Perhaps, if you spent less time posting on AT and more time doing something worthy of remembrance that wouldn't be the case? Only those that strive for greatness will obtain it.
The AT server probably uses RAID, and it might have regular backups. The posts here could potentially last longer than the results from spending time elsewhere.
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.
This sort of thing came to mind the other day (a relative is in the hospital with flu or pneumonia, and she's in her 90s).
We have lots of weird rituals concerning death, with and without religion.
I was thinking about the whole "viewing" thing.
"I know what'll make everyone feel better! Let's dress up the corpse all nice and show it off to everyone!" You know, really drive home the "this person is dead" thing.
How about let the dead body be somewhere else, and have a nice funeral, maybe with some with photos around of the person back when they were still
alive.
If my corpse is going to
have to be on display, at least be kind enough to prop me up in a realistic pose as people remembered me......so sitting at a computer, neffing away.
:hmm:
Yes, let's just stick with "neffing."
Death is scary because its a one way trip into the unknown all by yourself. There's no coming back from it. I'm not sure I want to be aware of my final passing moments.
Why I find it scary is because I don't believe in lights out forever. Because our universe somehow exists with me inside of it. If this universe spawned from nothing (even more crazy than String Theory) then the possibilities are infinite. I may not exist for some unfathomably long period of "time", but that won't feel like anything - just like before I was born. And whatever comes after - I don't believe I will remember this life. Honestly, it would almost be easier for me to not believe in something. Eternal sleep sounds easy. But something? That what scares the shit out of me when I really think about death.
With that said, it's interesting that we are wired to almost completely ignore it until it or almost happens. But how could we live otherwise? The only thing you can do is just enjoy now.
The Universe was probably spawned from
something. Problem is, we don't have a good way of describing it. For example, you can move forward along time's arrow, and people talk about moving backward. What if, instead of those directions, you moved to the right instead? What kind of dimension would you call that?
And normal physics that our bubble of spacetime follows get damn screwy when you start asking things like "What if I compressed the Universe to a ball the size of an alternator?" Sorry, you just broke physics. Let's call it a "singularity."
Infinite possibilities: Why does the Universe's origin automatically mean infinite possibilities? There's also the matter of probability. Some things are theoretically possible, but they are
so improbable that they are, for any practical purpose, impossible.
Here's an interesting idea: Time for your consciousness is an undefined function.
For you, time only exists as long as you are aware of it. Before you were born, what did you think of reality? Nothing. "You" were not in existence, so you couldn't perceive or remember anything. Likewise, when you die, that processing again returns to the realm of "doesn't exist."
Thinking about what death "feels like" or "is like" is likely similar to what a computer would feel if it tries to divide by zero. It is difficult to think about because it's a practical impossibility: Death isn't a thing that can be experienced, as it is the complete lack of experiences. Our brains don't like that divide-by-zero scenario, so a lot of us bypass it by saying "Zero doesn't exist."