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Death. Thoughts?
yzzlthtz
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Dying. It happens all the time, we simulate it endlessly in media and games. We all gotta do it some day. So what's it gonna be like, during afterwords?
Heaven, Hell, Elaborate Multiverse, Nothing?
Any special preparations/deeds to accomplish before you go?
Preferred methods of departure?
Heaven, Hell, Elaborate Multiverse, Nothing?
Any special preparations/deeds to accomplish before you go?
Preferred methods of departure?
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Please tell me you attempted to give him hell for interrupting your (eternal) rest.
But my preferred method of departure? I want my eyes to suddenly start spurting blood, a giant gush of such incredible velocity, as I scream in terror and pain. My flesh will then explode off my body, revealing a mass of innards reconfiguring itself! The alien parasite in my brain stem has finally matured and my muscles and bones and DNA change and shift into an unsightly killing machine. My horrifying, mangled corpse begins slaughtering the innocent, infecting more and more bodies with it's evil spawn. Humanity gets pushed to the brink of extinction as it soon finds itself waging a war against the mutated monstrosities of fallen brothers and sisters.
Then it turns out you can kill them with water and everything was just an M. Night Shyamalan movie.
When are you turned on again? When the angel Gabriel blows his horn and all the dead pop out of the ground for Judgment Day, of course.
And that's how Death works.
That scene in the subway scared the hell out of me the first time I saw that movie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataplexy#Diagnosis
Again and again and again and agaaaaaaaaaaaiiin.
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What makes you think i'm gonna die? because eveyone else before me has? well that, good sir, is inductive reasoning! and inductive reasoning can not be 100% correct!
also, dying sounds stupid, im not doin it
Can't remember where I heard that, but I always liked that quote.
Mark Twain explained that concept more eloquently than me.
Is that a song? I swear it sounds like an Iron Maiden lyric...
Make sure to make all the phones on the planet ring at once as well.
Eh. It's not that great.
Twain is fucking thief and a great writer.
Plato did a good job with it as well.
They have strip joints in Hell.
I guess I should try to answer a little more seriously.
Being a person of faith, there's Heaven and Hell. I like to think that the former grants reincarnation should one want to do so, since life can be pretty enjoyable (without having to be a batshit insane sinner). Reincarnation out of Hell would imply one doing their time, in a sense. I'm not sure if that's the score though. Maybe the deeper the level the more severe you were a twat while alive and the longer you suffer.
It's an awful lot like living, only the exact opposite.
I would consider it a prolonged fugue state. You'll remember all lives lived while up in the big kingdom in the sky, but during each life you won't remember a damn thing.
His wasn't as witty.
Inaccurate.
Wait, so "hell" isn't really an accurate response to "what happens after death? Huh.
I can't really dispute that.
I'm pretty sure dying is typically a lot like doing a crap tonne of Nitrous Oxide. Pretty lights and a disassociate somewhat self reflective state as your brain dies from shock.
How does it feel to be dead? I assume it doesn't. That there is no more existence. I really don't want death to be like sleeping, but that's just because I'm frequently varying degrees of conscious while I'm asleep.
I'd like to die from massive unexpected head trauma. No pain, no fear, just suddenly nothingness that you don't experience.
It is. But you die in life, then you go to Hell to die forever. Then again, I'm fairly sure there's something in the Bible about how Judgment Day will involve souls being liberated from Hell.
More fun to believe that than thinking that nothing happens after death, am I right??
I think it'd suck to die without seeing it coming. I'd rather die virtually painlessly, but fully consciously, to appreciate my good life up to here, reflect on how I'm dying, say bye to loved ones if they're around, and experience the transition to death to see what it's like. But maybe that's just me? I've seen a few people already say they want to die quickly, painlessly, and abruptly without warning.
My corpse bloated, bodily fluids seeping into the carpet.
My cat will have eaten my eyes and tongue.
Creepy. "Unit K-300276324, please prepare to be subsumed into the All. Your individuality is no longer required."
Which is why what I hope happens after people is they get to play choose their own adventure for all of eternity, or until they decide to just cease to exist. Heaven with choirs of angels and shit like that is not my idea of a perfect existence. I can think of a billion things I'd rather do, and it'd be cool if I got a chance to do them.
What I think probably happens is the cessation of existence, because I don't think life after death is supported by any sort of real evidence. That's not the worst possible scenario, but not very good either.
SURPISE!
I suppose don't have a terribly positive outlook on life, and don't really want to spend my last moment regretting the mess it was.
That's gonna be one heckuva zombie uprising.
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Which is why I'm going to be buried in kevlar and with a bullet/machete proof helmet that has a working jaw so as to get to the tasty brain meats of my victims. Let's see you bastards take me down.