Do you think about death a lot?
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I do think about death sometimes, but I used to think about it much more when I was deeply depressed and suicidal. It's natural and we are all going to die someday. I don't know am I more afraid of living or dying... For example, I never could do extreme sports because of fear of death.
Not really, but after i experienced the loss of a close one i've started to obsess a little bit about it for a while... but i came to terms with the pain that comes when you lose someone important. As for my own death, well, no. that's probably because i'm young though.
I think about death all the time. It is in the air I breathe. It is not death itself that I think about most, but the effects and stages leading up to it, such as aging, decay, interpersonal loss.
I do but then what's a lot?
I read a lot of existentialist books and a lot of philosophy, of which it is a big enough part, at least of Epicurious, who I like and dont think deserved as much of a bad rap as Epictus and other stoics gave him.
I've also been a fan of Marxist and other varieties of humanism, broadly speaking optimistic humanists, for some time too and they deal with the topic too, at least as an unavoidable and inevitable limit to human experience.
There's good quotes from Game of Thrones, unsurprisingly since no one seems to die of natural causes in Westeros, like one of the Wildlings saying that everyone dies but not everyone lives, I cant remember the author now but I did read a book called Fear of Living once which suggested that a lot of the fear of dying was actually a shadow side of fears about the sort of life that was being lived, or not lived as the case may be, you know like a life well lived is long and felt to be so.
ive thought about death a lot in all different ways. especially in my early 20s when i was very depressed. at that time i saw death as being seductive. but then afterwards i just came to peace with it. i accept my existence as finite. i think this gives me comfort because i find existence in some ways exhausting but also it inspires me to try to find the strength to achieve things that i want to achieve, because time is always running out. the only thing that distresses me about death is that my mother wont live forever. its going to be really hard for me when she isnt around for me anymore. i think that having thought a lot about death means that i try to appreciate life as much as i can and to make the most of it, but it kind of makes it difficult too, because sometimes i get anxious that there just isnt enough time, and that thought can be a bit paralyzing at times.
Hahahahaha....
I am 'elderly'....and yes...I think about Death.
I find myself in a very strange place in my long life....for I am probably falling in love with a man who has been sent home to die of stage 4 cancer with projections of maybe one year left to live.
He came by to see me at work yesterday and we sat outside on the sidewalk like two teenagers and giggled and talked. [shrug] I can't help it.... he's a remarkable man. [sparkles]
I used to. A lot.
It was sometimes morbid, sometimes scary, sometimes pleading...always confused.
But, something changed. Now, I see this life as a part of a bigger whole so I am most concerned about death coming before I have reached my potential.
I also feel that this is unlikely unless I have given up on a deep level and so I am a little worried about that happening but quite confident that it won't, also.
Making bad decisions and subsequently leading a life the weaker and scardier parts of my being don't want to concerns me more now than death itself.
It was sometimes morbid, sometimes scary, sometimes pleading...always confused.
But, something changed. Now, I see this life as a part of a bigger whole so I am most concerned about death coming before I have reached my potential.
I also feel that this is unlikely unless I have given up on a deep level and so I am a little worried about that happening but quite confident that it won't, also.
Making bad decisions and subsequently leading a life the weaker and scardier parts of my being don't want to concerns me more now than death itself.
I cant like your post because it would seem like I like the fact your dog died. But I can say I am sorry. The death of pets hits hard. You gave that dog a good life. Be happy in that.
Yeah, I don't really think about it, but have been told when you get into 50s 60s, you think more about it (if I remember correctly, it was that or you do everything to NOT think about it).
I'm hoping that as long as I live my life true to myself, I won't think about, or dwell on death later.
I'm 44. My mother had a heart attack when she was 52 and suffered for many years with different ailments until she died at 60. I don't think of dying as much as I think of trying to get some living in before I die. I also try to take care of myself so I don't end up like my mom. She smoked, didn't eat properly, never exercised, which is all the opposite of what I do so I think I'm doing pretty well for that.
There have been some times in the last few years when I thought I would be perfectly fine if I died at that very moment but most of the time I think more that I want a chance to experience certain things and live fully before I die.
There have been some times in the last few years when I thought I would be perfectly fine if I died at that very moment but most of the time I think more that I want a chance to experience certain things and live fully before I die.
I think its late in life, possibly, very possibly, too late but its good to know, better late than never.