How do you approach your own death?

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How do you approach your own death?

Post by cronus » Tue May 23, 2017 7:47 pm

Is it important? something you think on? or is it something you avoid thinking about? saving it all until that very last minute? a mystery or a inevitability? does what happens after death matter or not? and in what way?
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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by laklak » Tue May 23, 2017 7:49 pm

As slowly as possible.
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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by Hermit » Tue May 23, 2017 8:16 pm

Without enthusiasm.
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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue May 23, 2017 8:24 pm

Sideways, and with a pound of mackerel in my backpack.
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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by JimC » Tue May 23, 2017 9:21 pm

Stoically, I hope...
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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by Brian Peacock » Tue May 23, 2017 10:23 pm

That first heroic dose of magic mushrooms put me at ease with fact of my own mortality.

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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by JimC » Tue May 23, 2017 10:57 pm

Foul-tasting things they are, certainly the Oz version...

But certainly interesting... :levi:
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Post by Hermit » Wed May 24, 2017 12:03 am

JimC wrote:Foul-tasting things they are, certainly the Oz version...
Not if you dice them and brew them along with some tea or mix them in with honey. Mixed with honey they also last a long time. You could harvest them around Noosa or Byron Bay and have a supply back in Sydney for many months. So I was told anyway.
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Post by pErvinalia » Wed May 24, 2017 1:18 am

Define "you". :coffee:
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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by NineBerry » Wed May 24, 2017 1:41 am

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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by Hermit » Wed May 24, 2017 2:20 am

pErvin wrote:Define "you". :coffee:
pronoun
1. used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing.
2. used to refer to any person in general.
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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by JimC » Wed May 24, 2017 2:30 am

You old silly!
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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by pErvinalia » Wed May 24, 2017 2:33 am

Hermit wrote:
pErvin wrote:Define "you". :coffee:
pronoun
1. used to refer to the person or people that the speaker is addressing.
2. used to refer to any person in general.
There's actually a serious point I am making, despite not having the energy to make it. I mean "you" as in the concept of the "self".
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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by JimC » Wed May 24, 2017 2:37 am

Given that we are soulless atheists, death is the total and final end to a self, defined in any form you like...
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Re: How do you approach your own death?

Post by pErvinalia » Wed May 24, 2017 3:05 am

yeah. But that's why we need "you" defined. You've made an assumption that the "you" of yesterday is the same "you" of today. I disagree. I've described my view of this before. We die at least once per day (when we sleep), but more likely millions of times a day (between discreet moments of awareness). When you view death like this, the final death becomes no different. Nothing to fear.
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