andyhinch
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Don't know mate, I was dead for a short while when I went into the coma, I look at it this way, it'll happen one day so just get on with life until it does
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Scared of dying
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PatK
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You can't do anything about it and to be honest, it's not worth worrying or thinking about - that's hard to do I admit.
Live your life as best you can, enjoy each day and make sure you have no regrets..
It's a sad state of affairs to be thinking about this at your age, but fair play to you for posting.
You only live once.....and you're a long time dead....work it out mate.
My dad died when he was 70, and I've just turned 50, and now I do "sometimes" think....oh well 20 years left. Not the best attitude, but you've made me realise that I have to take heed of my own advice to you more seroiously.
CTID and beyond :-)
Live your life as best you can, enjoy each day and make sure you have no regrets..
It's a sad state of affairs to be thinking about this at your age, but fair play to you for posting.
You only live once.....and you're a long time dead....work it out mate.
My dad died when he was 70, and I've just turned 50, and now I do "sometimes" think....oh well 20 years left. Not the best attitude, but you've made me realise that I have to take heed of my own advice to you more seroiously.
CTID and beyond :-)
california blue
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I'm pretty sure the Buddhists have got it figured out. Life carries on after death. Reincarnation. The spirit/soul/life force/energy that makes you, you carries on. Once the physical body dies you can just pick up a new one. Seems totally logical.
everythingchangesbutblue
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Far many more people have lived than are alive now so reincarnation seems unlikely unless its just for the lucky few.I'm pretty sure the Buddhists have got it figured out. Life carries on after death. Reincarnation. The spirit/soul/life force/energy that makes you, you carries on. Once the physical body dies you can just pick up a new one. Seems totally logical.
tolmie's hairdoo
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"Nobody wants to get old, nobody wants to die young, either." - Keith Richards.
I can't comprehend not being around anymore to see my beautiful wife and kids, but rather me, first, than me ever having to cope with the alternative.
I would say the best advice is to try and live in the moment, which is surely the hardest thing to achieve? Always thinking something more, better, bigger, will come along at some point.
You definitely think a lot more about your own mortality when you have young children, but that's because you simply want to protect them and see them enjoying and experiencing life to the maximum.
At the moment my very first child was born, I can only say that was the first time in my life I felt completely overwhelmed by being alive.
Wonderful.
Everything else is just distraction and background noise. Change the things you can, not the things you can't.
I can't comprehend not being around anymore to see my beautiful wife and kids, but rather me, first, than me ever having to cope with the alternative.
I would say the best advice is to try and live in the moment, which is surely the hardest thing to achieve? Always thinking something more, better, bigger, will come along at some point.
You definitely think a lot more about your own mortality when you have young children, but that's because you simply want to protect them and see them enjoying and experiencing life to the maximum.
At the moment my very first child was born, I can only say that was the first time in my life I felt completely overwhelmed by being alive.
Wonderful.
Everything else is just distraction and background noise. Change the things you can, not the things you can't.
casualdeyna
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Thinking about it used to freak me out more when I was younger, but I came to the realisation that I'll either "live on" in spirit, or reincarnation or whatever, or far more likely I won't exist but I won't know that I don't exist!
Best way to think about it is how you felt about not exisiting before you were born. You didn't miss anything, it wasn't black, it wasn't cold, it wasn't anything.
Being "alive" and all the things that have to happen for "you" to exist is mind blowing, so I honestly wouldn't worry about death like you weren't arsed about not being born yet! Enjoy your life, if there isn't anything after death it isn't like you'll know about it, and if you do you aren't dead!
Best way to think about it is how you felt about not exisiting before you were born. You didn't miss anything, it wasn't black, it wasn't cold, it wasn't anything.
Being "alive" and all the things that have to happen for "you" to exist is mind blowing, so I honestly wouldn't worry about death like you weren't arsed about not being born yet! Enjoy your life, if there isn't anything after death it isn't like you'll know about it, and if you do you aren't dead!
california blue
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Far many more people have lived than are alive now so reincarnation seems unlikely unless its just for the lucky few.
Well that's a good point. But why would you have to stay on this planet? In this solar system. In this universe? There's countless endless universes. Pick something different. Its not beyond then rhelms of possibility.
There is for me life after death. A reboot, a start over. Anywhere you fucking want it to be.
everythingchangesbutblue
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I agree. One thing for me is that i hear a lot of people say " you don't remember anything before you were born so there's nothing" well you don't remember anything from being 1 day old, 2 months, 10 months, 2 years etc so whos to say we are just incapable of remembering what came before birth.Well that's a good point. But why would you have to stay on this planet? In this solar system. In this universe? There's countless endless universes. Pick something different. Its not beyond then rhelms of possibility.
There is for me life after death. A reboot, a start over. Anywhere you fucking want it to be.
california blue
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I agree. One thing for me is that i hear a lot of people say " you don't remember anything before you were born so there's nothing" well you don't remember anything from being 1 day old, 2 months, 10 months, 2 years etc so whos to say we are just incapable of remembering what came before birth.
Nail no the head. I don't think we're incapable of remembering early years and further on past lives. We just haven't figured out a method to recall it yet. I believe stuff that effects us now is probably a kind of 'echo' to a traumatic/joyous moment we have previously experienced in an early life time. An idiot example would be. "I have an innate fear of flying on planes that makes no sense" --- I have probably died in an airplane crash in past lifetime. -- obviously that's an intense and extreme example but do you get what I'm saying. It seems to me like there's a track of existence.
casualdeyna
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You do remember things from being a day old, you still remember to breathe, you learnt that when you took your first breath of air the moment you were born.
Memories are eletrical signals imprinted in your brain, the more you visit a memory the more you re-use this "path" the more it becomes inprinted in your brain. So things you think about often, like AGUEROOO!!, will never fade, it is why you can walk, talk, breathe etc. without even thinking about it because you've been doing it every few seconds for a very very long time.
Before you were born there is no brain for you to make memories, your heart keeps you alive but it is your brain that makes you, you. This is why I believe death to be like pre-existance.
Please don't think I'm trying to disagree with anyone else's point, it is purely personal belief, there is no way of knowing for sure, and I don't want to find out for a long time yet!
Memories are eletrical signals imprinted in your brain, the more you visit a memory the more you re-use this "path" the more it becomes inprinted in your brain. So things you think about often, like AGUEROOO!!, will never fade, it is why you can walk, talk, breathe etc. without even thinking about it because you've been doing it every few seconds for a very very long time.
Before you were born there is no brain for you to make memories, your heart keeps you alive but it is your brain that makes you, you. This is why I believe death to be like pre-existance.
Please don't think I'm trying to disagree with anyone else's point, it is purely personal belief, there is no way of knowing for sure, and I don't want to find out for a long time yet!