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Do you fear death?

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    #152
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    It's not death per-se that bothers me but the decline. If your brain is still sharp but your body is breaking down all around you. Like if you'd been an active person all your life and now you need help just to to get to the friggin bathroom. I'd find that hard to bare.


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    #153
    Wee Willy Harris
    Site Banned Posts: 563 ✭✭✭Wee Willy Harris


    If your brain is still sharp as the only muscle really working, and the body becomes frail thoughts can become acute and we must get some brawn in and try restore a balance.

    Fight death, to the death!


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    #154
    books4sale
    Closed Accounts Posts: 595 ✭✭✭books4sale


    Its natural to fear death as one get older just these days the options for dying are getting more limited as everyone opts for the nursing home or hospital.

    Personally I wanted to go down fighting like a Roman gladiator battling to the death in a huge arena like the Colosseum.

    The swishing of my blade, the warm sweet drizzle of blood pouring from my wounds, the power of the big cats and the rumbling of the chariots and elephants

    ...all to the sounds of the clapping roaring audience, as I close my eyes drawing my breath for the last time knowing that I would crowned with honour and glory for eternity.


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    #155
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    A sudden death I imagine is a blessing. A prolonged death by a horrible disease like cancer seems so cruel to a person.


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    #156
    Holsten
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    Yes and no.

    Yes in that I don't want to die, ever.

    No in that everyone dies, I'll be dead.. I won't be around to be scared or notice it.


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    #157
    brenn7475
    Closed Accounts Posts: 114 ✭✭brenn7475


    Well worth a watch people BBC Documentary "Today I died" Near-Death Experiences. It's up to you whatever you think after watching. But a very interesting documentary Peoples own personal experiences/ And scientific Research. Enjoy

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8Ub2xx0KQ0


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    #158
    Prodigious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,827 ✭✭✭Prodigious


    The way I look at it, by the time you're dead you won't care. With all the hype for 22nd of December, I thought about it for a minute, and honestly can say I dont fear it one bit.


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    #159
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    i hate thinking about it.

    id love to live for ever.

    I really hope theres a cool new world to go to!

    Thatd be sweet!

    I had a dream I died before, jumped off a building. Wasnt pleasant.


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    #160
    Dartz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,369 ✭✭✭Dartz


    I fear the time between imminent death becoming inevitable and death actually occurring...

    That scares me a hell of a lot more.


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    #161
    up for anything
    Registered Users Posts: 5,776 ✭✭✭up for anything


    books4sale wrote: »
    I would crowned with honour and glory for eternity.

    I doubt anyone could name one real life Roman gladiator from times past... so much for honour and glory for eternity! :pac:

    I'm looking forward to it and I hope there isn't an afterlife.


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    #162
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    up for anything wrote: »
    I doubt anyone could name one real life Roman gladiator from times past... so much for honour and glory for eternity! :pac:

    I'm looking forward to it and I hope there isn't an afterlife.

    Couldnt agree more,see you in Valhalla:D


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    #163
    Ishmael
    Registered Users Posts: 1,460 ✭✭✭Ishmael


    up for anything wrote: »
    I doubt anyone could name one real life Roman gladiator from times past... so much for honour and glory for eternity! :pac:

    You mean Maximus wasn't really a gladiator!!! :eek:

    Damn you hollywood, you lied to me again!

    On the brightside, i suppose i have something to post in this thread now


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    #164
    Dartz
    Registered Users Posts: 4,369 ✭✭✭Dartz


    up for anything wrote: »
    I doubt anyone could name one real life Roman gladiator from times past... so much for honour and glory for eternity! :pac:

    I'm looking forward to it and I hope there isn't an afterlife.

    Polumbus of Epheaseus.

    Died in his last fight. Or what was supposed to be his last fight before earning freedom but just ended up being his last fight. Had a family. Can't remember much more about him.

    More are known to historians.

    Though if you really want to be known... it's always easier to be infamous than famous.

    The whole concept of herostratic fame is named after a greek lunatic who burned down a temple solely to make the history books. In this case, damnatio memoriae seems to have failed...


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    #165
    Itwasntme.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,754 ✭✭✭Itwasntme.


    I have never feared death and I still don't. When I was a teenager, I liked to experiment on myself a lot. One of these experiments resulted in an NDE-or something close anyway. I will never be sure what it was exactly. To cut a long story short, in my supposed-to-be-dying state, I felt myself being sucked up what felt like a vacuum cleaner and when I reached the top of the tube/pipe/whatever-it-was, I heard a voice say, 'go back.' And I woke up and threw up the most vile stuff for three days straight.

    I am not sure of the existence of a superior being or not but that experience seriously freaked me out. And now I am just afraid of the possibility of an after life. Isn't this life enough?

    Huh. I just realised that this means that I fear death. Sort of.


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    #166
    Liamario
    Registered Users Posts: 2,094 ✭✭✭Liamario


    Death? Maybe 29 years ago I would have cared. The game was tougher then. But now games have respawns!!!


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    #167
    branie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭branie


    Not really, as i'd be going to a better place after I leave this world


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    #168
    long range shooter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭long range shooter


    branie wrote: »
    Not really, as i'd be going to a better place after I leave this world

    Wow,do you know something that i dont;)Just wondered:D


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    #169
    Arnold Layne
    Registered Users Posts: 975 ✭✭✭Arnold Layne


    No, I fear an ongoing pain for myself and my family while i wait to die.

