These are two questions that have been on my mind for the past couple of days that I’m currently trying to answer and would like to hear your guy’s perspectives on.

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  2. How do you feel about the fact you didn’t exist 500 years ago. Does it bother you that you were not alive at that time?

    If it makes you feel any better genetic reincarnation for humans is mathematically possible over extraordinarily long time frames.

  3. Terrifies me but I know it’s an absolute so I just try not to think about it.

  4. It would only bother me if i wasn’t enjoying life. I have a simple life. Im a homebody, have a wonder family and a great job. Im comfortable and enjoy it all. So whenever i go, im probably going to be content. Is there ever a perfect way or time to die? Nah, but i accept it is going ro come either way

  6. At peace with it. Had four deployments between Afghanistan and Iraq in my younger days. Before each trip I made sure everything was in order and made a mental compact that I’d do what needed to be done and the rest was outta my hands. Once you’ve made your peace with that you compartmentalize the dying part away.

  8. It is what it is – we will all be there someday, so you mind as well live the life you have while you have it. I know as I have gotten older, I have focused less on me and building a life for myself, and more on helping my kids build the kind of life that they want to have.

  9. Death is an inevitability and there’s no sense in fearing it. I don’t believe in an afterlife, so for me it’s just a finish line. Nothing bad about erasure. But for people who believe in an afterlife, live well and enjoy your reward for it. I actually look forward to eventually not existing. I enjoy life now but in a thousand years? Ten thousand? A million? I don’t want that. Even if everything goes well for me that sounds like an exhausting experience, but all of the trauma I’m going to collect over those years and have to cope with for hundreds of thousands of years? Having an end is good. Life unending means we would develop past our limits and experiences as humans. Would we become wise and more intelligent over time, sure, but anger issues, depression, anxieties, and trauma would too. When you live forever, why do today what you can do tomorrow? You’re in no rush to change anything. A lot of our best qualities as humans come from our awareness of our lifespan.

    Our lives only have meaning at the moment of death when someone else can look back and see the full picture. The impact of hitler’s life was very different when he was an aspiring art student compared to the impact of his life as one of the most infamous men in the world before his suicide.

    On the opposite side there was once a man who would train children to be child soldiers. He would make them run into battle naked, saying that it would protect them from the bullets. He practiced this himself and ran butt naked into battle along side them. Joshua Milton Blahyi, general butt naked, was a horrific war lord and an awful person. No question about it. But he’s still alive today. He had a religious experience and turned his life around. He’s currently doing a lot of good for the world. He’s 50 years old and hopefully had a few more decades of doing good. Who you are in the moment may not be someone you’re proud of. So become someone you’re proud of before you run out of time.

  10. As a Christian, I do not fear death. I do not invite it though either because my life is a gift.

  11. Almost died more than once already. Learned to accept it and find beauty in it. There are really only 3 options when it happens, nothingness, afterlife, or reincarnation. Nothingness means I won’t exist to experience it or care. afterlife means I’ll be too busy kicking it with other dead people to care and maybe preping the joint for people not there yet. reincarnation generally has the whole not remembering past lives so I won’t be able to care. Basically enjoy what you have and when its done you won’t care what you had anymore one way or another.

  12. I am dust and I will return to dust. By the sweat of my face I will work the ground, and I will eat bread until I return to the ground.

    Life is pain. Might as well enjoy it right?

  14. Jim Morrison said it best. Get your kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames.

    Or from the movie Highlander. It’s better to burn out than to fade away.

    You can’t avoid the golden BB

  16. Death is just a thing to me. I nearly died 3 times before I was even 13, so I’m used to it. Hell, I remember waking up in the hospital the 3rd time and thinking “Oh I didn’t die this time either.”.

    Don’t get me wrong, I’m *far* from suicidal. It’s more that I just don’t fear death at all. I’ll fight to live, sure, but when the writing is on the wall and there’s no way out, I’m just gonna let death wash over me.

  17. Death is a part of it. You can’t really do anything about it. So I just try to prepare for it financially. Whether or not I can come to grips with it doesn’t change anything. Accept that and it gets easier to reconcile.

  18. Give er hell until you can’t give it anymore. Not ready to go but if I do I had a pretty good run

  21. >view on death

    It’s horrible and it’s coming and there is no stopping it. It also may be much closer than I think. We have no idea what happens after, but likely nothing. I try not to think about it.

    >reconcile

    I haven’t, and it doesn’t matter if I do or don’t. I’ll die either way.

  23. Death happens. Don’t care that one day I won’t be alive anymore cause being alive is pretty meh.

  25. Death is inevitable. It could happen in 100 years or while you’re reading this comment. It doesn’t matter because we won’t be here to worry about it. We should only worry about those we leave behind. That they are taken are of and not put into undue stress dealing with the technicalities.

  26. Not afraid of it, and I have been up close and personal with it. I am, however, afraid of being trapped in a broken body and unable to do much of anything. Express checkout for me, please.

  27. Life – no one gets out alive.
    Doesn’t really matter how you’ll die, as long as when you do you know you’ve had good friends, experienced love and told the appropriate people to go f*ck themselves when it’s been necessary, you can die happy.

  28. My view: it’s a change, not the end. I am totally fine with not being here. I’m not suicidal, just not scared of death. I’m more concerned about dying a horrible death, though.

  30. Eh.

    I’ve had enough weird shit happen that I don’t think this is all there is. I mean, a fuckin fish showed me it’s life story though it’s eyes as it died. I spoke with my dad at length while fully awake after his death.

    I don’t think we live in some cloudy place singing endless praise to God or whatever, but I don’t think our purpose ends at death.

    Will we remember shit, reincarnate, or disassociate into components, I dunno.

    No point constantly dwelling in fear though. You just become miserable that way. Live while you can. And if the nihilists are right, so what?

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