Death

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-07-24 02:23am

I wonder why pepole fear it so.
I guess it's mostly because they are worried about the friends and family that they are leaving behind.
What do you all think about it?

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-07-24 02:29am

Terrified of nonexistance, personally...

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-07-24 02:30am

i fear missing out on all the cool shit in the future. i want to go to other stars, DAMNIT!

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-07-24 02:32am

I think i'm gonna be cryogenicly frozen so i CAN see the stars

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2003-07-24 02:35am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Terrified of nonexistance, personally...

That is what atheist think. The majority of the people in thw world are believer and they believe that the human soul will go to a higher place. Anyway though I believe that is what going to happen I do not like the idea much. I would have been happier if reincarnation was true.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-07-24 02:35am

darthdavid wrote:I think i'm gonna be cryogenicly frozen so i CAN see the stars

You'll have to wait until the government allows you to be frozen before you die, because currently it's only legal as long as you're already dead, since it's considered a form of burial.

That and getting past the "freezer burn" problem...

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-07-24 02:37am

I got a whole life infront of me for them to work through all those issues. Anyway i meant postumusly.

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-07-24 02:39am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Terrified of nonexistance, personally...

That's a good point but one should think of this, you may be gone from this mortal plane but you still live on in the hearts and minds of your family and friends and if you had any rug rats while you where alive then part of you lives on in them.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-07-24 02:39am

It's still not good enough as actually being alive myself, which is all I really care about.

That's why I'm planing on never dying in the first place.

Total cyborg body, baby!!

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-07-24 02:41am

kojikun wrote:i fear missing out on all the cool shit in the future. i want to go to other stars, DAMNIT!

exactly. I want to live forever, not for myself, but to see humanity expand.

robot body, immortality serum, brain in a case, clone bodies. . . we'll think of something.

StarshipTitanic · Post by **StarshipTitanic** » 2003-07-24 02:41am

Too bad there's a shortage of organs and those replacement ones from Bicentennial Man weren't invented yet or one could go get an overhaul in their 50s or so.

KhyronTheBackstabber · Post by **KhyronTheBackstabber** » 2003-07-24 02:49am

I think people are scared of death because no one knows for sure what happens. Do you get to go to Heaven, or are you sent to Hell? Will you be reincarnated, or is there nothing? Or maybe your soul will get trapped, and you're forced to walk the earth as a tormented ghost for all eternity. There’s only one way to find out for sure, and I sure as hell ain't in any hurry to find out.

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-07-24 02:53am

KhyronTheBackstabber wrote:I think people are scared of death because no one knows for sure what happens. Do you get to go to Heaven, or are you sent to Hell? Will you be reincarnated, or is there nothing? Or maybe your soul will get trapped, and you're forced to walk the earth as a tormented ghost for all eternity. There’s only one way to find out for sure, and I sure as hell ain't in any hurry to find out.

True but my expreances with death, been there and back a few times leads me to belive that what lays ahead after you die is based on what your mind belives that happens to you when you die, if you think you will go to hell then you will go to hell.
You see my point?

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2003-07-24 02:56am

Cryo baby. Cryo.

Post 500 w00t.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-07-24 02:59am

Cryogenics is just cheating, since you still will live just as long.

Nevermind the fact that bunch of psuedoscience is bunk, anyway...

LT.Hit-Man · Post by **LT.Hit-Man** » 2003-07-24 03:15am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Cryogenics is just cheating, since you still will live just as long.

Nevermind the fact that bunch of psuedoscience is bunk, anyway...

For now it is but as time marches on it may become a realty

lux · Post by **lux** » 2003-07-24 03:56am

I don't want to miss out on the video games of the future.

STAR WARS: Galaxies - Virtual Reality

"Your mind won't know the difference!"

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-07-24 04:10am

Thinking of death depresses me. I do not do it often, but watching X the other night reinvigorated that depression in me.

Johonebesus · Post by **Johonebesus** » 2003-07-24 04:24am

LT.Hit-Man wrote:For now it is but as time marches on it may become a realty

Even if it does become possible to restore frozen people, what makes you think future generations will have any inclination to do so? Why would they want another mouth to feed? If they do revive you, it will probably be only because of labor shortages, so you will just end up a slave.

And it seems to me that for the majority of people, no matter how strong their religious convictions, there is always a nagging fear that maybe there is no life after death, that when we die we suffer a true, final, absolute death. That's what is so frightening. That and the natural instinctive fear of death that is programmed into us.

SHODAN · Post by **SHODAN** » 2003-07-24 04:56am

Johonebesus wrote:Even if it does become possible to restore frozen people, what makes you think future generations will have any inclination to do so? Why would they want another mouth to feed? If they do revive you, it will probably be only because of labor shortages, so you will just end up a slave.

Corporations dont work that way. You'll be dutifully revived since that is what you have paid for.

XaLEv · Post by **XaLEv** » 2003-07-24 05:02am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:Terrified of nonexistance, personally...

That's the most appealing part of death for me.

Oblivion... mmmmm.....

But not yet.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-07-24 06:47am

I know I am doomed so I shall either go the "Donate to Science", or Big Irish Wake followed by Burning in a boat.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-07-24 07:53am

KhyronTheBackstabber wrote:I think people are scared of death because no one knows for sure what happens. Do you get to go to Heaven, or are you sent to Hell? Will you be reincarnated, or is there nothing? Or maybe your soul will get trapped, and you're forced to walk the earth as a tormented ghost for all eternity. There’s only one way to find out for sure, and I sure as hell ain't in any hurry to find out.

That's summed up my feelings on death.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-07-24 07:56am

I'm absolutely not ready to die right now. Haven't lived enough yet.

lux · Post by **lux** » 2003-07-24 04:39pm

Durran Korr wrote:I'm absolutely not ready to die right now. Haven't lived enough yet.

That's pretty much how I feel. I wonder if I will feel the same when I am older.