Death. Scared? no religion here please.

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   Izzy Anneposted 14 years ago

   Strange, I just wrote a hub about this.  Eternal life is possible in a computer.

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      DogSiDaedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      What?

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         TLMinutposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         One of my boys has always wanted to do this - upload his consciousness and never deal with a body again. He hasn't decided what to do about being at the mercy of people who still have bodies - he wants to do this "when" EVERYONE does.

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            Izzy Anneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            With all sorts of things under control of computers, I guess it is equally possible that those with bodies will be under control of those inside the computer network.
            
            Frankly, I would rather be nothing than be without my body.

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         DogSiDaedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Edit:Read the hub, it's very interesting. Eternal life isn't possible in a computer, but regardless the tech and information is worth reading.
         Here's a link to her hub:
         http://hubpages.com/hub/Escape-death-by … a-computer

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   TLMinutposted 14 years ago

   DogSiDaed, it's funny to think you'll be with God when you're dead, isn't it?
   (Unless you think you'll go somewhere he isn't...)

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      DogSiDaedposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Err but I won't be. Either I'm right and there's no afterlife and I'm wrong and there is. Regardless of that it's even less likely to be your afterlife. And if it is yours I'll end up in hell, which sounds more fun than heaven

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         TLMinutposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         I just mean because of your name - He's dead, you're dead, you're both dead together! If he's dead, he must have existed at some time.

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   sooner than laterposted 14 years ago

   slap, slap, slap. there were at least three slaps in here.

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   TLMinutposted 14 years ago

   Now it's my turn, Sooner, what?

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   itcollposted 14 years ago

   of course i fear dead .

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   TheGlassSpiderposted 14 years ago

   To think that I will end. That my feelings, perceptions, thoughts...existence will simply stop. It is unfathomable. Inevitable. It sends shivers up my spine, and yet...what lies beyond that final veil? Is there life after death? Is there reincarnation? Is there only darkness and peace...lack of anything. I cannot help but wonder. Perhaps death is only a beginning.
   
   I don't fear death so much as the cause of my death. Long terminal illness makes terrified. The big C...organ failure...heart disease...*wiggles in discomfort*
   
   Give me something fast, painless, and that I don't see coming.

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   Going2Oahuposted 14 years ago

   I just read every post in this 5 page thread and am fascinated by the dialogue. I don't know what's gonna' happen when I die - wish I didn't have to. I've had friends die so quickly in accidents. They were like making shopping lists in their mind or thinking about a date the next night and then bam! I keep playing their accidents in my mind and thinking how sad is that? Alive and making plans, then suddenly gone. This has been a troubling thread for me to read - need a few days to process how I really feel I guess.

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   Denno66posted 14 years ago

   Am I scared? Nah. It is what it is. When will it happen? I'm glad I don't know. If I knew, what fun would each day be?

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   sooner than laterposted 14 years ago

   God said the wages of sin are death. That means we all must die. That means we all have sinned. But who will live again?

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    Mitch Rappposted 14 years ago

    Why be afraid of something that you cannot prevent? I think most people are scared because they look at it as they will be aware of what is going on around them, I personally do not believe that.

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    glendoncabaposted 14 years ago

    No!  My father and I spoke of his possible fate a week before his death and he demonstrated practical faith as he shared his song:  "Trust and obey".
    
    He was quite open to recovery from illness or death.  And feared neither.
    
    By this example he has taught me how to die.
    
    Naturally, I would love a long healthy life so I would be slightly annoyed if death plucks me younger than 90.  But I look forward to eternity.
    
    Like the other parents here I would love to see my kids grow up, and be there for them.  But death is so unpredictable.  Thank God we have eternity.

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    zampanoposted 14 years ago

    Suffering scares...
    
    Not being master of your own sphincters... Shit !
    Prostrated on a bed for an indefinite time... not enough energy to move any more, not a sparkle of will neither...
    Washed, intimately cleaned by someone you never met before...
    Laying all day long... facing the ceiling... unbearable pain softened by liquid drugs entering you from a plastic tube into a thousand times perforated vein...
    People looking at you as if you were waste... (which you are hehehe)
    And all you can say is :
    Rhaaaaaa... rhahhhhhhh... rhhhaaaaahhh ...
    All day... all night...
    A long agony...
    That scares me so, I'm unable to think about death.
    
    I'd like to quote BS&T :
    
    And when I die, and when I'm gone,
    There'll be one child born
    In this world to carry on,
    to carry on.
    
    BS&T And when I die

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    ecobardposted 14 years ago

    Well, according to the research from my last book, death will be very soon for most of us. Climate change is more advanced than governments and corporations will allow scientists to say. Never the less, the Japanese continue to hunt whales, unchallenged, in the Southern Ocean. At the same time, the bee populations continue to decline from chemical spraying and deforestation removes what is left of the carbon sink and bee nutrition.
       There are some politicians however, who spruik about climate change and tell other countries how they must deal with it. Kevin Rudd, Australia's prime minister, tells India not to grow its economy to save the planet. He also gives millions of taxpayer dollars to Indonesia, to prevent deforestation and burning. The ridiculous thing is, he allows the same practice to continue in his own back yard; don't do as a do,http://hubpages.com/hub/awormintheapple do as I say:>

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