Point of View on Death

"Death is not a curse, but a release from those who don't deserve to live."
Thats been my saying for a while now.

I had shifts in how i perceive deaths numerous amounts of time but now i just think when i die it's simply all over.Nothing happens to my soul i don't get saved into any pearly white gates nor pulled down into an abyss of fire and demons i just rot in my body and decompose into soil and nutrients for new life.that's it.Simple as that.

Well yes...aren't we all? We all strive to live and exist.We don't it to end.It's human nature.

I've thought of this a few times in the past but I never dwell on it. I honestly think I "died" or should have been killed in quite a few situations in my life. It’s as though I just respawned from the last save point. I fell asleep driving once and heard a big ass crash and felt a jerk, but when I woke up / realized I was sleeping I was just driving on the road like normal. That’s one example to name a few, but it made me wonder if I used a respawn, kind of sort of a WTF moment. But what about those who are terminally ill or know there going to die then what? I have no answer there. Im christen sort of and I do think of heaven, sort of believe it but I think more of the energy that is life and what that turns into. Muh, im no philosophist so I don’t really bother with it. Death is inevitable and so why worry over something that we have no control over and that will happen to everybody? I prefer to enjoy the moment, time is all we have. Shit im only 25 and I look back at moments in my life and reminisce thinking those were the best times of my life and how I wish I could live in the moment forever. So I prefer to enjoy what I have and try to keep an optimistic outlook and stay positive. Yeah im that guy that looks on the sunny side of life, ha! whatever, anyhow when someone dies I think that the "life energy" is released and then goes to heaven, stays on earth (ghost), or reincarnates itself into something else. This is a blend of a few major religions but I think that most hold a truth to them. Anyhow I could ramble on about this for awhile so I think this is good.

Meh, it'll happen so why bother freak out about it?
If anything it's the one and only thing we can count on in life, we can rely on ol' Death being there when we become to damaged to continue in life.
I have no idea what waits for us after death but I've long since guessed that we just cease, all activity in out brain simply stops and... well it's hard to think of nothingness, since it wouldn't feel like anything.

Though it would totally be badass to be a ghost ^_^

I'm afraid of death. Who wouldn't be afraid of losing everything? However, I wouldn't resist death and death may not actually be the scariest thing one can experience in his/her life. Death is natural and so is being born. They are pretty much the same thing if you think about it, but the effects may not be the same. It is just going along with the flow.

But if there is a natural chance of survival during the time of my death, I'm going to take it, because if I was meant to die, the chance would not have presented itself.

How one dies and how one feels about his/her life can affect the thought of death.

the way i see death, is that everyone has a clock on top of there heads, shows the number of hours,days,years,month and once that time is up theres nothing for you to stop it, kinda like death note. But dont be afraid because everything is going to be okay. Heaven going to be there, along with your friends who are wating for you. Im not scared of death.

I never liked the discussion of this topic but I've had tons upon tons of this discussion though. Weird, right? Or rather, dumb.

I'm somewhat afraid of death but the part that scares me the most is the thought of nothingness. You live throughout your life seeing things, feeling things, etc. and when that day comes, your vision just goes black. The question that always come up whenever I see this topic is "Is it just eternal darkness?".

But like most people say, you just gotta accept it. Just don't accept too early.

I agree that when you die your existence is gone. I am not a religious person therefore I don’t believe in an afterlife. The way I see it is why would you be given a life if you still live on in death? Why not just be born in heaven? I’m not trying to offend religious people so please don’t get offended.

“To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure” Personally I’m excited. I want my grave stone or jar to say “It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” – Sydney from A Tale of Two Cities.

well my views seem to be similar to Green's

I believe that there is nothing when you die, you just die. The life you have in this world is your only one and if I die then, oh well, my fault for getting killed or my fault for not making the right moves. But even if I were to die, I won't care because in life, everybody dies, so it shouldn't be something to be scared of.

thats basically how I view death to be

At some point in life as a child, I saw an intriguing little segment on Discovery Channel on Otzi the Iceman and started wondering many different things about this man who lived thousands of years ago. Then I wondered about future societies finding my corpse, trying to figure out my life story, and having keen interest in me as a person.

