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What does /lit/ think about death?

I know a great many of you will be tempted to try to brush this off with cynical or aversive comments that completely deny the reality of every single person's impending doom, so please-- refrain from attempting to derail the discussion. Death is so fucking scary that it's hard to imagine without your chest tightening up. So, philosophically, how does it fit into the grand scheme of thing?

>> No.16454341
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>>16454331
>Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to “die before you die” and find that there is no death.

>> No.16454343
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I think it's a transcendental limit and that by drawing out the subject matter of the world makes us aware that only one experience is present.

>> No.16454356

>>16454331
It's the price one pays for consciousness, awareness, the ability to play with, manipulate, and be manipulated by symbols. Where does it fit? It doesn't have to fit because it's precisely that which makes room.

>> No.16454364

Death is both the most amazing and most frightening thing ever. When compared to life, it represent true freedom, yet because we have no reliable way of knowing what happens after death, leaving us completely unprepared, we fear it more than anything. Of course, in addition to fearing pain that might come with dying.
I just hope I die peacefully in my sleep.

>> No.16454367

>>16454331
Oh, I am more than casually aware of the fact I will die some day. It's why nothing ultimately matters.

>> No.16454368

>>16454331
Define death

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>>16454368
based

>> No.16454386

>>16454356
If death is the 'price' of life, then who is the one who defines that price and makes it so?

>> No.16454390

>>16454331
Young people are scared of life, old people are scaref of death. Currently the thing that scares me the most is never experience the genuine love of a girl and not having kids. As long as it's a painless death I'm ok with it. It will be like a long sleep until we'll be born again.

>> No.16454394

Death it the proof of God. Jesus is the saviour.

>> No.16454397

>>16454390
>It will be like a long sleep
No sleep feels long when you are asleep.

>> No.16454401

>>16454390
The fact that I will never be able to leave this cycle of life and death rather than just not-exist anymore bothers me more than anything.

>> No.16454446

>>16454331
motivates me, in every way, knowing the material things I'll left behind will be sold for someone buy shit I don't like and, that the only thing that will make me happy it won't happen with me alive so, basically, Death is motivation for me, but is relief, at the sime time that it is the thing that will make people value me as a writer and person more. It's a trident.

>> No.16454458

>>16454331
Great band.
Their best album is probably Human.

>> No.16454476

I wasn't worried about not being before I was alive, and so I'm not worried about not being after I die.

>> No.16454477

>>16454331
Life is the Father, but Death is the Mother, the Life-bringer. She's the one who spins the great wheel of matter, bringing bodies together and tearing them apart again and again. She's the one who strips us of our fears, our misery, and of our joy; what is there of this world that Death cannot take? And yet without Her life is cancer. She is irresistible, inescapable: we, Life's seed, will one day flow into Her womb. Live a year, a dozen, a thousand, a billion-- She still waits at the end. We fear Her, stave Her off, cling to Father. I don't want to go, God I don't want to go! PLEASE I DON'T WANT TO GO MOTHER PLEASE MAMA NO

But Father will hand us to Her one day. BUT I DON'T WANT TO GO She will take me NO PLEASE Where I will go? NO I do not know MAMA PLEASE I'M SCARED

Are rocks alive? I like to think so. When will Mother take them? Is there a rock heaven? A rock hell? Or are they doomed to DADDY HELP ME PLEASE I LOVE YOU PLEASE MAMA NO cycle forever? If so, am I DADDY doomed to the same fate? Will I also cycle forever GOD PLEASE from form to form? That is MAMA NO MAMA NO MAMA NO romantic in a sense DON'T TAKE ME FROM THEM PLEASE

I will die someday. That is the only thing that is certain. I am curious as to what MAMA FIVE MORE PLEASE MAMA FIVE MORE ILL BE GOOD JUST FIVE MORE lies on the other side MAMA I LOVE THEM SO MUCH IT HURTS

My faith tells me that I will reincarnate if ITS EMPTY MAMA PLEASE ITS EMPTY IM SCARED MAMA PLEASE I do not reach enlightenment. In that case, I guess I'll be born from Death, crawl out of her womb into Life's arms, where I’ll play until I am handed back into my Mother's waiting arms. MAMA NO DADDY STAY I don’t like the idea of moving on from this cycle though. The idea of permanence is odd; only God is permanent MAMA JUST A LITTLE LONGER PLEASE ILL BE A GOOD KID THIS TIME PLEASE MAMA PLEASE LISTEN

In any case I’ve sinned, and I will keep on doing so MAMA IT’S DARK and I want to go though this again

MAMA PLEASE NO MAMA PLEASE

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>>16454477

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>>16454331
I don't want to, I've been thinking about my doom since early childhood. I DON'T WANT TO!

