How do you feel when you think about the infinity of death compared with what really is "a few moments" of living?

We don’t know what death will be like. We can only imagine. And since we tend to think of ourselves as having an eternal unchanging essence, we tend to imagine that death will be like this eternal unchanging essence that we call “me” locked up in a black coffin for all eternity.

I think about the preciousness of life all the time, but I do not really ever think about the ‘infinity’ of death. There isn’t any ‘me’ right now, and there won’t be any ‘me’ to be bummed out about the fact that ‘I’ am dead.

How do you know that death is infinite? That’s an assumption, not a fact.

The way I vision what it like to be dead is is to remember what was like before I was born. I’m really not looking forward to going back there to a place of eternal nothingness. HA!

Statistically I have 16 more years to live (if I’m lucky). Anyway life is a real blast. I like it very much here.

I feel that life is really the test, the thing we have to make it through successfully which is why it’s so hard for some of us. Death is freedom from pain, stress and all earthly factors, either Heaven or eternal bliss of nothingness, something like that I presume.

I can’t really meditate on it. The thought of eternal provokes panic in me.

The idea of being dead doesn’t bother me at all, it’s the process of dying that worries me.

@janbb Me, too, a little. After watching a few people pass, I’d rather have some pills and control it, does that make sense? Like when they put dogs to sleep, it’s just an overdose of the anesthesia. I want a Dr. K in the US, dang it! :)

It doesn’t bother me so much any more. I think if it did, I’d have a hard time sleeping, not knowing which of the thousands of times you closed your eyes you wouldn’t open them again. And I don’t have any trouble sleeping; in fact, I enjoy it, when it’s time to.

The world got along pretty well before I got here, and I guess it’ll go spinning along okay after I’m gone.

I see death as a full stop/period tagged on the longest sentence ever written & am happy to banish it from my thoughts, when it happens…it happens

@KNOWITALL yes, I agree with you and you put it perfectly. BUT then again, what test, who is doing the testing and SO WHAT finally if we get through it or not since the result is ultimately the same, so…..

Eh I don’t think about it much, and it doesn’t affect me when I do think of it. I mean what are you gonna do.

It makes me think that I should make what little time in this world that I may still have to realize that everyday is a gift.
Try and get your goals in life completed .
Life is but a drop in ocean that life on earth is.
Make the most of it.

You can also think of death as being an infinitesimal moment of time so short you can never have any awareness of it whereas life is full of time.

I suppose we humans are so backwards in our thinking, that what is here considered the finality of death, will be revealed as a beginning of eternal life. Personally, the idea of becoming a timeless is-ness, surpasses all speakable desire. Yes. I welcome the Reaper’s blessing.

Totally, I said to a friend yesterday I cannot believe death is forever, and ever, and ever and ever and ever…... It just freaks me out. It is like that person never even existed.

The problem is that I reject your notion which states the state of death is eternal while life is ephemeral, but this is fluther so I’ll play along. Let’s just suppose for the sake of this question that this life is the end, and that death is final then I would say that this realization is irrelevant to me for the following reasons.

If death is the end then a nonsentient entity can’t be deprived of something (such as pleasure or love) which they’re not sentient enough to be aware of the concept of missing out on something pleasurable or not having a loved one around anymore. Also, missing out on pain is almost always a plus so that would be another plus for oblivion in my eyes.

Personally I’d be more concerned about a future of which I’d still exist (or continue my sentience after physical life), and an existence of which I’d have my faculties to be aware that I’m being depraved of something pleasurable. It’s not the possibility of oblivion that changes my outlook on life, but the thought of a potential future personal ‘hell’ that does.

@ZEPHYRA I think as long as you are of sound mind, you should be able to consciously make decisions for your life legally.

I don’t believe in the infinity of death any more than I believe in the infinity of life. I believe in reincarnation, and that these incarnations happen more or less simultaneously; time what prevents everything from happening at once.