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2006-04-20, 18:35 | Link #62 |
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If you could choose how you would go, what would it be?
Instant, like hit by a train? Comfortably in your sleep like wimp? (J/K) Out of your face on drugs? Fighting for survival like a warrior? (Not likely, not in our weak period of history) etc etc ??
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2006-04-20, 19:02 | Link #63 |
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Blown up in some horrible lab accident. Quick though, not slow and painful, out with a bang neh.
Or maybe in some catastrophic failure trying to transplant my brain into another body. That would be nice too. (Though I would be ecstatic if it did work) But most of all...to see some hot fictional guy come right off his sexy pixelated medium so 1) my head would explode from amazement or 2) I'd drown in my own drool. |
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Edit: As long as I can see my death coming I guess. Oh; and have some time to strike a pose too. |
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2006-04-20, 23:44 | Link #65 | |
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I liked college way better than high school, personally. ================ I'd rather die painlessly if at all possible, but if not, oh well. Not like it'll affect me afterwards. In that regard, I suppose I would rather die quickly and not of a long-term illness (that would certainly suck). |
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2006-04-27, 02:54 | Link #66 |
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Some things about death:
When you die in your bed you sort of phase in and out ... and assured by many not a pleasantn experience. When you drown your lungs from desperation attempt to breathe the water. when your heart stops your blood isn't there to supply many important things to your body mainly oxygen.. bleeding to death is similair. Fact A: we all die.. Fact B: we don't know when or where we are going to die. |
2006-04-27, 03:09 | Link #67 | |
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2006-04-27, 07:26 | Link #68 |
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Well, I have a number of ideas on how to dispose of my body after my death (assuming all the stuff in my previous post doesn't occur ), depending on it's severity - if my corpse is relatively young, then I want it embalmed, fixed in the John Travolta from Saturaday Night Fever position and set on a mountain as a monument to idiocy; if it'd relatively old, then I want it, and all my possessions, loaded onto a viking longboat, sent out to sea and ignited, followed by either a 21 gun or a 21 breast salute, whichever is easier to arrange; and if it's damaged heavily, I want it stapled together and hung above my tombstone/tombbrick/tombpebble/tombpavement, with a sign saying "This is what happens to people who make REALLY bad puns" draped around my neck.
But of course this won't happen, as I'll be ruling the universe by then (mwahaha). |
2006-05-01, 06:28 | Link #70 |
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I don't understand why people think that necessarily if one is immortal, all the others wouldn't be and the nyou would see everyone die around you. If immortality comes, I'd like to see everyone get it. And considering possible advances in the fields of proteins (finding a way to code what they have to do in order to heal, etc), nanotechnology, cybernetics, etc, it is not entirely a dream, advances have already been made. The biggest problem as always are the cells/body parts that are harder or even currently impossible to regenerate, such as the neurons. I like to see there an opportunity for us to become immortal, all of us who would so wish of course.
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2006-05-01, 06:58 | Link #71 |
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You know some people say that your life is supposed to flash before you the moment before you die? Then again, how would anyone know, the moment before you die, well, you're dead after that so you can't tell. But back to the point.
Imagine when your life flashed before your eyes, relative to yourself only as this process happened you relived your life, second for second and you'd be in an endless loop caught in the moment when everyone else has moved on. Someone said quoted it on this page, but dying to save someone I loved, would be totally awesome. |
2008-01-06, 12:04 | Link #72 |
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the idea of death and dying is not important to me, but the idea of an afterlife is rather worrying.
just imagine, if there's this heaven of everlasting life, without the sinful desires which is one-half part of human nature (the other half non-sinful). and hell, where people who weren't good enough left to an eternity of torture. |
2008-01-06, 15:44 | Link #74 |
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Mankind searches meaning in life everyday, mankind searches the meaning of death everyday as well. The fact that we do not understand life and are forced into death is humanities' cruel fate. I myself am perplexed by this supposed ultimate destiny of mankind. Is there not so much do in the world? One life in the six billion lives out there is insignificant. Those six billion lives are insignificant in the continuation of space and time. The earth is insignificant in our solar system, our solar system is insignificant to the galaxy, our galaxy is insignificant to the entire universe. It nauseates me to see that people truly accept death as is. I'll never accept this fate.
To live life everyday and see that anything you do is unimportant is morbid. Yes you can try to leave your mark on mankind and be wrote about in textbooks, but existence does not praise you as does man. I cannot honestly believe that anyone has not thought about their place in this great mural we call life. It seems to me that the people who are not afraid of death are those have given up. If given the chance, why not try learn about this great existence? Immortality is definitely something I would grab if I got the chance. Right now in my life I don't see any point in trying to do anything. Time will not allow me to do anything. All that I like to do is entertain myself with anime, games, movies, books, and sports. Here's the thing, I believe humanity will claim immortality one day. Downloading your mind to a computer, or placing our bodies in cryostasis, whatever it is I will do it. I want to be the one there when it happens. Towards the end of my life, if my life doesn't end abruptly, my goal is to do anything possible to try and escape death. If we were truly meant to discover immortality and we achieve this, then my endless search of the facts of existence will commence. Until then I shall live my morbid life, maybe find a family to continue my genes, and try to keep myself happy with my daily tasks. So here's my question for you: If humanity as a whole is able to achieve immortality would you go along with them? In this case, you are not the only one who is immortal, and humans will finally be allowed the opportunity to understand life and perhaps one day, death. |
2008-01-06, 18:27 | Link #78 | ||
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Good grief. It's rather morbid to think of how you'd prefer to die at so young a age. In fact, I think it's extremely silly. Most of us haven't even lived enough yet, let alone think of what comes after. It sounds incredibly immature to think about your death when you don't even know what you'd like to do with your life.
I enjoy discussing philosophy like any other person, but sometimes, talk is cheap. All the knowledge in the world is not going to make your imminent passing any easier. The fear of death has always been one of the greatest motivations of human action throughout history. That is not likely to change, no matter how much you deny your fear of The End. You don't know how much you'd fear, until you fully understand how much you stand to lose. Experience life first. Death can come later. Quote:
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So, the initial feeling of "detachment" after losing someone close is normal, I feel. Sometimes, it takes a while for the finality of death to sink in. That's when the grief hits you -- the regrets over things you have not said or told him before he left. Then, the acceptance at last, that such words don't matter as much as what little time you did spend together. |
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2008-01-06, 21:13 | Link #79 |
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As a Christian, I really don't fear death, but rather see it as a new beginning. But there's still that doubt.
Immortality would be nice. However, it would only be nice under the condition that you have a form of amnesia where you can only remember the past 60 years of your life. Otherwise, everything would become boring.
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2008-01-07, 00:01 | Link #80 |
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Meh, we all have to go sometime, and whether its tomorrow or 50 years from now makes no difference. I only pray I don't become feeble and inept at old age and force my friends and family to suffer through having to take care of me.
I have my faith in God, and that's enough for me. I don't agree with immortality being nice. There's no reason for people to live forever. It kind of takes away from the beauty and etherality of the shortness of human life. I know that sounds backwards, but I think there's a certain extra significance given to a human life that strives to do something when they can, while they can. My only fear in death is that I will have made no positive impacts in people's lives. I know that this is probably not true as it is, but it's a personal fear I do hold. Fear of pain? Yeah, who wouldn't be? But that's not something one can control, so I don't worry about it.
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