How do you deal with death? - It's coming.

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It's almost always on my mind. What if (when) x or y dies? What am I going to do? How much I am going to regret about what I am already regretting not doing?

What about my own death? Gotta be aware and careful when in a public. Then smoke and drink myself into a lung cancer and cirrhosis to calm the anxiety.

Death is coming for us all and all the people we love. It drives me crazy the void it creates every time it comes in my mind. And I can't get it out of my mind, at least on a daily base.

How do other people fair with it?

 

[RacistComputer79]

How do other people fair with it?

Your body will die, but your creations will live on as long as they are preserved. Write a song, draw art, write a book, or a personal diary. You can leave a part of yourself that will persist beyond your death. That is immortality, your legacy is what achieving immortality means.

If you do not trust your own family members to preserve what you make, then upload them on the internet, as you can see there are entire sites and communities dedicated to archiving. If it's memorable and high quality enough, your work will be remembered and preserved.
Look at how people archived Terry Davis' OS and his streams for example, or how people still listen to songs of countless dead musicians.

 

[Anime Waifu NFT collector]

Keep using your time arguing with people on the internet instead of chasing your dreams, that will get rid of the fear of death.

 

[OrionBalls]

I don't deal with the death of others very well. I'm sure I'll deal with mine just fine, though.

 

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Your body will die, but your creations will live on as long as they are preserved. Write a song, draw art, write a book, or a personal diary. You can leave a part of yourself that will persist beyond your death. That is immortality, your legacy is what achieving immortality means.

Well you see, that's a completely different perspective on death.

I don't care about legacy in name or skill or anything else beyond my family.

I find absolutely no confort in legacy. What would I care in the void of nothingness?

 

[Apu Wrangler]

I try to think of it as any other thing I can't do shit about, i.e. try not to worry about it too much because it's literally pointless. Of course I do think about it occasionally but it's more like morbid curiosity. I mean, who the fuck wouldn't want to know what happens to our consciousness when we die, and not knowing/unknown in general is what I think worries us the most.

 

[Just A Fat Round Bird]

Well, he is quite fond of milk and other calcium rich food and drink, but you should probably refrain from offering bone/marrow based soup dishes. Not that he will stay for long given how busy the guy tends to be.

 

[RacistComputer79]

Well you see, that's a completely different perspective on death.

I don't care about legacy in name or skill or anything else beyond my family.

I find absolutely no confort in legacy. What would I care in the void of nothingness?

Then the only answer is to have as much fun as you can before you die. I've had some good best friends and many fun experiences, if I knew I died tomorrow I would surely be stressed but I would also accept it. I regret nothing and I've had a fun life.
Find those few best friends that will make your life meaningful.

 

[Skitarii]

That is immortality

Not really. Your kids will grow old and die, your line will go extinct, your creations and works will be eaten by moths, your wealth will rust, your statues will crumble, your songs will go silent. One day, your name will be repeated for the last time, your records will vanish, and your body will decay. Even fame will not save you: the Late Bronze Age Collapse and Migration Period wiped out many from historical memory, including the famous and wealthy. One day, even Napoleon and Caesar will be forgotten. Plus, you will not be conscious for any of it.

There is no secular way of achieving immortality, nor should there be. Being flash-frozen in the public memory for eternity while your followers and detractors fight over and devour your legacy like millions of warring, swarming, schizoid maggots would be hellish.

Contrast this to St. Ephraim of Nea Makri: never had any children, never had any wealth, never had any fame that survived him, and whatever material works he produced was destroyed by the Ottomans, who also destroyed his body, town, and monastery. By all means, he should've remained forgotten forever, yet God revealed his existence to the world 524 years later.

That's true immortality, which comes only from the divine, and not the mortal.

 

[RacistComputer79]

Not really. Your kids will grow old and die, your line will go extinct, your creations and works will be eaten by moths, your wealth will rust, your statues will crumble, your songs will go silent. One day, your name will be repeated for the last time, your records will vanish, and your body will decay. Even fame will not save you: the Late Bronze Age Collapse and Migration Period wiped out many from historical memory, including the famous and wealthy. One day, even Napoleon and Caesar will be forgotten. Plus, you will not be conscious for any of it.

There is no secular way of achieving immortality, nor should there be. Being flash-frozen in the public memory for eternity while your followers and detractors fight over and devour your legacy like millions of warring, swarming, schizoid maggots would be hellish.

I guess that's fine. We will not be emperors like Caesar, but making a few good songs or a nice portrait will grant you at least 100 extra years of relevancy. Antonio Vivaldi is one of my favourite classical composers, I keep thinking about how happy that guy would be, thinking about how men in the future are still listening to his songs.

 

[Very Professional]

I deal with death via chess game.

 

[Punished Derich]

Just believe in an afterlife nigga, it makes your live longer and health outcomes better and if there is nothing after you won't be around to know.

 

[Punished Derich]

Also read Plato's Phaedo and if you're a committed atheist Epicurus

 

[A Series Of Tubes]

Death itself doesn't scare me, what awaits on the other side concerns me. Shit like quantum immortality and eternal recurrence doesn't exactly sound pleasant.

 

[Sneaky lurker]

What about my own death?

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Blud thinks he can evade the grim reaper and make him slip on a couple of marbles as if it was a cartoon

 

[Feast of Fools]

I have instructions that probably won't be carried out for when I inevitably die. Those instructions being to donate everything of mine to charity, cremate my body and scatter the ashes in the woods nearby. In either case, the inevitability of death is why I see less reason to fear it and more reason to make the most of what time I have on this planet.

Granted, I am surrounded by people I hate and I will probably die alone. But that's fine. I've more or less accepted that just like how death is inevitable, some people are just meant to be alone.

 

[Lokenstien]

Deaths going to be dealing with me.

 

[LonesomeDud]

I will miss some people a lot. My own death? I finally have the chance to be purified to stand before the glory of God because Christ died for my sins. I don't know exactly what it will be like, but I am ready for it when God brings it. I hope I am ready.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

through the power of denial i am immortal.

 

[Wahgonga]

Once you've seen people you love die, you learn to live with it, and you see the time you have left very differently. Get out there and live it up. We're all on the clock, so say the things that need to be said, don't put things off.

And above all, have fun.