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Old 06-15-2017, 12:35 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Let's remember that everyone handles death differently and try to keep it from getting too heated, folks.
This kinder, gentler Chris kinda makes me want to puke.
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Old 06-15-2017, 01:32 PM   #2 (permalink)
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IMO I don't know jack-**** though so don't listen to me.
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Old 06-15-2017, 01:51 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Until I was 37, I just walked around an unfeeling psychopath. When I woke up to my new life, I started to understand a lot of things I'd been deaf and blind to before. One of those things was death.
Why? Was he in your way and wouldn't move?
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It is a common opinion that people hold though. People will quickly pull over their car to help a wounded dog on the side of the road than they would a person. A majority of people value animals lives above human lives. As much as I like animals I would still help a random human over an animal.
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As much as life sucks and I'm a maladjusted cluster**** the thought of ceasing to exist and losing knowledge of everything I've seen and felt just feels like the most unfair cosmic joke ever. Last night I was thinking about how it's kind of ****ed that I'm forgetting much of my high school life. High school was basically one minor trauma after another that I despised, but it was also an important part of my life, and I kind of mourn for that deranged kid who was sure everything would get better one day. He's dying and many of his experiences and feelings are going to be lost to me forever, and considering just how much he went through during those years it just doesn't seem fair.

And what about the future? I'll probably never know if the human race reaches past our solar system, or if we ever have a unified world government, or if Batman ever marries Catwoman. There's just so much cool **** to know at any given time that the thought of missing out on an infinite stretch of time after I die is galling. What right do you people have to do things if I'm not around to see it?
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When you get older and you start to wear down I think most people get more comfortable with it. A little different for everyone I guess. It sounds like you have a really strong survival instinct. Over time it should start to feel more right.
Do you mean an older person gets a more "well what can you do, all gotta die some time" view, or that people expect older people to die more than they would a younger person: "she's what, eighty now? Had a good run" etc.?
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I guess I'm just a narcissist. Or having never had a friend or family member I was at all close to die makes death into more of an idea than a reality. But most of my thoughts of my own death are pretty self-involved.
You're right here. Once you lose someone close (don't wish it on you, man, but it will happen) your whole perspective changes through 180 degrees. Believe me. It gets very real.
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Even Trump?
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Yes even Trump. Humans over animals every single time.
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Yes even Trump. Humans over animals every single time.
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Yes even Trump. Humans over animals every single time.
Humans are animals.
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Humans are animals.
Your mom is an animal.
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Do you mean an older person gets a more "well what can you do, all gotta die some time" view, or that people expect older people to die more than they would a younger person: "she's what, eighty now? Had a good run" etc.?
I'm saying you get ****ing tired man. It doesn't mean you want to blow your brains out it just means you start thinking this book has gone on long enough. I don't really need another chapter. Even novelty loses its novelty. It seems like it would get scarier and scarier as it inevitably approaches but that fear is softened by exhaustion and resignation.
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I'm saying you get ****ing tired man. It doesn't mean you want to blow your brains out it just means you start thinking this book has gone on long enough. I don't really need another chapter. Even novelty loses its novelty. It seems like it would get scarier and scarier as it inevitably approaches but that fear is softened by exhaustion and resignation.
OK I get it. I wasn't sure. Personally, I'm 54 and want to live to be 154, as long as I have all my faculties. I'm not fixing to die any time soon. Plus, I have more than my own selfish concerns to consider.
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OK I get it. I wasn't sure. Personally, I'm 54 and want to live to be 154, as long as I have all my faculties. I'm not fixing to die any time soon. Plus, I have more than my own selfish concerns to consider.
The word "selfish" hints that you might getting that feeling, too. Acceptance isn't at all the same as being suicidal.

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Yeah. That's how people are. If they wouldn't feel it they don't think you should either. I've heard it said that losing a dog hurts some people more than losing a parent. I can't tell them what they're feeling.
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