What is death like?

[punshhh]

I am interested in what you think about death.

In your mind what it is like to be dead?
Can you imagine it?
Can you justify your position?
Are you looking forward to it?
Or are you scared, and hoping it won't happen for some time?
How often do you think about it seriously?

I was watching you tube footage after the Houla massacre in Syria. Which caused me to wonder about the answers to the above questions that would be given by people who live there.

 

[dafydd]

I am interested in what you think about death.

Unavoidable.

 

[punshhh]

Unavoidable.

I know, but what do you think it will be like?

 

[Dave Rogers]

In your mind what it is like to be dead?

I imagine it'll be a lot like it was before I was conceived. I'm not in any great hurry to find out.

Dave

 

[Darat]

I am interested in what you think about death.

In your mind what it is like to be dead?
Can you imagine it?
Can you justify your position?
Are you looking forward to it?
Or are you scared, and hoping it won't happen for some time?
How often do you think about it seriously?

I was watching you tube footage after the Houla massacre in Syria. Which caused me to wonder about the answers to the above questions that would be given by people who live there.

I'm not scared about what it was like before I was born, seems to be a lot of evidence about the world existing before I was alive and continued to exist after lots of people have died so I'd say it would be same as before I was alive.

 

[A'isha]

I know, but what do you think it will be like?

Pittsburgh.

 

[marplots]

Most nights I have some period of deep and dreamless sleep. Sounds like a good view of death to me. It really isn't that scary either.

You could actually practice being dead so you get good at it. When you fall asleep at night, just imagine you aren't ever going to wake up. Then, when you are deeply asleep, you can fool yourself into thinking you are dead.

This version of being dead doesn't include a happy-ever-after though, and no virgins either. Not the best being dead out there, but I'm an atheist, so that's all I can expect anyhow.

 

[devnull]

Interesting question Punshhh.

What do you think about it btw?

 

[Brian-M]

In my opinion, death is like nothing you've ever experienced.
Literally nothing at all because you no longer exist to experience it.

But a deep dreamless sleep from which you never awaken is probably a good analogy with which to convey the concept of death.

 

[Ocelot]

Death (as in not being alive) doesn't bother me. There was a time before I was alive. I imagine the time after I'm alive will be much the same lack of experience. Dying (as in the transition) on the other hand is an experience I'm not looking forward to.

 

[Fishstick]

I know, but what do you think it will be like?

Exactly like the time before you were born.

 

[punshhh]

Pittsburgh.

In my country I would probably have said Walsall.

I hope we're not talking about hell here.

 

[punshhh]

Most nights I have some period of deep and dreamless sleep. Sounds like a good view of death to me. It really isn't that scary either.

You could actually practice being dead so you get good at it. When you fall asleep at night, just imagine you aren't ever going to wake up. Then, when you are deeply asleep, you can fool yourself into thinking you are dead.

This version of being dead doesn't include a happy-ever-after though, and no virgins either. Not the best being dead out there, but I'm an atheist, so that's all I can expect anyhow.

I am looking forward to it if its like you say. It would be so peaceful, I wouldn't have to get out of bed in the morning. I wouldn't have pain in my bones, I wouldn't have a care in the world!

 

[X]

I am looking forward to it if its like you say. It would be so peaceful, I wouldn't have to get out of bed in the morning. I wouldn't have pain in my bones, I wouldn't have a care in the world!

And you wouldn't be there to appreciate any of that...

 

[Marcus]

I am interested in what you think about death.

In your mind what it is like to be dead?

This question doesn't really make sense. It's like asking "What was it like not being here 5,000 years ago?" It wasn't like anything.

Can you imagine it?

There isn't anything there to imagine.

Can you justify your position?

I'm not sure what you think there is to justify, unless you mean the lack of belief in an afterlife, in which case it would be up to believers to prove that such a thing exists. Personally i think it is a bit of fantasy and wishful thinking mixed together.

Are you looking forward to it?

No, I'd rather live forever if i had a choice.

Or are you scared, and hoping it won't happen for some time?
How often do you think about it seriously?

Not scared now, but if I was facing a painful death that would be scary. I do think about death occasionally, a few times a month probably. Life is just so much fun, it's a shame it has to end sometime.

I was watching you tube footage after the Houla massacre in Syria. Which caused me to wonder about the answers to the above questions that would be given by people who live there.

 

[Dave Rogers]

In my country I would probably have said Walsall.

"I'd like to go [to Heaven]. But if Jeffrey Archer's there, I'd rather go to Lewisham."

- Spike Milligan

 

[edge]

I am interested in what you think about death.

In your mind what it is like to be dead?
Can you imagine it?
Can you justify your position?
Are you looking forward to it?
Or are you scared, and hoping it won't happen for some time?
How often do you think about it seriously?

I was watching you tube footage after the Houla massacre in Syria. Which caused me to wonder about the answers to the above questions that would be given by people who live there.

It is freedom and memories that never die.
First you black out and you wonder where you are at.
Then things start to clear away at this point you don't want to come back.
You remember the pain you were in before you died, you remember why you blacked out and then the amazement at your situation starts to happen.
There is no fear for me anymore; the only fear is the pain if there is any before I go.
There is a fear if you can call it that but it's more like regret that you haven't done enough while you were here.
Maybe like worthiness, are you worthy of another life?
People who kill, (the people who want to stay in power) people like in Syria, are not worthy, the reasons don't justify their actions especially over materialism, greed, power.

Lately I’ve been thinking, I know my time is short now but I try to not think about it and I figure there is nothing I can do to stop it when my time is over it's over.
Plus there are so many other ways it can happen other than health.
I just watched on the news how a part of a plane crashed through a car, so you never know.

I walk my dog at night for about a mile but part of that walk it is on a busy part of a main road here and I always, when I'm on that stretch wonder what could happen if one person were to just slightly veer off the road as my back is to traffic, I wonder if I don't see it coming how brutal that could be just by the shrapnel they could cause and send flying towards me.

The other night I seen the results on my route of that when someone hit one of these bike lane signs that is only one foot off the curb and it’s the first part of that walk on that road. Luckily it happened before 9:00 o’clock at night. I do a mile walk with my dog at 9:00 in the morning and 9:00 at night.
I walk 2 miles a day, for him and me.
The sign with it's pole must of went flying at least 200 feet.

 

[dafydd]

I know, but what do you think it will be like?

The same as it was before I was conceived. For the astrologers amongst you, I was conceived under the sign ''Keep Off The Grass''

 

[dafydd]

Interesting question Punshhh.

What do you think about it btw?

He already has his place booked beyond the event horizon of the formless.

 

[dafydd]

]It is freedom and memories that never die.
First you black out and you wonder where you are at.
Then things start to clear away at this point you don't want to come back.
You remember the pain you were in before you died, you remember why you blacked out and then the amazement at your situation starts to happen.

Evidence of this supposition?