Topic: Death

[Krathen Astreyk]

That is a logicical progression though I don't think we will advance into aliens I feel we will advance into a higher plane say being able to move through time as though it were space.

[Cormer Lir]

I rather rarely feel a desire to "end it all", but I will confess to a burning curiousity to see just what happens at or after death.  Which probably isn't all that healthy, but heck.  It's a fascinating question.  

I will admit to taking the pessimist's view, namely that once the last electrochemical impulses of my brain expend themselves, everything that is "me" will cease to exist.  Which makes the time I have here a bit more important, I reckon....

[Helmed Horror]

Here is a hyperthetical question

If you were shot and you realised that you were about to die and your killer dropped the gun. Would you

1. Shoot your killer
2. Shoot yourself again
3. Shoot randomly at crowds

Well what do you think? What would YOU do?

[Tuisich-Anastari]

um...I choose #4, none of the above.  I'd be looking for my loved ones/someone to give them a message saying goodbye and I love them and all that stuff.  And then I'd be praying with my last breath.

[Raxor]

quote:
when we are first anything we were a little blob of cells. Then we bacame more advanced and were babys. then more advanced adults. wouldnt it make sence that we would continue to advance. now what is more advanced than humans hmmm.. aliens so we are gonna end up as aliens

I dont think we'll advance into aliens, I think we will advanse into....Death.

By the way I definately agree with Cormer Lir.

I cant belive that I'll get to meet some god when i die or get reincarnated even if i would like to belive it (wich I do). Guess I weren't indoctrinated as a kid.

[Raxor]

I live in sweden by the way and a little heat from hell wouldent be that bad

[Helmed Horror]

4 would be do nothing and die in a bloody pool.

I forgot to say you had sceonds unless you had loved ones near by stick to the hyperthetical question.

[Addinarr]

I'd shoot the guy. If he was non-threatening, I'd shoot out his feet and hands. Just to be on the safe side that he would hurt anyone else. That is...if I can reach the gun in my agony, and if I can shoot straight.

In any case, I'm in no particular hurry to die. Although I suppose it wouldn't be any real big deal....it'd be like the Final Sleep. You know no more. Still, we all have an aching urge to make ourselves immortal. There are two basic ways to do this. Have children [who will assume your likeness....sorta] and become a legend. Much like Bill Gates and people like Achillies and Odysseus. They will forever live on in our stories as long as the rest of us stand.

[JiMInY]

I'd shoot at the guy!!! he killes me i kill him. but  as 4 the death thing i beleive that our souls are infinite and live forever and live in the spirit world, and our bodies are vessels for souls, when the body is exausted we return to the spirit world and come back in another body, but also a new memory etc oh great now my brain is screwed up!!!!!!!!! i'm going to die!!!!!!!!!!!! a message to all, everyone likes summer righ? well most people only live 4 80-90 summers on average and you've alredy had at least 14-30! bwahahahahahahahaha haaa

[Krathen Astreyk]

right who killed me in my own blood on the closest object and if time allows write my last words underneith them.

[Zeus]

quoting sargent barnes from Platoon "death....what do yall know about death.....come on potheads id like to hear this"

[Krathen Astreyk]

I know death he comforts me when no one else will He keeps me from destroying those that are not ready to die he talks to me when I am alone and keeps me when you all laugh.

[SeñorFuegan]

I do not fear biological death, but rather psychic death. The loss of consciousness would perhaps the most terrifying fate of all.

psychic death, to me, means oblivion.  and i think oblivion is different than amnesia, cause you don't come back from oblivion yet amnesiacs sometimes snap to and remember everything.

[Calebone]

I wouldn't really mind just being wiped away. I wouldn't have to everience millions and millions of year of psychic consiosness or whatever.

And of cours, I wouldn't want to have an ever wandering fate.

[kademorton]

i don't belive in religion, but i do beleive in reincarnation...
the whole talk of death...is death a supernatural being that ends this agony that is life for us? (life is agony-Budda saying) ive noticed that people on this post sometimes reffer to death as "HE". is death a "SHE"? is it a being at all? or is it just a pittyfull human concept...makes you think doesn't it?

[Calebone]

I don't really think death is a being. Logicly, there can be no single being of a type, unless all the otheres died.

[kademorton]

there could be a whole race of these supernatural, ethereal grm reapers...

[Calebone]

Has anyone read the 'His Dark Materials' series? Ya know, the golden compass, subtle knife, amber spyglass. MAybe they're like spetres. Soul-eaters.

[Wolf Eyes Bane]

Ah yes, that too. If one gets amnesia [the biological equivilent of an erased hard drive], then your entire memory is wiped. Well....not everything, but quite a bit. The basic stuff is covered [eat, sleep, drink, ect] and perhaps even some personal habits. However, as much of your personality is 'wiped', you [if not helped by close friends and family] will basically turn into a completely different person.


....odd.

That Is one of the theroies, but not the most accepted one.  You can never losse memory, unless thouse brain cells die.  Once they are used they contain that memroy.  Amenisa is more the body's inability to path the brains nerology to stimulate thouse cells in order to "remember" the memory.  It is still there but very very hard to bring up if not impossible.

[Raxor]

Death is a he. A sceleton and he always speak in big Syllables.

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