No.31339
I'm so afraid to die, I love living, and I never want to stop. I love being kind and helpful to others, I love being around people, I never want that to ever end. How do I deal with this? I just can't stand the thought of being in non existence.
Also if you've had any near death experiences, I'd love you to share them.
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No.31340
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I know I wouldn't be able to feel anymore, but death, and non-existence sound really comfy right now. It's like the ultimate goal for laziness extremists like me.
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No.31351
Death is kind in a way. Your giving nutrients, and energy back to the earth so it can be used to propagate new life.
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No.31355
I think it's best to accept it.
You're not put on this earth to live forever so I think there's at least some reasoning behind that.
You're body is so fragile that you have to live on a whim and act on thought, doing whatever you can to help others.
You have to work with this one life and you have to put all you can into it.
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No.31356
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No.31357
Death is perhaps the most freeing aspect of ones life. Once you realise that whatever you do, you will still die, many of the pressures of life just fade away. There are many expectations forced upon so many people, yet regardless of your what you set out to achieve in life the end will be the same; regardless of what you choose to do you will achieve the same result as everyone else ever has and ever will. Some might choose to interpret this as a reason to be sad and depressed, but I think it is actually a liberating concept as there is no real way to "fail" at life. Knowing this, life is actually pretty relaxing and enjoyable.
As for actually dying, well, I haven't always existed, so there is no reason to fear not existing again.
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No.31360
Death is opposed to life, and you want to live. If you chose not to care about it you would be dead. Fear is the only thing keeping you alive. There is no way out of the conflict except for the way you fear the most.
Maybe you want to fear death, maybe your fear makes life better, maybe it is what makes you good person, maybe fear is what makes us get up in the floor, and say hey! these floors are dirty as hell and I am not going to take it anymore.
Though I hate life, I really do. It seems the moments I am happy are the ones were I am not thinking about anything, and not even really experiencing the moment right now, joy is fleeting I see now. Those moments of comfort, of silence that are ruined by my impatient, those are beautiful.
The Buddhist have a way of explaining meditations depth with a set of levels. What is interesting is that these levels known as jhanas, are not mystical states of altered perception, they are states of which one by one all perceptions are shut off, but are not sleep. This is the height of meditation, and it shows why death is good, death is liberation, although it is not really a means to that end, by design.
So bottom line, there is nothing wrong with either way of thinking, but when you are dying, you can know the truth. Death is just another thing, and so are the things you care about. Fear as long as you want to, it is your chose. You don't have to fear, your fear is a choice. Not a wrong choice, but one that you can always change when you are ready.
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No.31400
>>31360
That helped, thanks friend.
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No.31412
>>31339
You die here but you don't really disappear. God doesn't truly extinguish life, you'll still be alive in a sense. And even if you aren't religious, you can think of it as energy never simply vanishing. That's common knowledge, isn't it?
Sometimes I get scared of death, too. I think it's natural to fear it, at least sometimes.
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No.31413
>>31412
Energy has nothing to do with your being except for how it uses that force to function.
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No.31419
>>31339
I've had some bad experiences with water because I'm the Floridian that never learned how to swim. The worst one was when I was a teen though. A person I knew at a party dragged me into the deep end of the pool against my will, knowing I couldn't swim. Basically I ended up, I want to think what felt close to a minute with oxygen. My mind ended up going almost empty except for survival instinct.
For the next two days I had the worst migraine of my life, and had a very difficult time forming chains of thought.
I wasn't immediately angry or upset, because I was mostly emptyheaded afterwards. Some few weeks later my girlfriend told me that person had been going around telling people I tried to drown them (because while I was drowning I grabbed on to their legs and arms and whatever else I could grab because I was a dead weight on my own).
I'm not sure how close this counts to 'near-death', but it's definitely the closest I've experienced.
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No.31422
>>31339
LSD.
I'm serious now, It's legal in some forms in the USA, Canada, UK and EU. It helped me get over serve fear of death that was haunting me daily. I thought it was a weird idea at first but it turns out that it's actually used by doctors in some cases with terminal patients who have extreme fear of death. If you are in North America google Lysergi, which is where I bought from, and purchase 1P-LSD, which is the closest to normal LSD that is currently Legal. On mobile or I would link to studies, but even the BBC did a show about it recently, so google and you'll find tons of evidence to support what I've said.
It really helped me fix my depression and fear other death and I hope I can pass that on to someone else.
Cheers.
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No.31424
You can't die if you have never actually lived.
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No.31425
>>31422
LSD was actually used quite extensively to treat mental and emotional issues in people. From what I recall, despite people being successfully treated with LSD, it was deemed illegal and all human research was halted, although I assume it was a play by pharma megacorps to enforce their never ending prescriptions rather than allow a cure to become widespread.
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No.31427
>>31424
Living is boring, I just want to sit around all day watching anime, and scifi, and eating.
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No.31466
I wish I was more scared to die. Only ever happens when I get anxious or whatever and feels like I'm gonna die and that feeds on itself. Can life just not give me a break and let me either not care all the time or not be a complete vacant fuck-up?
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No.31593
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No.31608
>>31422
>LSD.
>I'm serious now, It's legal in some forms in the USA, Canada, UK and EU. It helped me get over serve fear of death that was haunting me daily.
Was taking it a traumatic experience at all?
Did you have to actively work at dealing with your fear while under the influence of the chemical, or did it just gradually make you realize that you weren't afraid?
I'm not considering taking it, but I just find this topic to be really interesting!
