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What age do you think you will die?

Death, like the cookie jar that is always a few inches higher then my out stretched fingers when I am on tippy toes, will always come a few months too soon for me. I don't see myself dying before I am 50 (I appear fit and healthy and don't live life with too many risks). However when my time does come I am sure I will want to do one last adventure, hold my kids one more time, have monkey sex with my soul mate 3 more times. :(

I truly try to live like today is my last. I don't work so I can enjoy my retirement. I'll be too old to snowboard or the music at that party will be too weird and ruined by auto tune any way. I am a firm believer that we should lower the current retirement age and introduce an "extermination age" at 75. People would not worry if they had enough to support themselves for an unknown time frame, they would live life for now and not be disappointed when the worms eat them from the inside and there are no angels on clouds. The planet's resources would be used more wisely as people wouldn't be squirrelling them away for a rainy day.

I do plan on living forever. I will build a park with a bench that is surrounded by a shiny gate, opened by a key that you must earn. In this park there will be a small sculpture with a plaque. People of worth will be allowed to come here to meditate, to love, to enjoy the world for even just 5 minutes before leaving with a smile on their face. If I can afford it I'll build more tha one. My children know that this is a better inheritance than a house or trust account. I would much rather pass on my love and knowledge that will flow forward through the ages. That and my love of rugby and speed metal.
 
Two 'death' threads in the top three topics, must be the drugs.

When the Emperor asked Confucius when he'd die, the cunning sage replied " the day after me" and so acquired a lifetime immunity to execution.

No matter how old you are, you still want to live a little longer. If you laugh, you see the joke and don't waste time worrying about what you can't alter. I like the school of thought that says when you die, you go home. Don't know what it means but it sounds reassuring.
 
a good comparison for understanding death i think is to compare death to what u were like b4 u were born ,if u get my drift?
 
If I keep my boozing up, I reckon I've got a good five years left. So a bit over thirty. Funny how one year you're OK, the next you can feel organs not working as they should.
 
I saw a documentary once and a mortician was showing people round where he worked. He sort of waved his hand at all the bodies and showed us a 6 yr old boy, a 23 yr old girl, a 50 year old guy etc. He said 'the thing is, none of them woke up this morning and thought by the end of the day they'd be lying here'.
That really stuck a note with me, it's so true. Man knoweth not his time. (I always thought that was from a poem, turns out it's the Bible).
As a scientificaly minded person I find the thought of life after death ridiculous. IMO its like lightswitch gets turned out, no drama. Makes life simpler to live & death easier to face.
 
I figure that if I can live till I am 70yrs old then I would be happy with my lot. I wouldn't want to get to the stage where I have to have people washing me and helping me go to the toilet etc.
 
i dont like thinking about death at all.
i dont know if not knowing when you go is better than knowing. whats after is a whole other concern.

but really, like a previous poster said, one day you re fine, the next it turns out your liver is failing or you got a tumor or whatnot.

its really strange you know, that you keep telling yourself, yeah im going to live the moment, but theres actually so many concerns and thing on your mind you rarely do that...
 
ollieideal said:
a good comparison for understanding death i think is to compare death to what u were like b4 u were born ,if u get my drift?
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Yep, that was my thought in post 139. I really find that fact intriguing. 15 billion years is a long time to wait for our little flickers of life.
 
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badandwicked said:
IMO its like lightswitch gets turned out, no drama. Makes life simpler to live & death easier to face.
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Aye that may well be the case but for me that doesn't make it any easier. I'll still wish I had more time on this planet I'm sure, I'll have regrets, there will be things I never got round to doing that I wish I had.

I doubt many people when faced with death can look back on life and be truely satisfied, no regrets, no wishes unanswered, no dreams that they didn't fulfill. That's what scares me most about dying, the fact I know I'll die having not done everything I ever wanted to do. :\
 
TheSpade said:
That's what scares me most about dying, the fact I know I'll die having not done everything I ever wanted to do. :\
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Good attitude to carry through life though. It should ensure you give it a fukin good go.

Death doesn't bother me as such as I've kind of faced it, or at least accepted it - like I said in another thread. But it's the method of dying that bugs me. I don't want to slowly and painfully fade away. But I wonder if pain is just a natural process? It's certainly painful coming into this life, though thankfully we aren't aware, or we have no recall at least.
 
30 46 or 61 1 things for sure "When god comes a calling me to his kingdom, I'll take all ya sons a bitches when I go!"

LOL naw i'd bet somewhere between 30-35, maybe 45-50 If I quit heroin, cocaine, alcohol and benzos.. btw I'm 28 now..
 
Good attitude to carry through life though. It should ensure you give it a fukin good go.
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I wish I could say that I lived life to the full, lived as if every moment was my last and all those other cliches but I don't. I wish I did quite honestly but I don't. I feel like I've taken steps in the right direction in the last few years to get out and see the world and that but still hardly living life at full pelt.
 
TheSpade said:
I wish I could say that I lived life to the full, lived as if every moment was my last and all those other cliches but I don't. I wish I did quite honestly but I don't. I feel like I've taken steps in the right direction in the last few years to get out and see the world and that but still hardly living life at full pelt.
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Another cliche, but it's all relative innit? Relative to the majority of societies sheep, you've probably already done more than they can dream of. Relative to the rich thrill seekers or the Bear Grills of this world you probably pale.

I think in the same way that talented artists aspire to the greats in their craft - who in turn aspire to heights of their own, as long as we strive for something else, we live life as best we can.

Mind you, I talk the talk, but I am one of life's great underachievers.
 
nomy said:
Another cliche, but it's all relative innit? Relative to the majority of societies sheep, you've probably already done more than they can dream of. Relative to the rich thrill seekers or the Bear Grills of this world you probably pale.

I think in the same way that talented artists aspire to the greats in their craft - who in turn aspire to heights of their own, as long as we strive for something else, we live life as best we can.

Mind you, I talk the talk, but I am one of life's great underachievers.
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I watched a program about an English boy spending 3 years walking the length of the Amazon river the other day, just for shits and giggles. He almost died a few times, ran out of food and water, collapsed, got sick, got lost, had to avoid poisonous insects, wild animals etc. That boys a proper adventurer and explorer, I couldn't even dream of doing anything like that but the reality is that there's nothing stopping me, I could in theory...I just wouldn't. Why won't I though? I don't even know. :\
 
^^Yeah, those type of extreme adventures are an odd one though. At the time, it would seem like hell. But probably looking back in his old age he would dream to be back there in his prime. So a lot of it is good only in retrospect. Plenty of reminiscing for old age, but how much has a rose tint to it?
 
Hell at the time maybe but what an acheivement. To put yourself through that level of stress and strain every day for 3 years just for the sake of it (well he was raising money for charity too) is no mean feat. What a guy. I wish I had that level of commitment and determination. He'll certainly not look back on it and regret it.
 
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