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If You Were Dying...

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If you were dying would you pray?
Why or Why not?

Seriously consider, if you only had a few seconds before death what you would think about?

I would hope to have a soul, think about people I love and to try my best to survive. Maybe tell a funny joke depending on if anyone is polish.
 
Wish fervently that I had done everything I could to survive, that I would not hurt anyone unnecessarily in my dying, that my genes and history would live on from strength to strength, and that my passing was swift and pain-free for all concerned. I would not like to die mentally before dying physically.
 
No prayer.

My only thoughts would be on any last attempt to avoid death. Anything else may lower my chances of survival.
 
Interesting...topic. I bumped up against this about three years ago. During my heart attack I didn't pray. It never entered my mind. I knew that there was a strong possibility that my time would soon be over. It was a calm time and I was thinking clearly through the pain. The morphine helped with the pain. I was marveling that all of the strangers around me were doing their best to keep me around. In my case, at the time of near death, I had no regrets. Since that time, I've done everything possible to make sure my next brush with the end will happen as far as possible in the future. Since that time, I don't take everything quite as seriously and I know I don't have to be president of every club I belong to. I try to concentrate on things that matter because there is some indication that it was the stress in my life that caused the situation.

No I wouldn't pray. I would do my best to leave the best possible impression on those around me and try not to say something embarrassing as my last words.
 
Shadow said:
If you were dying would you pray?
Why or Why not?
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Why waste my last breath?

Seriously consider, if you only had a few seconds before death what you would think about?
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I've been in a small car accident a while back. My thoughts then ran a long the lines: "Oh *****, I'm gonna die - why did I have to be so stupid and do THAT??!? .... oh, hey, I am still alive. .... oh F*** that's one huge truck approaching, better get the hell out of here!!!"

After that, it really wasn't anything like I might die anymore and my thoughts turned to the fact that I just ruined a car that I bought only a few days earlier and that wasn't even registered to my name yet.

I would hope to have a soul, think about people I love and to try my best to survive. Maybe tell a funny joke depending on if anyone is polish.
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Do you hope you have a soul now, too?

I certainly whish I had one - I hear they get good prices on ebay.
 
I wouldn't consider prayer, as I think it would be a waste of words and energy. I hope that I would have the fortitude to at least say or write or otherwise transmit to my wife and kids how much they mean to me and how much I love them. If I were surrounded by strangers I imagine that I would spend any breath I had trying to make them remember to tell my family that my last thoughts were of them(my family, not the strangers).

Oh, and I would really hope that nobody found the porn.
 
I think I'd be far more likely to shout "SHAZAM!" and hope that I suddenly turn into Captain Marvel.
 
Shadow said:
If you were dying would you pray?
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No.

Why or Why not?
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There would just be no reason to. I would just as likely hope for a genii to grant me immortality.

Seriously consider, if you only had a few seconds before death what you would think about?
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It's difficult to sit here and tell you what I would think and feel at deaths door but I don't see any reason for me to think about it.

I would hope to have a soul, think about people I love and to try my best to survive.
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I would think about my life and my loved ones. Life is an incredible journey and I was incredibly lucky to have gone on it. I would think of my first kiss. My wedding day. The birth of my children... It's hard to make a laundry list without sounding maudlin.

Maybe tell a funny joke depending on if anyone is polish.
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I like that. It would be great if my death could be peaceful enough to be able to joke and share last moments with loved ones.
 
Rasmus said:
Do you hope you have a soul now, too?
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Yup, I hope I have a soul but I don't count on it.
A soul, unlike religion, is much harder to prove or disprove. The dynamics of its working may not be available to science if it was there.

I recognize the general idea of a soul comes from the basic "natural" psychological belief that life goes on after death. Living for your whole life makes the concept of permanent death unlikely to the untrained mind.
 
Pray? To whom?
Odin? Zeus? Krishna? Buddha? Allah? Lugh? Ra? Anubis? Jehovah? Christ? Czernobog? Baal?

I'd be dead by the time I got done praying.


No.


If, in the next 30-60 years, they do not find a way to dodge death, then I would prefer to go with a hooker's mouth around my c**k.
 
clarsct said:
Pray? To whom?
Odin? Zeus? Krishna? Buddha? Allah? Lugh? Ra? Anubis? Jehovah? Christ? Czernobog? Baal?
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This was my planned response.

To who should I pray? Plus, why should I pray right before I die? If I entertain the possibility of God or gods existing, and the possibility of the soul or afterlife, surely I would want to ensure safe passage to paradise through much more than simply a last utterance on my lips before I pass away?
 
Shadow said:
If you were dying would you pray?
Why or Why not?

Seriously consider, if you only had a few seconds before death what you would think about?

I would hope to have a soul, think about people I love and to try my best to survive. Maybe tell a funny joke depending on if anyone is polish.
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Probably not.

I have faced death several times in the last few years and I have not prayed during any of those times, therefore I doubt that I would do so in the future.

Instead, I made an effort to keep cool and keep focused in order to succesfully get out of the situation, and thus I have been able to succesfully get out of the situation.
 
The question be changed to "when you are dying". We're all going to die. Most of us here will die proudly atheist, without much problem with death. Some of us might even be curious about what sort of future consciousness we might find ourselves of.

It's sort of frustrating to think I'll be worm poop. I think I might like to be burned, or frozen. I'm unsure how any of this might effect dead cells.
 
Prayer never made sense to me even when I was Chritian. Beg an omniscient being to do something for you? "Dear God, don't let this lump be cancer". "Okay my son, I was going to just let you suffer agony beyond your imagining, and let you die a miserable, craven death, but since you ask I'll make that tumor benign. Lucky for you you asked, cause otherwise I couldn't have been bothered" WTF? Yes, that's a parody, but seems to be the logic going on.

In my few close calls I never prayed. I would be very surprised if I did in the future, though you can never entirely account for brain chemistry.
 
RandFan said:
I like that. It would be great if my death could be peaceful enough to be able to joke and share last moments with loved ones.
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I have mine all prepared.

"Goodbye folks. It's been a slice."
(Whispers)
"Oh. There's a black tunnel and I'm floating down it. I see a light at the end and I see figures. I'm getting closer and I can recognize one. It's, it's














Minnie Mouse."

With thanks to the great and late lamented Jean Shepard.
 
I do have to confess this. Even as a confirmed atheist.

Two years ago, when my mother was dying, I prayed. Just for a second. As I sat in the ICU watching her go, I thought, what if I've been wrong? So I asked that if there was a god up there, and if he was listening to me, that he not punish my mother for my mistake. That's all. I just felt like I had a responsibility to her not to let her suffer for something I'd done. I didn't want her missing out on heaven (or whatever) when she'd lived a good, decent life, just because I didn't believe in the stuff.

I don't think I'd do the same for myself, but I guess I can't say until the time comes. If I was weak enough to do it once, who knows...?
 
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