Idea of at some point dying freak you out?

[GettnHuge 2]

as long as I'm still havin sex at 80

[Woble Eth 11]

I think, it does matter how close you are exposed to death on a regular basis.

 

I've worked different jobs in my life, and there were a few high risk jobs where I was exposed to the threat of death or the higher risk of death or just exposed to more dead or dying people in general.

 

I don't want to generalize, but the people I've seen dying, no matter what they probably said in life earlier, most go out screaming and begging for life. If there is any proof to me that God does not exist, it's watching the last ten seconds of a person's life, when you watch their eyes and their facial expressions. It's just pure fear there. That's it's all over and that you have no control over any of it. Some go quietly, but it's probably because death hits them as a surprise. Essentially they are lucky to be ignorant to the fact that they are dying, but most people aren't that lucky. Most go out in a whimper.

 

As for how I dealt with it, at least at work, it was like 99 percent pure boredom and 1 percent just pure out of control terror. You don't learn how to handle the fear or the terror any better, you just learn to defer it for later. You go home, you sit in the shower and you forget how long you've been in there until the water starts running cold because the hot water heater is all used up. But over time, you get hardened to it, you just don't think about it anymore.

 

Watching people die has taught me alot, mostly in that last ten seconds of life, what you see, that fear. It's isn't so much the fear of the unknown. It's the fear of regret. The idea that you wasted all that time worrying about so many unimportant things and trivial things and old grudges. Or that you never pursued the dreams in your life, the ones you were too afraid to chase. The girls you loved but never told them. Those last ten seconds, your whole life doesn't flash before your eyes, I just think its the parts you knew you could have changed but didn't.

 

Death is life's great motivator. It makes you think about making the most of your time. Sure death is scary, but living with alot of ###### regret is way worse than death can ever be. I think movies have made it all wrong for people, the bad guy dies at the end, so people associate death = punishment. And since everyone dies, everyone thinks death is a form of punishment for them. But I think the movies have it all ###### up. If you kill the bad guy, he no longer has to deal with life's bullshit, no more taxes, no more nagging wife, no more ungrateful kids, no more mortgage payments, no more stress, no more worries, no more heartache. Hell, the dead bad guy gets the better end of the deal at the end of the movie versus the good guy. If you really wanted to make the bad guy suffer, line up his kids and loved one, execute them all, and let the bad guy live. Let him live with that torment the rest of his life. Now thats some real ###### punishment.

 

Life with regret is the punishment, not death. The only people who have to worry about death are the people who don't have their house in order. They have to suffer for those ten seconds and realize they were always dead in the first place.

 

To the guy with the lung issue, sorry man, best of luck to you. Best of luck to your family too man.

 

 

wow. Outstanding theory and something also that has given me much to think about.