Death

[Brandon]

Just wondering what peoples' views on death are. I myself don't really have an aviodance to it, having been closer to it than many people and more than once as well...also having seen it happen firsthand and whatnot...I'm just curious as to what other people believe about it. Is it an end? a beginning? a contiuation? a rebirth? you get the picture.

[Ankh]

What happend since youve been close to it?

Im very arfaid. I really cant explain it, but the thought of dying freaks me out. Ive had panic attacks and stuff by thinking too much about it.
But i think, that when youre dead, you get the choise to be reborn, or not. If you choose not to, you can always change your mind, and be reborn. What you become in your next life, deppends of what you were before. See, you have to work you up, to become something big and great.
But on the other side, i thinks its just like sleeping forever without dreaming :/

[Brandon]

Interesting...I like it and thanks for the honest reply. =)

[Brandon]

you know what? it has actually taken me this long to see that you asked a question in the begining of your post...yea i tend to suck sometimes lol...to answer the question though, in one story i was about 6 or 7 and i was rockclimbing with my family in new mexico where we lived. we were at a state park and my mom and dad were on the ground but i was about 20-30 feet up and guess what...i fell...on the way down i guess i thought it might be fun to do a headstand onto a rock ledge and crunch myself...well i rolled off of that and continued falling, but my dad caught me before i hit the rocks on the ground...i remeber falling and then being in a truck and then being at the lodge with some lady pouring hydrogen perioxide on my head, but i guess i was in the hospital for a week with a major concussion...no memory whatsoever of that...and to this day i have a small piece of my skull missing where that ledge took it out

for the other stories...i have been stabbed twice...oh yea great times those were...i have also fallen through thin ice twice..again soooo much fun...and i have also had a bike pedal embedded in my shin about 20-25 miles away from any form of civilization and had to walk back to my families campsite with no one else with me...so yea i was a very accident prone child lol

[Tony C]

I think that when you die, well, when death comes , To me you dont really die , you just pass on to the next stage of well "what ever"... My thinking can confuse ppl so stay with me, on earth your mind, body and soul are bound together. The body is the only thing that can change in the natural universe. AKA Time and matter. To me Time and Matter are like yin and yang, they go together, push and pull, the hate each other but they can't stay away from each other... so when you die, you leave time and matter, ( your body), then I think that you mind and soul become thier own version of yin and yang....
I sinserly hope I didnt confuse people...

[evilpuke]

If you fall on your head hard enough, and basically become retarded, would that not physically change your mind?

[Leigh]

I think about it all the time.

It's a sort of catharsis for me, only it's not dangerous. I avoid it for my family, we're already having issues imagine how that would work over hah!

I wish I had hope though, my dad is just like me...we've talked to tons of people who are religious in any way and we just...don't understand I guess? So to me when we die, we're gone. So why commit suicide when we can keep going and MEAN something. Hopefully as a photographer I might be able to let people see a different side of everything they see on a daily basis.

But this reply got way off topic.

But death? I think it's a peacful thing - to those who weren't savagely murdered - and that it means tranquility...

[maximum deminic diabolic soul]

i think about it alot, because it will be a escape from what i have and then maybe scare a few people

[Charlotte Tracey]

I think their is some form of after life, and I'd like to believe that the major religions have at least a basic grasp of it, but I don't really think anyone has any idea what's going to happen until you die.

I do believe in ghosts and in reincarnation.

I believe a lot of religions when it comes to hell, because the devil (or whatever it's called) wants to influence us so some stories may have been from peoples experiences with hell and it's creatures. However, god (for the sake of a name) doesn't want to influence us. He gave us free will and trust that we will do the right thing in the end.

I also don't believe that there are straight forward rules for being good. Like not killing, not drinking, not blah blah blah. I think as long as a person is good by their own standards of being good ("do on to others as you would have done to yourself") then that person is good.

Lately I've been bouncing around the idea of non-personified entities, rather then gods. For example, there is no god, just the force of creation. And there is no devil, just the force of destruction. And we live in a world where these to forces clash. The only thing I don't like about that, is there isn't much room for an afterlife or a soul for that matter, which are two things I do believe in, but I don't like the idea of personified gods who can command us to their will.

I think about this a lot....maybe a bit to much.

[Aaron L.]

I try to see death as not such a bad thing. I mean, it is sad no matter what but, I like to believe that when my loved ones pass on, they're now somewhere happy and peaceful. I try to think of it as just... the next step in life. Wow. I sound cheesy, huh?

[Reneaux Ruffin]

Well, i see it like this. We die and go to heaven if we accept the reality that we are dead and realize that heaven is there(I mean come one let's face it, how the crap can we go somewhere we don't believe exists? we'll make excuses and ignore it like people who don't believe in spirits) now if you don't find your way to heaven you either find a way back to this world somehow i really don't have a clue, but i'm pretty sure you can get back cuz i think hitler done made it back once or twice. If you do make it to heaven or "your happy place" for those of us who aren't strong on religion, you hang back for a while thinking over your past lives and where you need improvement(literally a while cuz time is so relative there. notice how you can dream for "days" but wake up and it's been mere hours?) Once we're good and rested we plot our new life out. But not the same thing unless we're unsastisfied with how we handled it before(whats the point of doing something we've done good already? we wouldn't grow). Sometimes we see people from past lives sometimes we don't, sometimes we're black sometimes we're not, but ultimately our next life is our choice as we grow spiritually and pass on our knowledge to bring this world closer to a loving embracing universe. When we think we've done all we can, we stay back "home" and work through there maybe sending info through whispers on the winds or sudden bursts of knowledge from some unknown source. Cuz honestly, where the crap do some of these theories come from. You answer on question and a zillion others pop up, sometimes you just don't know how you know something or someone for that matter. Our eternal spirits at work. I could add on where God factors into this, but i think you get it. We work for him through him. We each carry his loving light inside of us, and that's regardless of what "social stigma" we carry.

[Ashlee]

Im actually very frightened by death and the whole thought of it. Im not really sure why Im so scared of it but its my number one fear. Im pretty sure there is more to it then just blackness and nothing more....but im not too sure what there could be. I do believe in reincarnation...so i guess if anything i believe that once you die you come back as something or someone else.

[evilpuke]

I would be more worried about the affect it would have on loved ones. Would miss doing all sorts of cool stuff that I do.