When someone around you or someone famous dies young does it make you rethink your own mortality?
When someone around you or someone famous dies young does it make you rethink your own mortality?
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More quickly think of that of those I care the most about.
No because I don't see the purpose of worrying about something that is unavoidable in our lifetime.
Mortality should only motivate us to solve the problem of mortality, which based on the other mortality thread there is a lot people in a death cult who don't think humans should become immortal.
I'm very aware of my mortality and very happy it exists. That there will eventually be an end is sometimes all that gets me through the day.
What have the years of your life taught you to be?
"When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up." - C.S. Lewis
My own? Not really no...
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Not because someone famous have died.
But having worked in forestry, i've seen some really fucked up injuries that makes me think twice when doing a lot of things.
as well how small things can have an huge impact.
So sometimes, but far from all the time.
Mortality doesn't bother me, I'm more bothered by quality of life issues that fall short of death and I support right to die. In a world that worries about climate change, if I ever come down with a degenerative mental or physical condition that would leave me in a vegetative state on life support (as and example), let me have the paperwork on file to avoid that. Consider it reducing my carbon footprint.
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With COVID-19 making its impact on our lives, I have decided that I shall hang in there for my remaining days, skip some meals, try to get children to experiment with making henna patterns on their skin, and plant some trees. You know -- live, fast, dye young, and leave a pretty copse. I feel like I may not have that quite right.
OP: Yep all the time.
To believe that takes more faith than anything else. It's a fact we don't know what happens, it is also a fact that as said matter and energy is NEVER destroyed only transformed.
I think the real fear is to whether we would be conscious or in any event what that means. Which honestly is probably why it's a good idea to treat ALL life fairly and with respect.
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Because you worry about their death? I've learned that toddlers are basically little suicide machines who do nothing all day except try to find ways to kill themselves.
Conscious in an afterlife? That is myth... The fact that information is never destroyed is weird though.
Human life is above non-humans though. As far as people you don't need religion to give people a reason to behave properly.Which honestly is probably why it's a good idea to treat ALL life fairly and with respect.
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When someone I know dies, I usually feel some sadness, remorse, for the people that knew them well.
When someone famous dies, unless I was somewhat of a fan, I couldn't care less and reflect not at all. However, when someone famous passes that I was a fan of, like Neil Peart who recently passed, I do reflect on their passing and feel sadness.
Usually don't reflect on my own mortality due to someone else dying, regardless of who they were.
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Well death is inevitable and unavoidable and being a conscious creature it`s only natural to ponder your own mortality at times,
though it`s probably not good for you to dwell on the matter for too long.
To die of old age or sickness may even be somewhat of a relief, as someone whom have had family members die of illness
they just grow weak to the point when there`s no real fight left in them.
At that point i think it`s more merciful to simply let them go rather than cling on to life at all costs.
Personally i`m not convinced of an afterlife but at the same time i have no idea what comes next,
the thought of non-existance is an odd one though.
Not really much to do about it though, when it happens it happens.
Just try to stay healthy for as long as possible.
I think of my body as a temporary dwelling even when no one has died.
" If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.." - Abraham Lincoln
“ The Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to - prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms..” - Samuel Adams
That's how I see it as well. Fear dying, not death. Death I feel is basically just dreamless sleeping forever. Or how Mark Twain put it:
“I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
So no, I don't really think about death, as I see that there's just not much to think about.
Rethink? No. I've thought about it every single day since I can remember thanks to suffering from depression since childhood. As a result, I am apathetic to death. I wouldn't care if I died tomorrow. I don't believe in an afterlife, so it would just be the end which doesn't bother me either.
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