|
|
| Author |
Message |
| 15 new of 39 responses total. |
rcurl
|
|
response 25 of 39:
| 
Jun 20 15:05 UTC 2002 |
I don't want to plan to "finish everything" before I die. If I do
that, then I will be ready to die. I want to keep working on new
ideas and things for as long as I am able.
|
vmskid
|
|
response 26 of 39:
|
Jun 20 15:07 UTC 2002 |
You might have a point there, Rane.
|
jep
|
|
response 27 of 39:
|
Jun 20 17:24 UTC 2002 |
I think Rane had a good point.
I want to be able to leave the people I leave in good shape to take
care of themselves, without debt or other burden from me.
|
oval
|
|
response 28 of 39:
|
Jun 20 17:34 UTC 2002 |
i want to travel. a lot. almost everywhere.
|
flem
|
|
response 29 of 39:
|
Jun 20 20:04 UTC 2002 |
I just want to make sure that I'm awake and lucid when I die. It's the last
great mystery; damned if I'll sleep through it.
|
bhelliom
|
|
response 30 of 39:
|
Jun 20 20:57 UTC 2002 |
One thing I would want to do before I die is become at peace with the
idea of dying.
|
brighn
|
|
response 31 of 39:
|
Jun 20 21:47 UTC 2002 |
#29> What if the solution to the mystery is even more mysterious than the
question?
|
janc
|
|
response 32 of 39:
|
Jun 21 16:38 UTC 2002 |
We're talking about death here, not a bus tour of Paris. Awake and
lucid means your brain is fully functioning. Nobody dies with a fully
functioning brain. Death is about your awareness collapsing. You
can't be fully aware of it.
Unless you think you have some kind of a soul thing that will let your
mind continue to function when your brain drops out from under it.
I've been spending a lot of time with people who have brain damage, and
it doesn't seem to me that the mind shows much ability to keep
functioning when the brain isn't. But maybe the religous folk are
right and sometime during death your mind will cut connections with
your brain and float off into the ether, magically functioning without
a body. Well, if that happens, you won't be experiencing death anymore
will you? In that case only your body would be dieing, and your brain
would be off experiencing something else. Afterlife I guess.
Death is not an experience. It is the end of experience.
|
mynxcat
|
|
response 33 of 39:
|
Jun 21 16:49 UTC 2002 |
This response has been erased.
|
other
|
|
response 34 of 39:
|
Jun 21 17:02 UTC 2002 |
The brain's last ditch effort to get the other systems of the body to
reactivate and continue functioning.
There's a great novel on the subject called "Passage" by Connie Willis.
|
brighn
|
|
response 35 of 39:
|
Jun 21 17:37 UTC 2002 |
(Has Rane cracked Janc's account? ;} )
|
janc
|
|
response 36 of 39:
|
Jun 21 21:47 UTC 2002 |
Nope. I have some limited belief in God, but very little in any after
life, unless you count worms taking bits of you home to feed to their
babies. And I've been spending a lot of time around dieing people
lately.
Minds running on failing brains "experience" all sorts of stuff if
death isn't instantaneous. Lots of brain cells kicking and screaming.
But that's not death, just the last bit of life, and you sure aren't a
lucid observer of it.
|
fitz
|
|
response 37 of 39:
|
Jun 21 22:23 UTC 2002 |
It was my first thought when I read #0 twelve days ago and I tried to think
of something better, but I failed. It is as true as anything that I can know
about myself: Although divorced for years, I would tell my ex-wife that I
loved her more than she ever knew. It was almost twenty years ago that I got
the ol' heave-ho and I'm loath annoy her with the fact that I'm still hung-up.
<fitz picks at his scabs, but is relieved that he didn't have to buy a round
in order to unload out of the bummer item>
|
aruba
|
|
response 38 of 39:
|
Jun 22 04:49 UTC 2002 |
Wow.
|
flem
|
|
response 39 of 39:
|
Jun 22 23:08 UTC 2002 |
re 36, 32: That may be, but I still want to experience it, insofar as that's
possible.
|