I've been thinking about death a lot lately. My parents are both older and I've been struggling with my own health problems and last night I couldn't sleep because I was thinking about it. I don't scare easily but the idea of death scares me.
I've been thinking about death a lot lately. My parents are both older and I've been struggling with my own health problems and last night I couldn't sleep because I was thinking about it. I don't scare easily but the idea of death scares me.
Sexual intercourse, normally. Unless you're created in a lab.
eh doesnt christianity teach jesus died for our sins.... so there is no being judged or going to purgatory or hell anymore, jesus put a end to that by the bible stories right?
Despite some of the Authoritative comments here no one really knows.
However we DO know a couple of things about the process itself, at least some of us do.
The main thing being is that for most people, once death is certain, it is known that the body produces a compound similar to MDEO-DMT, which seems to make the process a lot horrible for the participant than for the onlookers in some cases.
Which is a mercy.
Afterwards it's a binary choice as far as I can determine, either nothingness, I.E the best, most uninterrupted, peaceful sleep possible OR a transition to a new and currently incomprehensible existence.
For which there is some scientific evidence to suggest that is a possibility.
My take, (FWIW) is that, if I'm going to get a nice peaceful unending sleep at the end, that's a nice enough reward after all this "struggle and strife with occasional bits of nice", but I'd better get everything squared away before I do that.
BUT, as I believe is more likely, I'm going to either be resurrected to face my God, or just transition in one of the many other ways people suggest (and sometimes claim!) happens, then I strongly believe it's best to have not "given up" or "failed hard" in this life...
Either way, when it comes, it comes, but until then there's a life to be had, and it may well be the only one you will ever have, so make the best of it.
And that starts with not living in fear all the time.
(As some malevolent souls in the world would have you do, fro some weird or horrible reasons)..
All human life begins at the moment of conception - as traditional Catholics, it is not for us to question the ways of God and for that which we do not know or understand, to be freed from a state of original sin and enter into a state of Grace, we must adopt and accept the assent of faith, which is the very essence of our faith
For me, death is simply a matter of referring to the traditional teachings of the Catholic faith Pre-Vatican II - we do not know the hour or the moment of our death, so we should be prepare ourselves and be in a constant state of readiness for when God calls us to Himself - only if someone is a child or dies in a particularly tragic way will that person go direct to heaven, most of us will go to Purgatory where our sins will be examined and evaluated, but we will all face the Divine Justice in the Divine Courts of Justice before the Divine Magistrate to give an account of our lives on earth - our position on earth will not matter, only our actions and deeds
I don't know. I did think there was nothing, you just ceased to exist. However, after my friend died earlier this year I had some odd experiences and now I'm not so sure.
It depends on whether you think we're just physical beings or we have souls - for want of a better word. Some part of us that transcends the physical.
I'm sorry for your loss.
If you need it
They helped me when I was grieving.
I'm more scared of life really. The prospect of 50 more years terrifies me.
50 more seconds is too much lol.
"It’s one of the great wonders of life: What will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up? And if you think long enough about that, something will happen to you. You will find out, among other things, that it will pose the next question to you: What was it like to wake up after never having gone to sleep? That was when you were born. You see, you can’t have an experience of nothing. Nature abhors a vacuum."
~Alan Watts.
the idea of death never scared me not even when i was a young kid.
i dunno whether its because i may have always just been depressive.. or the fact that death isnt logical.
think on it... what is the nothingness of death? .... if your thinking its blackness, then if you can percieve blackness then your still conscious right? .... nothingness doesnt exist. it cant exist. its a impossibility.
now for sure whatever it is that is, our memories are in these physical brains so we lose our memories and storage anyway with the physical brain. but theres many things that could happen after death.... im more leaning on the probability that whatever we are that powers these fleshy beings just gets reused to power another being, so reincarnation. and its so random you could be anything, combined with the fact there could be not only earth but trillions of other planets of life in existence with lifeforms you could be used to power. big variance for each life.
but ofcourse there may also be another one that limits your being to the space and time that you existed.... meaning when you die you are perhaps like a vhs tape being rewound back to the start of your life again.... which could be why we get dejavu. and is based on being immortal and nothingness not existing but yet your still only bound to the time and space you existed.
I'm torn between either there's nothing and you just cease to exist, or it's something so far away from our human experience that no person could even imagine it.
I guess they're not that different really. Since we have all existed for as long as we've known, I don't know how we can really get our heads around not existing.
I'm more scared of life really. The prospect of 50 more years terrifies me.
