Death & Just not being here anymore in general

driver_problems · 30-03-2006, 19:38

Anybody got any thoughts on this? I was watching a thing in New Orleans (before it got flooded and on the tv) about how they sort of celebrate the life rather than mourn.

tick · 30-03-2006, 19:52

I have allways thought of it as celebrating the life rather than mourn the death

**Russ** · 30-03-2006, 19:54

Death is just a transition?

ikthius · 30-03-2006, 19:58

everything dies!

who cares what is on the other side, I will be too dead to know, I just want to feed the worms when I die.

ik

**Russ** · 30-03-2006, 20:00

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Originally Posted by ikthius

everything dies!

Energy doesn't....

30-03-2006, 20:03

I view death as a transition, dying doesn't bother me at all but - how i die does (i'd like to go in my sleep).

When i do die my partner and children are fully aware that my body has to be left to a university of medical students to see just how much a person can abuse a body.

**Damien** · 30-03-2006, 20:06

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Originally Posted by Russ D

Death is just a transition?

Wish i could belive that

30-03-2006, 20:24

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Originally Posted by Damien

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Originally Posted by Russ D

Death is just a transition?

Wish i could belive that

It's a fact Damien. One minute we can be alive the next - dead. I suppose it depends on what the transition is going to be. I'm not religious in any way but i do realise that one day i'm going to die. Some see that a god (place his name here) will welcome them with open arms and then allow them to be reincarnate - me, i have three children who will pass my genes down the line so i've done exactly what mother nature intended. If a god allowed me to have such wonderful children then i'll thank him if i'm proved wrong

**Russ** · 30-03-2006, 21:01

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Originally Posted by Damien

Wish i could belive that

It doesn't have to be a religious point of view. The way I used to think before I got involved in all this God business was that nothing actually dies - our bodies may rot but they transform into something else. We decompose? Fine, we then feed the earth, which then goes in to plants which will grow - perhaps they'll blow away, or get cut down, or eaten but the chain continues. Whatever happens, I don't see death as 'the end', more like 'the transition', however my beliefs tells me where that transition takes us to.

driver_problems · 30-03-2006, 21:50

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Originally Posted by Russ D

The way I used to think before I got involved in all this God business was that nothing actually dies

I wonder if you are thinking of something like this

**Russ** · 30-03-2006, 21:56

Nowhere near as deep....

driver_problems · 31-03-2006, 00:17

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Originally Posted by Russ D

Nowhere near as deep....

on reflection, and after another glass of wine, it makes me wonder why I posted that question at all

Taf · 31-03-2006, 00:58

After all our medical advances... life is still terminal....

driver_problems · 31-03-2006, 01:00

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Originally Posted by Taf

After all our medical advances... life is still terminal....

more so after a kebab in Carolyne Street

31-03-2006, 01:09

after I die, the physical part of my body will return to the stars, eventually...

the 'consciousness' I have, is another matter, though, not where it is going - where did it come from ????

I am not being facetious, btw