On Death

[letitbe]

"I never said I was frightened of dying." -- Richard Wright in The Great Gig in the Sky

Yesterday Richard William Wright of Pink Floyd fame died at the age of 65. I saw him in concert with David Gilmour in April, 2006 and both of them delivered a memorable performance. Three days ago, while talking about my own Bucket List, I wrote that "Pink

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[aika99]

[letitbe]

Thanks for the recommendation!

[aika99]

It is a VERY good book. Finishing it myself - I am pretty much in the same boat as you are.

[budhist_milf]

Death.....there were moments in my life when I could not wait for it to come

[budhist_milf]

I also firmly believe that there things worse than death...pain....nausea...loss of function.

When my mother died a friend of mine was so terrified of it that she did not come to be with me while all other friends did. She did not know what to do around the loss...and I think part of it is that weird fear people have "If I am around someone who just lost a loved one, that can happen to me " Well, of course it can...and it will.
So, years later, my friend is volunteering with dying people in the hospice.

It might not be for you....but I find that being with dying and sick helped me cope with my own fear of death far more than therapy ever could.

[letitbe]

find that being with dying and sick helped me cope with my own fear of death far more than therapy ever could.

I am not sure how that works. So far it has had an opposite effect on me.

[budhist_milf]

I think a problem is that most of us when we are with dick and dying, we transfer their experience onto ourselves. We imagine what it would be like if it happened to us...

Instead we simply should be a witness and acknowledge that here right now this suffering is not ours. Someday we will be sick and dying and that will be the way to feel it. Right now we are here to be witness and to offer comfort.

Practicing dying or grieving for the dead doe snot work....I spent year doing it and it did not make my mother;s death any better.

[sannichka]

isn't it somewhat comforting...
no more fussing around
no more worrying
no more fears
no more pain

[letitbe]

I love life too much to even contemplate that thought. That's what my father taught me.

[sannichka]

well, in that case: there's no sense in fearing death. когда ты есть - её нету. когда она есть - тебя нету )))

[letitbe]

"Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist." -- Epicurus (died 270 BC)

death and vegetarianism

[sannichka]

The Adventist Health Study is an ongoing study of life expectancy in Seventh-day Adventists. This is the only study among others with similar methodology which had favourable indication for vegetarianism. The researchers found that a combination of different lifestyle choices could influence life expectancy by as much as 10 years. Among the lifestyle choices investigated, a vegetarian diet was estimated to confer an extra 1-1/2 to 2 years of life.

Re: death and vegetarianism

[letitbe]

It's the third day of my experiment with being a vegetarian and I am not quite sure whether it's the price I'm willing to pay for such a marginal improvement in life expectancy.

Re: death and vegetarianism

[sannichka]

you can't last a friggin' week? i wanted to write "friggin' weak" ;)

Re: death and vegetarianism

[letitbe]

Actually, I am finding that it's not that hard. Now I am just trying to come up with a good reason to do it. And living a longer but less fulfilling life is not quite it...