Do you ever think of death

[Mels_Smileys45]

Death seems strange to me. I can't imagine the world going on without me.

[mountain_rage]

If I could live forever, without essentially becoming a pile of skin with half a brain I most definitely would. I've always been somewhat of a procrastinator, take my time on allot of tasks and as such it seems like life is far too short. So death to me is an inevitability which I would like to overcome. Although maybe thats just the fact that I haven't had a real holiday in like 6 years.

[DrewWilson]

I thought about death and realized that I have a deadline for all the shit I wanted to do beforehand.

[Theinfamousone]

I know what you're talking about how weird it is that the world would just go on without you. The best way to not fear death is to understand it be prepared for it. I am not so worried about death as just getting old though. I have spent some time in retirement and nursing homes and frankly that has got to be worse than death. I guess there is something God wants us to learn when we are so feeble and helpless and repulsively ugly looking living those boring last couple of decades.

[topino]

Death is a part of our live just as breathing. Na dont think about death, we all have a destiny made out. I´ve got a list of things to do before leaving earth, that reminds me to remind you guys/gals to see "The Bucket List" with two cool actors, "Jack N. and Morgan F."

[mfgbypooter]

When I die I want to be cremated, made into a douche, and run through one last time.

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[shawners]

Only when i think of my bosses.

[Feather]

constantly.

[RACKnRAIL]

Every time I ride my bike in heavy traffic I think about killing someone.

[carpefile]

Death is inevitable, its a waste of time to ponder it.
What's important is to make sure life matters.

What I always find curious is that those with strong religious beliefs worry about death so much (as Feather's reply of "Constantly").
It seems to me that deeply religious people wouldn't worry about death at all, as death would finally unite them with their creator in Paradise.
Unless of course they are worried that perhaps they won't measure up to the standards of their God and not make it there.

[RACKnRAIL]

Death is inevitable, its a waste of time to ponder it.

You're right about its inevitability, but I disagree that it's a waste of time to ponder over it. It is, after all, the greatest mystery we all face. I would agree that dwelling on the inevitable is a waste of time, but to ponder, question, or simply wonder about something as mysterious as death is a fascinating subject.

Since no one has ever come back to tell us about it, we have nothing to go on, except our own vivid imaginations.

I am an atheist, so I'm leaning towards ashes to ashes, dust to dust...and nothing. The end.:icon_salu I guess there's only one way to find out.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Every time I watch Family Guy.

[mountain_rage]

Every time I ride my bike in heavy traffic I think about killing someone.

I've always thought a great product would be a sticker that cyclists could slap on an ass wipe's car. Make it one of those hard to remove, paint damaging stickers. To those who say thats overboard you can suck it, if someone wants to risk a cyclists life just so they can get to their destination 10 seconds faster they deserve to get their paint job damaged.

[Feather]

Death is inevitable, its a waste of time to ponder it.
What's important is to make sure life matters.

What I always find curious is that those with strong religious beliefs worry about death so much (as Feather's reply of "Constantly").
It seems to me that deeply religious people wouldn't worry about death at all, as death would finally unite them with their creator in Paradise.
Unless of course they are worried that perhaps they won't measure up to the standards of their God and not make it there.

over thinking my answer.
Just like a man thinks about sex every 7 seconds. You think about everything constantly all day. whether you realize it or not. My reply had nothing to do with religious context.

[Mashed Mellow]

originaly posted by racknrail
Since no one has ever come back to tell us about it, we have nothing to go on, except our own vivid imaginations.

I am an atheist, so I'm leaning towards ashes to ashes, dust to dust...and nothing. The end. I guess there's only one way to find out.

I agree!
Once your done that's it, six feet under!!

[shawners]

You're right about its inevitability, but I disagree that it's a waste of time to ponder over it. It is, after all, the greatest mystery we all face. I would agree that dwelling on the inevitable is a waste of time, but to ponder, question, or simply wonder about something as mysterious as death is a fascinating subject.

Since no one has ever come back to tell us about it, we have nothing to go on, except our own vivid imaginations.

I am an atheist, so I'm leaning towards ashes to ashes, dust to dust...and nothing. The end.:icon_salu I guess there's only one way to find out.

Would you want to come back?? You be a vegetable with no brain activity due to no air in the blood. People have came back within the 2-3 minute mark and told of something other thats out there.
http://www.near-death.com/evidence.html

[Mels_Smileys45]

I was going to test my own theories later tonight but I think I will wait awhile and see what happens. Besides...there are a few movies coming out I would like to see next month.

[pubes]

People have came back within the 2-3 minute mark and told of something other thats out there.
http://www.near-death.com/evidence.html


watch the movie flatliners. kevin bacon knows whats out there.

