Death

[Guest]

Cap Shrap made a comment in some other thread which I thought needed a poll.

Are you frightened of death/dying - or the thought of it?

[Rocket-Ron]

No

[Ilkeston_Fox]

It's going to happen one way or the other, so you might as well make the most of it and go out with a bang.

I've always said, "if I die tomorrow, have I enjoyed my life so far?" That's what I live by.

[Rincewind]

What happens happens. I won't know anything about it after so worrying about it before is pointless. It may mean I won't see City win the premiership FA cup double but it was a long shot anyway.

[ozleicester]

As long as someone i dont know starts a facebook page and i get a RIP topic on FT... i fear nothing

[Daggers]

Live your life scared of something inevitable sounds a bit daft to me.

[davieG]

Not death itself but how you might die can be a frightening thought.

[Daggers]

Doing lines off the tits of a supermodel while taking her twin sister from behind.

Petrifying.

[MikeyT]

Not death itself but how you might die can be a frightening thought.

Agree with this.

[pSinatra]

I just hope I go before the nappy wearing, dinner through a straw, Countdown watching stage.

[Bellend Sebastian]

My own death was never something that really concerned me, but I've got a fairly keen sense of self-preservation, in that I'm very risk averse. I don't think there's much wrong with that - I wouldn't want to be one of those people that have to base jump off an office block just to feel half alive, partly because they seem really boring most of the time.

The only things that have made me a bit more aware of my own mortality were the untimely death of a friend's brother a few years back, where the outpouring of grief from his friends and family made you realise that it might actually matter to people if you weren't around any more, and becoming a parent where you, probably instinctively, want to make sure you're about for your kid.

Unlike OzLeicester, I'm quite enchanted at the thought of there being a BELEND SEBARSTIAN RIP 4EVA Facebook page

[MooseBreath]

Not frightened of dying, but don't want to die anytime soon. Too much to live for, too much still to do.

[Captain...]

My fear of death relates more to those around me dying, the idea of never seeing someone again, scares the crap out of me, a bit irrational as I have lost touch with lots of people I cared about, but there is such permanence about death. I have been very fortunate in life that I haven't lost many people I care about, only grandparents, who had lived a long life, maybe that is why I have such a fear of it.

My own death scares me, but not to the point where I am unable to take risks and make big changes in my life, maybe it is partly why I have done. I will never let my life just drift away and be eaten up by getting caught up in live to work, work to live cycles or pointless loveless life sapping relationships, and when I feel that happening I just get out, to hell with the consequences, I already have my next escape planned for when this new job starts to drag me down.

[Zingari]

Not death itself but how you might die can be a frightening thought.

Yes indeed, that's the scary bit .

[Rincewind]

The way you die may be frightening say in agony for a hour but it is only a hour of your life albeit the last hour. I am sure there are many times we all have said 'That was the worst day/hour of my life', well just think of it as another worst hour.

[Zingari]

I just hope I go before the nappy wearing, dinner through a straw, Countdown watching stage.

it ain't that bad

The way you die may be frightening say in agony for a hour but it is only a hour of your life albeit the last hour. I am sure there are many times we all have said 'That was the worst day/hour of my life', well just think of it as another worst hour.

A slow agonising death can last for months though , not just hours

[Captain...]

A slow agonising death can last for months though , not just hours

I would prefer to go suddenly in a violent, painful way, explosion, eaten by a shark or even drowning than slowly waste away losing my marbles and my faculties.

I would rather my final thoughts and sensations to be real and new even if painful, than not even know where I am or what I am doing and not able to feel anything.

[davieG]

The way you die may be frightening say in agony for a hour but it is only a hour of your life albeit the last hour. I am sure there are many times we all have said 'That was the worst day/hour of my life', well just think of it as another worst hour.

An hour would be relatively quick death, I'm talking about having a terminal, painful, incapacitating illness that drags on for months if not years. Part of that is also my unease at the thought of burdening someone with the task of 'minding' me. My belief in euthanasia kicks in then.

[Webbo]

I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work… I want to achieve it through not dying

Woody Allen.

[Bellend Sebastian]

You don't really need to worry about dying because you can just get Whoopi Goldberg to channel your spirit like she did in Ghost and sort out anything you didn't manage to address before you karked it

[Zingari]

I would prefer to go suddenly in a violent, painful way, explosion, eaten by a shark or even drowning than slowly waste away losing my marbles and my faculties.

I would rather my final thoughts and sensations to be real and new even if painful, than not even know where I am or what I am doing and not able to feel anything.

yes me too , but that's the scary bit . None of us know how we are going to die ( unless we commit suicide ) and it's the fear of this unknown that is the most concerning . We all all know we are due death , but how and for how long will the process take ?

[Corky]

I want to go like Dirty Den (Watts, not Wise, who is still with us), and then come back 15 years later.

Would be interesting trying to hide for that length of time.

[pSinatra]

Through my work, I deal with a lot of elderly people.....many of them have become friends over time. I've always wondered how it would feel to reach an age where you don't know when you go to sleep that night......that you are going to wake up in the morning? It seems that many of them are at peace with dying. A good number of them have said more or less the same thing - that they "are ready". Some of them saying this have since died & it is comforting to know that they were not scared & were comfortable with their fate........content & happy with the life they have lived.

[ozleicester]

Doing lines off the tits of a supermodel while taking her twin sister from behind.

Petrifying.

so... im just trying to get this worked out...you are doin the sis from behind...you must have an enormous........... nose...... to be able to reach the supermodels tits?

oh i wish i hadnt started thinking this through if i die now.. what an awful last thought

[Zingari]

I was on holiday in Spain a couple of months ago when I saw in the hotel a middle aged man shuffling close to his wife . As they came closer I could see it was because he was blind.

Later in the day my wife got speaking to the couple and it turned out that he was profoundly deaf too. He had recently been fitted with cochlear implants that gave him some limited hearing, but that was after 2 years of being totally blind and deaf.

For his age ( 50ish) he was a good looking healthy young man otherwise with probably a long life ahead of him so if it hadn’t have been for the quite recent medical advances , he could have faced another 20 or 30 years of what he described as his living hell without both of the major senses .

I know this is not strictly speaking to do with death itself, but rather how we can be made to endure massive suffering prior to death