Your View on Death

[Turalyon]

If it were possible to live forever and experience all it could offer, I think that there will be a point where you'd want to seek death because it would be the one thing that you've never experienced before. The reason itself would most likely be boredom since I'd think that new experiences in the living world are finite (despite infinite variations).

I would think that they would stop being novel given enough are time and be prone to feelings of 'sameness' in comparison to your vast past history and experiences. When ultimate boredom sets in, you'd just be living for living's sake and that would be hell... The only thing I can think of that would stop this would be if you forgot things (or somehow forced yourelf to) from time to time.

Either way, life's meaning is often defined through death. Either in its avoidance, it's delay or even just making use of the time to prevent/delay (and for worse, hastening) it for others. That said, what is life without death?

[GnaReffotsirk]

Yin and Yang, the eternal balance that makes things work.

You have a good point.

[Visions of Khas]

Just like any disease is also ''natural''. There's no reason to let aging creep around and make us rot.

You've got a point. :P

Bob Dylan once said, If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

There's a lot about the world we still don't know. I'm atheist, but philosophically I'm doaist and quasi-monist. I think that, on a level, all things are intimately connected; unified. Everything -- everything -- is defined by their interactions with all other things. Nothing can be considering completely independent of all other things (just as no man is an island). As I understand it, even as scientists attempt to isolate a particle there will always be a smidge of background interference; otherwise it enters into true uncertainty.

I read about an experiment conducted years ago, involving plasma. The particles began to exhibit a unified cohesion, and moved about in almost an organic way. The cause couldn't be found, and there was no discernible electromagnetic field effecting it. It was sort of a spooky action at a distance unifying of the particles.

My point is that, in some manner, I think something will always linger; actions and energy ripple through time and space, and all that you are and do is perpetuated across the universe. That is your lasting legacy. That said, I do not believe identity continues beyond death.

I mean, it's interesting. The brain seems to function in a holographic manner -- there is no central storing device in the brain. It's all kinda decentralized, allowing memories and skills to be revived even after traumatic brain injury. Scientists also believe the universe functions in a similar manner, holographically. Information for all parts of the universe are stored at every point in existence. And this reality we perceive is a projection from a lower (higher?) dimension.

Haha, another theory I read in Wired magazine back in high school also stated that some scientists theorized the universe would "reboot" at the end, heralding something of a second life.

Just a few interesting tidbits.

PS I didn't mean to be dark or foreboding in my last post. I work in a hospital, and see all kinda of crap these days. XD

[GnaReffotsirk]

Not dark nor foreboding at all. Very interesting ideas actually.

I don't know the science about this, but just before my brother died, he was seen in a school bathroom, peeing. The guy greeted him, without response.

Then in the afternoon the guy came running, "What? I just saw him this morning!" That was the same hour he met an accident which gg'd him.

Point is, maybe that memory of the universe thing is real. Who knows.

[Visions of Khas]

So, like I said before, I work at a hospital right now in the cardiology department. I was called to a code in hemotology at about 10.50 this morning. About a dozen techs, doctors and nurses were in the room, several nurses hovering outside. They called the time of death at 11.00. The noise and everything died down almost immediately, while one nurse left the room towards the bathroom to get some alone time.

I didn't know the man, though I had run across his name just a couple hours before. That made me recall Gna's post, about twenty minutes after everything.

I ran across a small touching story on reddit a couple weeks back. (Touching? Reddit? Surely I jest!) It was about this kid's dog being put down. The kid was told that it had to happen, but he didn't seem too upset. The vet asked why, and the kid said -- the paraphrase -- "The meaning of life is to love and be loved, unconditionally. People are here on this earth so long because we need a lot of time to learn that; dogs come into the world already knowing how, so they don't need to stay here as long."

Again, I don't think there is any meaning to life and death except the one we give it, but that is all that truly matters.

Just needed to share that. It's been a hectic day at work.

[GnaReffotsirk]

I guess, I agree.

[Hamshank]

the odds of even existing are so ridiculously unquantifiabley low why fear death.


be grateful for what ye do have. P.S. Gradius is a pussy

[Gradius]

I like how everyone calls me names now that I'm no longer an admin.

[Hamshank]

, I like how u abandoned me on MSN

[GnaReffotsirk]

Revenge of the fallen?