[cheapprick]

Just like a man thinks about sex every 7 seconds.

That has been shown to be an outright fabrication.

You aren't a closet-lesbian are you?

[Feather]

That has been shown to be an outright fabrication.

You aren't a closet-lesbian are you?

so I guess i am the only one then

[moon light]

death is a cup every one will Taste it..i mean all of us will die

[pubes]

when i die i want 72 virgins and if i can't have that i'll have 2 fried chickens and a coke.

[mountain_rage]

Why not have 72 virgins now, while you're alive???

[carpefile]

Why not have 72 virgins now, while you're alive???
For real. Sex is intended first and foremost for procreation.
Logically speaking, in the afterlife there would be no need to procreate.
No knookie in heaven.

[wapazoid]

I've always thought a great product would be a sticker that cyclists could slap on an ass wipe's car. Make it one of those hard to remove, paint damaging stickers. To those who say thats overboard you can suck it, if someone wants to risk a cyclists life just so they can get to their destination 10 seconds faster they deserve to get their paint job damaged.

Are you talking about bicycles? Around here, bikers are usually the one's zig zagging through traffic at 90 mph.

[w31n3r]

so I guess i am the only one then

i guess you are...most guys i know are like me, thinking about sex every 3 seconds. 7 seconds is way too long. you need to get your priorities right :icon_thum

Are you talking about bicycles? Around here, bikers are usually the one's zig zagging through traffic at 90 mph.

i stopped driving my car to work due to the rising gas prices and got myself a bike instead (50km to the liter, can't beat that shit). ever since i started, i have on average 2 near death experiences a day, and i'm a good driver! you will not believe how many f*%king morons there are on the road till you've driven a bike to work during rush hour. get on a bike and try it out yourself. i guarantee you will end up breaking someones nose (provided they don't kill you first of course).

[mfgbypooter]

Wow. I hardly ever think about sex.

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[wapazoid]

... ever since i started, i have on average 2 near death experiences a day, and i'm a good driver!

Maybe it's time you got back into a car.

Try it? No thanks.

[ctarlet]

Every time I watch Family Guy.

Hmm...I like family guy- You my friend suck.

I think not so much about death as what is going to cause my death. I am a little obsessed about Cancer and I am constantly checking for lumps and shit like that. It runs pretty strong in my family and I smoke. Go figure. At the same time, I have this nagging feeling that now that my life is finally going right, this will be when something is going to happen. :devil2

[wapazoid]

It runs pretty strong in my family and I smoke. Go figure. At the same time, I have this nagging feeling that now that my life is finally going right, this will be when something is going to happen. :devil2

This crosses my mind from time to time. Both of my grandparents on my mother's side were hit with it. She survived breast cancer, but he died of lung cancer (heavy smoker for decades).

[mountain_rage]

Are you talking about bicycles? Around here, bikers are usually the one's zig zagging through traffic at 90 mph.

Some do, mostly the bike messengers. The cyclists that do drive like ass hats are just as bad is the dangerous motorists. Personally I drive within 1 meter of the curb lane, or the lane beside a right turn lane. The only time I deviate from that is when I'm turning left, which I then occupy the middle of the leftest lane, that way traffic going straight won't hit me and I'm also visible to oncoming traffic. Unless the road has enough room to accommodate a bike and car side by side I never pass a car at stops. You do increase your safety allot by following these rules but there are still a shit load of fuck nut drivers.

Let me put it this way, how many times do people cut you off, almost hit you while talking on their phone, speed by you in the parking lane, etc when you're driving? Now think about being on a bike and having those same fuck nuts driving beside you, its fucking ridiculous. The only people who drive in the parking lane are the ass hat, shit for brains, idiot drivers who can't manage their god damn time, so they drive like fuck nuts on the road to get from point a to b by whatever means possible, while putting on their makeup, talking on their phone and eating breakfast. Those are the ass hats cyclist need to put up with, and all we have is a 1 inch thick piece of Styrofoam to protect us. This is why I think extreme measures are warranted, but only in those cases.

Edit: Just realized you were talking about motorcycle bikers, most around here drive well. But I guess thats a separate issue.

[El Comandante]

i stopped driving my car to work due to the rising gas prices and got myself a bike instead (50km to the liter, can't beat that shit). ever since i started, i have on average 2 near death experiences a day, and i'm a good driver! you will not believe how many f*%king morons there are on the road till you've driven a bike to work during rush hour. get on a bike and try it out yourself. i guarantee you will end up breaking someones nose (provided they don't kill you first of course).

