Poll: How long ( in years ) do you have left before you die? ( Imagination )

[Paco Dennis]

I have read many times how some very wise people have thought it is very healthy to imagine your own death. In my experience, it helps me appreciate LIFE.

 

[horseless carriage]

Chances are I won't be around much longer. Have you seen those ornate new coffins? I'm dying to try one.

 

[Bretrick]

I give myself 15 years maximum. With the unhealthy lifestyle I have led thus far, 75 would be ancient for me.

 

[timoc]

I want to do a parachute jump when I turn 100, and be able to read my birthday greeting from our King or Queen, so another 17 years would be handy, but another 88 would be better.

 

[Pepper]

I know what I would like to happen, but when thoughts like these enter my head I do my best to squelch them immediately. It's morbid.

 

[Pepper]

ps, @timoc
Do your parachute jump Now. You can always do it again.

 

[Mr. Ed]

 

[feywon]

Knowing that death is inevitable and could come at any time regardless how healthy, active one is i don't care to speculate. i know how to enjoy life and how to get thru the rough spots i don't need think about how, when i will leave this life to appreciate it. Tho i do understand it may be helpful for some, i just don't care to enter that particular labyrinth of thought, i'm too busy living.

 

[officerripley]

I used to think I'd like to die from a heroin overdose since I'd heard that a heroin high is one of the most pleasurable. But with my luck, I'd be allergic to it (like I am with so many things). So now I think just an ordinary (but short!) coma'd be the best.

 

[feywon]

I used to think I'd like to die from a heroin overdose since I'd heard that a heroin high is one of the most pleasurable. But with my luck, I'd be allergic to it (like I am with so many things). So now I think just an ordinary (but short!) coma'd be the best.

Most people are more scared of the process of dying then death itself, tho for some both are difficult to think about. i know that losing his mental faculties was hardest part for my Dad (metastatic cancer that included brain tumor). Once the mentally faculties totally gone it's harder on caregivers than the person but the process when you still have enough reason to know you're losing it, that is hard on the person. Thankfully Mom went quick from a stroke, she would have been even more put out by being incapacitated physically and/or mentally.

 

[Aunt Bea]

 

[Paco Dennis]

Knowing that death is inevitable and could come at any time regardless how healthy, active one is i don't care to speculate. i know how to enjoy life and how to get thru the rough spots i don't need think about how, when i will leave this life to appreciate it. Tho i do understand it may be helpful for som, i just don't care to enter that particular labyrinth of thought, i'm too busy living.

I have no intent to imagine death as morbid, just one of the facts of life that is 100% true. I can not understand why/how accepting, facing, a primary fact of LIFE should be shunned?

 

[Paco Dennis]

Death quotes.....

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet" Emily Dickinson

"Death is not the opposite of life but a part of it." Haruki Murakami

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." Mark Twain

 

[Paco Dennis]

Oh one more good one...

"I'm not afraid to die I just don't want to be there when it happens." Woody Allen

 

[feywon]

I have no intent to imagine death as morbid, just one of the facts of life that is 100% true. I can not understand why/how accepting, facing, a primary fact of LIFE should be shunned?

i absolutely accept it. i also accept that unless i am the instrument of my own death as i was in 1974, i can't predict how/when it will come to me again so i prefer to spend my time living, tho of course have had the important talks with my kids and i need to update some paperwork that will make things easier for them. Preparing for post mortem realities that will effect loved ones does not require you spend creative energies imagining your death, IMO.

 

[feywon]

Death quotes.....

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet" Emily Dickinson

"Death is not the opposite of life but a part of it." Haruki Murakami

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." Mark Twain

Not so sure about the Dickinson.
While i agree with the 2nd it is the 3rd i can most identify with...

 

[Irwin]

When I was in my late teens and twenties, I never thought I'd live to see 30. Here I am, almost 64, so I'm not even going to venture a speculation as to how much longer I'll be here. I'm still going fairly strong, physically. Psychologically, I'm a mess, but I have been most of my life, so who knows?

 

[Paco Dennis]

It certainly seems like avoidance to me. You have had a NDE and came out a new and "improved" human being. The practical side is imminent and should be prepared for the reasons you state, but life hurts a lot more than death.

 

[officerripley]

Thoughts on death/dying:

"A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death."
~~from Sutton by J. R. Moehringer

"…I have never admired the 'natural' or believed in the 'wisdom of the body.' Death is as 'natural' as anything gets, and the body has always seemed to me like a retarded Siamese twin dragging along behind me, a hysteric really, dangerously overreacting, in my case, to everyday allergens…I put my faith in science."
~~from Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich

"Death is peculiar. First you make a fantastic organism, then you throw it away again fifty years later. It’s a rotten trick, and if God existed I’d like to meet him in a dark alley to have a little chat about it."
~~Midas Dekkers, Dutch writer

"You can think of death bitterly or with resignation, as a tragic interruption of your life, and take every possible measure to postpone it. Or, more realistically, you can think of life as an interruption of an eternity of personal nonexistence, and seize it as a brief opportunity to observe and interact with the living, ever-surprising world around us."
~~from Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Our Illusion of Control by Barbara Ehrenreich

 

[Paco Dennis]

Kali

"Kali (/ˈkɑːliː/; Sanskrit: काली, IAST: Kālī), also known as Dakshina Kālikā (Sanskrit: दक्षिण कालिका), is a Hindu goddess, who is considered to be the Master of death and time. She is also said to be the Paramshakti, that is the supreme of all powers, or the ultimate reality. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali

Or

Imagination is harmless, our reaction to our imagination is what counts.

 

[Gary O']

How long ( in years ) do you have left before you die? ( Imagination )​

Ten years would be plenty
It'd put me at 82

Fifteen years and I'd be hoping for a grandchild to take me on that long walk
with a bump on the bean

Planning for the next five

Counting on today

 

[Paco Dennis]

Just as there would be no darkness if there were no light, there would be no life without death.

 

[Gary O']

I want to do a parachute jump when I turn 100

reminds me of a poster I created in another life;

 

[chic]

According to the ouija board my best friend and I consulted about the age of our deaths back in 1966, I will die next year. I'm very afraid and not ready at all for this so it will be difficult if it does happen. Unless God pulls me out of the mess somehow. I hope so.

 

[timoc]

ps, @timoc
Do your parachute jump Now. You can always do it again.

Pepper, I'm not 'doolally' enough to do it right now, and besides, them aeroplanes don't half fly high, and the parachute may not open then I might snuff it and not reach 100.
What a dilemma, and people have been known to get nasty bumps on their heads jumping out of aeroplanes, I think I'll invest in a trampoline instead.