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Posted on 8/26/25 at 8:31 pm to OweO
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My mom was officially diagnosed in November, although in September it was a "it very likely you have als" situation.
Man I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine how painful it is to see her like that. ALS scares the hell out of me.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 8:35 pm to braves21
quote:Jet Fuel can’t melt my steel beams.
Teach me how to not be afraid.
Leave ‘em wanting more.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 8:36 pm to braves21
If you are a follower of Christ, death is a promotion to heaven. Therefore death is like a bee without a sting. This life is the worst you’ll ever have to deal with.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 8:36 pm to braves21
I’m not afraid of it, but the older I get the more I think about it…
Posted on 8/26/25 at 8:47 pm to RescueT
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Faith in Jesus Christ. I worry for my wife and daughters if I were to pass. But for myself, I know what’s ahead. The life of the world to come. I don’t deserve it, trust me.
Amen
Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:00 pm to braves21
I’d be ok if I died tomorrow. I don’t want to, but my conscience is clear and I know where I’m going. I would feel for my wife and kids, but I’m at peace with it. Unlikely at 43, but who knows.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:10 pm to braves21
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Teach me how to not be afraid.
You are a creature that knows you’re going to die; one that knows everything dies. You know that you are an end branch on a tree of life that has persisted on this planet for 3.8 billion years.
You are part of the penultimate intelligent species that earth has produced. Only machine intelligence will eclipse you.
Your chance of existence is a conservative 1 in 700 trillion. For example, a Roman soldier who should have died in the Battle of Actium but didn’t and went on to father many children is one of the trillions of things that had to happen, just as they did, for you to be conceived and then born.
You are a conscious being, aware of your environment but also aware of your mortality. There are an inestimable number of other life forms that are aware of their environments but lack self awareness. Would you rather have lived as what you are or as one of the creatures that are ignorant of the concept of death?
When you were conceived, your consciousness began. When you die, your consciousness will end. While you are conscious, you are sentient.
As a human being, you are the zenith of biological evolution. The end species. The creator of the super-intelligent species, AI.
Death is not to be feared but to be anticipated, to be cherished as the termination of a life which is a complexity so rare that humanity may be the sole civilization in our vast galaxy.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:15 pm to braves21
The only thing to fear is fear itself. Soak it up baby and then smile back!
Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:18 pm to Mr Roboto
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Why be scared of death? It'll be like it was before you were born. Do you remember what that was like?
That’s kind of the point, eternal nothingness after having this is terrifying IMO
Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:53 pm to OWLFAN86
Thanks man.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:54 pm to bdavids09
It sucks. My grandmother, her mom, had it as well and it sucks.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 9:55 pm to TheWalrus
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I wish I believed in some sort of afterlife
Why do you think you don't?
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:03 pm to TheWalrus
Where you are, death is not.
Where death is, you are not.
Where death is, you are not.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:08 pm to braves21
quote:not even a little bit.
Anyone not afraid of death?
Now that I have 3 kids under 4 years old, I hope I don’t die now, but being scared of actually dying? Naaa nothing to be scared of
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:11 pm to SuperSaint
Having kids made me more worried about it.
quote:Dude, let it heal. And, about your pullout game...
Now that I have 3 kids under 4 years old,
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:28 pm to braves21
Accept that the monkey you are currently inhabiting is not you. You are a soul and return to the collective consciousness to do whatever is required next. An eternal being with perpetual amnesia.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:31 pm to braves21
If you’re afraid of death, you’ll never live your life. Thank God for every day.
Posted on 8/26/25 at 10:51 pm to braves21
Not afraid of death, afraid of dying. I am confident in my eternity but hate the thought of suffering in the process of getting there- I'm cowardly.
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