I used to have a performance bike when I was younger.... and I drove like an asshole ... till one day I hit a piece of road debris while taking an expressway curve at about 110 MPH... lets just say that the bike flew off an overpass and into a house below. I managed to stay on the overpass and I woke up in the hospital.... fractured ankle and contusions everywhere.... after a DL license suspension, 20K in property damage and terrible scare.... I never touched a bike again. ** R & R must be frowning **

It's not the bike, its the person. Most long time bikers are very responsible and are very aware of their surroundings. They have to be if they want to live b/c people on the road will run your ass down without flinching. What would normally be a fender bender in a car will kill you on a bike. I would never ride a bike in rush hour to save on gas money.... not if I could avoid it..

[mountain_rage]

I used to have a performance bike when I was younger.... and I drove like an asshole ... till one day I hit a piece of road debris while taking an expressway curve at about 110 MPH... lets just say that the bike flew off an overpass and into a house below. I managed to stay on the overpass and I woke up in the hospital.... fractured ankle and contusions everywhere.... after a DL license suspension, 20K in property damage and terrible scare.... I never touched a bike again. ** R & R must be frowning **

It's not the bike, its the person. Most long time bikers are very responsible and are very aware of their surroundings. They have to be if they want to live b/c people on the road will run your ass down without flinching. What would normally be a fender bender in a car will kill you on a bike. I would never ride a bike in rush hour to save on gas money.... not if I could avoid it..

There are quite a few studies lately linking the increase in safety features, as well as blocking the noise outside someones car to bad driving. Basically the safer the vehicle feels to an individual, the more likely they are to drive like an idiot. The lack of sound on the other hand, makes people feel like they are not part of the scene outside and has the affect of making people forget about the risk to others. So there is actually allot of credibility to the fact that bikers are good drivers. Its also interesting that car companies might start to make cars purposefully feel unsafe in order to promote safer driving, as well as possibly lower the amount of sound proofing. There is that or the possibility of using other psychological triggers to compensate for the effects.

[wapazoid]

Let me put it this way, how many times do people cut you off, almost hit you while talking on their phone, speed by you in the parking lane, etc when you're driving? Now think about being on a bike and having those same fuck nuts driving beside you, its fucking ridiculous.

This is the prime reason why you couldn't pay me to get on a bike. I've seen too many close calls on I5 in San Diego county. For a biker, one false move in heavy traffic and you're a dead man. Not to defend irresponsible motorists (they have no excuse), but it's harder to spot a bike within the range of a blind spot. I've come close to cutting off a few cyclists, and I'm a very safe driver. No accidents, no tickets in 16 years. And I never answer a cell while on the road. Fuck I hate seeing drivers talking on the phone. I once spotted an asshole reading a paper during a morning commute. Driving isn't a right, it's a priveledge.

[wapazoid]

So there is actually allot of credibility to the fact that bikers are good drivers.

But, but... you haven't seen the mid-life crisis yuppies in La Jolla on their new $80,000 custom hog. Or the acne scarred meth freaks in Riverside on a kawasaki with no muffler at 3:00am.

[mountain_rage]

But, but... you haven't seen the mid-life crisis yuppies in La Jolla on their new $80,000 custom hog. Or the acne scarred meth freaks in Riverside on a kawasaki with no muffler at 3:00am.

Those are the exceptions not the rule, I imagine statistically they show up at outliers.

[wapazoid]

Will you design a holodeck for me?

[Mels_Smileys45]

I suggest everyone buy lots of ammo and guns because you may need em to protect your shit once the riots break out in a few weeks. The sweet ride has been nice but its over. Im gonna miss you guys when we can't afford the internets anymore.

[Atheist Icon]

If you think about death, your never going to do the things you want.

The only thing about death that would suck, is that if I die before my daughter does more with her life than I did with mine.

[mountain_rage]

Will you design a holodeck for me?

Don't know that I can make you a holodeck, I would somehow have to reverser e = mc^2 on the fly, and produce enough energy to create and destroy the matter on the spot. Then again I might be able to get away with simply developing some kind of solid energy field with the ability to project an image on that surface. Or even better yet a solid energy field that emits electromanetic radiation. Don't think I have those skills. How about a force feed back virtual reality suit, we actually have the technology to create that now, it would almost be the same thing.

[Mels_Smileys45]

Don't know that I can make you a holodeck, I would somehow have to reverser e = mc^2 on the fly, and produce enough energy to create and destroy the matter on the spot. Then again I might be able to get away with simply developing some kind of solid energy field with the ability to project an image on that surface. Or even better yet a solid energy field that emits electromanetic radiation. Don't think I have those skills. How about a force feed back virtual reality suit, we actually have the technology to create that now, it would almost be the same thing.


Dood! Youre going about it the wrong way! The whole holodick thingie is so outdated already. Its all mind control. You can slow down time and live a million years inside your head. Invent that masheen, it may be hard but its sure a lot easier than all that fancy stuff you were talking 'bout...or would yor suit incorporate this tech?