Then I made a horrible realization that I would never be able to enjoy people being interested in me because I would be FUCKING DEAD in that scenario and then realized that at some point I'm gonna die and became traumatized for what seemed like years.

I remember many incidents where I cried every night because I assumed I would die in my sleep and I didn't want to waste time in my life or sleep in fear of dying. I remember being on a trip to Japan and being unable to sleep due to this fear and crying. I was over at my grandparents with my family for either a month or a week (I've had two memorable trips to Japan in my life) and I kinda wonder what my parents thought of my fear.

I always had on odd idea of making an immortality machine that would make it so that I would never die of aging and thus started my young interest in science and put bullet into my interest in becoming an author.

The fear of death has lessened over time but I do fear it nonetheless. Yes my young, highly rational fear of death did affect me later in life and is most likely my reason for enjoying stories of vampires and sorcerers. Actually I had seen Inspector Gadget the live action film and was just a fan of the tv show as well and concluded that being a robot/android/robotic crime fighter that yelled Go-Go Gadget was a really good idea (Questions on the human brain and the info in it is now a current debate with myself).

As a kid, it is weird that I didn't really take the idea of Heaven into account. Actually, I think I concluded that Heaven was a boring place to be and wanted the luxuries of the world (as a kid mind you). Like I did hope that broken N64's meant that an N64 went to Heaven but it seemed to ridiculous, even as a kid.

I did cope with it and concluded that an alternative to death would be to put me in suspended animation and have me sleep through all eternity. That would be nice.

I don't think there's anything after death, your lights simply go off, and it's over. it's kind of difficult and depressing but there's no proof otherwise...

I do not find any personal benefits in death. You die, you don't wake up again, and you go from being a person to an object.

Is this supposed to be a reward for all my hard work in life?
This is why I hate life: the end. Even though there are many things I do love, this makes it horrible for me. This is also why I do not believe in religions. There is no god, heaven, or paradise. That said, I believe in an afterlife, just as a comfort to myself, since I know, myself, that this will not possibly happen: when I die, I'll become a star, and shine on my homeworld. I believe this because I decided on following Sun Worship. I just desperately needed something to believe in that I know I could trust.

You'll just be reborn again as someone else, so there is no reason to fear death. Life is infinite.

Death is a part of the cycle of life each of us must face eventually, but it doesn't lessen the fear or thought of it in our lives. Me, as a christian, believes there is a place for our souls to traverse to when we die, but, it doesn't change or diminish my fear of death, because the same reason it doesn't for anyone else: the unknown factor. My recent diagnosis of cancer and my struggles with it have made me even more aware of this. I don't want to die, I have a lot of people I love, and I don't want to leave them, and I love my life, there is still much I want to do. But, probably the most important reason for my fear is loneliness, that once I die, there will be no one with me, and that has kept me plenty awake some nights. I guess the key is to take nothing for granted, and enjoy time with your loved ones as much as possible, and enjoy the most from your life, because you only live once (here anyway).

Since death is inevitable I do not necessarily fear death. I fear what I don't know, it is the not knowing that bothers me, but it is impossible to know what happens afterward until it's too late so it is pointless to worry about it.

I would say that if you are afraid of dying, then you would soon start to belive in some kind of religion.
But me myself, arn't afraid, I see the facts about death, and it goes in this order.
Death --> Sad people --> noob funeral --> rotting --> not so sad people anymore --> decayed to a skeleton, or nothing at all --> forgotten a bit. And death can come anytime, it can even come when you are doing the basic stuff in your life, all from showering - going to school/work.
Death = Enthernal sleep :P