Thinking about death? How old are you?

Live in the moment, S57, and do your best each day.

(June 12, 2016 at 5:30 pm)surreptitious57 Wrote: No but I have done unforgivable things and said unacceptable things and held unacceptable opinions
too. And nothing I can say or do can change it. Now the passage of time allows me to come to terms
with it but this does not excuse it. The only positive thing is that I regret all of it but now I remember
saying the most unacceptable thing ever only this year thinking nothing of it. Then maybe I still have
work to be done. But at my age I should be thinking about death not how to avoid saying such things

Convert to the right religion and the deity will forgive you and probably let you into his version of heaven.

As an atheist I do not think there is an afterlife. I think we have a physical life and then we die and stay dead for ever. There is
no evidence to suggest anything else. This is therefore the default position. Last year I overcame my fear of death by accepting
it. After all it is inevitable so denying it would be irrational and I realised that it is irrational to fear death as one can not actually
experience it. And if it is an eternity of pain free non consciousness then just thinking that about it should not be irrational. And
I can think of nothing worse than immortality. For I want a long life not an infinite one. So with no fear of death I am as free as
I have ever been. It can take me when ever it wants. I obviously want to go as quickly and painlessly as possible but even if my
passing is slow and painful it shall be temporary. How long I have left is academic. For I am only passing through like we all are

Consent, in British terms
I think that sums it up nicely.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZwvrxVavnQ

thanks Alasdair.

(June 12, 2016 at 7:34 pm)surreptitious57 Wrote: As an atheist I do not think there is an afterlife. I think we have a physical life and then we die and stay dead for ever. There is
no evidence to suggest anything else. This is therefore the default position. Last year I overcame my fear of death by accepting
it. After all it is inevitable so denying it would be irrational and I realised that it is irrational to fear death as one can not actually
experience it. And if it is an eternity of pain free non consciousness then just thinking that about it should not be irrational. And
I can think of nothing worse than immortality. For I want a long life not an infinite one. So with no fear of death I am as free as
I have ever been. It can take me when ever it wants. I obviously want to go as quickly and painlessly as possible but even if my
passing is slow and painful it shall be temporary. How long I have left is academic. For I am only passing through like we all are

That is actually exactly how I feel! I'm not scared to die at all. The only thing that saddens me about my own death is that it will cause my family to hurt. But there is nothing I can do about that and it just means I have loved ones to be sad about my death to begin with.