[wapazoid]

\How about a force feed back virtual reality suit, we actually have the technology to create that now, it would almost be the same thing.

If the suit comes with a built in fleshlight, I'm game.

[Mels_Smileys45]

If the suit comes with a built in fleshlight, I'm game.

That Fleshlight comes installed at the factory sir.

[mfgbypooter]

Sounds like something is going to come in that suit.

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[mountain_rage]

Hmmm, maybe you better hold off on using my flesh light suit, mid terms are coming up and I think my grade will be written in as "RETARD".

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2176, clever might be able to build this design into fashion clothing rendering all celebs your slave under magnetic fields.

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Hmm...I like family guy- You my friend suck.

I think not so much about death as what is going to cause my death. I am a little obsessed about Cancer and I am constantly checking for lumps and shit like that. It runs pretty strong in my family and I smoke. Go figure. At the same time, I have this nagging feeling that now that my life is finally going right, this will be when something is going to happen. :devil2


For those that get it, I was talking about the Norm MacDonald/Adam Carolla character.

You may now suck.

[sister_sue48]

Well as being someone that had 2 near death experiences yes I think of death alot.

[Excrement_Cranium]

Death runs in my family. All my grandparents have suffered from death.

I think I may have a mild case of it - it will take a while to go from E.O.L to full blown death, so I'll enjoy the ride.


Oh, and I don't expect a cherry lifesaver after death.

[patrbate]

Someone back there said death is inevitable, I have to disagree. No-one knows that for sure. It's conceivably possible that sometime in the future there might be such technology that could resurrect life from the remaining organic matter of ours. I don't know why anyone would do that though, but in that case death would be just a bit longer sleep.

[mountain_rage]

If the big bang/evolutionist crowd such as myself are right, then we are no more then a creation of biological, chemical and physical functions, created by selective chance and random mutation. If this is true, our thoughts and "soul" are solely contained within the brain. Then in theory, memories and thoughts are a quantitative process. As a quantitative process there is no reason that we could not live forever, or preserve ones personality as a analogue or digital data sheet. Combine that with DNA and you could arguably create an exact replica of yourself, with the same memories, thoughts and experiences. Bypassing death which is simply a massive system failure of the human body, due to years of wear and tear. This view of the human body can be, and has been compared to a humanoid robot. In the future we will definitely be able to create a robot with AI that mimics our brain in how we develop a personality. In fact the brain is being mimicked using computer to test psychological theories, so eventually that may even lead to a human replica of thought. Now if we had a humanoid robot and shut it off, we know for a fact that it would cease to exists since its just a body, programmed to function within our semi random predefined set of variable restricted by rules. So by that logic, we also cease to exist when we are shut off.

This idea does not completely clash with religion either as even with a creator we still follow predetermined functions created within our body. The only clash would be with the existence of a soul and whether or not the soul can survive outside the body.

[mfgbypooter]

Staying inside of religious thought, your soul could just be kept on a floppy by the creator, and reinserted into a new body at the end of this age (otherwise known as the resurrection of the dead).

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[mountain_rage]

Staying inside of religious thought, your soul could just be kept on a floppy by the creator, and reinserted into a new body at the end of this age (otherwise known as the resurrection of the dead).

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So is that why there are so many fuck nuts in the world that seem fundamentally flawed. Gods floppy disc had a corrupt file on it?

[mfgbypooter]

He'll just run defrag at the end and get rid of all the corrupt bits and bytes.

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[patrbate]

Something has always bothered me with the thought of a soul that lives inside us. It seems much too convenient that when basically all of us have this great fear of death, it just so happens that there's this immortal spirit as which we keep on living beyond our death, so no worries after all, phew.
Movies and other screenwriting have a term for such a too convenient coincidence and they are considered mistakes because they seem unbelievable to the audience. But when it comes to looking at our own lives, we seem to lack the of objectivity to spot those kinds of things.

[xnavyman]

There are only two sure things on this earth, death & taxes.

I think that death is overrated and you cannot come back once you go there.

[RACKnRAIL]

There are only two sure things on this earth, death & taxes.

I think that death is overrated and you cannot come back once you go there.

I think taxes are overrated.

No, you most certainly don't come back from the dead. Hence the quote, "dead men tell no tales".

[one92002]

i think about quite a lot

[xnavyman]

i think about quite a lot


I also think about it a lot. I am 62 now and I am raising two grandkids aged 11 & 8. I am trying to make sure that all my affairs are in order. I have some health issues which seem to slow me down some but not pull me up to a stop. I hope to be around for a few more years.
I have no fear of dying, just wish I didn't have to be there.