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Old 05-09-2014, 05:58 PM
 
Location: Earth
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None of these answers is soothing..the question of the finality of death hit me hard last night.

Am i too young for this?

17yrs old


Being dead is the easy part. Its the process of dying that's the problem.
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Old 05-09-2014, 08:35 PM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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None of these answers is soothing..the question of the finality of death hit me hard last night.

Am i too young for this?

17yrs old
Heck no!

I started pondering death when I was about 10.

Think of some of nature's most mesmerizing creatures: dragonflies, butterflies, frogs et al: they metamorphosize* from one stage to another.

I think we're just as amazing, albeit somewhat differently. I believe our life on Earth is just a stage in our development.

From here, we may change to ... who knows?




*Couldn't get the dang spell-check to agree to anything so I went with my gut.**


**Which precedes me most anywhere I go these days. It was a too-long, too munchie-filled winter.
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Old 05-09-2014, 09:23 PM
 
Location: Logan Township, Minnesota
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Heck no!

I started pondering death when I was about 10.

Think of some of nature's most mesmerizing creatures: dragonflies, butterflies, frogs et al: they metamorphosize* from one stage to another.

I think we're just as amazing, albeit somewhat differently. I believe our life on Earth is just a stage in our development.

From here, we may change to ... who knows?




*Couldn't get the dang spell-check to agree to anything so I went with my gut.**


**Which precedes me most anywhere I go these days. It was a too-long, too munchie-filled winter.
As one gets older the thought of death becomes somewhat comforting and one begins to look forward to discovering the next phase of our journey. But first want to finish every race I'm entered in, in this place called life.
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Old 05-09-2014, 11:27 PM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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As one gets older the thought of death becomes somewhat comforting and one begins to look forward to discovering the next phase of our journey. But first want to finish every race I'm entered in, in this place called life.
Agreed, my friend.
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Old 05-11-2014, 04:40 PM
 
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As one gets older the thought of death becomes somewhat comforting and one begins to look forward to discovering the next phase of our journey. But first want to finish every race I'm entered in, in this place called life.

I agree as we reallly don't die as this is a phase of life here on Earth till we meet our Creator in Heaven
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Old 05-11-2014, 04:53 PM
 
Location: Texas
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Lightbulb Does anyone else find the finality of death terrifying?

As I approach the end, it becomes increasingly less troubling. All that lives, dies. We're not separate from nature.

The billions of years that passed before our time weren't the least bit terrifying. Those billions that follow won't be, either.
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Old 05-11-2014, 06:12 PM
 
Location: In exile
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I'm perplexed how some atheists can be so cool with the idea. I believe in some kind of afterlife, but when I didn't really believe I often worked myself up into an existential panic over the fact that once I died, it would be the END OF THE UNIVERSE, THE END OF EXISTENCE AND THE END OF TIME FOREVER! From a subjective point of view, of course.

Isn't that freaking scary?
Not at all. It will be just like falling asleep.
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Old 05-13-2014, 09:46 AM
 
Location: Log home in the Appalachians
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you know I am often amazed at those who seem to be afraid of dying,dying is a part of the cycle of life and once we learn that, there is no reason to be afraid of death.It's a part of life....
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Old 05-13-2014, 10:21 AM
 
Location: Logan Township, Minnesota
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you know I am often amazed at those who seem to be afraid of dying,dying is a part of the cycle of life and once we learn that, there is no reason to be afraid of death.It's a part of life....
True my Friend.

Why is it so many look forward to the different life accomplishments, but fear what just might be the greatest accomplishment? Graduation from this physical realm.
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Old 05-14-2014, 09:23 AM
 
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When religion is grilled on to your brain, you get ascared about what'll happen next ESPECIALLY, since you CAN'T disprove their notion. I would really hate to get stuck in an unpleasant situation if there is an afterlife...
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