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Thor · 07-26-2008, 01:32 PM

I lost all my Grandparents by age 15, my Mother at 23, one of my best friends at 28 and a few cousins over the years.

I guess as for death, once you experience someone close to you passing, the future times you deal with it becomes a little easier. Its never going to be easy, but you find your own way of dealing with it, obviously for me losing my Mother was very hard but she's always in our minds and we still talk about funny stories of her more than 10 years later.

For me afterlife has never really entered my mind, I rather prefer to think about this life and not worry about something that could or could not be. People who pass live on in those they leave behind, and that is what should be enough people to live their own best lives to have some kind of legacy left behind.

Just live your life with passion and do your best to always remember that the things in life which truly give you joy are most always your relationships with family and friends. How much money you make, how many cars you own, or status in society isn't something you will think fondly upon on your death bed.

As an Atheist I see death as myself returning to the dust in which we came from, and that in that sense we never truly die, but our consciousness and being will disperse into the cosmos. So we do become part of something after death, but what matters most is that we live the lives we have here on Earth the best we can.

I have to say though I don't personally think of death very much, maybe its that I've had to deal with my fair share at age 34, not sure, but either way I tend to focus on the living.

Death isn't something to fear... What we should fear is not living this life as if its our only shot at it, because that would be a wasted life if you rely on an afterlife to make your mark.

07-26-2008, 01:32 PM	#75
Thor God of Hating Twitter Join Date: Apr 2006 Exp:	I lost all my Grandparents by age 15, my Mother at 23, one of my best friends at 28 and a few cousins over the years. I guess as for death, once you experience someone close to you passing, the future times you deal with it becomes a little easier. Its never going to be easy, but you find your own way of dealing with it, obviously for me losing my Mother was very hard but she's always in our minds and we still talk about funny stories of her more than 10 years later. For me afterlife has never really entered my mind, I rather prefer to think about this life and not worry about something that could or could not be. People who pass live on in those they leave behind, and that is what should be enough people to live their own best lives to have some kind of legacy left behind. Just live your life with passion and do your best to always remember that the things in life which truly give you joy are most always your relationships with family and friends. How much money you make, how many cars you own, or status in society isn't something you will think fondly upon on your death bed. As an Atheist I see death as myself returning to the dust in which we came from, and that in that sense we never truly die, but our consciousness and being will disperse into the cosmos. So we do become part of something after death, but what matters most is that we live the lives we have here on Earth the best we can. I have to say though I don't personally think of death very much, maybe its that I've had to deal with my fair share at age 34, not sure, but either way I tend to focus on the living. Death isn't something to fear... What we should fear is not living this life as if its our only shot at it, because that would be a wasted life if you rely on an afterlife to make your mark.