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smn159
1,254 posts
86 months
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When I do die I've told my kids that they can dispose of me however they see fit, but no religious content of any kind please. They can, if they wish, play Frank Turner's 'Eulogy' though 
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daemon
8,740 posts
66 months
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I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather did. Not screaming and shouting like the people in his car. 
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GetCarter
16,698 posts
148 months
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stephen300o said: I like Woody Allen's line, "Some wish to achieve immortality through their work, I wish to achieve it by not dieing"
I think it will be interesting to see if anything happens next. My fav Allen of all time: "I don't have a problem with dying. I just don't want to be there when it happens". Sums me and my attitude up.
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ATTAK Z
2,028 posts
58 months
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When I die I 'll leave lots of buildings that I have designed behind ...
... so not too bad really
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1974nc
320 posts
31 months
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Nick M said: 1974nc said: ... but it is and always will be unknown as to what may occur to any sprit or soul after. That's just spiritualistic jargon for "You can't prove it therefore I'm not wrong". quote=1974nc] And bedsides it's not like science to prove something then disprove it and then prove it again is it? Actually if the scientific method is properly applied then that outcome is entirely feasible. It's true though isn't it? You and certain others may take delight in revelling in the blinkered view that science knows all but wait til you're on that deathbed yourself - I can assure you that wether you're a multi directorshipped well built hardman or not, you will be hoping for something better.
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King Herald
18,334 posts
85 months
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wildcat45 said: My Dad died peacefully, aware he was going. No drama. He just stopped living. Being a teenager from World War 2 he used to joke that the way to go was with a grenade in hand taking a bunch of German officers along with him for the ride! My dad is 76 now, still in moderatly good health. Last time I saw him, 1 1/2 years ago, he told me he reckons he has about five years left. He is very resigned about it. Most of his life he was very active, 40 years in the RAF, lots of sports etc, but the last 10 years or so he doesn't do very much, just watches TV a lot, and has a good drink of an evening, in front of the TV. He has a garage full of DIY tools, but rarely touches them nowadays. Most all my interests and skills come from watching him working, building, fixing, repairing things through my years. I think he was hoping the tools would pass on to me eventually, but a couple of years ago I moved my family overseas, and I think that has pulled some of the vitality out of my dad. If ever I think of death nowadays it is usually whether I will be there for my parents, when their time comes. I need to take my family back and visit, but the price of tickets and the logistics of it are a pain, though I obviously don't want to leave it too late...
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stephen300o
12,624 posts
97 months
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Everyone should try it once, but try it last.
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Cotty
24,917 posts
153 months
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Not too bothered about it really. It will happen sooner or later. No point worrying about it.
My dad's more worried that he will outlast me.
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AudiSport
739 posts
85 months
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I've always been scared of death, until I nearly died - and I don't remember being scared at all. Strange, can't really elaborate much. But I'm not so scared anymore.
Try not to waist your time thinking about death, concentrate on life, and all those amazing things you take for granted. On deaths doorstep I was disappointed I had never tried my own business, or become a parent. Some two years on I'm a proud father, and working on a business idea.
What two things do you need to do?
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birdcage
1,720 posts
74 months
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I visited the holocaust museum in Berlin earlier this year and that taught me something about death that will stay with me forever, even more so having two small children.
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TheHeretic
67,822 posts
124 months
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1974nc said: Pedant! The mystery of 'what happens after death - if anything' Pedant? There is no indication that anything happens after death except for decomposition. Anything else is unfalsifiable fantasy IMHO.
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stephen300o
12,624 posts
97 months
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TheHeretic said: 1974nc said: Pedant! The mystery of 'what happens after death - if anything' Pedant? There is no indication that anything happens after death except for decomposition. Anything else is unfalsifiable fantasy IMHO. If your wrong do let us know.
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TheHeretic
67,822 posts
124 months
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stephen300o said: If your wrong do let us know. People have been promising to let others know for thousands of years. What part survives? If the soul is immortal why do you not remember what it was like before you were born? I am fully expecting death to be like the millions of years before I was born. If you are not merely biological parts, why are we made gibberish and vegetables when we get brain damage?
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-Pete-
1,908 posts
45 months
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The Nur said: Timmy35 said: I often wonder when the last time old people had sex was, and when they did it whether they thought, "well that's the last time I'm doing that" maybe you just go off it eventually? Or maybe you don't and they are all at it in nursing homes but no one ever talks about it. Perhaps they are all sat there w  king like chimps. Some things are just best left undiscovered. I can't think about death with this scene inside my head
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ApexJimi
8,097 posts
112 months
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I'm at my parent's place just now, because I'll be picking them up from the airport in a couple of hours. I nipped up to my Dad's office to use the shredder, and on the way back out, I paused to look at some photos that are on display - of me, my folks, both my late grandparents, and my old cat.
Now, to the question - do I think about death much? No, not really but I can tell you that I'm terrified of losing my parents.
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stephen300o
12,624 posts
97 months
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TheHeretic said: stephen300o said: If your wrong do let us know. People have been promising to let others know for thousands of years. What part survives? If the soul is immortal why do you not remember what it was like before you were born? I am fully expecting death to be like the millions of years before I was born. If you are not merely biological parts, why are we made gibberish and vegetables when we get brain damage? Thats what I thought last time.
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TheHeretic
67,822 posts
124 months
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stephen300o said: Thats what I thought last time. Don't tell me, you were Napoleon? Why are they always Napoleon?
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King Herald
18,334 posts
85 months
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Timmy35 said: I often wonder when the last time old people had sex was, and when they did it whether they thought, "well that's the last time I'm doing that" maybe you just go off it eventually? Or maybe you don't and they are all at it in nursing homes but no one ever talks about it. I first thought that when I returned to the fold after six years away overseas,and planning to stay in my parents spare room for a while. I then noticed they slept in separate bedrooms....... They would have been mid-late fifties then. Hmm, I thought. No spare room then. I'm 52 myself now and sort of losing the 'drive' myself a bit now.....
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Zwolf
22,321 posts
75 months
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Condi said: Everyone has to have some thing, some reason, to get up in the morning. Isn't the fact that they didn't die in their sleep usually reason enough? I think most people are just basically marking time until that morning upon which they don't awake, distracting themselves by various means along the way so as not to think too much about the utter futility of most of human existence. Why do I get up in the morning? Easy, because I'm not dead. One day I shall be and my consciousness will return to the state of infinite nothingness it inhabited prior to conception. That's all life is, a relatively random and inifinitesimally short flash of light between two infinite darknesses. I can see why that might imbue a sense of existential angst in many, but I draw comfort from it in a strange way - knowing that *this* isn't forever.
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wildcat45
2,537 posts
58 months
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From memory....
"We are things that dreams are made on. Our little lives rounded by sleep"
The Tempest.
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