Do you fear or welcome your death?

jujube said:
My hope is that it'll be like a candle going out. Poof! It's gone. No heaven, no hell....it's just over.
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That's what I think it is. There's no evidence that there's anything else.

When people ask or speculate on what happens after death, my answer is: What was it like for you before you were born? (Or maybe I should say conceived, as there may be some primitive consciousness in the womb).
 

Sunny said:
That's what I think it is. There's no evidence that there's anything else.

When people ask or speculate on what happens after death, my answer is: What was it like for you before you were born? (Or maybe I should say conceived, as there may be some primitive consciousness in the womb).
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Everyone of us will have a near death experience. It's the part of dying that comes before death. It may be, even for you or I, that we will experience going toward the light, meeting a creator (or Carl Sagan), and unimaginable bliss while finally understanding the meaning of life, until the moment that your last brain cell dies from lack of oxygen. And then it all goes back to the way it was before we were conceived.
 

Sunny said:
There's no evidence that there's anything else.
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There's a guy who was dead for 3 days. They made pics, a video, spoke to the doctor who declared him dead and the man from the morgue who accepted him as a corpse and said he was stiff. His wife was pregnant and didn't accept it. He died in a car accident. She went to the morgue with his dad and took the body in the casket to a meeting from Bonnke, a German man, in Africa. They didn't want to let them in and were pulling and pushing the casket away. All these people attending wanted to see it. They prayed and he started to breathe and his neck and arms became soft. He said he saw 2 angels who said: The request of the rich man has been granted to this generation.
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And Ian Mc Cormack got stung by box jellyfishes and died in an ambulance. He was an atheist. He heard God speak. He saw texts from the Our Father prayer. He prayed that. He had to forgive the guys who refused to help him cause he had no money with him and mocked him. Then he saw Jesus. He asked him if he wanted to go to heaven or go back and he wanted to go back for his mother who was christian, because she would have thought that he hadn't made it to heaven. When he was dying God told his mother that she had to pray because he was nearly dead. My brother translated his testimony, which they turned into a movie, in Dutch. He was dead for 45 minutes or so.
 
This is the way I think about it:

"Whenever I'm arguing with someone about [the afterlife] I always ask 'em, 'Do you remember anything before you got here?' And generally if they're honest they'll say no. Then I ask 'em what makes 'em think they'll remember anything when they're gone?"
~~from The Longmire Defense by Craig Johnson
 
horseless carriage said:
Sixty-nine years of marriage is a truly extraordinary achievement. Your enduring love and commitment are an inspiration to us all and ohers who know you, demonstrating a beautiful partnership built on strength, resilience, and unwavering devotion.
Congratulations on reaching this achievement and thank you for showing us the true meaning of lifelong love.
The champagne is on ice for your 70th.
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Thank you for your wonderful reply.
 
officerripley said:
This is the way I think about it:

"Whenever I'm arguing with someone about [the afterlife] I always ask 'em, 'Do you remember anything before you got here?' And generally if they're honest they'll say no. Then I ask 'em what makes 'em think they'll remember anything when they're gone?"
~~from The Longmire Defense by Craig Johnson
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...because there was no physical memories before we were born to bring into this life...... but we have a zillion memories to take out of this life
 
Our bodies die and decompose that is undeniable. I think that the many eerily similar stories of NDE's, the many reports by young children claiming to remember their past lives.......and then verified by parents looking up their children's former homes and families, the eerily similar accounts of past lives through deep hypnosis and then there's the testimony of mediums who claim contact with deceased souls and who report details to those souls' family and friends that only those souls could know..........all that persuades me that something of our consciousness and memories survives death and continues our journey in a spiritual dimension.

I think it's going to be interesting to exit this material life. But I'm not ready for it yet. This life is part of my journey and there is still much that I wish to do.
The actual physical "death"? I hope it's quick and not dragged out agonizingly. In a hopelessly terminal incurable illness I'm OK with taking the quick exit.
 
horseless carriage said:
It is perfectly normal to experience feelings of trepidation when contemplating aging and the end of life. These are significant life stages that often bring about complex emotions, introspection, and questions about what lies ahead.
Your comments are exactly how I feel too, but as Pappy said "we do not fear death as long as we are together forever. She is my life." I empathise with that too, although our length of marriage is eleven years less than Pappy's. Nonetheless, my lady is my life, how I would love to emulate my maternal grandparents who were married for seventy-five years and passed within a very short time of each other.
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I dont think it's possible to be married and have a close relationship for 50 years , 60, 70 years..and not really become one person...

Even if you have your own hobbies, your own work.. whaetever... if you're a close couple and enjoy things together, then you must think like one person much of the time.. know exactly how the other is going to react in a certain situation....so to lose a partner when one inevitably goes before the other must literally feel like losing a part of oneself ..

This probably why we often hear of people dying who had no obvious sign of critical illness... soon after their partner of many decades has passed
 
Paco Dennis said:
We all do not know what happens after we die. Until someone actually returns from being dead. Maybe that has already occurred and the testimonies of people who have been pronounced dead, and then breath again. These testimonies might be the real thing.
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well...I returned from the dead.!...however I have no story to tell because I was just born...

I was stillborn , as a 2.5 month prem baby... and they revived me, unfortunately my twin brother didn't survive....
 
I will never give up trying to survive. I have faced death as many of you have, whether it be in war, working around the house and being electrocuted or falling off a roof, or whatever. When that happened, it’s obvious that you didn’t quit, right?
 
I'm not in a hurry, but when my time comes, I'll just have to deal with it. I believe we all will live on in some manner after death. If I'm wrong, then it will not have mattered, because I won't be around to know that.
 
losing your nearest and dearest of same age group is very traumatic - but it is an advantage to have cultivated a slightly young group of rellies and/or friends who can act as wot ever you wish to describe them as ?? - I often call them my saviours? - we are all gonna grown older and get frail and lose friends - lets cultivate the living ones?? - got none then make new ones - it's not that difficult?
 
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