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[NT] Do you think about death often?

Do you think about death often?

  • Yes

    Votes: 21 65.6%
  • No

    Votes: 11 34.4%

  • Total voters
    32

yenom

Alexander the Terrible
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Do you think about death often. I think about it almost everyday. People who think about death do not waste time with their lives.
 

Wade Wilson

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Oct 17, 2008
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Yes. But it has no bearing on my accomplishments. If anything it makes me realize the ultimate futility of them.
 

norepinephrine

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Most days, fleetingly.

Then something freakin' stupid will happen. For instance, we lost a first-term graduate student two days after Christmas in a car accident.

Then I dwell on it for a week or two.
 

Lady_X

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almost never.
 

Quinlan

Intriguing....
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9w1
Yeah, all the time, what a great character!

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Dwigie

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Yes. Not my own. Most of the time just "death in itself". Happens a lot when I walk by a church...or something religious.
 

Popsicle

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No, not really very often at all. Which is strange, considering my profession.
 

Polaris

AKA Nunki
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Death is the most important thing imaginable, and I think about it a great deal. Not my own death, though: just death in itself, like Dwigie described.
 

thisGuy

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umm...no?

why do you?

actually i sometimes think bout the future and then think what if i got hit by a bus tommorow..there go all the plans i made...doesnt happen too often though
 

Blank

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Hrm. Now that I think about it, that's a really hard question for me to answer.

As a child, I thought about death constantly because it was the great unknown, the great ending, the thing that was omnipresent, ever-looming over me that took my safety away. I could try hiding from death behind my naivete and the belief that my mother was a superhero who would protect me from anything, but nonetheless, I deep down knew that death could penetrate my security blanket and take that which is most important to me away. I found death incredibly depressing and hard to deal with. It didn't make any sense. Why did things have to die? Why is it that life must end? I'll uselessly clutch onto life until my last breath because it's the only thing I know. Any promise of an afterlife was irrelevant. What use is an afterlife if I'm already alive? Why have a life at all though if there's an afterlife? Why not just start from the perspective of the afterlife and live in perpetual joy? These kinds of thoughts would always plague me. If I died, would I be separated from my mom? If she died, what would become of me? I remember that on my first day of school, on the way to kindergarten, I was crying, not because I was sad or afraid of going to school, but because I was afraid of dying.

I do not associate death with the fear I used to. I've come to accept my ignorance of death and the afterlife, so I no longer pay as much attention to death as I used to since I've gotten over my crippling obsession with it. I may think about death less often. I may think about it just the same but may not be as strongly effected as I used to be. In either case, death leaves much less of an impression on me as it used to, causing me to believe that I must think about it less... It's puzzling because I can't actually think of how often I think about death to quantify it, and thus feel I should not answer the poll.
 

Kingfisher

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no, i rarely think about death. it does not seem interesting to me. i don't mean that in a callous way, it just does not hold my interest.
 
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