How do you deal with your mortality?No meme answers and no>I ignore it kekyou can only ignore it for so long
>>24286993Escapism and distraction like every sane person. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker is basically my coping manual.
>>24286993I hope its the end, But with my luck, I'll be reincarnated in some hellhole like India or Pakistan, I'd rather be dead forever.
>>24286993how would you "deal" with being kidnapped raped and tortured?you don't, you simply endure it because you have no choice
>>24286994I've read that book, but wasn't it more descriptive rather than prescriptive? I remember it talking how whatever activity humans do is an attempt to do something lasting that would transcend our death but it can be anything, whatever hobby we might have
With my tiddy skittles
>>24286993talking to god, meditation, forgiving others, forgiving myself, trying to imrpove on myself each day>>24286994>pic relanon, you gotta face it like a man, work on yourself and dont be lulled to sleep by distractions and entertainment
>>24286993I collect dead ruskies
>>24286993Chillin for it,
>>24286993>How do you deal with your mortality?I found myself here in this place, ostensibly being from nothingness and non-being, already once beforeI therefore have one example of this which I can prove, and I can find zero examples of my non-being from nothingnessif there's nothing recognisable as a true afterlife, and I returned to nothingness after death, then it wouldn't be the first time I haven't existed, and so I'm not that botheredit probably also helps that I don't like this place very muchthe possibilities, roughly-stated, are:>either there is something after death—in which case fineor>there's nothing—in which case I won't be anything to carebut as stated above, I do have self-evidential reason to believe I'll find myself somewhere at some point, and zero (0) evidence to the contraryit's occurred to me that in support of the former possibility, the universal existence of numbers (not the symbols, but the numbers themselves), combined with their lack of physical instantiation within this reality, suggests that they exist elsewhere, metaphysically, as ἰδέα, which would betray the existence of an immaterial place wherein things can exist in a distinct sense to materiality, and death is only provably a material phenomenonthe death quale has (arguably) not been experienced by anybody living to say for certain
>>24286993Family and I just held the funeral for my grandmother a few days ago. She'd been bedridden for the past two -- almost three -- years and everyone knew it was coming. Lost my father as a kid too. Instead of old age it was progressive supranuclear palsy. Watched him slowly rot away in a rest home for the next two years in because taking care of him at home was no longer feasible for my family.I wasn't there when he died but i was there in the room with my grandma when she did. She was lucid and held out her hand for me to hold and five hours later she'd been pronounced dead. I don't have any qualms about being dead but watching my grandma grow old and my father degenerate has made me more anxious about the active process of dying. Im afraid of losing my autonomy and suffering in the transition. And her passing has just made me think alot more about how I want to die. I know someone whos grandmother wanted to die on her own terms before she stopped being able to take care of herself and so she opted in for "assisted dying." When they went through with the procedure they botched the injection and she died in apparent agony.I haven't decided if i want to die on my terms or from old age like my grandmother.I just know that if i do it on my term it will not be a medically assisted death.I'd much prefer the outwardly barbaric violence of a firing squad over the lethal injection and its thin veil of manufactured dignity. Hopefully i'll be hooked up to some anaesthetics before they gun me down so i don't have to stand or sit there awkwardly while they aim.
