Coming to terms with your own mortality

DEFTLEFTHAND · 14-10-2011 08:02PM

The fact that you don't know when your time will end scares me. Sometimes when I try to picture where my life will be in 20 years, I think sh1t I might be dead.:(

InkSlinger67 · 14-10-2011 10:23PM

Everyone on this thread should read "The Denial Of Death" by Ernest Becker....preferrably after smoking/drinking a few

If "phwoah!" is the only word out of your mouth during the whole process count yourself lucky

Professey Chin · 14-10-2011 10:27PM

Terrified of it. And now I cant stop thinking about it again.
GOD DAMN YOU OP!!!! :mad:

Paddy Cow · 14-10-2011 10:29PM

When I was a child, it was other people's mortality that fascinated me. 40 seemed absolutely ancient and I couldn't understand why people that old weren't depressed about the fact that their lives were nearly over!

ottostreet · 14-10-2011 10:40PM

As long as I come back with the ability of dance, the timing of a God, and the snazzy red jumpsuit like MJ's, I can make a good living from music videos.

shedweller · 14-10-2011 11:15PM

Paddy Cow wrote: »

When I was a child, it was other people's mortality that fascinated me. 40 seemed absolutely ancient and I couldn't understand why people that old weren't depressed about the fact that their lives were nearly over!

+1

And here i am, at 36, thinking about how much time i wasted when i was younger..:(
Ok, there are many years ahead of me (touch wood) but their passing seems to be accelerating. eg: i'm married 10 years. Woosh, where did that go?
I'm out of school 19 years, WTF!!

I have kids now and i am trying to think of ways to get this concept through to them without being morbid; that they must enjoy life to the max etc.
I vaguely remember the occasional person telling me that when i was young but i seem to have not listened too well. Hmm..

Interesting yet slightly depressing topic OP!
I'll be phoning my parents more from now on.:)

The Master of Disaster · 14-10-2011 11:19PM

I'm not a fantasy nerd by any means but I've always found Gandalf's quote in the Return of the King oddly comforting:

"Death is just another path, one that we all must take"

Stripey Cat · 14-10-2011 11:28PM

Kevin McAleer tells of growing up as a teenager in County Tyrone. He used to go for long walks in the countryside, gazing at the stars, asking himself,
-Who am I?
-What am I doing here?
-Where am I going?

Once he bumped into a British army patrol and they pointed their rifles at him and shouted
- Who are you?
- What are you doing here?
- Where are you going?

IvaBigWun · 14-10-2011 11:28PM

karma_ wrote: »

Watch this OP, it's interesting.

Is there a 4 minute version? Life is too short for watching a crazy looking man talk for 47 mins

harrythehat · 14-10-2011 11:48PM

I never thought about that kind of stuff as a child, would have been very sheltered from death I would say.

Nowadays when I think about it, I hope that some day I make it as a writer so that even after I'm gone something of my soul remains.

IvaBigWun · 15-10-2011 12:05AM

This thread is terrifying, sad and inspiring in equal amounts.

Sunny!! · 15-10-2011 12:10AM

this is normal i think,horrible phase in my life since I have no religious beliefs i feel alot better about it and not worrying about whether I go to hell or not:p

Latchy · 15-10-2011 12:26AM

I love that line from the John Lennon song '' life is what's happens while your busy making other plans '' which is exactly how it worked out for him = ... the devil paid him a vist when he least expected it ( maybe he had the idea of bodyguards in the back of his mind ? )

That line applys to us all and could have been written by anybody for everybody because whoever we are and whatever plans we have ,none of us knows the time or hr when it's over .

But life goes on and continues ...

Chocablock · 15-10-2011 12:57AM

I remember when I was 15/16 and I was in the changing room and I was thinking about death alot at the time and it was like I fully understood it just at that point. Its hard to explain it but in my mind I was literally going millions of miles into the emptiness of space and I got a massive head rush stronger than anything I ever felt but not in a good way. Its like my brain overloaded. Sometimes when Im lying in bed and cant sleep I start thinking about death and then I get that headrush if I go into too much detail in my head about it. Its horrible :-(

Davidius · 15-10-2011 04:27AM

I'm not so much concerned with non-existence so much as I am the actual panic and suffering that I'll probably experience when I'm dying.

Kanoe · 15-10-2011 05:37AM

Think I was afraid of the idea of death until I lost a parent and then I stopped being afraid.

Coming to terms with your own mortality

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