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| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 12/16/2005 : 09:55:53
I have, as I'm sure most do, a great horror/fascination of what my demise will be. Every day, the thought occurs as I'm sitting in a meeting, or gathered with my family, or even at the grocery store...and it mesmerizes me. Some day we will all have to go through the process of dying. There is no way around it...it is natural. As I have this internal monologue, I look at all the faces around me and wonder when it will happen, how it will happen, and what will be beyond...and if these others are thinking the same overwhelmingly awesome and mysterious thought.
Anyhow, as mush as I am excited this will happen some day (not a morbid excitement or death wish...just an anxious curiosity), I am not too keen on the physical aspect of expiring, as it may be painful, prolonged, or just plain grisly. You never know.
If anyone would care to share their physical death fears, please do. I can think of three ways I DO NOT want to perish:
1) Drowning
2) Gunshot
3) Auto Accident (which nearly happened earlier this week)
Again, this is not an attempt at a morbid or bizarre topic of bad taste. On the contrary, I find it somehow balancing. It's just something constantly on my mind, and am wondering how others cope with it.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
-bRIAN |
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| VoVat |
Posted - 12/30/2005 : 12:36:34
Yeah, but that's only because I'm trapped in a thresher.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 12/30/2005 : 12:33:29
Ah, so you're grasping at straws. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 12/30/2005 : 12:14:42
Ah, so you're a slave to the labels instituted by the publishing industry.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 12/30/2005 : 03:59:03
Because instead of reading childrens books I read books written for adults? yeah, stupid me. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 12/29/2005 : 19:05:08
Ah, so then you're culturally illiterate. Nice to know. :P
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 12/29/2005 : 06:21:18
I only know it's a harry potter thing because 50 pences boyfriend started that is snape evil thing.
In your face vovat, In Your Face! |
| 50 Pence |
Posted - 12/27/2005 : 12:59:35
/pwned
Blats |
| VoVat |
Posted - 12/27/2005 : 12:33:03
In other words, you can't remember, right? :P
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 12/27/2005 : 10:20:34
I don't know, I'm not a geek. Pedant. |
| VoVat |
Posted - 12/27/2005 : 09:54:07
Didn't Dumbledore actually say it was the NEXT great adventure? That's somewhat different, no?
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 12/26/2005 : 15:43:24
you read too much harry potter |
| 50 Pence |
Posted - 12/26/2005 : 15:40:19
death is the last great adventure, i am looking forward to it.
Blats |
| VoVat |
Posted - 12/26/2005 : 13:25:01
So you won't use that time to call out the name of every possible god, just in case?
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/23/2005 : 04:26:08
On my death bed then.
 I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| VoVat |
Posted - 12/22/2005 : 09:59:17
But then you'll be dead, and unable to type, right?
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/21/2005 : 07:26:17
quote:
Originally posted by VoVat
Okay, how about this. If there were a way to stop aging for as long as you wanted, which age would you pick to stay at, and how long would you want to stay there?
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares."
I'll tell you when I have lived them all.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| cassandra is |
Posted - 12/21/2005 : 06:40:37
8 years old is enough for me
pas de bras pas de chocolat |
| VoVat |
Posted - 12/21/2005 : 06:37:12
Okay, how about this. If there were a way to stop aging for as long as you wanted, which age would you pick to stay at, and how long would you want to stay there?
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| darwin |
Posted - 12/20/2005 : 16:33:24
If you can either be slightly more successful when you're young and reproductive or live long into your senior years evolution is going to select for genes taht favor successful when young. Dying at 90 versus at 80 isn't going to increase the number of your genes in the next generation by very much (if any at all), so evolution doesn't favor longevity particularly if there's a trade-off at younger ages. If we start reproducing later and later this might change. |
| starmekitten |
Posted - 12/20/2005 : 16:23:24
This scientist would rather choke on her own vomit than say such a thing.
To clarify (as I realise above comment has ale induced aloofness about it) I tend to get internal spasms whenever I hear the phrase "gene for...".
It's just... plain... wrong. |
| Carl |
Posted - 12/20/2005 : 14:53:20
Yeah, I remember some years ago, my brother's friend saying that some scientists believe we may have a 'death gene', that decides when it's time for us to kick the bucket.
 "Join the Honeycult!"
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| starmekitten |
Posted - 12/20/2005 : 05:38:04
Aging is a natural cause, your body isn't built to last forever, your DNA is sizing itself down like an internal countdown towards death.
