Thread: Dying?

Im not religious by any means but i think theres another level.

I dont think theres anything to be scared of, and from the stuff that goes on in life im sure it cant get any worse :)

Originally Posted by Fabz

Im not religious by any means but i think theres another level.

I dont think theres anything to be scared of, and from the stuff that goes on in life im sure it cant get any worse :)

Some time ago I worked on a TV documentary on death and we used a well-known Irish comedian for our commercial break playoffs. One comment he made stayed with me; "I'm not afraid of death, but I'm terrified of dying".

Originally Posted by take2

Some time ago I worked on a TV documentary on death and we used a well-known Irish comedian for our commercial break playoffs. One comment he made stayed with me; "I'm not afraid of death, but I'm terrified of dying".

HMm interesting, I dont really know what ppl are afraid of. In terms of people being afraid of leaving loved ones, people end up managing and death is a part of life.

I 100 percent do believe theres something on the other side, having said this all these stories of people seeing a light at the end of the tunnel, i also consider the probability that it could just be the body playing tricks on you much like when you think you see stuff when your delirious.

I guess people have different reasons as to what does and doesnt happen. Some ppl think you just die and thats it the end.

Me being what i would call a "realist" in all facets of life, after 19 years of a catholic up bringing I decided that if i was going to believe in something it would be in stuff that i see not things that are passed on and based on here say.

Over the course of time though i have seen, and experienced things that cant be explained so I know theres something else, I just dont pretend to know what it is like a lot of other people, and im not afraid of crossing over, i just would like it to be in peaceful circumstances like going in my sleep as opposed to a horrible disease or traumatic event.

Originally Posted by Fabz

HMm interesting, I dont really know what ppl are afraid of. In terms of people being afraid of leaving loved ones, people end up managing and death is a part of life.

Brian's comment was that he accepted death (he's an Irish Catholic) and all that meant, but he was terrified of how it would come.

I've thought much the same thing ever since. I know that death is inevitable; but I don't want a drawn out saga. When my time's up, I want it to be up. I've had one close call with death and my family knows that there is to be no machines keeping me alive etc. Having said that, I'm fairly certain I'll decide when I die.

I am not afraid of death.

I am afraid of living a futile live; of not experiencing the life remotely as fulfilling as the life I conceived prior to medical problems in about 2005; of feeling like a "retarded", fatigued, spaced out zombie perpetually.

To me this an unfulfilling life scares more than death.

Sim, have you seen 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'? A true, inspiring but terrifying story of an Elle editor who is completely paralysed except for one eye, but who ends up conveying a biography before his death (with the same title as the film). It's brilliant filmed from his perspective for most of the movie and it conveys a really horrible, claustraphobic feeling with a closed-down body but a fully operating brain. From memory, it won best foreign film (French) at the Oscars. Definitely worth a watch.

I, too, am scared of not living a meaningful life. But I don't like death either!!

Originally Posted by azzah

Sim, have you seen 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'? A true, inspiring but terrifying story of an Elle editor who is completely paralysed except for one eye, but who ends up conveying a biography before his death (with the same title as the film). It's brilliant filmed from his perspective for most of the movie and it conveys a really horrible, claustraphobic feeling with a closed-down body but a fully operating brain. From memory, it won best foreign film (French) at the Oscars. Definitely worth a watch.

I, too, am scared of not living a meaningful life. But I don't like death either!!

Kinda reminds me of the film clip for 'One' by Metallica, that clip used too trip me out as a teenager. Now I just love Lars's epic drum solo.

Can't say I have fear of death. It's a part of life, no escaping it. There are situations that I wouldn't like to die in, shark attack, burnt alive, torture etc. But this is probably because of movies like Open Water & Hostel. I would like to know that I'm going to die, to have some time to remember the people that I love one more time & hopefully to be able to tell them that.

If you wanna know what it's like to be dead, think back to before you were born.

Originally Posted by azzah

Sim, have you seen 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'? A true, inspiring but terrifying story of an Elle editor who is completely paralysed except for one eye, but who ends up conveying a biography before his death (with the same title as the film). It's brilliant filmed from his perspective for most of the movie and it conveys a really horrible, claustraphobic feeling with a closed-down body but a fully operating brain. From memory, it won best foreign film (French) at the Oscars. Definitely worth a watch.

I, too, am scared of not living a meaningful life. But I don't like death either!!

Nah haven't seen but sounds interesting. Thanks

this thread still going....enough death talk please!

Originally Posted by azzah

Sim, have you seen 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly'? A true, inspiring but terrifying story of an Elle editor who is completely paralysed except for one eye, but who ends up conveying a biography before his death (with the same title as the film). It's brilliant filmed from his perspective for most of the movie and it conveys a really horrible, claustraphobic feeling with a closed-down body but a fully operating brain. From memory, it won best foreign film (French) at the Oscars. Definitely worth a watch.

I, too, am scared of not living a meaningful life. But I don't like death either!!

oh that sounds a hideous predicament. I'll have to see this movie. What about "million dollar baby", one of my favourite movies, the ending was so moving.

an aside: Tam, I've tried to do the translation, but my Latin is too rusty. The text means?

A hint...it's from a classic by Virgil...

An interesting take on death by Beryl Markham (West with the Night):

That's what makes death so hard - unsatisfied curiosity.

BD

Originally Posted by BODY DOC

A hint...it's from a classic by Virgil...

An interesting take on death by Beryl Markham (West with the Night):

That's what makes death so hard - unsatisfied curiosity.

BD

These are the tears of things, and our mortality cuts to the heart. (Vergil) ?

or thereabouts :)

Thanks

an aside: Tam, I've tried to do the translation, but my Latin is too rusty. The text means?

An appropriate thread for translation. It is "Here are the tears of things; mortality touches the heart" from Virgil's Aeneid.

I think it is an overwhelmingly beautiful sentiment when one explores the many layers there.

Originally Posted by Tamlyn

An appropriate thread for translation. It is "Here are the tears of things; mortality touches the heart" from Virgil's Aeneid.

I think it is an overwhelmingly beautiful sentiment when one explores the many layers there.

Thanks. And yes, appropriate.

Cheers