Sometimes I watch a movie or read a book or look at an old person and it reminds me of my mortality. Death scares me.

 

My mind cannot grasp the idea of not existing anymore or dying alone

 

 

Anyone have similar thoughts ?

Cant say i do. I'm sorry

I get the same way sometimes. Especially at night...just sitting in bed, about to fall asleep when you suddenly think about death and then start crying

It's just a hard realization to cope with for some people, I think. :uhoh:

I think about it when I see old people, thats why old people are depressing to me.

Jeez I am starting to sound depressed.

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It's just a hard realization to cope with for some people, I think. :uhoh:

 

Hmmm, I never cried about it. My mind just can't understand the afterlife. I think its this fear of not existing that might have made men create heaven and hell

^I'm kind of emotional so :P But I understand what you're saying. :thinking:

 

I always feel so bad for older people. D:

My downstairs neighboor is really old. I have helped her out over the last 2 years with taking out carbage, de icing her car etc... but then she went into dimensia (altheimerz) and then started to think that people were spying on her using cameras etc... and started calling the cops on people for that reason. I hope I bite the dust before reaching that point

I read this the past couple weeks.

 

 

can'y guarantee it will make you feel any better, but it's good piece of existential psychology, and might help with your anxiety of the human condition.

 

On a more personal note, the answer to your question is yes, everyone. The reason it may not seem as universal that many people have either comes to terms with their existence, or, more often, have repressed it with some illusion of immortality (after all it's impossible to fully conceive of nonexistence, because there's nothing to conceive).

Personally, the very existence of conscious beings like ourselves seems like a counter-intuitive absurdity due to our assumptions about the nature of universe. I'm not sure whether you're religious or not, but it helps to understand that their's something oddly miraculous about life to begin with, and it's better to embrace the basic experiences of life than dwelling too much on your limitations (though it's important to come to terms with the whole memento mori - carpe diem smeer as well)

Dying is for fools

 

:mean:

join the club man.

 

I tell myself I've accepted death but in honesty, I just avoid thinking about it these days. Plan to live long, live full, live well, live good. It's all you can really do.

 

Death is actually pretty good because without the fear of disappearing and not being around anymore I think a lot of stuff would never have gotten done; people want to do stuff to leave their mark on the world, and if that wasn't necessary I bet we'd just sort of fart around and drink pina coladas and fuck each other all day.

 

Or solve cold fusion. Who knows.

I'm fearless, except for what comes after death. This thought of no longer being conscious has tortured me since I was a child, so I like to avoid it.

Turk just don't think about it, life is for living, death is inevitable so do not worry about things you cannot control, just live and enjoy your life to the fullest

those are hard feelings.. But life is for living as illuvcoldplay said before..:) So let's live it and enjoy every moment as much as we can!!!

stumbled upon this sooper amazing website today.

 

www.existentialcrisis.com

i dont really care much about my death........ All i care about is my friends passing away

I think about it often... And I always have. I come to different conclusions depending on my mood. I'm in a bad place at the minute so it scares me. It scared me as a child. But last year I didn't care. I was happy with my life last year, I thought about death as peace. A rest, kind of. I'd be ready for it when it comes and I'd be happy with the life I'd lived. But now I feel dread when I think about it. Maybe I'll change my mind again, maybe I won't. Who knows?