    Not that this is happening; what I want is a quick death whenever it may happen.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGqYsca60yM


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    #170
    tan11ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    Don't fear it at all, what will be will be ..


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    #171
    Columbia
    Registered Users Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Columbia


    I was halfway through an answer to this, but what I typed made me realise that I really need to repair one friendship, so I'm going to give that a go instead :)


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    #172
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Columbia wrote: »
    I was halfway through an answer to this, but what I typed made me realise that I really need to repair one friendship, so I'm going to give that a go instead :)
    Cool :)


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    #173
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    branie wrote: »
    Not really, as i'd be going to a better place after I leave this world
    Living in offaly eh. Can't say I blame you.

    Don't really fear death, it's the dying bit that scares me. As in dying slowly. I'd rather kack it in a hail of bullets, or a heart attack, or a juggernaut creaming the car.

    Getting ill and slowly wasting, now that's scary. Or getting burnt or badly injured and slowly shuffling off in agony. My old lad had a NDE and said it was the most pleasurable experience of his life and erased all fear of death he ever had.

    I've killed an awful lot of sick and injured animals(cattle/horses) for people, never blinked as I hate seeing suffering. I'd rather the same approach was taken with me, just get it over with. I'd probably not be the best person to be with in a battle/fight etc if you got injured, cos I'd just shoot you to put you out of your misery. But I'd expect the same for me, if that makes sense. That freaks out a lot of people who know me, but I'm just a fatalist, when you're done, you're done.


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    #174
    lukesmom
    Registered Users Posts: 4,400 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Itwasntme. wrote: »
    I have never feared death and I still don't. When I was a teenager, I liked to experiment on myself a lot. One of these experiments resulted in an NDE-or something close anyway. I will never be sure what it was exactly. To cut a long story short, in my supposed-to-be-dying state, I felt myself being sucked up what felt like a vacuum cleaner and when I reached the top of the tube/pipe/whatever-it-was, I heard a voice say, 'go back.' And I woke up and threw up the most vile stuff for three days straight.

    I am not sure of the existence of a superior being or not but that experience seriously freaked me out. And now I am just afraid of the possibility of an after life. Isn't this life enough?

    Huh. I just realised that this means that I fear death. Sort of.


    When you say you liked to experiment?????


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    #175
    darced
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    #176
    Pottler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,073 ✭✭✭Pottler


    darced wrote: »
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    Another 17 years and you'll find your equilibrium:D It's a bitch alright.


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    #177
    toastedpickles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,607 ✭✭✭toastedpickles


    The lament for Brendan Behan

    Sad solemn notes and crates of newly drawn stout,
    the usual symptoms when a life goes out.
    But the extinction this time being 7 times the most.
    The music held no echo and the tears drowned our toast.
    Sorrow and bereavement, life has no meaning now, silence is master.
    Laughter and song bowed for gone went our great captain to some more hospitable inn
    where cant and hypocrisy can no longer embarrass him.

    This, along with a few more things make me feel somewhat better about dying. No idea why but it just does


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    #178
    yesno1234
    Registered Users Posts: 2,338 ✭✭✭yesno1234


    I'm terrified of dying and having wasted my life, but I don't really know what that means because tbh I'm fairly happy doing **** all day in day out.

    Spent quite a bit of time in hospital for a week recently with my dying grandfather, and seeing him and some of the other patients really made me think that I'm just scared of growing old more than anything. I'm sure you gain a greater appreciation of life as you get older but I'd hate having to rely on others to do so much for me. I could see the same with my grandfather and how much it hurt his pride especially in his last week where he could do pretty much nothing for himself anymore.


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    #179
    Hippies!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    When I was a young lad I remember being quite smug about my newfound atheism. Willing to ejaculate my beliefs on anything that blessed itself. Until my flatmate at the time and I got drunk one night and the discussion disastrously turned to religion instead of sex, flatmate was a she I might add.

    Anyway, I was primed and ready for her silly notions of a heaven. Had my massive arsenal of atheist dribble aimed squarely at her face ready to fire. Then she said she believed in a heaven because she wanted to, as it was comforting to think she'd see loved ones again. She said this with a tear in her eye :(, so I banged her back door in instead :)


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    #180
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Hippies! wrote: »
    When I was a young lad I remember being quite smug about my newfound atheism. Willing to ejaculate my beliefs on anything that blessed itself. Until my flatmate at the time and I got drunk one night and the discussion disastrously turned to religion instead of sex, flatmate was a she I might add.

    Anyway, I was primed and ready for her silly notions of a heaven. Had my massive arsenal of atheist dribble aimed squarely at her face ready to fire. Then she said she believed in a heaven because she wanted to, as it was comforting to think she'd see loved ones again. She said this with a tear in her eye :(, so I banged her back door in instead :)
    You took advantage of someone who was emotionally unstable :eek:


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    #181
    Hippies!
    Closed Accounts Posts: 555 ✭✭✭Hippies!


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    You took advantage of someone who was emotionally unstable :eek:

    Yep? Chicks cry all the time :)







    When I'm around :L


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