Relatives and friends gone forever.

Gauss

Are memories enough to get over loved ones dying. We'll all have to experience our parents dying for example unless we die first.

Sometimes the thought that loved ones will be gone forever into nothingness freaks me out a bit. That's it gone for good.

PizzamanIRL

What's with the depressing threads tonight?

Jesus Shaves

Happy happy joy joy

Strawberry Fields

There are places I remember
All my life, though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain
All these places have their moments
With lovers and friends I still can recall
Some are dead and some are living
In my life I've loved them all

Rayne Wooney

Nothing like reading a positive upbeat thread on boards before bed aye.

NegativeCreep

The thought that my siblings will die before me (I'm the youngest by a good bit) is an absolutely sickening one. I'd much rather die first.

Rayne Wooney

NegativeCreep wrote: »

The thought that my siblings will die before me (I'm the youngest by a good bit) is an absolutely sickening one. I'd much rather die first.

That can be arranged....for a price

ScumLord

Gauss wrote: »

Are memories enough to get over loved ones dying. We'll all have to experience our parents dying for example unless we die first.

Sometimes the thought that loved ones will be gone forever into nothingness freaks me out a bit. That's it gone for good.

They're not really gone in some respects. People have children so they reproduce their genes, then they often program their children with their own life learnings so they can be even better than they were.

Humans live on through their children in ways that supersede natures intentions. We know of people and their stories going back generations and millennia, children often carry on, not just memories but behaviours of their parents You could jump into the future a generation or two and probably see your grandchildren walking down the road just like your father did. That's a type of immortality.

Quandary

Gauss wrote: »

Sometimes the thought that loved ones will be gone forever into nothingness freaks me out a bit. That's it gone for good.

Ah it's nothing to be freaked out about. When we do die I firmly believe it will be like a dreamless sleep, one we obviously never wake up from though. Sometimes when I wake up in the morning and can't remember anything from the previous 7 hours, I think that's what death must be like from a dead person's perspective(if you'll excuse the oxymoron )

There's something strangely peaceful about nothingness if you think about it for long enough!

humbert

Gauss wrote: »

Sometimes the thought that loved ones will be gone forever into nothingness freaks me out a bit. That's it gone for good.

Balls to that. The thought that me will be gone forever into nothingness freaks me out.

SharpshooterTom

humbert wrote: »

Balls to that. The thought that me will be gone forever into nothingness freaks me out.

I'm rather looking forward to it. Who the hell would want to live forever?

Birneybau

Everyone and everything will break down to atoms and exist forever. Night all.

pragmatic1

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I'm rather looking forward to it. Who the hell would want to live forever?

The thought of living forever scared me even as a kid. Phuk that.

humbert

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I'm rather looking forward to it. Who the hell would want to live forever?

Me, absolutely me. Hopefully when they cure death everyone else shares sentiment, I'll be first in the queue.

Mickeroo

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I'm rather looking forward to it. Who the hell would want to live forever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_Qe6yDz1HI

dave3004

Humbert I am with you all the way here!

The best perspective I found on it, and it hasnt cured my fear at all but its the best I found was a quote from Mark Twain.

"I don't fear death, I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never caused me the slightest inconvenience".

Glenn_Flinn

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I'm rather looking forward to it. Who the hell would want to live forever?

We DO live forever. All of us. The people on this forum are just sheep beyond belief, and Atheism is the hip thing sheep are 'bahh'ing along to these days.

Living forever won't be unpleasant. Unpleasantness only comes from being a spiritual entity trapped in animal flesh like we are all experiencing now. But it's just an experience. The only thing that's for certain is that we live forever.

Napper Hawkins

Ugh. Accept the inevitable or spend the rest of your only existence scared.

I know what I'm going to do. Good luck everyone.

Gauss

pragmatic1 wrote: »

ThomasFlynn wrote: »

I'm rather looking forward to it. Who the hell would want to live forever?

The thought of living forever scared me even as a kid. Phuk that.

Yea living forever could be boring too.

Capt'n Midnight

Birth implies death.

Thing to do is make new friends.
Make younger friends.
Look to the next generation of relatives too.

People live on in memories, and you can pass on those memories as stories to younger relations. If you don't tell the stories who will remember ?

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."