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re: Do You Ever Contemplate Your Mortality?
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:26 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:26 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
When I was younger the weeks seemed to go by like years. At 63, the years seem to go by like weeks. Nobody gets out alive.
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Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:32 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
In the past I always thought of it as something so far away I didn't have to worry about it. Then my brother was diagnosed with terminal cancer two years ago, he passed away this year in Oct, now I think about it all the time. Sometimes I get an overwhelming feeling at night that will wake me from my sleep and have me so amped that I'm awake the rest of the night.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:32 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
I think about it more than I ever have in the past, but more in a manner of thinking about my kids being okay.
Obviously, it's important to put this issue into some safe place mentally. You can't really live if you're too focused on dying.
Obviously, it's important to put this issue into some safe place mentally. You can't really live if you're too focused on dying.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:32 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.
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Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:34 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
Almost dying from a heart attack changed my attitude about a lot of things.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 11:41 am to OleWarSkuleAlum
I lost my mother due to murder when I was 11. I lost 8 friends in Jr high and high school due to drunk driving. I was an active duty Marine and a cop. Now I teach high school students, as our media seems to always be full of stories of school shootings and weapons found.
My mortality has always been on my mind. I understand the value of life and how fragile life is. I do not take it for granted, especially since my daughter was born.
Peace be with you all.
My mortality has always been on my mind. I understand the value of life and how fragile life is. I do not take it for granted, especially since my daughter was born.
Peace be with you all.
This post was edited on 12/26/14 at 11:43 am
Posted on 12/26/14 at 12:19 pm to lsufan9193969700
Absolutely.
A I work deepwater, so a I constantly surrounded by nothing but open water in every direction. Keep how small I am in the universe in perspective.
B My father died at 53. His father 66. I am 33 today, which means potentialy I am 1/2 thru my life.
A I work deepwater, so a I constantly surrounded by nothing but open water in every direction. Keep how small I am in the universe in perspective.
B My father died at 53. His father 66. I am 33 today, which means potentialy I am 1/2 thru my life.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 12:31 pm to Paedin
I only really think about how my son (age 6) will be if he loses me. I'm 45 but lost my best friend to cancer 3 years ago at age 43. I know it can happen any time. I enjoy life but make sure my child is taken care of if I go.
This post was edited on 12/26/14 at 12:37 pm
Posted on 12/26/14 at 12:42 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
I didn't until I had melanoma. Scared the shite out of me and now I think about my mortality. On the other hand, I got busy living and having a lot more fun. Crossed some things off my bucket list and still working on it. The experience changed how I live, which was good.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 12:47 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Valar morghulis
No need in writing about the inevitable. It's coming no matter what so just enjoy.
No need in writing about the inevitable. It's coming no matter what so just enjoy.
This post was edited on 12/26/14 at 12:47 pm
Posted on 12/26/14 at 1:34 pm to NOSTRODAMUS
I can relate to this. I Han 44 and have fought stage IV Lymphoma twice in the last 4 years. I have 4 kids from age 15 to 4 yet I never really worried much during the two battles. I made sure that my family was financially set in my mid 30s with life insurance policies and I also believe my life here is only temporary and my dying here will be only a transition to my soul/spirit being in another realm with my God and creator. I am and have been at peace with my mortality for a long time.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 1:37 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
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After I read that book I noticed all the close calls, we constantly took 107mm rockets, and I really started feeling uncomfortable.
"The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function: without mercy, without compassion, without remorse. All war depends upon it."
-Ronald Spiers
Posted on 12/26/14 at 2:30 pm to Funky Tide 8
Came in here to post that. Most bad arse part of the series.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 2:33 pm to windshieldman
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Posted on 12/26/14 at 3:53 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
That book shouldn't be on the Select reading list for active personnel. Good luck
Posted on 12/26/14 at 3:58 pm to Greg09Ag
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Came in here to post that. Most bad arse part of the series.
Honestly one of the most profound/striking things I've ever heard.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 4:49 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Ill never forget the first time it really hit me that when we died that was it. I was 8, at Disneyland watching the electric light parade and I just started puking over and over. frick.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 5:13 pm to lsu480
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Ill never forget the first time it really hit me that when we died that was it. I was 8, at Disneyland watching the electric light parade and I just started puking over and over. frick.
If someone told me I had to watch the Electric Light Parade at Disneyland, I'd puke over and over and over too.
Natural and approriate response, bro, probably completely unrelated to the existential question.
As Warren Zevon said generally about this existence and specifically facing his impending mortality:
"Enjoy every sandwich."
This post was edited on 12/26/14 at 5:15 pm
Posted on 12/26/14 at 6:09 pm to OleWarSkuleAlum
Yes I think about it every day. I am old and sick.
Posted on 12/26/14 at 6:57 pm to AthensTiger
Sorry that you're ill, Athens. Best of luck to you.
I just hit a milestone birthday, and yes, I think about my mortality. My parents only lived 8 and 9 years longer than the age I am right now.
I'm not as afraid of it as I was when I was younger. I've lived a pretty good life. My son is grown and he will be fine without me.
I just hit a milestone birthday, and yes, I think about my mortality. My parents only lived 8 and 9 years longer than the age I am right now.
I'm not as afraid of it as I was when I was younger. I've lived a pretty good life. My son is grown and he will be fine without me.
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