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Do You Ever Contemplate Your Mortality?
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:13 am
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:13 am
The thought never crossed my mind in the past honestly. I thought I was invincible. Even when I was conducting combat operations for 9 months in Afghanistan I didn't really think much about actually being killed (even though a good friend of mine was killed on April 9th). However about 2 weeks before leaving Afghanistan I read the book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper. I was operating daily at that time in the region the book is set in. This really hit me hard and from that point forward, daily, I have contemplated my mortality.
After I read that book I noticed all the close calls, we constantly took 107mm rockets, and I really started feeling uncomfortable. This has gone to the point where back stateside I constantly think about my mortality it could be something as simple as thinking about my family after I die or me actually having to fight the overwhelming urge to not fly because of my paranoia of the fact I can die due to maintenance, weather, anything really.
I don't think it affects my life in any meaningful way but I'm sure some other people have had much closer near death experiences and I was wondering if you have a daily thought of mortality or how you shook the demons? Also in no way am I saying I have PTSD or am looking for sympathy. The dudes on the ground had it 1000x worse than me.
After I read that book I noticed all the close calls, we constantly took 107mm rockets, and I really started feeling uncomfortable. This has gone to the point where back stateside I constantly think about my mortality it could be something as simple as thinking about my family after I die or me actually having to fight the overwhelming urge to not fly because of my paranoia of the fact I can die due to maintenance, weather, anything really.
I don't think it affects my life in any meaningful way but I'm sure some other people have had much closer near death experiences and I was wondering if you have a daily thought of mortality or how you shook the demons? Also in no way am I saying I have PTSD or am looking for sympathy. The dudes on the ground had it 1000x worse than me.
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Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:16 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
As a fireman I've had close calls but I'm sure nothing like you had at war. I never thought about it much when I was younger but now with kids I think abou it a lot more. I think about crap like cancer and heart attacks a lot for some reason now. Probably since I know people who were healthy and got cancer or died from heart attacks at young ages.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:24 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
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in no way am I saying I have PTSD
don't be so quick to rule that out, it could be just that, albeit in a lesser, or beginning stage, I wouldn't let it fester
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:27 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
How old are you? I think most people have their first "mortality moment" in their late 20's.
By the time you are in your late 40's, you have begun to accept your mortality as imminent.
By the time you are in your late 40's, you have begun to accept your mortality as imminent.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:27 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
sure - but death is just a door to another existence imo
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:29 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
I mostly just wonder what happens after I die. The thought of nothingness or ceasing to exist freaks me the frick out.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:31 am to Grateful Reb
Why? That would certainly be preferable to an eternity of pain and torment.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:35 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
all the time, its almost like a curse.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:43 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Far too often
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:43 am to mailman
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all the time, its almost like a curse.
why worry about something that is largely out of your control? living like that is in a sense, beginning to die
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:43 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Sure, in my opinion, you aren't human if you haven't thought about your mortality
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:50 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Have you ever been stoned?
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:53 am to Grateful Reb
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I mostly just wonder what happens after I die. The thought of nothingness or ceasing to exist freaks me the frick out.
It shouldn't. Think about this.... How did you feel about nothingness or ceasing to exist before you were born? Everybody goes thru it and nobody can describe it for you. It's one of lifes great mysteries. I myself will be looking for the streets of gold. Not skeered.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 10:53 am to tigersownall
Myself and my friends, all close to 50, talk about the last 20-30 years of our lives and how short the time is and how to maximize the time with family/friends.Take nothing for granted!
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:00 am to cuyahoga tiger
I'm about to turn 60. You actually come to peace with the fact that your time here is limited. There's nothing you can do about it. You try to take care of yourself and make a good impact to where you leave this world a bit better than when you got here. You live and enjoy life to its fullest. After all, you really don't know how much time you have left.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:03 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
I'm 32 and I don't really think about death. Most people in my family have lived to be 90+, so maybe that's why. IDK
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:04 am to damnedoldtigah
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I'm about to turn 60. You actually come to peace with the fact that your time here is limited. There's nothing you can do about it. You try to take care of yourself and make a good impact to where you leave this world a bit better than when you got here. You live and enjoy life to its fullest. After all, you really don't know how much time you have left.
spot on, when I hit the downhill side of 50 it kind of hit me, then I shook it off and went back to being a knucklehead, just last summer my Mother chewed me out for getting drunk at an after party for one of my old LSU roommate's daughter's rehearsal dinner
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:09 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Why question it? There's nothing you can do about it.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:17 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
I know I'm in line for Parkinson's. If I get it and treatment isn't available for me I'll probably end it. Other than that, I know my genes only allow me to live to 65 tops.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:24 am to damnedoldtigah
I worried more about it when I was younger than I do now. I've kind of accepted the fact I've got 20 years max left. Doesn't bother me as much as it did when I was in my 20's.
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