Afterlife/death

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you should check out those books where people have died and came back/been broughten back to life

i used to think about death and stuff alot, try and work out how it felt and where i would go and what it would be like, then i got realllllllly freaked out as i suddenly realised the ONE thing we are garaunteed in life...is death!now that pushed me over the edge and i freaked out so bad, i made myself really ill, couldnt sleep, couldnt eat, couldnt do anything, but think about what it was going to be like, without me in the world and i couldnt get my head around how i was going to actually still be...even now it freaks me out thinking about it, as i dont want to die lolim 18 so still young, and this kind of thinking is unhealthy if done too much... well thats what the nurse at the hospital tolled me lol

If I did believe in reincarnation I would want to be reincarnated as a rare bird or Ewan McGregor's wife. LOL I'm sorry. I'm so bad. forgive me.

"Que sera, sera, Whatever will be, will be; The future's not ours to see. Que sera, sera, What will be, will be. Que Sera, Sera!"Like the song says, "what will be, will be". There's no point in worrying about the unalterable.The worry that the world goes on without you after you die, I think, is a little misplaced. The fact of the matter is that the world goes on without you even if you live. I think that may be one reason a lot of people of advanced age aren't afraid of death. They have lived their live, buried their friends, watched their children go off and make families of their own... and kinda forget about them, their music is gone, their vibrants is gone, their values are outdated, they become rather isolated and to them death becomes a release, even if it is just sweet oblivion.

Actually, life on earth is not only more unpredictable, but far more chaotic and downright BULLSHIT than any violent death could ever be, it is like a breath of fresh air or a welcoming breeze to me. That's how I see it. Even the fools who run around this earth "happy-go-lucky" have inner deamons that haunt them, the rich, the famous, the beatiful, the adventureous, the ones who seem to have it all. And do I even need to mention the ones who are suffering, underfed, tortured, abused in this world? I don't think I do. Take me away Calgon.

i wish i had some of your views, but just thinking about not being able to do the things i do now is scary. but since i got home i have been better, things around me are more familiar life is back to normal, but death is still scary

Don't like unexpected things?

no who does?

Originally Posted By: IneligibleThe Christian belief is in fact in the resurrection of the body, at least eventually. Scripture actually talks about a new body.

I do, I love it

whom idk i never read the bible front to back, but i did take a bible class in college, must of forgot, or skipped the resurrection section. regardless death is scary, im not sure anybody is seeing my view

We see your view, just some of us don't agree with it. Also, reply to the person your talking to, see how every post has its own reply button?

ok yeah i see it. i just wish i had most of your views on afterlife death, it may be because i dont go to church, and wasnt raised to go to church weekly. it could also be my lack of knowledge on afterlife regardless i feel better thanks to yours and others opinions and views. i cant stop it so i minus well accept it.

You say you were raised Christian Lutheran or whatever it's called. Have you ever actaully thought about the things you were raised under? Do you really believe all of that, or do you just believe them because that's the way your parents wanted it to be, and that's the way it's always been? Just a thought.> but just thinking about not being able to do the things i do now is scaryWhy is that scary? If you could never watch TV anymore, you'd get scared? You'll learn in life you always find things where you can't do them anymore, so you'll get used to it sooner or later.> couldnt imagine death as oblivionThen I have great news for you: You don't have to! Death is ntohing, and you won't be able to imagine anything. You won't remember anything, you won't even think at all, you won't be anything. > im not sure anybody is seeing my view Like Java said, we're all seeing your view. I can imagine that just about every person in the world who was thought about death like this has found death to be scary at least some point in their life. I guarantee it.I've stared death in the face so many times, so I know EXACTLY where you're coming from when you say death is scary. You think it's scary now, just imagine how scary it is when you realize you jus thave to take one more step to die. That's some scary shit.You just have to realize that there is nothing you can do to stop it. The more you try to prevent it, the sooner it'll probably come. Just live life to it's fullest (there's a reason people like this statement) every day - you never know when it might be the end.

i see your points, and ive looked into my religion and others (not only did i take a bible class but also a world religions class) and the christian religion seems the most logical. also im not scared of not being able to watch tv its the whole thing, not being able to move my hands, arms, legs, not being able to shower, not being able to talk, walk, drive, speak, hear, thats whats scary

Really? Out of all of them the religions of Abraham seen the most ridiculous to me.

not being able to move my hands, arms, legs, not being able to shower, not being able to talk, walk, drive, speak, hear, thats whats scary If you believe in an afterlife, then the above makes no sense. In an afterlife, you would be free of the physical world and exist in some metaphysical/spirit world. If you don't then what's scary about not being able to move, because once you die, you cease to be. You wouldn't be any different from the dirt you stand on. All of the above wouldn't matter.

I couldn't care less about any afterlife. I don't believe in any, and apparently I'm gonna burn for eternity because of it. But I'm more afraid of getting old than dying.

I'm afraid of my mind getting old, before my body. Terrified to end up like my great gramma. T-e-r-r-i-f-i-e-d.

My great granny went completely nuts in her old age, my aunty caught her wrapping her dog in tinfoil and trying to cook it for Christmas dinner. She honestly thought that it was a turkey. I'm horrified by that level of non-control.But I'm also scared shitless of my body getting old and useless. I wouldn't be able to stop myself from committing suicide if I ever got to the point where I can't do some of the simple things that I take for granted now. I felt so sorry for my granddad in his later years when I used to have to cycle up to his house nearly every second day cause he had fallen over in the bathroom or sometimes fallen down the stairs, and he just couldn't get up.