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Gamer147 on 03 March 2018

Just do the best you can and realize no one is perfect. Understand that a lot of days are just going to be ok. Having a real expectation in life leads to more happiness and you'll worry less about topics like this.



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SvennoJ on 03 March 2018

The older I get the less I mind it ending at some point. No more pain, no more bullshit, no more having to get up every morning. I don't believe in god or any afterlife. I'll simply cease to exist for all I know, which doesn't seem any different from dreamless sleep that never ends.

It's the how that is scary. DNR please and no extraordinary measures keeping me alive on a machine, no thanks. For now I enjoy life every moment I can for as long as my body and mind will allow it, which should still be a long time.



estebxx on 03 March 2018

I just dont think about it, too many things in life to worry about for me to be worrying about the one thing i can not stop.

Edit: also living forever wouldnt be desirable either, at least not for me.



jason1637 on 03 March 2018

Just accept it. And there might be some sort of afterlife when you die so in a way you're mind really won't be dead.



miedek on 03 March 2018

I don't have a problem with this. Not being an atheist probably helps.



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StreaK on 03 March 2018
KLAMarine said:
I figure it's what life is like before birth: nothingness.

Exactly, my friend! And that, in itself, is actually quite frightening to be honest. Just nothing...complete void. Let's face it, that's exactly what's going to happen. There is nothing on the outside and there is no meaning to this life...

Basically, what matters right NOW is that you're here. The only thing that makes sense is that you have come into this world and opened your eyes, so just live it. Do what makes you happy as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

I still read up on all the secrets of the universe and what all of this is about, but man...it just doesn't matter. I think life is about progression. All of us matter. We all contribute to furthering humanity as a whole, whether it is simply being a garbage man and taking out people's trash. We're all helping the next generation, and then they will help the other generation after to further knowledge as we know it. It's all about, how far can we go in anything we do. But mostly, how far can technology go? I've always felt that it's limitless. Any idea can be realized.

Anyway, I'll start totally rambling soon so I'll just stop. :D

 



d21lewis on 03 March 2018

Two words: Force Ghost



VGPolyglot on 03 March 2018
jason1637 said:
Just accept it. And there might be some sort of afterlife when you die so in a way you're mind really won't be dead.

That creates an alternate problem that I'd have though, if I believed in an afterlife: why bother coping and dealing with life's problems if I can just end it and go somewhere else where I don't have to worry?



Peh on 03 March 2018
VGPolyglot said:

This has been something that has profoundly troubled me. Just knowing that I will die, that there is nothing I can do about it, that eventually my mind will cease to function, that every trace of me will eventually be non-existent, etc. I have had a lot of depression throughout my life, from dealing with family suicides, to social anxiety at school and work, to fear of my future, having to cope with people ignoring me and not wanting to resolve the conflict, but this one has given me extreme trouble, too. It's one of those things I constantly think of, on both ends. I fear death, but I am  also curious about it, I get paralyzed with fear of death, yet I also wonder what it would be like. I don't know if this is a result of other underlying issues that I have had/continue to have, and I transfer my worries of that to death, but if you guys have some ways of coping with that, I'd like to hear it. Or maybe I'm just desperate to talk and am making this thread because of that

Let me ask you one thing. What is worse? Thinking that you will die or that you will see someone die you care a lot about?



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VGPolyglot on 03 March 2018
Peh said:
VGPolyglot said:

This has been something that has profoundly troubled me. Just knowing that I will die, that there is nothing I can do about it, that eventually my mind will cease to function, that every trace of me will eventually be non-existent, etc. I have had a lot of depression throughout my life, from dealing with family suicides, to social anxiety at school and work, to fear of my future, having to cope with people ignoring me and not wanting to resolve the conflict, but this one has given me extreme trouble, too. It's one of those things I constantly think of, on both ends. I fear death, but I am  also curious about it, I get paralyzed with fear of death, yet I also wonder what it would be like. I don't know if this is a result of other underlying issues that I have had/continue to have, and I transfer my worries of that to death, but if you guys have some ways of coping with that, I'd like to hear it. Or maybe I'm just desperate to talk and am making this thread because of that

Let me ask you one thing. What is worse? Thinking that you will die or that you will see someone die you care a lot about?

Well, I've already had people I care about die, so I guess I at least know what that is like. However, I don't know what my own death would be like, so that makes it difficult.