Is Death a Bad Event or a Good Event?

I think it's relative. A friend of mine just died. She had been so full of life and civic minded. She was always doing something for our community to make life better for so many. She got turbo cancer last winter and her therapy went well. She got a good prognosis from her physicians last May but had another serious problem with housing and I just heard she died. So I feel the loss right now. :confused:
 

Some days I wish I would go to sleep and not wake up. After all, we will not know we are dead.
Undergoing an operation, we are "put under" then awaken, knowing, experiencing nothing whilst under.
This to me will be a blessing, nothingness, and no comprehension of that nothingness.
Thankfully, for now, I have many days when life is wonderful. Almost always, those are the days when I am out in the Aussie bush. Experiencing the beauty of nature.
My wish is to go suddenly, not linger.
Being given an end date, as in a terminal illness, would be a torment. Knowing the last days are getting ever closer, knowing my health will deteriorate to the point of incapacitation is something I dread.
My real wish is to be able to go to my doctor and say; "I have had enough of this living. Please write me a script for the end of life pill."
I think this option will eventually become available, but not for at least 2 decades or more.
 
Bretrick said:
Some days I wish I would go to sleep and not wake up. After all, we will not know we are dead.
Undergoing an operation, we are "put under" then awaken, knowing, experiencing nothing whilst under.
This to me will be a blessing, nothingness, and no comprehension of that nothingness.
Thankfully, for now, I have many days when life is wonderful. Almost always, those are the days when I am out in the Aussie bush. Experiencing the beauty of nature.
My wish is to go suddenly, not linger.
Being given an end date, as in a terminal illness, would be a torment. Knowing the last days are getting ever closer, knowing my health will deteriorate to the point of incapacitation is something I dread.
My real wish is to be able to go to my doctor and say; "I have had enough of this living. Please write me a script for the end of life pill."
I think this option will eventually become available, but not for at least 2 decades or more.
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Touchy subject to say the very very least. If this is your mindset why would a doctor have to write the script?

Trying to expand our thoughts on the subject, I am not cruel or uncaring - simply want to discuss the possibilities.

Terminal illness would be torment, a loved one is currently going through this.
 
Gardenlover said:
Touchy subject to say the very very least. If this is your mindset why would a doctor have to write the script?

Trying to expand our thoughts on the subject, I am not cruel or uncaring - simply want to discuss the possibilities.

Terminal illness would be torment, a loved one is currently going through this.
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Any other way would involve trauma or uncertainty.
 
Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, working as a pre merger FDNY-EMS paramedic then hogging for Lord knows how long for Conrail then AMTRAK I've seen more death then I ever thought was possible. After the burn out stage you care more for the family then the one who passed. To witness their grief, pain and suffering can be overwhelming beyond all manner of human comprehension.

Well here goes.

www.aicsi.com/blog/attended-versus-unattended-death/

www.thatclearmind.com/blogs/exploring-how-family-dynamics-change-after-death-a-closer-look

www.verywellhealth.com/why-do-people-die-in-their-sleep-4098302

www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/states-landing

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-grief/201803/aftereffects-the-near-death-experience

www.nimh.gov/health/publications/warning-signs-of-suicide

Death - Wikipedia

Accidental death - Wikipedia

Suicide - Wikipedia

Homicide - Wikipedia

Murderā€“suicide - Wikipedia

Assisted suicide - Wikipedia

Familicide - Wikipedia

Hospice - Wikipedia


Chris Benoit double-murder and suicide - Wikipedia




https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/truecrime

 
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Gardenlover said:
Touchy subject to say the very very least. If this is your mindset why would a doctor have to write the script?

Trying to expand our thoughts on the subject, I am not cruel or uncaring - simply want to discuss the possibilities.

Terminal illness would be torment, a loved one is currently going through this.
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Dealing with a terminal illness is so difficult. I lost a close relative within a matter of months and it really was the saddest of times. I am sorry you are going through this.
 
I don't, normally, think about death, I know that
it is going to happen to each and every one of us
eventually, I always say, "I have one foot in the grave
and the other on a bar of soap", a bit flippant I know,
but, why worry about something that we have no
control over and cannot change.

My father was afraid of death and I couldn't help him,
other than sympathise, with him.

It is the system, we live, we die, we get a new mission
and a new body, it might not be a human body, or even
on this planet.

Instead of looking at death with great fear, look on death,
as the prize, the object that we are aiming for, we were sent
here for a reason, we know not what that reason is, but you
will find out eventually, if you have fulfilled it.

Mike.
 
Death? Donā€™t believe there will be for you a new life after your present body and mindā€™s death. Okay. So, when the time comes that you know your mind and body are on the threshold of eternal death, you will not care? That according to you, you will no longer exist, but end up an eventually forgotten nothing?

If you think about it with your still living brain, doesnā€™t the thought of that creep you out just a little bit? But then, why would it? Dead is dead. Just as you feel yourself dying, you wonā€™t cry out in fear, ā€œDonā€™t let me die! Iā€™m sorry! God forgive me, Save me!ā€ I read that real life story years ago, written by a Pastor who heard it cried out by a dying man in a hospital ward just as he died. :(
 
Mitch86 said:
We MUST accepts everything bad which happens to us. Pain, impairment and death will afflict all of us before it's all over. One escape is computer games like Civilization VI. I'm 89 now and whenever pain or depression present themselves, I go to my PC and play Civilization VI. Then I feel good again as I try to conquer the world.
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Good for you Mitch. One question. Have you been able to take care of China? :)
 
Mike said:
I don't, normally, think about death, I know that
it is going to happen to each and every one of us
eventually, I always say, "I have one foot in the grave
and the other on a bar of soap", a bit flippant I know,
but, why worry about something that we have no
control over and cannot change.

My father was afraid of death and I couldn't help him,
other than sympathise, with him.

It is the system, we live, we die, we get a new mission
and a new body, it might not be a human body, or even
on this planet.

Instead of looking at death with great fear, look on death,
as the prize, the object that we are aiming for, we were sent
here for a reason, we know not what that reason is, but you
will find out eventually, if you have fulfilled it.

Mike.
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I really really like this post. Thank you šŸ˜Š
 
I think that consciousness is a fundamental fabric of the universe and our personal consciousness is an eternal thread in that fabric and we're on an immortal journey in the direction of The Divine. Call it what you will.....Nirvana, Heaven, Pure Land.......it's too vast to understand now, but we'll learn more as we approach it in our lives to come.
So I think dying should be interesting. And something to prepare for.
But I do not want a lingering exit from this material world.
 
Paco Dennis said:
Where were you when you were sleeping last night? In your mind/imagination? That is what it is like. Nada. Zero. Empty. No more making form with your mind. Might as well be dead. :)
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My mind is not blank when I sleep--I have tons of dreams that are vivid, technicolor, and amusing. I hardly think that's what death is like.
 

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