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.

[XMETAL_MASSACREX]

I am honestly terrified about the afterlife. I think the whole reason is, how do we really know what is to come.

I hate to say this, but I was going to church a few years back. I was totally drowning in it. I believed I had found the ultimate truth. Ultimate happiness and acceptance. But somewhere along the way, I stopped attending church and doing everything that comes along with believing in christianity. I guess I started having thoughts, and believing in things that I knew that the church and god wouldn't accept me for...even though they were things that I truely believe in. My whole point here, is now after belonging to that mindset for so long...my beliefs are so unstable and distorted. I believe in God as a being. I believe in a high possibility that if you believe in the things that He wants you to believe in, you will get into heaven, but I don't believe those things. I believe in following truth....and not something that makes you feel worse about yourself. My biggest fear about dying, is of the possibility of perishing forever. It sometimes scares me so much, i'm afraid to fall asleep, with the possibility of never waking up. I dont know. I wish I had the relief of knowing and accepting something, but I'm just lingering in doubt of all the ideas of the afterlife

[mari m]

Personally. The body is done, it doesn't need your spirit, soul, essence, whatever you want to call it, anymore. It's time to move on. What the next step is I don't know.
But I have on a list on my computer what I want done at my funeral. Two songs are to be played. Lighting Crashes and On My Way Home. They sum up what I hope will happen. rebirth and going back to a beginning.

Personal note. My father died last year. It was an interesting time. We (family) were able to look back on his life and smile. There were a lot of good memories there. In fact when we went out to dinner after the visitation we were laughing and joking so much about our dad, the restaurant thought it was a birthday party.

[Sick]

I don't think on it too much. As for an afterlife, I don't have the slightest inclination as to what, if anything, comes next. When it comes to death, I don't want to know when it's coming or how. I'd rather die stepping off the curb too soon then of old age. After what I've experienced, I think quick is best. My grandmother died of lung cancer, and I was in the room when she passed. From seeing that, I don't believe there's anything romantic or poetic about it. It looks like a horrible experience. She look exhausted, in great pain, and confused. Then she just stopped being alive. And seeing what it did to the rest of the family, I wouldn't wish any of it on anyone. I've seen my grandfather get his finger cut off without flinching, but he cried when she died. So, I guess in answer to the question, I see it simply as the end. Not an end, but the end.

[Cheez Romance]

i'm not really scared of it because i think you just stop... one day your thinking and breathing and the next your just not.... nothing in the afterlife... no soul or spirit just nothing

[Emanon]

Death is not something I fear, I've been close to death than most people, and I have known fear most of my life. I've come to accept the fact that I will one day die, there is nothing that I can do to stop it, and trying to make it sooner comes with it's own consequences. In my opinion death is peace, and the way of life.

[girl]

Yeah, to me death is not anything to fear, I mean you can't really fear it when thats all you wanted for about two or three years, but now, I think I understand it a bit more, and I'm just not convinced that anything bad could possibly happen to me once I'm gone...

[ilb4ever]

I have had some close encounters with death myself but nothing to keep me from living. Right now to me I'll be honest I dont want it to be an ending. No one does. most of us want to believe that death is not an ending to us. But no one really knows for sure. When I was a kid I believed that death was just the begining of another life. Like rencarnation but not. It was just as though your life started over agian. But you had the choice to do things differently this time around. With out knowing it of course. You are givin the same situations and if you choose the same path you get what ever is coming to you.but no none of that thinking seems right. I dont know what happens all I know is I'm alive. Thats how it is and how it should be. Questioning what could happen can go on for years but no one really will know until they die what happens after

[marissa gardner]

death, well it is a common misconseption that it is a bad thing no matter waht happens after you die i still dont see a negitive no matter what(unless you are an evil person) you have no more pain in way shape or form and that is in one word peaceful i personally belive in rencarnation i belive we write our own stories befor we live them over and over agin death is just the break in between them i love my life now and am very happy with myself but contrary to social stigma and as morbbid as it sounds i antticipate death i accept it with open arms the only thing about death that pains me is to loose a loved one that is the hardest thing in life only because we humans are selfish and cannot accept our lovesed one time of peice becuse we want the to still be apart or our life experiance but that is the hipocrasy of life.....

[marissa gardner]

also why fear the enevidable..... all that dose is waste you time to experiance something good

[Safia Al-Dulaijan]

Death to me is a lot of things, for instance it's what unites us all as living beings, the biggest proof to how delicate we are.
In my belief there are three courses that everyone goes through, life, death, and then heaven and hell.
Death isn't something to fear, instead it's something people should keep in mind in order to seize the day and strive for their dreams as soon as possible. It's a reminder that every second counts, every second can make a difference.

[Liras]

Brandon, I think we go back into the Great Unknown, where we came from. It is peaceful and I will be in that state forever. Which is cool, I was there before this existence.

I do not think I will be wth my deceased loved ones in a conscious state. That does not scare or sadden me--it just means to live thoughtfully and be good to those I love now.

Death is a state, as was birth, as is living.

[serena ellis]

Please do not afraid of death, it is a crucial turn of your ongoing and never ending journey. You just change your vehicles(bodies) and restart it from beginning like the water re-cycle on earth, your soul is eternal, and it does not ever die, only your vehicles are collapsed sympathy words