So, if you weren't already aware, one of these days your lights are going to go out. No, not the lamp in the living room; that goopy grey sponge in between your ears.
With this in mind, what are your thoughts? Do you even think about it at your age? How often do you think about it?
Do you ever think about the way it will all go down? Peacefully in your sleep? Blazing fireball of torture and agony before lights out?
And what do you think will happen afterwards? Cloudy paradise with trumpets and half naked angels? Oblivion? Spaghetti monsters?
Have you experienced death and somehow came back from it? Have you ever watched someone pass away?
Let me hear your mortal opinions on this subject.
I am more or less looking forward to dying. I hope I have a heart attack while I'm out running, or at least something quick and unexpected. Only one male in my family made it past 70, so I'll probably die in my 60s or 50s.
No such thing as an afterlife and I think about it all the time.
Your brain contains a model of the world, including your surroundings and people you know, an organically-stored computer model of sorts. It's also continuously updated with new information. That's your memory and consciousness.
When you die, the brain stops processing new information, so consciousness is gone, and the inactive simulation quickly degrades as well as the neurons die.
So that's about it. You're dead and gone, and it's quite permanent. Entropy's like that.
Maybe at some point in the future they'll find a cure for the problem. It'd be tricky though, since it seems like it's something that's quite systemic. At some point, your cells stop trying to keep your body fully intact. Sort of like the sleep cycle, it's a system that (most) life on Earth happened to end up with as an answer to the problem of long-term survival. You can have very durable individual life forms, or have them constantly respawn fresh copies of themselves using available raw materials.
Maybe at some point we'll figure out how to directly recode DNA. We've all seen how grand we are at writing excellent computer software, so hopefully the first thing to write into DNA will be the ability to download updates from the Internet.
They have paperwork to help with that. Don't put that off.As long as I don't have to battle doctors on the way out, I'm good.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my father, not screaming in terror like his passengers.
That would look totally rad painted on the side of a van.
You cannot have death without life's contrast and vice versa.
My advice is continue to ponder about death, it leads to enlightenment. Literally the contents of an organ the size of a pea represents a paradigm shift in knowledge of your existence, your surroundings and yeah possibly the afterlife.
DMT: The Spirit Molecule: A Doctor's Revolutionary Research into the Biology of Near-Death and Mystical Experiences
http://www.amazon.com/DMT-Molecule-R.../dp/0892819278
DMT The Spirit Molecule Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-9AHa9YXmM
I think it could be a long time....
I do believe biological immortality will be technologically possible at some point and probably not too far off -- some say within 25-50 years, but I'll say within 200. That doesn't mean you still won't die due to accidents, diseases, crimes, etc, but it means aging will no longer occur and you could live practically forever.
:awe:Grampa: "Death stalks you at every turn!"
Lisa: "Grampa!"
Grampa: "Well, it does. Aaah! Death! There it is. Death!"
Lisa: "It's only Maggie."
Grampa: " Oh, yeah. You know, at my age, the mind starts playing tricks. So, aaah! Death!"
Lisa: "That's only the cat."
Grampa: "Oh. Aah! Death!"
Lisa: "That's Maggie again, Grampa."
Grampa: "Oh. Where were we? Death!"
I'm just sad that when I die, the people who'll remember me most would be in a post in this forum with one sentence RIP amdhunter or similar note. I'll be happy to get a sticky thread.
I could die tomorrow and I can count on one penis how many people would actually give a crap.
I'm just sad that when I die, the people who'll remember me most would be in a post in this forum with one sentence RIP amdhunter or similar note. I'll be happy to get a sticky thread.
I could die tomorrow and I can count on one penis how many people would actually give a crap.
The only thing that makes me sad is that my family will have to pay to do something with my body. Why can't we just "go out to pasture" or sign some paper that allows us to dig a hole and chuck our bodies in there. What a waste of money.
I originally had instructions that if possible, go in with another family and get me a 2-for-1 deal at the burn barrel, but then my mortician MIL said that mixing of cremains is illegal. WTF, mixing ashes is illegal.
Fuck this country and their ridiculous religious laws.
I can understand some of the laws with regards to body disposal. My wishes to just be tossed in a ditch seem rather unsanitary. Mixing of ashes being illegal just makes no sense though.
I'm just sad that when I die, the people who'll remember me most would be in a post in this forum with one sentence RIP amdhunter or similar note. I'll be happy to get a sticky thread.
I could die tomorrow and I can count on one penis how many people would actually give a crap.