re: Coming to terms with your mortality

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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.

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One of TDs own, Ben Coleman, is in his last days right now.

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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

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I have night terrors where I wake up screaming weekly. Just as I drift off to sleep my mind thinks I'm dying.

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Something greater is at work here in your mind. I hope you can address it or resolve it because it won’t go away if you don’t. That is no way to live. And it doesn’t get any easier as you age. Dying is as natural as being born; we just don’t remember being born but we can and certainly may be cognizant when dying. Be present as much as you can. That is all you’ve got.

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Don't they know they are going to die one day?

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They know.

Everybody knows.

I have lost both my parents and an older sister to cancer, all 3 dying over different periods of time : my father relatively young at 62 & over a 4 yr period, no real suffering; my sister at 42, over a 2 yr period and she suffered horribly; my mother at 90 and she basically lived out her life, "normally" with no real suffering as well. But all 3 told me that they had so much more they wanted to do with their lives, even Mom at her age, that they regretted not doing all that they wanted when healthy. I have recently been diagnosed with prostate cancer that has not spread, so statistically speaking, I have a 90 % chance of living another 13 yrs...I am 71 now. My philosophy based on my family's regrets, is to not waste a day pissing away my time with mundane issues or perceived problems. At 71 and having cancer, what could be a bigger problem? I enjoy each and every day now.

Being agnostic is causing your fear
You’re wrestling with your refusal of your creator not the questions surrounding death
Open your heart like your mind

A bad peace is worse than war. You don't have to accept mortality and like it. You can fight it as long and as hard as you wish and in doing so, you'll know that you're doing everything in your power to survive. That may grant you more happiness and satisfaction than accepting the inevitable ever could.

Family friend died Saturday of a cerebral hemorrhage. Literally here one minute and gone the next. 44 year old lady who left behind a husband and a teenage daughter with physical disabilities

Find perspective.

I think about the soldiers, 18 year olds, who fought and died for our freedoms and realize every day is a gift not everyone is given.

And when I die, it will probably be a much easier death than they experienced.

I don't care when or how I die. I've lived, and that's what matters.

If consciousness continues, great. If not, fine. Once I'm switched off, I won't be able to care. If I won't care then, why waste today caring?

I've spread my seed and my legacy will go on.