Mortality

ok im not usually good at making serious threads but im gonna attempt this

recently i have come to realise my own mortality and how easy it is to die in the modern age, and i understand that different religions have there own way of explaining the after life,
Example: Buddhism - reincarnation, christianity - heaven etc, etc

anyway the point is i can't ever imagine my concious being and everything i do to be all for nothing

so i wanna know what do you fellow fakku members think of this grim subject??

well. I believe in immortality but its not about now but also after life.

Honestly I don't like the idea of death. To me death is the end, and my mind will be gone forever. I can't even comprehend the feeling of having my thoughts shut down like a computer, because even while you sleep your mind is even more active than while you're awake.

This. I don't wanna die, simply because I don't know if there actually is a heaven/afterlife to go to.

I won't die. I will live forever. Watch me. I'll prove myself right.

When I'm dead, I'll be the last person to worry. When dying on the other hand...well, there's always morphine I suppose.
Immortality, in my view(and agreeing with the Carl Sagan avi dude), can only be achieved through deeds.

some religion do have. do some research.

Ziggys statement really hits the nail. It's really mind-boggling for me to think that i will not be there anymore, not thinking being nothing... well not nothing 'cause my corpe will be propably there or some other remains, i think.
It's some kind of confusing and unexplainable feeling is get when i think about it, so i try to make the best out of it 'cause I think something of me will remain if i happen to do something great. haha
I'll archieve something in my still young life, so i hope i still have time for that.

I've been quietly coming to accept my own mortality even when I dislike the fact so much.

I would say the first time I came to recognize death for what it is, a termination of your body's functions one way or other. My first question occurred when my awesome uncle vanished when I was a little kid.

Later on, I got my answer a year or later in Elementary school when I was reading one of few real books in the library for it XD WWII books, I went aha at that moment and understood why I cannot see my uncle anymore.

I also questioned if God was truly omnipotent, I remember cursing in the church where no one would catch me save for the god if he was truly almighty, no thunder went flying to kill me. Although I won't know the answer for that until I die. XD

I truly think when people die they will cease like computers do for example.

Why would Humans be exempt from mortality just because they have capability for conscious thinking, from what I know, (I lack knowledge in biotechnology area) gotta rewrite some stuff in DNA and such to make the cells stop their self destructing after when said Human has reach a number of years will essentially let a Human live like High Elves does, ( in sense of their ability to live for thousands of years) also, there's other problem with that, We don't have ability to regenerate Brain Cells naturally I believe.

That's other obstacle, even if we rewrite our bodies to keep on self repairing brain cells won't therefor be a point where you become a brainless ape XD

I believe body's self destruct mechanism is a natural counter to overpopulation til said species is able to achieve knowledge to extend lifespan, and possibly solve numbers of problems that comes with extending lifespan, the Living space, food, air, water problems. As well as Greed problem.

If you manage to rewrite dna, probably will have to recheck every generation to make sure the dna doesn't revert back to normal self destruct ability.


Again, from what I know, Universe from what we can see is about 200 billion years old? I forgot, was watching history channel on it other day, or is it 12 billion years old according to immediate google results?

I won't be surprised to see that there's already a number of entities has already overcame their race's natural mortality.

Again yes, I believe everything you've done will be for nothing the minute you die. Except for when your descendants and everyone else benefits from your activities. That is only most positive thing I can put on it XD

When I was a little kid (you could read that as: When I was a good christian) I would sometimes lie in my bed and start thinking about eternity. In the end I would get a feeling very much like dread mixed with vertigo, and stop.

Somehow (and while I sure as hell dont want to die) I fear eternity more than mortality.

The thing about being able to die any moment is what gives us our senses of self. The limited time we have to experience life is what makes it what it is. I know I am young yet I look forward thinking that what time I have expected in front of me may be crippled or halted short at any moment. But I go on everyday carrying on the body my parents have given me to find my happiness or purpose so I know when I go rest in the dirt, I won't go saying 'fuck, what a shitty life Ive lead'. Im not looking to do anything important on a large scale as I believe that time for single handed heroism is over, even in the political field. The two roads I've come to hope to walk are that of bringing the world together as a people that are not divided by nationality so we can move on before the impending over-population kills us. Or just do what I've always loved, and thats to work with computers.

So either way Im going to do one or the other and just be friggin happy about it.

Life will go on after us just as it has before us so its best we live ours and let till our story end. Because like all of us, the stories of us may be told for a generation or two. But then they will be forgotten and our experiences will have dissipated. That is what being mortal is, and somewhere inside we accept that, all of us do.

I accepted my own mortality, although I don't think it's absolute.

And I'm not really worried about it all, as I've went through the nonexistent phase before I was born and not the least bit troubled about it. So if I die it won't be that different anyway. Sure, I can't really think of a world without me, but that's no reason for me to make up beliefs about afterlife or anything.

You just now realized you are eventually going to die?!!! just kidding

"I hope for happiness beyond this life."

I'm a Deist.

I'm the fuck sacred of death, and at the same time ambivalent about my health. I'm relying on the hope that, later down the road, I'll have an Epiphany about my spirituality. It's the only thing keeping me from rocking in the corner sucking my thumb.

I'm fine with death, because I don't believe in any sort of afterlife, or reincarnation. To be frank, I am quite happy that I don't have to go on forever.

It's the agony before the end that scares me.

I had my first brush with death when I was 9. It wasn't too unpleasant when it happened, the blunt force trauma to my head knocked me out and I didn't even remember getting hit when I woke up.

Had a few more later on in life... my first time driving on the road right after it snowed was a close one, and then in college my then-girlfriend's ex showed up at my apartment to pull a gun on me. And there was Iraq when I was in the Army where, among other close calls that happen at least a few times a week, I've had to dig a bullet out of my helmet after a firefight.

I've grown to accept it, and if you ever spend some time looking at the dead, you know it can't be all that scary to die if they can lie there all peaceful after the fact. I know its going to happen and it probably won't be too bad, so my outlook these days is just to enjoy what time I've got and just have fun. Buddha knows with all the close calls, I'm already living on borrowed time.

and now here you are.

I've come to think that once you die that's it. You're dead. You just disappear into nothingness. It's the very fact that "poofing" into nonexistence that scares so many people, that caused most religions to develop in the first place. Everyone wants to believe that there is some level of immortality. I won't deny that I wish something like that existed, but I don't believe that there is anything so convenient.

Well since your brain is the main control center for your thoughts and consciousness once that goes you go too.

It's hard to imagine not existing because it's impossible to do, but that is pretty much what the evidence shows.

Although I fear eternity more than death. I would like to live longer than the natural human lifespan. Maybe a thousand years would be good enough for me, or as long as I have something new to learn and experience. It all depends on how positive/negative you are.