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Coming to terms with your mortality

Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:06 pm
Posted by JabarkusRussell
Member since Jul 2009
15825 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:06 pm
I remember being a kid and looking around at people thinking why is everyone smiling? Don't they know they are going to die one day? Most people avoid talking about death not wanting to think about it but eventually they have to address it. How do you come to terms with it where you are at peace with it? I keep thinking that eventually I will be ready when old and decaying but what if that acceptance never comes? I'm sure that being agnostic doesn't help my fear.
Posted by brett408
Member since Jan 2005
2426 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:07 pm to
Find Jesus. All your fears will go away.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
85506 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:08 pm to
I try not to think of it. Thanks for starting this thread.
Posted by jamboybarry
Member since Feb 2011
33256 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:08 pm to
We are all dying so you might as well get on with living
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:09 pm to
It gets better with age

Don't put stuff off. Many don't make it to retirement. Treat every day like this month might be the last. It alleviates much of the anxiety
Posted by saturday
Pronoun (Baw)
Member since Feb 2007
8034 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:10 pm to
I Jack off all the time because I'll only accept dying if I know that I never wasted a hard on.
Posted by schexyoung
Deaf Valley
Member since May 2008
6726 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:10 pm to
Momento mori

Posted by ChenierauTigre
Dreamland
Member since Dec 2007
34743 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:10 pm to
Dying is a fact of life. You don't have to like it, but you have to accept it. You learn to be more careful as you get older and realize that you are really not bulletproof.
Posted by Crow Pie
Neuro ICU - Tulane Med Center
Member since Feb 2010
27941 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:10 pm to
Everybody dies, only a few actually live.

Posted by MAGA
Member since Sep 2016
628 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:11 pm to
quote:

I'm sure that being agnostic doesn't help my fear.


This should answer the question.

If it didn’t - question being agnostic.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
85506 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:11 pm to
quote:

Don't put stuff off. Many don't make it to retirement. Treat every day like this month might be the last.


And that’s why my drug stash doesn’t last as long as it should
Posted by DeafJam73
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2010
19122 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:13 pm to
frick. Get out of my head. I’ve been dealing with the same thoughts. I just tell myself this: “You have too much left to accomplish to think about something that you cannot control.” That kind of helps.
Posted by Langland
Trumplandia
Member since Apr 2014
15382 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:14 pm to
Posted by Triple Bogey
19th Green
Member since May 2017
6850 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:14 pm to
The way I look at it, when you’re dead, you won’t know it. Enjoy your time here while you have it and tell the people you love, that you love them. The thought of not existing freaks me out, but I figure it will just be like before you were born.
Posted by Crow Pie
Neuro ICU - Tulane Med Center
Member since Feb 2010
27941 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:14 pm to
quote:

Don't put stuff off.
The exact reason I sit here at this very moment looking out the window at the Rockies up at Pikes Peak. The same peak I reached the summit yesterday.
Posted by weadjust
Member since Aug 2012
15815 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:15 pm to
quote:

but eventually they have to address it


Not everybody. People get killed every day and had no idea it was coming
This post was edited on 7/22/19 at 7:16 pm
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:16 pm to
Drove to the top huh? Sweet.
Posted by JabarkusRussell
Member since Jul 2009
15825 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:16 pm to
I have night terrors where I wake up screaming weekly. Just as I drift off to sleep my mind thinks I'm dying. I'll punch and kick the air before jumping out of bed fighting it. I think that's how I'm going to go.
Posted by Mud_Till_May
Member since Aug 2014
9685 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:17 pm to
quote:

I keep thinking that eventually I will be ready when old and decaying but what if that acceptance never comes? I'm sure that being agnostic doesn't help my fear.


The only thing that really helped me cope with it is seeing other people die on the internet. Burning, decapitation, hanging, shooting, smashing, drowning, people falling to their death, crashing air planes, lethal injections, snake bite, suicide, mauling, people being blown up in war, listening and reading to peoples last words. watching people decay over time, reading about other people losing family members. people recording themselves dying to poison. Having my own family members die. Visiting graves of other people that have died.

Seeing all of those people die has helped me be OK with dying and understand that it wont take that long and not to be afraid.
Posted by TheWalrus
Land of the Hogs
Member since Dec 2012
48109 posts
Posted on 7/22/19 at 7:18 pm to
Being absolutely miserable relieves some fear, at least that will go away.
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