How do you live with death?

[Hateandhatred]

Ok, so after seeing the afterlife thread, this I what I got out of it.

Minus the religious believers, most people think that death is pretty much becoming nothing.

However, a lot of people don't want to sit here and think that once they die, everything they achieved and lived for turns to nothing.

I.can understand Why this could be considered unhealthy. If everything is pointless, Why not organize a collective FFR suicide because it's all bullshit in the end?

Maybe it's all because humans have grown to be too smart. They can't just live without asking themselves too many questions, like other animals would do.

So yeah, you get the idea. What are your ideals about it? What do you think should be one's way to prepare themselves from death without harming an entire society with it?

This thread is NOT about what you think the afterlife is. This thread is (to put everyone in the same boat from the start) about how we should see our ends, and what kind of morals we should give to it, if we had to give it anything like that, given that once you die, the world world turns to oblivion, like before you were born and given consciousness. Or more precisely, how it should be supposing it is the case, if its not what you believe in.

It's good to see that side of the medal too, even though this probable outcome is the most problematic and most depressing one.

I will punch in later.

Go ahead. And remember, don't turn this into a copy of the other thread. But feel free to quote relevant stuff from it.

[25thhour]

Re: How do you live with death?

I have lost very close loved ones before. It took a while, but in the end I finally accepted the fact that they passed on. It happens to everyone and there is no way to avoid it so moving on is pretty much the only way to "live" with death. I did go through the grief cycle before I moved on though.

Unless you like being depressed for your whole life.

[who_cares973]

Re: How do you live with death?

25thhour I don't think he's asking how you deal with the death of others but how you would deal with the coming of your death

[Choofers]

Re: How do you live with death?

It's inevitable (unless biotechnology advances to the point of elongating human life), so why worry about it? Obviously, we all want to keep living out dreams/bettering ourselves/learning/etc but the faster you come to terms with death, the better.

What matters more is that you live your life how you want.

[shadow 1800]

Re: How do you live with death?

It's inevitable (unless biotechnology advances to the point of elongating human life), so why worry about it? Obviously, we all want to keep living out dreams/bettering ourselves/learning/etc but the faster you come to terms with death, the better.

What matters more is that you live your life how you want.

Pretty much this. Worrying about death your whole life is a COMPLETE waste of time. Why would you waste your time with something you know is going to happen in the end regardless? The more you worry about it the worse it gets. It is easier just not to think about it. If it really bothers you then deep down you probably hope there is a god and that you have a soul.

[Cavernio]

Re: How do you live with death?

The belief that after I die, the rest of the world keeps on living.

My individual existence isn't enough of a purpose for myself anyways; I need others to substantiate my life, so coming from that, the answer's pretty obvious. I'm merely a tiny piece of the entirety of the universe's consciousness (whatever that may be).
When I was a kid, I mattered because I thought God existed and God wanted me. I lost my belief in God when God was no longer a separate entity from my own mind. Either because of that, or through the same emotional turmoil that caused me to lose the feeling of god in the first place, that I exist and can experience is simply not strong enough of a reason for me to have that 'I'm alive!' zest for life most of the time. Afterall, if what made me so happy was simply in my head, regardless or not of whether it was an imagined God or me just loving myself and life, it's still all just me making it up. That's why love and relationships matter so much; they're reflections of me and a mutual sharing of experience that makes them special, and what makes life special.

I'm honestly fairly indifferent to death at this point in my life.

[Spenner]

Re: How do you live with death?

Death raises anxiety with me, because I can't really fathom having my consciousness cease. Knowing that there will be absolutely no more to anything on this planet will make me very much miss living. Thinking about death makes me cherish life that much more-- I don't necessarily worry about it, but it motivates the direction of my life.

[Reincarnate]

Re: How do you live with death?

I live with death by using it as a motivating force in every decision I make, and I really do make it an active component in my decision process. I'm not sure if you could call it fear, exactly, but rather I look at death as an exit point. Up until that exit point, my goal is to have as much fun as I can.

I only fear death insofar as I don't want my exit point to be painful, and I don't want it to be resultant of something stupidly avoidable (like not looking both ways when crossing the street or something).

[ScylaX]

Re: How do you live with death?

I'd advice one and only one philosopher for that topic : Emil Cioran.
I'll post my own opinion later, but that guy wrote magnificent books on the topic and they're not even "true" essays (they're basically aphorisms on the subject).

[cry4eternity]

Re: How do you live with death?

It's the same reason you make your bed, clean your room, eat lunch, pay your bills, wash your clothes, etc. Why would you clean if it's just going to get dirty again? Why eat if a few hours later you'll be hungry again? Why live at all if you're just going to die someday?

The answer is for a brief period between the beginning and the end, there is something.

I may dare to say that it appears to be a recurring theme even in the bigger picture. Everything has a lifetime; everything is bound by this rule. The universe itself has a clear beginning and arguably a clear ending, and yet it exists without "short circuiting" its inevitable demise. This "living for the time between" is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.

[Emithith]

Re: How do you live with death?

Death is my bud, I play video games with him erryday. Living with death is a blast
/CT Talk:
I just don't think about it.

[bmah]

Re: How do you live with death?

"How do you live with death?"

I try not to think about it. Thinking about it gets my stomach churning and makes me feel quite anxious, to be frank.

In the other thread, Rubix mentioned that death would be like sleeping or the experience before birth: nothing. However, it's the fact that one day you won't be able to do the things you've always done or accomplished that's unnerving. It's not the actual physical experience that worries me.

[Reincarnate]

Re: How do you live with death?

Yeah, death itself isn't scary unless it's painful. But it is sad to think that the things I love and enjoy in my life are temporary. It saddens me that I won't see where science and technology will take us. I want to know what happens in the future and how things turn out. There are so many awesome things about the future that I will be completely unaware of and will never know. That thought depresses me immensely.

[ScylaX]

Re: How do you live with death?

The main thing you have to cope with when it comes to dying is facing the end of your all capacity, all possibility, all power.

[Jake Ferguson]

Re: How do you live with death?

Death raises anxiety with me, because I can't really fathom having my consciousness cease.

This is exactly how I feel about it. I have panic attacks whenever I think about my own mortality, because I'm an athiest and don't believe in any afterlife, just nothingness. Because of this, people may think it's easier to just kill themselves right now so they won't have to deal with it later, but is it really that easy to do when you are afraid of death? I've thought about it once or twice in my life, trying to find an easy way out, but the truth is life is too important to me right now than facing one of my greatest fears as an easy way out. Whenever someone I know dies, I feel the most grief not because I will miss them, but because it proves that one day I will eventually die too. And all I know is that when that day comes, I will go kicking and screaming.