Your own death
11 April 2008, 01:09 PM
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Your own death
When I was younger I always used to worry about dying, but I then realised that I’m not that bothered about dying later in life (as long as it’s not a horribly painful slow death) as I just see it as switching the lights off permanently.
I didn’t miss the billions of years before my existence, so I won’t miss those billions after me either.
Anyone else worried about dying and if so what have you done to put your mind at ease?
I didn’t miss the billions of years before my existence, so I won’t miss those billions after me either.
Anyone else worried about dying and if so what have you done to put your mind at ease?
11 April 2008, 01:14 PM
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Being overly worried about your death is normally a sign of some other psychological issue.
Having said that, it does cross my mind occasionally and I'm not very happy about it. I almost understand why the religious amongst us (e.g. my wife) take comfort in the everlasting life stuff even though there is absolutely no proof that it is even remotely true.
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Having said that, it does cross my mind occasionally and I'm not very happy about it. I almost understand why the religious amongst us (e.g. my wife) take comfort in the everlasting life stuff even though there is absolutely no proof that it is even remotely true.
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do you have clinical depression or something? 
11 April 2008, 01:18 PM
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I am just worried that it would be whilst on specialist websites 
Not bothered about me but how it would affect wife and kids, having seen a mate die last year and leave a wife and two kids.
Not bothered about me but how it would affect wife and kids, having seen a mate die last year and leave a wife and two kids.
11 April 2008, 01:23 PM
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[QUOTE=J4CKO;7801035]I am just worried that it would be whilst on specialist websites
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A friend of mine has something similar. A large box of “specialist” dvd’s in the loft, labelled with someone else’s name on to avoid the embarrassment if he carks it.
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A friend of mine has something similar. A large box of “specialist” dvd’s in the loft, labelled with someone else’s name on to avoid the embarrassment if he carks it.
11 April 2008, 01:24 PM
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Im kinda scared about dying 
Not really to sure why tho, maybe its because of the unknown
Im not saying there anything after death, put it creeps me out thinking about it
Not really to sure why tho, maybe its because of the unknown
Im not saying there anything after death, put it creeps me out thinking about it
11 April 2008, 01:27 PM
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It fears me immensely
Life has not exactly been a bowl of cherries for me, however i do ok and there are a lot of people who have things worse than me.
But i love life tbh, if i could stay here for another hundred years or if someone gave me a tablet of immortality i'd take it like a shot.
Were not on this planet long enough
Life has not exactly been a bowl of cherries for me, however i do ok and there are a lot of people who have things worse than me.
But i love life tbh, if i could stay here for another hundred years or if someone gave me a tablet of immortality i'd take it like a shot.
Were not on this planet long enough
11 April 2008, 01:34 PM
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Whenever I think too much about death I just play this on my trusty acoustic and bizarrely enough ....makes me smile 
Time
(Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) 7:06
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.
Time
(Mason, Waters, Wright, Gilmour) 7:06
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.
11 April 2008, 01:41 PM
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I love the lyrics to 'Time'...............soooooo true.......if you're lucky enough to have a long life.
As Woody Allen once said.........'I'm not afraid of dying......I just don't want to be there when it happens.'
As Woody Allen once said.........'I'm not afraid of dying......I just don't want to be there when it happens.'
11 April 2008, 01:44 PM
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I really wish he would die! His films are....so so so so so...BORING...even the one about sex!
11 April 2008, 01:44 PM
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11 April 2008, 01:50 PM
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Yes, that i'm completely satisfied, at one with myself and the world, have no regrets, have done everything i've ever wanted to do and more - more in fact than 99% of people do in their entire lives and aren't egotistical enough to think that my life is massively important in any way to the world that it would matter to the great scheme of things if i died
11 April 2008, 01:59 PM
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Only worry I have is being on my death bed knowing I havent done something I should have done and didnt or told people things I should and again, didnt. I am trying to change things in my life for the better at the moment so when the time comes I'll die smiling.
Only other thing is worried about a painful and early death which I dont plan on having.
Only other thing is worried about a painful and early death which I dont plan on having.
11 April 2008, 01:59 PM
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Even at a very young age, I'd tell my parents I'd end up dying in a car crash. We're talking less than 10 years old here.
I still believe that today. May not be my fault, but I'm sure I'll go that way.
Just hope it's instant.
If not, I want to go to bed on the eve of my 70th Birthday and never wake up.
I still believe that today. May not be my fault, but I'm sure I'll go that way.
Just hope it's instant.
If not, I want to go to bed on the eve of my 70th Birthday and never wake up.
11 April 2008, 02:12 PM
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Yes. Otherwise I wouldn't want it to happen. If you go to sleep & never wake up, you'll never know. Would you?
Who wants to be old? Having to get your **** wiped off some ugly care assistant? Not me. Hope I drop dead before I get anywhere near having to have that done.
Who wants to be old? Having to get your **** wiped off some ugly care assistant? Not me. Hope I drop dead before I get anywhere near having to have that done.