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Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...threadid=385624

This thread isn't necessarily about being afraid to die. It's just about whatever death-related things people want to talk about.

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Originally posted by Sunsnail you sure? I thought people were afraid of what happens after death

Certainly some are.

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Originally posted by kadomony most people arent afraid of death. they're afraid of the pain before it or the feeling that they havent attained durable fulfillment before dying.

what i'm afraid of is exactly what u said... that i could die way before i'm ready for it...there's soo much more i want to do and sometimes i'm scared of how it will all end...or sometimes i wonder about the possibility of heaven and hell...and if such things exist i fear i'd go to hell...that's a really scary thought for me

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles This thread isn't necessarily about being afraid to die. It's just about whatever death-related things people want to talk about.

I can't think of a single thing that isn't somehow related to death.



And I didn't link that thread because I thought it was better than this one - I just thought that was a good (yet brief) discussion concerning some topics which may or may not arise in this thread, should it succeed.

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On topic:

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Man Alive, Declared Dead By State Robert Thomas is dead, according to a letter he received from the state. Thomas, who is alive said he received the letter and thought it was funny. "At first it was amusing to see I was legally dead," Thomas said about the letter sent in June. "Now, the joke is over and I need help." A representative for the Michigan Department of Human Services said the state mistakenly sent Thomas a letter informing him he had died. Thomas, a Detroit resident, was told the problem would be corrected in three or four days. Instead, according to Thomas, he was notified that his Medicaid coverage was being canceled due to his death. Thomas said he is a diabetic and that he spends more than $1,000 a month on insulin and other medications. He said he couldn’t afford his medication without the help of Medicaid. Thomas said he called WDIV Local 4 News because he was desperate for help. A Local 4 reporter contacted the Department Of Human Services, which confirmed the death notice was a mistake. The state has apologized to Thomas and promised to have his Medical benefits restored by next week.

That would be rather surreal...

Sounds like something out of a movie. Except the guy was a super villain and no one could figure out who it was.

It seems to me that 'death' could possibly be defined as the [mere] absence of life.

If what I understand, generally, about some of the nature of the universe, pretty much everything is cold and inanimate. It's almost like all that we know on both a local and a cosmic level is just hot paint on a canvas of cold (wtfanalogy). In other words, the universe is innately cold and dark and 'life', as we might know it, is just the presence of animation - of light and warmth and friction and forces and all sorts of other factors we have assigned words to in order to give them a sense of continual familiarity. From this perspective, 'death' is absolutely everywhere around us; but life surrounds us as well, here on this planet, as we are proof of its presence and are, ultimately, very small creatures with very small lives who will someday contribute to more life and more life and more life until that time when entropy reclaims it all.

What do we really know about life though? What keeps a mound of dirt from being 'alive'? Why would dirt be considered 'dead'? Because it does not move by itself, think for itself, produce or consume or directly interact with other things we consider to be 'alive'? But the elements of dirt have a chemical potential to interact with other elements, don't they? Perhaps life is, essentially, just the potential for energy expenditure? If that's true, then our definition is quite insufficient, and 'death' sure seems all the much smaller for it.

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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Life isn't just the potential for energy expenditure. Anything that's alive has to expend energy constantly in order to stay that way.

I'm not afraid of death, i'm just afraid of the way I'll die.

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Originally posted by AustralianGQ im a failure with females...i will be the real 40 year old virgin i guarentee you

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Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles Life isn't just the potential for energy expenditure. Anything that's alive has to expend energy constantly in order to stay that way.

By popular definition, sure.

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lol, the episode of the simpsons when grandpa yells and points at the lamp, and cat, "DEATH!!!!"