Trollheart

Religion aside, do you believe in life after death? Or if you don't, do you wish there was? If you're Christian or whatever religions preach that there is life after death, do you believe it or do you just shrug and hope it's so? If you're not, and you believe we all end up just, as Waits says, dirt in the ground, are you okay with this or do you wish there was something we could look forward to? Do you look on the idea of being reunited with your loved ones with scorn, but secretly wish it could happen, or do you in fact believe this is what awaits us after death? Or have you resigned yourself to the belief that once people are gone, they're gone, and you'll never be reunited with them? What are your thoughts about death? Does it scare you? Do you think about it a lot? Are you comfortable knowing you will die at some point, or are you thinking about cryo? Looking for ways to live forever?

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Frownland

There is the possibility that we don't understand life at all and what we view as death is some kind of sentience that we haven't understood.

There's also the concept that the amount of activity in the brain causes us to perceive time in an extremely slow manner. That brain activity would cause us to experience time as far slower than if you were healthy. Monumentally slower. There's a chance that it could be infinitesimally slower. Combine that with the tales of people's life flashing before their eyes (I do kind of wonder if this is a Western thing, I haven't read up on it), you basically just live your life again for an eternity. That might be what enforces some people who have near death experiences to believe in a heaven or hell, because if you have a ****ty life then your near death experience is going to be too, right? People who live like a ****in Mormon sitcom and dig that experience that from a sheltered little brief experience that's different from their life.

Could be 100% bull**** and the opposite though. Or so wrong it's not even on the same plane.

I could take it or leave it. I don't know what I would be signing up for tbh, there could be a lot of work involved and idk about that.

I don't know if I would say that I believe that, but I don't see any reason to doubt it.

How do I know they're going to pick out all of my loved ones? I don't like about a third of my family or many of the people who consider me a loved one, even though whenever they die I feel a lot of empathy for the way they go and the timing within other people's lives. That just sounds like a lot of work tbh.

[cheesy answer about how learning about them through the people that are left behind is like being reunited with them]

It's a hard fact and it's probably not in our best interest in the long run. You can only find out the hard way. I'm not really seeking it out.

The real death experience, I do kind of look forward to it in a way because I almost see it like doing a crazy new drug. I would rather work on making my life good than worry about what happens when I'm done.

I think about real world deaths a lot and how much they suck, but I don't ponder much about the afterlife.

I cryo every day, but not about the afterlife. I'm comfortable with the concept of death as the end. I'm not comfortable with it coming upon me or anyone else.

We know that the world will go on around us, so we can only do whatever we can and leave the biggest footprint so that no one forgets you.

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Cuthbert

Same. It's the one thing we are all going to go through and we cannot stop it. It's scary and also exciting.

Trollheart

So, Frown and MLM: if they came up with some way you didn't have to die, would you take it or would you rather say "Nah I'm quite looking forward to death thanks mate"? Is it just the fact that we have no choice, you reckon make the best of it, can't stop it, or do you actually have that level of curiosity about it? And what if there's literally nothing: you close your eyes, breathe your last and never experience anything ever again?

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Frownland

Living forever sounds like a lot of work. I'm content with the conventional lifespan.

It's both.

Then I'll know what a last breath is like.

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Trollheart

But think of all the terrible music you could write!
Yeah but you won't retain that knowledge. It will die with you. So what's the point? I can see, if you're reincarnated or you go on to the "next phase", but if you just hit a STOP sign and that's it, end of the line, what does it matter what you learn or what you experience?

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Cuthbert

Tbh I'd be happy with literally nothing and not experiencing anything again. If that's what happens then there's nothing to fear whatsoever. And that's probably what does happen, that was what happened before I was born so no reason for me to think it'll be different when I'm dead.

I am curious about it. It depends how I die though.

Trollheart

This is very true, and for most people probably the main reason to fear death, or rather, dying. For me it is slightly different as I already mentioned, but yeah, I want to die an easy death. No fire, drowning, torn apart by wild Batlords or any of that guff. Go in my sleep, preferably after Karen has gone. As my boss used to say "All I want is for the obituary to read Suddenly, at his residence..."

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Zhanteimi

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Trollheart

Can you explain what you mean by that? I don't understand the reference here at all.

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