>>31466
>Can life just not give me a break and let me either not care all the time or not be a complete vacant fuck-up?
I hope you can find your break, friend!
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No.31797
>>31339
Death is something we can't control. You can always be an organ donor or something such as that, so when you die, it won't be totally so bad.
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No.31817
>>31339
I'm very afraid of death as well, but aside from the basic fear of not existing, I don't think it's because i'm in love with life and other people and such, really. I just wish I could see the future, I hate the idea of dying without even knowing what the hell all of this is, how it came to be, where is it going, what will humanity be doing 10000 years from now.
I just don't want to leave the theater before the movie is over, and I know I will, and it kills me.
I think the recurring fantasy about "the end of the world" we see come up every few years (be it rooted in religion or something else) has something to do with this. At some level we hate the idea of the world just going on without us, the idea of people doing, seeing and understanding things we can't even fathom, so even if it's shameful it feels better to just believe the world will end soon anyway. But it won't. Humanity will continue to change, to struggle, to discover, to expand, to learn… and we will not be there.
I guess all we can do is to try and have a life that is meaningful enough so when we are old we can look behind us and see a whole story, even if smaller, even if less consequestial, that we can be content with, that we can be satisfied with. A life that even if only a small part of a greater arc, is still complete.
[spoiler[I'm not doing great at it so far though[/spoiler]
Cheers.
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No.31820
>>31339
I was afraid to die, then I grew up and was afraid to live. This may not work for you, but honestly finding God helped me realize that nothing is really worth being afraid of.
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No.31974
OP here.
Something spooky happend to me last night, i was sleeping, was having a dream of being on the verge of death in the hospital. I was control of my breath, and i knew i was going to die. As my senses slowy started to fade away. I woke up. Really light headed, out of breath (I don't know anyways else to describe it.). It was fucking spooky, this had never happend to me before. Know this sounds strange, but maybe it was a sign from God or something.
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No.31975
>>31974
Oh, so this is what happens when we die. We wake up as someone else. Good to know. Thank you anon.
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No.31976
Also
*Lost control of my breath
Sorry about that.
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No.34295
>>31339
A lot of people think that being dead is just like being unconscious, but nobody really knows.
You were non-living before but now you are alive, and again, you will return to a non living state. Who's to say there's nothing next?
I've accepted that you will probably lose all of the aspects of yourself that are defined by your physical brain: personality, emotions, memories, etc.
But there must be something else that we haven't been able to discover or define very well. There's so much about life and death that we don't know yet.
>Why have you been nonliving for so many years until the date of your birth?
>What caused you do inhabit your body anyway? Why weren't you born as a hedgehog or amoeba instead?
>What is so special about your human brain that it is able to house a life/soul/whatever?
We have very little to go off of to answer these questions. I have hope that we might be able to in the future with the pace that technology and communication are progressing.
Just imagine all the things we could have barely conceived of 500 years ago: radio waves, solar energy, genetic modification, space exploration, chemical engineering, etc. Just imagine what we will discover in our lifetimes.
I have hope that someday we will be able to develop tools or discover something that sheds some light on the concept of life, death, and the afterlife.
Bottom line, we have no idea. So in the meantime, try to enjoy life and help each other out. If we can work with one another, we can probably answer some of these questions and achieve other great things.
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No.34296
>>34295
Knowing what comes after death will ruin whatever joy there is that can be derived from living.
It will make folks focus on the after as opposed to the now. Yearning/dreading the heaven/society/world/hell of a parallel dimension is a waste of time ascend energy. I think we should be working on simply continually improving our own existence and the existence of those around us.
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No.34298
Well my whole life is a near death experience…
I know I have a deathly disease but I can´t tell anyone because I´m not capable to pay for treatment…
Basically I live everyday knowing that my body can fail and shut down in an instant…
I´m 21 still go to college and could die any second…
I´ve come to accept it like it is nothing…
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No.34299
I don't plan on dying. Aging will be cured in my life time, so it's all good.
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No.34302
I have mild hydrophobia that I generally keep hidden just to keep life a little simpler, and once one of my friends pushed my into his pool. I don't think he meant to push me in, just shoulder past me like an asshole on the subway, but I wasn't paying attention, so it launched me over the edge. He had one of those endless swimming pool things as well, which complicated matters.
If you aren't familiar, it works like a treadmill for a pool. A device sits at one end of the pool and pushes water past you, that you can swim into.
I have no idea how long I was underwater, or how I got out. I remember tumbling around in the artificial riptide for a minute, then I "woke up" on the lawn. I imagine that at some point my lizard brain kicked on, ejected my conscious brain, and doggypaddled my ass out of the pool, but the only thing I really remember is how fucking painful drowning was.
>>34298
May I ask what you have?
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No.34304
Death is fine. I'm more bothered by the idea of aging.
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No.34352
The concept of dying never bothered me. Some people describe a specific moment where they realized their mortality, but for me it was something I always knew and was content with. I find it bizarre that I haven't killed myself yet. If you knew me, you would have never expected me to live this long. That's probably due to me having poor access to any suitable means of doing so. As of now, I am passive on the issue. I wouldn't care if I die, but I don't actively seek to do so either. I probably will someday, but for now I'm focusing on my goals. Even if I die before reaching them, it wouldn't matter, since I'll be dead. I don't have a real connection to this world. I don't like myself nor anyone else on it. I don't even like the world itself. I don't like my own mind, body, and soul. I see filth and imperfection everywhere, and I know that besides this transient pleasure, there isn't any purpose to living.
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