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>>16454331

I almost died once. It was agonizing but I learned that you can be prepared. I would say it is easier to prepare for your own death than those of others. It is almost a responsibility to do so, so you can leave something to people important to you when they need to grieve.

I have also watched many others die. It is almost always humiliating but peaceful when it is over. Often, it appears relaxing, especially if the person has been suffering greatly.

Even when horrible, death is a natural process. The way people are, they view it as losing a game and so they either can't accept losing when it comes or try to convince themselves they've won (they are "going to heaven") but there is no heaven nor hell. There is only disintegration and reintegration with the Earth. Parts of you will live again and parts will stay dead for eternity. I am content with that.

>> No.16454554

>>16454527
This makes me so sad, anon. I hope there is an afterlife. After all, how can something come from nothing?

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>>16454331
if there is a platonic realm
death will be like getting off the stage
the spirit world would be elevated, all the good things here
we would miss things like food, love, nature, the bonds, the sights
we would probably be given deals to come back
probably be told we still have much to learn before we can return home.
but it is important to remember this intermediary place is archon controlled. it is a fake afterlife.
do not believe their lifes.
most of you will.
anyone who wore masks in public will.

>> No.16454577

>>16454572
do not believe their lies*

>> No.16454586

>>16454554

Everything is already here, anon. Life and consciousness are just a few forms among many for us. And why be sad about that?

>> No.16454594

>>16454401
why dont you do something about it then?
everything you seek is within you

>> No.16454608

>>16454386
Not a who but a what and that what is Language. Life relies on Death to mean anything at all, and vice verse

>> No.16454610

>>16454331
you don't die, your atoms are rearranged, the universe is energy fields that organize and disorganize.

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>>16454331
>Life's end...
>Isn't it beautiful? It's almost tragic. When life ends, it gives off a final lingering aroma. Light is but a farewell gift from the darkness to those on their way to die. I've been waiting, Snake, for a long time. Waiting for your birth, your growth, and the finality of today.

>> No.16454669

>>16454608
Why does it have to mean anything in the first place?

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>>16454331
stop thinking and you will see.

I don't think therefore I don't exist.

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>>16454331
>>16454341
>>16454394
>>16454401
>>16454610
>>16454687
I didn't ask to have life, therefore why should I be afraid to give up my life? Behold the Son of Man hath conquered death by love, for no greater love hath man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. And is more a friend to us than God who through Their life we should live eternally...

>> No.16455961

>>16454669
So that we can use it in threads like this with significance adequate to know mutually what it means. What it means is that we can write, for instance, but with the knowledge that sooner rather than later our writing stops.. forever.

>> No.16455972

>>16455961
Oeuvres are tombs

>> No.16456689

>>16454594
Because I don't want an afterlife at all. From what I understand, if you do certain things, you leave the cycle and go to, for lack of a better term, "heaven". I don't want that. I want my spirit to no longer exist anymore when I die.

>> No.16456802

Jesus is THE cope.

>> No.16456810

>>16454331
Death is literally undefined pseudoscientific babble. You cannot prove death exists. There is no evidence death exists.

>> No.16456819

>>16454341
So this is the power of finnish (asian) philosophy...

>> No.16456830
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Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

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>>16454331
Tfw my soul will be released from its material prison and be re-united with the One Supreme God in the afterlife

>> No.16457054

I thought you guys would have actual insights, but apparently not. Blood from a stone I guess.

>> No.16457561

I always pondered about the ones who have died and have been brought back. They usually say there is nothing. That it felt like the best sleep they have ever had. Makes sense, as a child I had a near death experience. At the moment of impact I felt like what I assume it feels like to run a triathlon, I just wanted to sleep. The voices kept saying not to, and try to open my eyes but it felt so good to close and give in to the tiredness.

>> No.16457624

>>16457054
How can someone have insight about something that no one understands ?

With death, it's all about faith not knowledge.

>> No.16457876

>>16455972
Well, yes, but explicitly haunted

>> No.16457903

Is Denial of Death really that good of a book?

>> No.16457908

>>16454331
It's nothing, who cares

>> No.16457981

>>16457624
So, I'm doomed is what you're saying. I will forever be stuck having to live countless lives I don't want until I eventually have an afterlife I don't want. What am I supposed to do?

>> No.16458195

>>16454331
Death is a part of life. It's the other side of the coin, the context against which all else is considered.
One day you will be dead, full stop.

>> No.16458689

>>16457981
Realize that what you want is worthless and accept your fate.