Is anyone really okay with dying?

I am totally, completely okay with dying.
Not as some distant thing that will happen to me that I don’t have to think about now.
Anytime, however it may come. You probably don’t believe me.
Six months ago I would’ve had to say I’m scared of death.
But after listening to Alan Watt’s lectures on death I was forced to really face it and spent a lot of time thinking about it. I’m not going to explain it all here but basically I see my death as exact and natural as leaves yellowing and falling off trees. If you recognize that all of life as we know it is an energy/wave on one level or another, you can come to terms of understanding that yours and everyone else’s life is like a wave. Waves come in many forms different variations and frequencies. There’s the obvious sound/light waves we’re familiar with, as well as other patterns such as day/night, waking/sleeping.
The problem with death is we can’t see the other side; the trough. There are no waves that have crests (life) with troughs (death).
And here’s the crazy part: YOU ARE THE WHOLE WAVE
but you can’t recognize it immediately, because you’ve been playing that you’re only this one person, this one side of it. Haha hard to explain if you haven’t listen to Watts or aren’t familiar with eastern philosophy.
Be sure to do a search for “Alan Watts on Death” on YouTube.
this is a cool one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioFG999aOCs

i think of us part of everything in existance. with every end we have a beginning. what if we are just part of a cycle of energy and matter. or something like that (:

@jameslancaster, this is what I want to believe as well

“End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path… One that we all must take. The grey rain curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass. And then you see it. White shores… And beyond. A far green country, under a swift sunrise.”
Death is but another journey one must take. I don’t fear death itself, my fear lies in how death will take me. If I could choose to be imortal or to die like any other living thing, I would most definitely choose death. It’s like this Taoist quote: “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”

@iambrian, I would choose immortality in an instant, and I really hope it becomes available within our lifetimes. It would be awesome to have forever to reflect and grow, and think of new things to do with your life.

The only thing that helps me with the concept of death is to avoid thinking about it.

@amalthea42, No offense taken. But I do have a defense to my point. Simply, who is anyone else to deny someone eternal life? I think it should be there for those who want it, and if someone doesn’t want it then that is their choice. Personally I don’t think however many years my body will live is enough…there’s always more things to master, more places to go, more books to read, more interests to find and more memories to make. I don’t see how eternal life is selfish at all…..instead of people having so many kids, we could just become immortal instead. Instead of worrying about generations that don’t exist yet, we could take the best care out of all the ones that do exist here today.

Plus, no one said that being immortal would necessitate a human body, taking care of the concern about space. Have you ever read the graphic novel series called “Transmetropolitan”? In it, some people choose to become immortal by uploading their minds into a cloud of subatomic particles. They are still alive, take up next to no space, and require no food, drink, medicine, shelter, nor sleep. I’d live my life until I couldn’t use this body anymore, then I’d go foglet for sure.

I think death is necessary.

@theskafish, Reflecting for ever seems like a bore. What use is mastering things anyway? To put food in your eternally fed stomach? Pure indulgence?

@cognizantelephant, mastering things is whatever use you want it to be. For me it would be the experience of making cool things, of doing something worthwhile with my existence.

This is why I’m so bothered by the institution of work. When we’re born we have this whole life ahead of us, but then we have to go and get jobs and spend the rest of our healthy years doing stuff for society and not for ourselves, not even coming close to living how we actually want to. You don’t get more than one life, and most of us don’t even really get to use that…if you were immortal, then no one could hold food and shelter over your head, no one could use lack to bend you to their will. You’d be free to just be.

@amalthea42, actually, I think I’ve seen some of that anime before. I’d like to see the rest someday, I’ll have to get in touch with my friend who has it.

I don’t know about the IQ test before….just because someone is not smart doesn’t mean they should be sentenced to death, sounds too much like eugenics to me. Not only that but if they could live forever, then hopefully eventually they’d get smarter. And why do most people do dumb, or criminal things? Lack. And with immortality, lack will no longer be a problem.

@iambrian, energy cannot be destroyed, relax. It flows and changes patterns, thats what it does...thats what it is. Nothing is permanent, every thing is impermanent.

@iambrian, I haven’t heard of this Aubrey de Grey, but I will most certainly check his/her (not sure if that’s a male or female name) material out! Thanks man.

@, Have you been living in a tent for a while? just curious lol