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I don't want to die

Interesent

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I don't want to die. I want to live for ever. I think learning things to lose them is torment. I like to live, but every thinking about death brings my mood down.
There is no reason to believe to afterlife, at least that's what I think at a moment. But living without hope for afterlife isn't pleasant thing for me.

For example, I was reading interesting history book, and I liked it, but then I started to think about death and now, I have no more wish to continue reading it, because, if after some 40 years I'll be dead, maybe I better stop learning and just enjoy rest of my days.

At a moment I don't even understand anymore why people who are 50 years old go to work. They will die in next 20 years or so. wouldn't it be better if they would sell everything, go around world doing all things what they wanted and when money runs out....

Maybe I'm overreacting to this no afterlife question. But I lost faith recently and I have problems seeing how can one be calm and die piece fully. I don't want do die. I want to live for ever!:blush::boxedin:
 
Interesent said:
At a moment I don't even understand anymore why people who are 50 years old go to work. They will die in next 20 years or so. wouldn't it be better if they would sell everything, go around world doing all things what they wanted and when money runs out....
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Well, in US and Western Europe most people live past 70 by now. When I am 50 (which will be in 7 years, BTW), I expect to have rather more than 20 more years to enjoy life.

And perhaps a lot more:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/aubrey_de_grey_says_we_can_avoid_aging.html
 
Agree with OP. I think a lot of people with good lives feel this way, which is probably why 50% of Norwegians, if surveys are to be trusted, believe in reincarnation.

I like my life. I don't want it to end. I don't feel like spending eternity in an unconscious void. Sure, you guys will go "oh, but was it that bad before you were born" and whatnot, but... no.

Anyone can die at any moment.
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If you're afraid to die, I doubt this helps;).
 
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Interesent said:
At a moment I don't even understand anymore why people who are 50 years old go to work.
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It's because, even for people who are 50 years old (not that ancient any more, BTW), food, clothing, housing and utilities cost money.

And as for selling everything...have you noticed the state of the economy lately? Any idea what people could get for their houses right now, assuming anyone could get a mortgage loan to buy a house?

One of the great by-products of being or becoming a non-believer is that you quit expecting paradise at some time in the non-specific future and understand that this is what you have, so make the most of it. Love your family, work hard at your job, enjoy your free time.
 
So, You suggest me to stop thinking about it and be happy about what I have? :rolleyes:
Sometimes it works, but some days it just doesn't.

BTW I really started to read about Buddhism'n stuff. But reincarnation sounds pretty unbelievable. Being you, and having no memories of you IMO is not being you at all.

Any more advices?
 
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Interesent said:
At a moment I don't even understand anymore why people who are 50 years old go to work. They will die in next 20 years or so. wouldn't it be better if they would sell everything, go around world doing all things what they wanted and when money runs out....
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Maybe their job IS what they want to do. I can't imagine leaving mine right now, even when I'm 70. I might want to cut back to have more time to do other things, but I look forward to going to work most of the time.

This life is all you get, so enjoy it for all it's worth.
 
I don't want to die either. I don't think that anyone really does, except for those with terminal illnesses and chronic pain.

The problem I have with the entire concept of what happens after death is that, even though it's been probably the most thought about and talked about concept in human history, it remains one of the few things we can have absolutely no idea about what actually does occur. Collectively, we have a bunch of different ideas, but not a shred of proof for any of them.

I don't want to die for much the same reason stated in the OP. There's so much to learn, so many things to experience. One lifetime simply isn't enough to do all the things the average person might wish to do.

The idea of living forever is also something of a troubling issue. Various philosophers and writers have postulated the idea of eventually becoming so unbearably bored with continued existence, and suggested that the concept of being unable to end it even if one wished to might be a fate even worse than dying without accomplishing all the things you might have wished to.
 
Interesent said:
So, You suggest me to stop thinking about it and be happy about what I have? :rolleyes:
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You can roll your eyes as much as you like but your problem ain't going to go away until you bury it

Welcome to reality

Enjoy your stay
 
Interesent said:
Any more advices?
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How about this. Every second, every minute, every hour, every day you spend thinking about death and becoming depressed and apathetic about life because you will eventually die is a second, minute, hour, day of your life you have wasted wallowing in anxiety about something you cannot change.

If you wish to live so badly, then do not waste it worrying about death. Just live and be happy for what time you have.
 
I would say to take solace in the fact that all humanity has to come to grips with their own mortality, you are not alone in your fear of death, nor is it irrational.

I understand recently losing your faith in some sort of religion may leave a void in regards to the afterlife, as the warm fuzzy happy ideas of a paradise after death or some sort of eternal cycle like reincarnation are now gone, or seem silly.

But, for one who has "lost faith" which i mean presumably has become athiest in some degree there is solace in our view of the afterlife. In fact death will be ultimate peace.

What greater peace could there be than non-existence? When you die, you will cease to exist, according to the "faithless". Ironically enough, non-existence would describe a Buddhist heaven.

If you do not exist, nothing matters to you anymore. You can know no greater peace than if you don't know anything at all. So death doesn't need to be scary. But nothing happens either so its not exactly something to try and hurry along.
 
Tekniques said:
I would say to take solace in the fact that all humanity has to come to grips with their own mortality, you are not alone in your fear of death, nor is it irrational.
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Hi Tekniques!

Welcome to the forum!

Great 1st post :)

One q:

How/why/etc is a fear of death rational?

To me, its like fear of a sunrise... or any other inevitable event
 
I don't want to die, but it is inevitable.

I also don't want the sun to rise tomorrow(i really hate the sun), but that will happen as well.

The end will come, all i can do is make the best of my life before it comes, whenever it comes. I wish it wasn't so, but i accept it.
 
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