How would you find out what happens after death if death is infact the end and you don't exist anymore ?

I'm not afraid of death itself, but rather the thought of my child, wife, or other friends/family and the discomfort they'd feel/experience...

when our trip on this cycle is done, it's done...those left behind are where the pain often resides :(

everybody dies.....just getting old sucks :1orglaugh

You scare me.

It is a chat board.

Just starting a topic. No one is crying. But we now all realize that you have a big hairy chest mountain man.

BTW, the definition of the word is used either way; either scenario. I am not sure how you miss that...

BTW, what good would reading The Serenity Prayer do an atheist?

Death doesn't worry me in the slightest. I just don't want to be around when it gets me.

I'm afraid to death of growing old. I haven't been afraid to die since I was 15 or so. That isn't to say I've been cautious. Far from it, I've taken way more risks and done way crazier things than most could imagine. I just manage my risk to make it as safe as possible.

It's only when you are close to the possibility of death that you really feel alive. Skydiving, climbing bridges, abandoned buildings...

Yeah, I want to take someone out with me too :thumbsup

Well, either your soul will evaporate into nothing, thus proving his opinion right, or you will still have the power of thought thus proving the believers of afterlife right.

My point, for the post-mortemly challenged, is that no one can sit there and say with 100% certainty what happens when one dies.

The right thing to do here is to try to fucking respect the beliefs of others and try to refrain from passing off your own *opinion* as if it is iron-clad fact.

Where is this attitude coming from? From where I sit we're just having a discussion here. If you're not up to it just say so, no need to get all "hairy man" about it.

I'll ask again, what is it you're fishing for here? I get the feeling you want me to admit or say something, whereas I am having difficulty believing anyone would want to argue against my point that it is better to enjoy the days you do have rather than sit around being afraid of something that is inevitable for all of us.

Whatever, it's your life.

You are killing me.


LOL, you have to admit, that was funny! :)

I am not fishing. Just saying, I am afraid of death and old age. Irrational? Maybe, but some people are afraid of malls :) I am not!

Ending up alome is my biggest fear.

No wonder I scare you.

As you get older you'll come to realize that once you accept your own mortality a good deal of stress is lifted off your shoulders. I'm guessing you're in your twenties right now, give it another 15 years and you'll begin to get it.

A slow agonizing death is a fear that I have.

babagirls, my uncle just died at age 58 from lung cancer, my aunt who is 44 will probably live the rest of her life alone (partnership wise) she still got the family and her kids but its deffiantly changed her. changed me too, probably the hardest thing i've ever did was his funeral

I went threw a stage of fearing death.. Now I say fuck it, when it's my time it's my time.. What can ya do? Just try and have some fun while your here...

no..............

it dont matter who you are, what youre doing, what you believe in, when the big man upstairs pulls your number, youre gone

29.

Turning 30 in September.

Not going to take that well :(

Hard to believe that I am a year older than my mother when she died. At the time she seemed old, and yet now I feel so young.

Life is a precious, enjoy and make the most out of it while you can...

ADG Webmaster

Dark Side of the Moon (Side 1 + Eclipse)
 

Speak To Me

"I've been mad for fucking years, absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks, been working me buns off for bands..."
"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
most of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even if you're not mad..."

Breathe

Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave but don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.
Long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.
Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one.
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave.

On The Run

[female announcer, announcing flights at airport, including 'Rome']
"Live for today, gone tomorrow, that's me, HaHaHaaaaaa!"

Time

Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone, the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.

Breathe (reprise)

Home, home again.
I like to be here when I can.
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.

The Great Gig in the Sky

"And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime."
"If you can hear this whispering you are dying."
"I never said I was frightened of dying."

Eclipse

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that's to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

"There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it's all dark."

ADG Webmaster

I'm more afraid to see the people I love die before me. I don't welcome death but I'm also not afraid of it.

Death !! Bring it on !!!! :thumbsup

But seriously, i don't wanna get to the stage where i'm to old to do shit, and i need someone to look after me. If i have a decent enough life for another 40-50 years, i'll be happy enough at that.

When i see the state of some really old folk, i always tell myself i'll never let me get to that stage...

I don't want to die, but I'm mostly afraid of dying a slow death....

No doubt ! most people do unfortunetly :disgust

I fucking hate when people do that !! Unfortunetly people do it far too often, christians come to mind :Oh crap

I was never the least bit afraid of dying til I reached a point in my life where I was very comfortable and happy.

Now admittedly I do fear death- more so the idea of not having any control over it.

:Oh crap

Yep, the thought that in 5 minutes we could have a quake and I would be gone is pretty scary!

I would rather know!

If you don't know, you've obviously not read it. Try reading the words for what they say, not as a prayer to "a god". Taken for what it says, it says a lot, about focus and what really matters in life.

Here's someone who gets it.

This is an open-ended topic.

No one is right or wrong. No one gets it more than the other.

You have taken this thread far too seriously.

Wrong on both counts. But it's your right to be wrong.

Let's see... living life in fear of something you can do nothing about and wasting time worrying about it..... versus accepting the inevitable and getting on with enjoying yourself to the fulles.... hmm... such a hard decision.

Nope, sorry, I'd have to say that what Martin said would be the the more rewarding way to go on this.

Oh and cory, my apologies for taking your thread too seriously. In future shall I consider anything you have to say as a joke? Obviously to many who posted here this is a serious issue worthy of some discussion, so I'm not sure what your deal is.

You are joking, right?

You can't be this crazy.

This is the truest thing iv ever heard!