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Thoughts on the next life. Do you fear death?

  • 13-11-2014 10:24PM
    #1
    SkyBlueClouds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭


    Most of us drive through everyday on autopilot - work, bills, food, finding an other half, lovemaking, buying a house, going to college, more work, kids, old age - inevitable death.

    We often worry about the future in this lifetime, and regret over events passed, yet struggle more with the following period when we no longer inhabit this earth. Most of the time in the 80-100 years most of us can expect to stay alive seems to be measured by specific milestones that we expect to achieve - or indeed what society expects us to achieve

    Sometimes 'living for the sake of living' goes out the window. This can be hard to contemplate. If this life we have now is so intangible and complex, what could possibly lie ahead in the next one, if anything at all?

    Do you have a faith (religious, spiritual or otherwise) which provides you with hope and comfort for the next life ahead? God (in whatever form you imagine your deity to be), spirits and the loved ones we hope are in the next chapter of our lives give many of us reason not to fear the next life - however, the actual form of death itself scares the bejeebies out of me. I think it's the not knowing HOW you are going to die and the process of your body switching off. Will the soul leave, is there really a bright light etc.

    What are your thoughts on entering the next life? Do you fear death?

    Do you fear death? 92 votes

    Yes, I fear death
    0% 0 votes
    No, I don't fear death
    38% 35 votes
    I have mixed feelings on dying.
    61% 57 votes


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Comments

  • #2
    ToddyDoody
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,419 ✭✭✭ToddyDoody


    Which forum will this thread be moved to?


  • #3
    Corvo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,811 ✭✭✭Corvo


    Not in the slightest. Not because I believe in an afterlife and not because I'm some hard man, I just don't. You can't be beat the clock and no-one should be afraid of what they can't overcome. You just accept it and kind of forget about it. I mean what's to be afraid of? You die suddenly, you're gone. You don't die suddenly, you go eventually.

    Way I see it, I won't be the first to go and won't be the last. Might as well just enjoy what I can when I can. The rest of the world can do what it likes!


  • #4
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxcwkJbC558


  • #5
    SkyBlueClouds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭SkyBlueClouds


    Corvo wrote: »
    Not in the slightest. Not because I believe in an afterlife and not because I'm some hard man, I just don't. You can't be beat the clock and no-one should be afraid of what they can't overcome. You just accept it and kind of forget about it. I mean what's to be afraid of? You die suddenly, you're gone. You don't die suddenly, you go eventually.

    Way I see it, I won't be the first to go and won't be the last. Might as well just enjoy what I can when I can. The rest of the world can do what it likes!

    Yeah I think that's a comforting way to look on it - it's one inevitable fate that we all will face....that and taxes. ;)


  • #6
    csallmighty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 650 ✭✭✭csallmighty


    Be grand


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  • #7
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    I don't fear the after death bit, not too keen on the transition though.


  • #8
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,499 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Like you said I think it's because we don't know when or how that scares people. You could be dead and buried by this time next week.


  • #9
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,484 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    Which forum will this thread be moved to?

    Sheep Forum ftw :eek:


  • #10
    Macavity.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,745 ✭✭✭Macavity.


    I don't fear death in the slightest, only the possible pain process involved in dying.


  • #11
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    Which forum will this thread be moved to?

    Never mind where it get moves to , im looking forward to the excuse that a mod uses to close it and then for it to reincarnate itself.


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  • #12
    SkyBlueClouds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭SkyBlueClouds


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Like you said I think it's because we don't know when or how that scares people. You could be dead and buried by this time next week.

    Indeed. It's that fact that I *could* be hit by a falling comet when waiting for the bus tomorrow, or indeed suddenly by struck by a heart attack/blood clot etc etc... We place so much on the here and now can forget all could be lost in a matter of minutes :o


  • #13
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Im going to live forever, im going to learn how to fly.


  • #14
    Arsemageddon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,129 ✭✭✭Arsemageddon


    ToddyDoody wrote: »
    Which forum will this thread be moved to?

    Here maybe.....

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=609


  • #15
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMYSWiPm7E0


  • #16
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    I have a rendezvous with death, at some disputed barricade.

    It may be he should take my hand, and lead me into his dark land.
    And close my eyes and quench my breath.

    I have a rendezvous with death.
    And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.


  • #17
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    In general I'd say no, as in, I don't really think about or worry about it at all day to day. But, I have in my short but colourful life found myself in a couple of situations where it was more likely I was going to die, than going to live, and to be honest I was absolutely terrified every time.

