A bit of a morbid and sensitive topic but its what's on my mind right now and I would like to hear what other people think of death or how they deal with it. It's an unchangeable part of life and yet so many are afraid it. I had two female beta fish named Princess Pei Pei and Princess Anastasia, and just a few hours ago I found Princess Pei Pei floating at the top, obviously dead. I stared at the red scales which had become dull and then quietly fished her out with my net and flushed her down the toilet. I went back to the Catherine Cookson miniseries I had just been watching (which if you've seen any, are incredibly cheesy and entertaining), and after watching Robson Green look cool and Robson Green-like for about half and hour I started to cry. I still laughed at Robson Green Robson Green-ing it but I was also crying because I couldn't fathom how one minute a fish is swimming about and enjoying said swimming, and then the next minute it's floating. The verb to swim will never apply to her again. Without me knowing it or noticing it she had just slipped away, like her body was just a costume that was getting too big for her. I know that her tiny body will put nutrients back into the earth and the rest of her will go back into the world from which she came but, it was like, I was sad about it more because I'd feel bad if I felt any other way. I wondered if I should feel happy for her. Or if she'd be reincarnated into another animal, or even a person. She's just a fish, I know, but, that's the thing. She was a fish. Can a verb in the present tense apply to her? Maybe her body confined her to just being a fish, and since now that is no longer, she is experiencing everything as everything rather than as a fish.
Well, who knows? What do you think? Not necessarily about the late Princess Pei Pei (which is an odd expression now that I think about it. The "late" whoever, as if they have yet to even arrive), but about the presence of death in life. To me, it's the most natural consequence of living, yet seeing any sort of dead body (be it beta fish or otherwise) feels unnatural to me. Thoughts? No thoughts?
if not you can just marvel at Robson Green. It helps.
That's his, "there there, you're alright chap" face. As soothing as a recording of whales.

Interesting, I just finished clinicals at the emergency room of a hospital in Baltimore a few days ago and was thinking about the subject also. I saw two deaths in the short day I was there, but on average they have a turnover of 300 patients in/out a day. I really respect what these paramedics, ER nurses, trauma doctors, and surgeons do though. I know I would have incredible difficulty seeing death every day like that.

I'm of the opinion that a person lives life the best way they can, perhaps trying to find some meaning of their existence, but most importantly to leave something of significance for the generations to come - it's what makes someone human. I think for many however they spend too much of their lives living to meet just base animal urges for sex, food, and petty selfish indulgences. It's a shame.

As someone who doesn't believe in an afterlife, death is often on my mind. I've gotten to the point in my thoughts, and trust me it is an ongoing process, where I consider death important only as the final measure of a person's life. Death is the last significant act that you will perform in your life, the last thing that you do that has an effect on others. So, thinking about death is really how I end up gauging the importance of life. I've come to the conclusion that, because death is the end and you can't really control it at its most basic level, you should focus your life on what makes you happy. Personally, I have three goals in life; accumulate as much knowledge as I possibly can, because I enjoy the process, start a family, and leave this world having changed something for the better. And then, with my death, I will have written the final sentence in the story of my life.

So, I guess what I'm saying is that, while death is important, it's only the last small part of every amazing life. It is natural to me, and just feels right when it comes as it should. After all, every story needs an ending.

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i like to think of death as a natural finale after finishing your job in the world. i believe that evey single soul on earth is here for a reason, and everything is meant to be. once yu're done with your mission, it's time to go on. life is very complicated, but also very simple. happiness is overrrated, people spend so much time searching for happiness when in reality its all around them, its because of this that people sometimes feel that someone was "too young to die" or "deserved to live more".
i think the most noble type of death is the one with a reason, people who die for a cause.
but no matter how much we try to discuss death, we'll never know what happens after you're buried. it's one of the mysteries of life, and thats why its so endearing.

edit : forgot to add that i'm a believer in afterlife; i believe in heaven and hell.

well, all religion believes that soul survives death. basicly death is just something in between life and afterlife. sort of like the soul journey

live is precious because it's the only time you have to be together with the one you love and do things freely. i wont say anything about being confined in hell or heaven, or how some religion believes that you will meet again someone you know after death, while some dont. basically, live your life to the fullest without regret and should someone dies, just let it go. remember, you will be there someday and a certain someone will cry for you when the time comes. don't overdo the weeping

Death is an ending, just like all the endings that mangas, novels, TV series et cetera have. Its a sad thing, but at the same time it gives you a chance to breathe, and you know how everything in life comes together to make sense. And pretty soon, except some specific persons, everybody forgets about it.

