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RedFive · October 2nd, 2003, 11:33 AM

The thought of death bothers me. It always has. It is so final. It is something to have a thinking person, especially a loved one and or friend, lose the spark of light that guides their thoughts.

Perhaps death bothers me because I don’t believe in an afterlife. Perhaps it bothers me because of the ruminants it leaves with the people that cared for and desired presence of the deceased. Perhaps it is a selfish feeling.
The only thing I know for sure is that there is no coming back. And that scares me.
Death is perceived by me to be similar to couscous blackness. To imagine no stimuli. Nothing.
I know there is something to the concept of a soul. Call it what you will, a power that drives life. An energy. A feeling that we know as consciousness. An awareness.

Unfortunately my beliefs are cold and hard. And so it bothers me more when someone dies. It makes me recognize the need to appreciate the here and now. To understand that tomorrow may never come.
But it never takes away the fear and pain that I associate with death.

October 2nd, 2003, 11:33 AM	#1
RedFive Senior Member RedFive is offline Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 5,988 Rep Power: 8	Death............................................. .... The thought of death bothers me. It always has. It is so final. It is something to have a thinking person, especially a loved one and or friend, lose the spark of light that guides their thoughts. Perhaps death bothers me because I don’t believe in an afterlife. Perhaps it bothers me because of the ruminants it leaves with the people that cared for and desired presence of the deceased. Perhaps it is a selfish feeling. The only thing I know for sure is that there is no coming back. And that scares me. Death is perceived by me to be similar to couscous blackness. To imagine no stimuli. Nothing. I know there is something to the concept of a soul. Call it what you will, a power that drives life. An energy. A feeling that we know as consciousness. An awareness. Unfortunately my beliefs are cold and hard. And so it bothers me more when someone dies. It makes me recognize the need to appreciate the here and now. To understand that tomorrow may never come. But it never takes away the fear and pain that I associate with death.