    So, yes and no I guess.


  • #18
    eviltwin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    I don't fear dying because I don't believe in an afterlife. I do fear going before I'm ready and leaving my loved ones behind.


  • #19
    SkyBlueClouds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭SkyBlueClouds


    strobe wrote: »
    In general I'd say no, as in, I don't really think about or worry about it at all day to day. But, I have in my short but colourful life found myself in a couple of situations where it was more likely I was going to die, than going to live, and to be honest I was absolutely terrified every time.

    So, yes and no I guess.

    Was the terror at the unknown do you think, or a combination of that and leaving loved ones/possibilities etc behind?


  • #20
    SkyBlueClouds
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 271 ✭✭SkyBlueClouds


    eviltwin wrote: »
    I do fear going before I'm ready and leaving my loved ones behind.

    I fear dying before my parents. No parent should have to bury a son/daughter. :(


  • #21
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    SkyBlueClouds wrote: »
    I fear dying before my parents. No parent should have to bury a son/daughter. :(

    Don't be living in fear at all, it will wreck your head.


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  • #22
    Sonderkommando
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 183 ✭✭Sonderkommando


    I love life and would like to live as long as possible but, if I ended up severely ill in constant pain or became a quadriplegic and my every need dependent on others, I would welcome death happily.

    As for an afterlife I don't think there is one, but I hope to be proved wrong!


  • #23
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    SkyBlueClouds wrote: »
    Was the terror at the unknown do you think, or a combination of that and leaving loved ones/possibilities etc behind?

    Neither I think. Think it was mainly just instinctual tbh, my brain pulling all its tricks out of the bag to force me to supress doubts and other less immediately important fears in order to keep the genes protected kind of thing. Don't remember thinking any specific thoughts, although have had the 'life flashing before your eyes' stream of very vivid images of people I care about, so maybe something to the 'leaving loved ones thing' in a sub conscious sense.


  • #24
    Red Pepper
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,567 ✭✭✭Red Pepper


    SkyBlueClouds wrote: »
    I fear dying before my parents. No parent should have to bury a son/daughter. :(

    :confused: That's a little bit Chicken Licken no?

    I don't fear death once I know that I am making the best of this life. I am only 39 but I already have a bucket list.


  • #25
    Joe Doe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 557 ✭✭✭Joe Doe


    A Neurosurgeon, went there (non-voluntary), said's its grand, like.

    http://time.com/3449990/proof-of-heaven-author-science-is-being-forced-to-take-the-afterlife-seriously/

    Dr. Eben Alexander, a renowned academic neurosurgeon, wrote the bestselling Proof of Heaven (2012) after a transcendental Near-Death Experience (NDE), in which he was driven to the brink of death and spent a week deep in coma from an inexplicable brain infection. His follow-up, The Map of Heaven, publishes next week.

    Something to do wit all dat quantum multi-verse jazz.


  • #26
    masonchat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 673 ✭✭✭masonchat


    I dont believe in the afterlife so im not worried about that side of it , hope that im right as i will be going down below if im not : - )

    But i find the older i get the more nervous i get about how i will did and when you think about it there isnt really a nice way to go (in your sleep about the best) but sure is a lot of bad ways to go, i find myself getting quite anxious at times when i think of it

    And the tought of leaving loved ones behind , and not knowing how the world will eventually end REALLY bugs me


  • #27
    Candy_Girl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Candy_Girl


    I don't fear my own death but I do worry about anyone close to me dying. I try not to think about it....but thanks for the reminder :p


  • #28
    Putin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭Putin


    Sonderkommando wrote: »
    I love life and would like to live as long as possible but, if I ended up severely ill in constant pain or became a quadriplegic and my every need dependent on others, I would welcome death happily.

    As for an afterlife I don't think there is one, but I hope to be proved wrong!

    Sums up how I feel about it also.


  • #29
    allibastor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,520 ✭✭✭allibastor


    One things that worries me is that if there is nothing afterwards, All the things I know and have done will just be gone.

    It is mad when you think about it.


  • #30
    nelly17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭nelly17


    I dont actually fear death itself, but I do fear if I have made enough provision for dependents if I do die.

    I dont think there is any form of afterlife I think were just worm food and I'm ok with that.


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  • #31
    The_Valeyard
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,452 ✭✭✭✭The_Valeyard


    I believe in an afterlife, so Im pretty much fine with the whole death thing,

    Just want it to be when im old, grey, annoying and asleep in my bed.


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