to earn enough money for the family to live on, kids worked in factories, swept chimneys and were little slaves if you were born poor, glad I missed that era. Glad I was born in Scotland in 1963 and not Vietnam, anywhere in Africa or a host of other countries. When I was born, Dundee had beat Anderlecht the day before and were now in the semi finals of the European Cup, I think I may have been a jinx since but I wouldn't swap them for any other team In short, a lot of things are shit but we've been on this lump at the right time, and we'll be leaving it around the right time if Greta is correct. . I read Bill Bryson's book A Short History Of Nearly Everything and it has some good stuff in it. “Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms - up to a billion for each of us, it has been suggested - probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name. So we are all reincarnations - though short-lived ones. When we die, our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere - as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew.” Looks like some of you may get to meet up with Amanda at some point @Thistle_do_nicely 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 (edited) On 28/01/2023 at 20:55, DA Baracus said: To me It's an absolute mindfuck... As long as it's quick and it's clean no problem. Something long and painful I'd definitely rather avoid. Was in the affected part of Japan for the 2011 earthquake ten stories up in a rather old office building and definitely thought I was soon to be a goner. The violence with which the room was moving about had to be experienced to be believed and it went on for what seemed like over a minute. Once I came to terms with what was unfolding I just relaxed and felt serene about it. This is where it ends, bring it on. Hopefully I'll be like that again when the time actually comes. After it was all over I found all the Japanese knew the drill a lot better than I did and were sitting on the floor in the corridor with their backs against the wall. One of them asked "Are you OK?" and I said with a smile "you see me walking don't you" and then this wee lassie from Tokyo just started screaming her lungs out as they all seemed to snap out of a trance at the same time and we all slowly started figuring out how to get the hell out of there... Edited January 29, 2023 by LongTimeLurker 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curmudgeon Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 6 hours ago, mathematics said: I’m more worried about the death of mankind than I am of my own personal death. Is Mrs mathematics planning something? Should we all be worried? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nkomo-A-Gogo Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Im terrified. ill never come to terms with the fact im going to die. im most scared of being told i only have a certain amount of time left. i work alone everyday which gives me a lot of time to think and ill think about it until i get a sick shudder. im sure i am some kind of ****path. i only care about myself and my immediate family and ond or two friends and have very little feeling about tragic events in the news. at the same time i would do anything to help anyone and i think and hope i am a nice person. I worry about dying a lot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 I'm more concerned about how I'll go TBH. Peacefully in my sleep would do me just fine. A few years ago I almost choked to death, and I certainly don't fancy going that way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mathematics Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 9 hours ago, Curmudgeon said: Is Mrs mathematics planning something? Should we all be worried? With the amount of shite she gets delivered I’m certain her plan is just to speed up global warming. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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