[mmasters]

Prepare to meet your maker!

[Ludi]

Some fear, mostly about pain during the dying process. Not afraid of being dead, though, as far as I can tell.

[hope_full]

I'm 50-something and a few years ago, I feared death - a LOT.

And then, last month, someone I love dearly passed on suddenly (in his late 40s) and that's really rocked my world. Funny thing about getting older is that you start adding up how many people have already passed on and I think that kinda takes the sting out of death. My elder relatives are all gone (including my beloved Mother) and I've buried many friends. Maybe that's nature's way of making death a little more tolerable.

HF

[Cloud9]

When the lights go out there is no pain. There is nothing. There is nothing to fear. Been there done that.

[CarlinsDarlin]

I don't necessarily fear death. Not looking forward to it, mind you, but I don't fear it. Like Ludi, the thought of "dying" scares me more than death. And, worrying about those I would leave behind. And like hope_full, having lost several family members and friends myself, I just wait my turn. I have faith I'll see them again.

[BigTex]

I'm about equally troubled by the death of our entire species and my own personal death.

I try to keep the two in sort of an "equilibrium of doom".

[killJOY]

Just yesterday...

I was carrying our brand new calf from the field where it was born back to the barn. As I was passing the grave of our old horse, which we had put down a month ago, I noticed movement--

I poked with a stick--

There was this liquid bubbling, and a vile smell. Flies.

I came back later and noticed a huge sinkhole, with a hurricane of flies coming out of it. The horse carcass was boiling in the heat. It was awful.

I dumped a can of lime into the hole and then raked dirt into it to stop the smell.

"That's me," I thought.

I hate it.

[Narz]

None of the above. Some combo of 3-5 though (except I don't believe life sucks).

[HEADER_RACK]

Fuck it !!

[CarlinsDarlin]

Tough experience, KillJoy. We lost a beloved family dog a few years ago. We have a "pet cemetery" on our land where all of our family pets are buried, under a small grove of trees. I went by many times and re-mounded the dirt as it started sinking. I understand how you feel. It's never easy.

[mos6507]

I have a list planned out of things I want to do in my lifetime. If I get to them all, I'll feel a lot better in the end. So for me it's all about climbing that next hill and trying not to get stuck in a rut (like arguing with higonegro).

[Enoch]

anybody seen that video about a brain doctor who has a stroke and could have died?
everybody I mention it too has seen it.
she made dying, having a stroke seem very pleasant.

after watching that video i thought a stroke might be a good way to go.

maybe it would be a stroke of luck?


enoch

[FreedomSlave]

I think I'll wait as long as I can to figure it out...

[lettered_olive]

At the moment, it's not so much death, but dying while trapped in a hospital that I fear. This prospect really brings out my latent claustrophobia. So, post-PO, I'll have one less thing to worry about!

[PenultimateManStanding]

It's not mine that worries me.

[Precipice]

Some times I fear it, sometimes I feel eerily peaceful about it, and sometimes I both fear it and feel eerily peaceful about it.

I think what really adds to the fear is the sheer incomprehensibility (especially from an emotional pov) of going unconscious and then never waking up ever again.

[eastbay]

Avoid 'bad' and practice 'good' and you'll have nothing to be concerned about.

[hardtootell]

It's a part of life. I like to think of it as "the great liberation"
w/o it where would we put all the old folks?

[wisconsin_cur]

#4

How one feels about it is irrelevant.

[Precipice]

I think Bill and Ted had the best response to the finitude of conscious existence:

Bill: "Be Excellent to Each Other"
Ted: "Party On Dudes!"