What is so scary about DEATH?
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hey guys
im sad =[
my girlfriend broke up with me =[
im sad =[
my girlfriend broke up with me =[
how do i?
I hear suicide is quick and painless.
These are my instructions, if I get to the point where I am drooling and in diapers.
So you do not believe in another life after the death. That makes the thing a bit thrilling though
Fraggle Rocker
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In my country at least (USA) most people are control freaks to one degree or another. Death is the ultimate relinquishing of control. Rich people often go to great lengths to control events after their death, such as (in the best case) establishing charitable foundations or (in the worst case) making their heirs conform to strict qualifications in order to receive their inheritence.
The "soul" is a fiction created by people in order to believe that they won't really die. But for people who believe in it, it's generally part of a set of religious beliefs, which invariably include a dichotomy for assigning a soul to a heaven or a hell--for all eternity--depending on how honorably life was lived. Very few of us have lived lives of flawless behavior, even by our own standards much less those of any major religion. So it's natural for people who believe in an afterlife to worry that they won't go to the destination of their choosing. This certainly explains why far more Americans--when cleverly questioned to avoid noticing the cognitive dissonance--believe in Heaven than in Hell.
One reason the wrists are the location of choice is that the arteries are very close to the surface, beneath skin that's rather battle-hardened by daily life, so it's not as painful a cut as, say, one's throat. Nonetheless these days that's not one of the preferred methods for suicide. Depressants are far more popular.
As the Head Linguist around here I have to point out that that is a misuse of the word. "Dead" and "death" by definition are permanent and irreversible. In fact the consensus definition of "death" in humans is "irreversible degradation of the synapses, preventing any resumption of cognition," which rules out life support for a brain-dead corpse. You were not "dead." You had no pulse, no respiration, and perhaps they couldn't even find your brainwaves with the technology at hand. But they proved that your synapses were still salvageable and that your cognition was still capable of resumption. In other words, they proved that you had, in fact, not yet died.
"Clinically dead" is not the same as "actually dead." Dead people cannot be revived, period. Sometimes we don't know if someone is actually dead so we guess wrong. Sometimes a person is not quite dead because technically the synapses and cognition are salvageable, but he's unconscious and other injuries prevent revival, so he quickly dies. We say he had already "died" when he came in, which is fine for all practical purposes, but it is imprecise and it gives rise to notions like yours, that you were "dead" when you were not.
Outside the academy of the philosophers, "dead" implies that there was once life. An animal plant, culture, fire, etc. that was once alive, and is no more, is dead. But a lump of matter that was never alive is not dead. It is merely "non-living." A creature that has not come into existence yet is not dead either. He is simply not there at all.
Only if you do it right. People who shot themselves and were found in a pool of blood spent several minutes bleeding to death. People who are found hanged without breaking their necks spent several minutes suffocating. People who jump only thirty or forty feet to the ground may survive while they die from failure of the crushed organs.
What really creeps me out is people deliberately drowning themselves. First the thrashing as their primitive instinct takes over and creates a sense of panic, then finally a minute or longer with lungs full of air--which has got to be one of the most painful feelings possible--before they lose consciousness from lack of oxygen to the brain.
So you do not even believe in human being's having souls. That's good! You've solved the problem from the very root
So, I just wonder, have do you explain the difference between a living being and a dead one if there is no soul? Also if there is no other world than this one, then what is the purpose of our coming to life? I mean, all of us know that our tiny tiny tiny planet in the known universe (as compared to the yet unknown parts of the universe and also considering that about 80% of the already known universe is said to be the dark part we can not see by today's technologies), is like a piece of sand in a vast desert and the real meaning of time in the universe is much much much longer than our days and years, so it seems that the life given to us to live here n this world is enough to do nothing. Then is it really worth us coming to life considering that nothing in the universe is in vain? I do not believe in purposeless existence...
I think dying must be a pretty intense experience.
It's going to be scary and probabl painful, but it's the last experience in your existence, it is supposed to be intense.
If i can choose, I'd like to have a very painful one. I want to feel the passing... Just dying in my sleep would suck.
It's going to be scary and probabl painful, but it's the last experience in your existence, it is supposed to be intense.
If i can choose, I'd like to have a very painful one. I want to feel the passing... Just dying in my sleep would suck.
Scared of death? Who...me? I guess I don't fit the description. I ask myself how can I make it final? Death does not come easy, it seems to avoid me?
Heres a question no one has yet answered, what happens when you destroy your own soul? The body lives on, but not forever. When death comes at last, what then?
I just want to make it intense, like jumping off a cliff and feeling terror and adrenaline, as opposed to dying in bed... you know?
Enmos
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Ah.. yea. I rather just fade though.. lol
Why must there be a purpose? Must the lives of other animals have a purpose as well?
I believe so... But that purpose is not as superior as that of the human beings.
I personally believe people will feel it even when they are sleep. Death is not something solely physical, so a physical matter like sleeping won't affect you feeling it. Death seems to be painful any way, even if you are asleep you'll feel it. I read somewhere in an Islamic text that the easiest death was Moses' death, and he felt, while dying, like a sheep being skinned alive, which means death will be very painful anyway:shrug:
Depends on the circumstances but it certainly is not always painful, there is always fear and the fear is like nothing else because you are aware of what is happening. Unless you are in a state where you are not aware like in a coma.
The death is natural,so i am not afraid