Death

[Rincewind]

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.

Interesting idea. Maybe we are all part of some higher being(s) reality TV soap. How long we last depends on our usefulness to the storyline.

[Webbo]

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

It also shows that there's always hope.

[Guest]

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

you don't have to. Kill yourself or get someone else to if you're too much of a wimp.

Did he still get oral sex?

[Zingari]

It also shows that there's always hope.

Maybe so I suppose , but only in the same way as you'd have hope living on death row.

His wife was superb in the way she looked after him and I must admit that it brought a lump to my throat watching her . There was not a hint of selfishness or annoyance with him

I only hope that I could be as strong as either of them , but if I'm honest I really doubt that I could

[Zingari]

you don't have to. Kill yourself or get someone else to if you're too much of a wimp.

Did he still get oral sex?

I didn't ask , somehow the subject didn't crop up .

[1964FOX]

Very scared of it although it's clearly just like going to sleep any given day but just not waking up, I don't want to die but not going to spend my life worrying about it. It will happen to all of us so may as well enjoy the bit we have before it. I intend to fight it for as long as possible. Ideally go in my sleep having reached more than 100 years in decent shape and of sound mind but who knows.

[THEFATBASTARD]

Not after a week in cleethorpes..

[1964FOX]

And is it just me but are a lot of people with terminal illness some of the most positive people you meet probably because they have been forced to cherish the time they have left.

[Guest]

life is a terminal illness.

Woody Allen.

It's also one of the few things you can do lying down.

[1964FOX]

life is a terminal illness.

Which is why I choose to live it in a positive way and appreciate what i have.

[Zingari]

Death is the price we pay just for having sex !

Asexually reproducing animals just live forever constantly dividing into two

This is what I've read somewhere anyway .

[Guest]

Death is the price we pay just for having sex !

Asexually reproducing animals just live forever constantly dividing into two

This is what I've read somewhere anyway .

Virgins die too.

[foxfanazer]

Not scared of my own death at all. The thought of loved ones dying terrifies me

[Rincewind]

Well think how it is for the firefly. Pops out the water. pops it in and pop they are gone.

[Zingari]

Virgins die too.

Damn, now you tell me !!

Have i got the wrong end of the stick with this theory ?

[Rincewind]

Death is natures way of telling you to slow down.

[Zingari]

Just had a look at the voting and it's 14 no to 9 yes

Out of curiosity , i wonder if there is an age factor ?

Do the older ones fear death more than younger ones or vice versa ?

My guess is that the older you are, the more death becomes a stark reality and thus more frightening

[MikeyT]

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Just had a look at the voting and it's 14 no to 9 yes

Out of curiosity , i wonder if there is an age factor ?

Do the older ones fear death more than younger ones or vice versa ?

My guess is that the older you are, the more death becomes a stark reality and thus more frightening

I'm 32. As DavieG said earlier, it's not death itself I'm afraid of, it's how I'm going to die.

Ideally, peacefully in my sleep, but doubt it.

[GLC]

to the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

It’s the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

My death doesn't scare me, if i die tomorrow, i leave behind some great friends and an amazing gf

[Rincewind]

I think you accept it more the older you are. A younger person has so much to look forward to. An older person just looks back trying to remember what they were looking forward to.

[Reynard Bleu]

The more Isee it, the more determined I become to put my death out of my mind. The occasions where I could have died a violent death my thoughts were filled with a dread of letting people down rather than my own demise. Seeing colleagues die, I felt empty, helpless and guilty. Some of the civillian deaths I saw in Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan left me ashamed to be a human being. But I will not fear my own death, only the mess it leaves behind..

[Guest]

Just had a look at the voting and it's 14 no to 9 yes

Out of curiosity , i wonder if there is an age factor ?

Do the older ones fear death more than younger ones or vice versa ?

My guess is that the older you are, the more death becomes a stark reality and thus more frightening

I think that teenagers and young 20's fear death less because they believe that they are indestructible. However I don't believe that for older people age is actually a factor in fear of death. So I'd imagine that there may be a statistical anomaly with younger people but not older people.

It'd be nice if age was worked the other way round - we knew how long we had left to live not how long we have lived. but alas.....

[Fox92]

I'm 20. I wouldn't say I'm scared of it, but I don't like thinking about it. I try not to think about it, and just enjoy my life, because you cannot live in fear. However, if I visit the cemetery, that's the place where it brings it home and I always think "I'm going to end up like that".

But life flows on within, without you.

[Zingari]

What if you died jacking off to to granny porn or something ?

Doesn't that worry any of you ?

[pSinatra]

What if you died jacking off to to granny porn or something ?

Doesn't that worry any of you ?

I do wish my laptop would self-destruct on my demise