Joyous huh. |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/20/2005 : 05:30:10
quote:
Originally posted by TRANSMARINE
And I was just kidding about mom storing cadavars in my bedroom.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
-bRIAN
I would hope nobody actually believed that.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| TRANSMARINE |
Posted - 12/19/2005 : 14:05:47
There really is no such thing as dying of 'natural causes'. It's usually just a total shutdown after years of illnesses and bad health. I pretty much know for a fact that when people "die in their sleep", they usually spasm, shudder,and fight for breath. If they are hospitalized and then "die in their sleep", these side effects are deleted by heavy painkillers. Nevertheless, dying of natural causes is bullcrap...going pecefully is a rarity. I would like to die in a big explosion. Like on the Death Star. Or by quick decapitation. And I was just kidding about mom storing cadavars in my bedroom.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
-bRIAN |
| VoVat |
Posted - 12/19/2005 : 12:57:38
That's a good point, actually.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| zub_the_goat |
Posted - 12/19/2005 : 07:44:22
quote:
Originally posted by VoVat
quote:
i'd like to die in the arms of my secret forum crush from too much sex and frank.
What about too many franks and beans?
I can tell you I don't want to die in an embarrassing fashion. I mean, I don't believe in the afterlife, but still.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares."
i dont think id mind dying in an embaressing fashion, i like the idea of people at my funeral having to stifle and giggle, and at least its different and you'll be remembered for it |
| Homers_pet_monkey |
Posted - 12/19/2005 : 06:05:11
I'd be happy to die defending my country.
Yeah right.
I'd hate to be eaten alive. That would not be nice at all.
I'd walk her everyday, into a shady place
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| Daisy Girl |
Posted - 12/18/2005 : 19:23:00
falling and starving to death |
| VoVat |
Posted - 12/18/2005 : 16:12:46
quote:
i'd like to die in the arms of my secret forum crush from too much sex and frank.
What about too many franks and beans?
I can tell you I don't want to die in an embarrassing fashion. I mean, I don't believe in the afterlife, but still.
"If you doze much longer, then life turns to dreaming. If you doze much longer, then dreams turn to nightmares." |
| HeywoodJablome |
Posted - 12/17/2005 : 07:31:21
I don't care how, just as long as it is intstant.
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| Carl |
Posted - 12/17/2005 : 07:27:13
Being paralysed, blind, deaf and dumb and slowly dying over a long period.
Now I am depressed!
"Join the Honeycult!"
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| misleadtheworld |
Posted - 12/17/2005 : 05:58:54
I'm glad I wasn't the only person mildly disturbed by that.
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| Doog |
Posted - 12/17/2005 : 05:41:13
quote:
Originally posted by TRANSMARINE
Yuck...the thought of a cadaverous climax shrinks me as I type. I've had too many incidents with corpses in my bedroom. My first mother was a county coroner and often autopsied and embalmed at our home (it was a small town). More oft than not, she got carried away with her work and our house became a makeshift morgue...it was normal for me to have 4 or 5 bodies in my bedroom to contend with while carrying on with my normal childhood. She made me so mad.
Hank the 8th was a duplicated man
-bRIAN
Christ! YOU had CORPSES in your bedroom?!
"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, morecambe and wise"
www.myspace.com/doog - www.doog.tk |
| ObfuscateByWill |
Posted - 12/17/2005 : 00:43:09
As hokey as it may come across, I find a great deal of solace in Jean Giono's "The Man Who Planted Trees"
That through perseverance and kindess you can change the world.
While anything I do will be eventually forgotten, it's encouraging to know that I can make some small difference.
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I'd like to die peacefully. Hospital/home, doesn't really matter. I guess I would prefer home.
I'd like to have my family present.
*Take a bite of the chocolate coffin.
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| prozacrat |
Posted - 12/16/2005 : 21:31:37
TRANS... I've kind of been in that situation. When I had my accident, I'm willing to bet I only had a split second to realize what was happening. See, I don't remember any of the accident, and only became conscious of what had happened roughly five minutes or so after the collision. The last thing I remembered was pulling onto the interstate and calling my cousin on the phone, roughly three or four minutes before the accident occured. So if I had died that night, which I should have, then I would have only had half a second to come to terms with my death. So having lived through that, it's hard to say I'd prefer it that way. It's an awkward thing to contemplate period. Regarding Z Zoquis' comment about having a built in way of handling those situations, I guess my built in coping mechanism was to just black the whole thing out. I was told I'd start remembering the accident after a couple of years but it hasn't happened yet.
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