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There are times when you will miss what you never had. I wonder how you will find what you so desperately need.

just another process in live

I'm not sure.
ever since I read Many lives Many Masters by Brian Weiss
My view on death has been... obscured?
I feel like death is the end, yet it is another beginning.


Then again how can I know if I never died before.

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I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"

Game over...thanks for playing.

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" 9 years and 163 days later, 2% of my body cells are still in love with her"

To me, death is just another event that comes in life. When the time comes, I just hope I can peacefully fall into an eternal slumber.

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Nulla in mundo pax sincera
"Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth." - Albert Camus

It happens >.>
I don't mind the dead part... dying on the other hand
All kinds of ways to die (painful and scary ways included)

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Is this me in a nutshell?
Pretty much.

Death is something that will eventually come to us all. It's a sad fact because no one wants to lose the things they care about, but it remains true nonetheless. For many of us, though, it's something far down the road, and while it would be foolish of us to never consider it, so too would it be foolish to think of it constantly. For me, contemplation of death is the same as the contemplation of nonexistence. What will it be like to no longer see or hear? No longer feel, no longer think? To no longer exist? It's an impossible thing to imagine, seeing as I do feel and I do think and I do exist and have no way of remembering a time that I did not.

For certain, I'll leave with regrets and things left unsaid and undone. But also I want to be remembered, I want to have an impact on the world and the people around me. Maybe if I'm lucky, I'll do something important and I'll be put in a book or something and someone someday will read about me and toss a thought my way. But, if I'm remembered only by my friends and my family, I can be content with that thought, too. If I turn out to be a really forgetable person, I guess that's okay, too. I suppose I'll be dead anyway and won't have the capacity to care.

Death; I hold a certain fear for it, but it's something that I can't fight and something that I won't fight whenever it is that it decides to come for me.

To me, who is a person who has no religious views whatsoever, death is just the end of the line. A lot of people think of me as a cold person because of my views in life, etc., but that's just how I am.

Death is inevitable. No one can escape it. It's merely part of nature. Everything is a cycle, and cycles depend on every step being fulfilled. We've maxed out our quotas for now, so get ready to be replaced. I mean, I sometimes think death is salvation. Don't you get bored living sometimes? There has to be an end to everything.

It's kind of like how Hindu belief states that all that are born die and all those that die are reborn. Well, something like that anyway. I've study a few religions before out of curiosity...

Anyway, I've tried to cry over death. But I have never, ever done so without forcing myself to. When my great-grandmother died, my eyes were dry. Even when my pet fish and two turtles died, I didn't cry. I guess ever since I was young, I've always had the understanding that death is inescapable.

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I am vindicated!
I am selfish;
I am wrong!
I am right,
I swear I'm right.
Swear I knew it all along
And I am flawed!
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now
The things you swore
You saw yourself...

~"Vindicated" by Dashboard Confessional

I'm not religious at all and I think when we die that's it, we don't turn into angels or whatever. You can't escape death no matter what...
I get sad when people die. It hurts knowing you will never see them again, but that's life.

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[img][/img] A senpai tried to violate me after hearing about my transfer. BUT I RAPED HIM INSTEAD.

I've studied a few religions and I find a lot of concepts about death actually very beautiful. But I do have to say, I never get bored of living. I didn't cry when my grandma died because she was suffering so much it was a salvation for her but-I don't know. If I ever get bored of living I always think it's because I've allowed myself to get used to things, so I love change, and I love moments. Short, perfect moments, like you've arrived home after a long journey. I want to consider everything, learn so many things, feel so many things, and just be immersed in life. Death is inescapable, of course, but at times, so is life. Maybe that's a good way to accept death, and even sometimes love it. It's just another change I suppose.