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probably not. sudden extreme physical trauma leaves little room for such thoughts. your brain is just trying to placate you and make your death less horrible

>>3276842
>placate

Why would your brain do such a thing?

>>3276847
l2neuroscience

>>3276847
To ease the pain your body will go through.

So to ease the pain your mind would go through.

So to ease the pain your whole being would go through.

>>3276823

I like to think he and O'Hara are sipping coffee in a cafe in the clouds.

No. But I'm happy for him that he probably went how he would've wanted. He never gave up on what he believed was right, and he didn't die by his own hand.

As much as I feel my existence is meaningless because I will not be able to perceive the changes I've made once I'm dead, the thought of how embarrassing it would be to be found in a sucidal scene prevents me from killing myself.

And I will never understand because obviously I will not be there to experience the embarrassment.

How2understansthyself?

You aren't thinking about anything, at most just the sudden loss of control and weightlessness attached with a sudden realization of immediate demise.

At least for me, but I've survived such a scenario and have had time to reflect.

>>3278666
Who cares about meaning after you're dead when you have what's here and now? Change can start nowhere else.

>>3276823
His death was quick, so probably didn't have much time to think at all. Actual deaths, like heart attacks or blood loss, usually are harder to explain. Most of the time, the dying person will cry out for things that comforted him/her in an infantile state. This is why having a prolonged death frightens me. How terrible it must feel to regress until you are nothing.

I always wondered about that. Was he happy, in his final moment, to be cast into the abyss? Do you think he was scared? Or regretful of his dark outlook on life? Or self-doubting?