Strange, I just wrote a hub about this. Eternal life is possible in a computer.
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.
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
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...)
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
slap, slap, slap. there were at least three slaps in here.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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
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:>
by Osa Osazuwa-Tosan 15 years ago
The fear of death is the root of failure, the beginnng of foolishness. If you are afraid to die you will never live. Death is not real. It is an aberration. You can rise above the fear of death. Yet the fear of death reigns supreme in men and women.There's much to be said on the subject, but I...
by bolt1951 13 years ago
I believe this simply because it appears that everyone is looking for salvation. They are so afraid of life that thier only choice is to look into what appears more pleasing. So what can be more pleasing than having to live forever. (as if that were so much fun) I would hate to live for ever...
by reallifesituation 12 years ago
Why are we so scared to have a genuine conversation about race?I don't mean that conversation where we have built our repertoire of accepted and racially sensitive words, lingo and phrases. I mean that conversation where we sit across from each other, and are not deathly afraid to be open, where we...
by Samantha Harris 12 years ago
How can a person overcome the fear of death?How do you deal with something that is so frightening and inevitable?
by Grace Marguerite Williams 8 years ago
What are the FIVE THINGS that people are MOST fearful/apprehensive of? Why?
by H P Roychoudhury 13 years ago
Is it for the fear of death that we well come Christmas to please the all powerful Jesus, the God?
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