Is it true that I'm gonna die someday and I will just cease to exist? That's a very scary thought to imagine

Is it true that I'm gonna die someday and I will just cease to exist? That's a very scary thought to imagine.

It's not true until it happens user

jep, easy but true. But better than the bullshit the church tells you.

>That's a very scary thought to imagine.

OK, then, you're going to live forever. Pay taxes forever. Be bored forever. Is that better?

Back in September I was holding my best friend's hand when he breathed his last breath. We were friends fo over 40 years, and he was only 51 when he pasted. It has effected my daily life and my view of my own mortality. I just hope that this life is just the training wheels for something greater.

In my religion this life is kinda like the new Jumanji movie. We are simply avatars for someone playing some sort of game. When we sleep, that is them unplugging from the game to do shit. Our genetics are the player simply choosing stats for their avatar (intelligence, looks, strength, etc). So when you die your avatar respawns in some way.

>mfw I started keeping a dream journal and realize I have ability to communicate one way with these beings playing this game

It's not true. The Great Sky Fairy will come down and take your soul to Heaven.

Then it will proceed to buttfuck it for all Eternity.

Sorry to hear that. I watched them pull the life support from my old man and nothing changes you like seeing someone you love die right in front of you. He was only 56 (I was 26 at the time)

You do realize this is going to happen to all of us eventually, right?

Just like before you were born user

Imagine going into surgery, waking up and being told that you died on the table. Completely changed my view on death. I’ll accept it when it comes because it was bliss

It does seem to be true, yes. There's no reason that it should be scary though. It's literally nothing to fear.

I find u really stop giving a fuck after a few drinks.
9/10 Dentists will agree.

As far as i can tell, it's not true.

I work with the disabled. Recently had a call to a lady with an alarm button thing, had dementia, so would press it but not remember why and when they try to intercom her she doesn't understand why a box on the wall is speaking so she ignores it.

I go there, sure enough everything seems fine and she has no recollection of pushing it. I actually write her up that everything is a-ok and it's only when I stop to try and reassure her a bit about when somebody will next see her (only an hour or two away) that shit felt... off.

This i getting tl;dr but I ended up phoning the doctor, doctor suddenly goes 'fuck this, she needs an ambulance'. Got a call to say she died that night.

She was obviously very unwell but fuck me, she was fine 5mins before. Two staff from the local hospital beat me to her call and left before me because nothing was wrong.

As you get older and don't accomplish the goals you wanted too as a kid, death becomes easier to accept

Why is it better?

The Truth is there is no "you" to die. You identify as a thinking, feeling, expiring flesh bag when none of that is really you. You are a verb out of time. And object-less being.

Not him, but eternal existence would be a horrible fate, inevitably driving you insane.

I don't know how people that work with such misery do it. I have had ex-gf that work at nursing homes and the horror they see daily. Life truly is suffering in so many ways. I just hope whatever is next after I die isn't worse.

depends, would you prefer
>nonexistence
>since you're on Sup Forums, eternal torture in the depths of hell

You will experience exactly what you did before you were born.....nothing.

especially once the sun goes red giant, then completely disappears, and eventually everything goes heat death
floating in eternal nothingness will make you nuts in no time

I've sorta made peace with it. I just want to whatever the fuck I want and go out with a bang in 60 years. I have some medical shit that will more than likely decrease my lifespan, so I don't feel like working a shitty office job for 40 years and then retiring. The thing that annoys me most isn't dying actually, it's wasting so much time learning how to live for the first 20+ years of my life in institutions. Yeah, some of it is important information, but instead of traveling, making connections, doing things that make me happy, I'm continuing University. And I can't exactly drop it because I need some way to make money to fund the things I want to do. Just seens like I'm spending more time waiting to"live" than "living."

Suck Yahweh's dick just the right way - get into a vaguely defined paradise where you're stuck basically fondling His balls for all eternity and likely be bored shitless until the end of time and then some
Don't suck it just right - ETERNAL FLAMES AND DAMNATION!!!!!!!!1!!!

The way I see it, damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Your biology does not exist to serve your conscience. Your conscience serves biology.
Thats why people do seemingly country intuitive shit to create and preserve life.

Woah that's a dark perspective.

>Being stuck in heaven with a bunch of religious nuts.

Youre dead already

If I went to heaven I would kick god's ass in the canteen. You have to show who's boss otherwise you'll end up as someone's bitch.

all my enemies are dead (natural causes like drowning and shit) but unfortunatley so are all of my friends i grew up with. dunno why im still here but fuck it

Because if you do what you want and disregard religious ideology, you can have a fuller like instead of priming yourself for the afterlife for 80 years.

Heaven is among you.

does 1846 scare you?
Why not you were not there so after you have gone you wont care about the day, moth, year, or anything any more.

"Don't take life to serious you won't get out alive"
Enjoy your self and don't tank about the bad and good just live.
I thought I was going to die when I have a accident and broke my face in 5 places and to me that was it Done and I was calm and drifting away no pain no fear just going to sleep and calm.

And I'm ok with that

I couldn't do your job, user. I'll have to take doing the same thing day in, day out (moving pallets around a warehouse) over knowing that people I provide care for routinely hit the end of their lives. You're a stronger user than I.

the fear comes from attachment
you never really die

It's a hard balance. Obviously, we don't do it for the pay, glamour, or hours because all are shit. We do it because we actually care.

But care too much and you're gonna last literally six weeks. So you have to try and detach and be abstract.

Ngl tho, manly tears were shed when she died. She was a sweet old lady, and I worked with her quite a lot.

Anal sex

I once had a firefighter tell me they couldn't do my job. Once I realised he was serious, I told him there was no way I could do his. Like... Imagine car wrecks with kids. Nope.

I guess I do it because I can and I know that's a specialist skill in its own right. Makes me know I'm doing something worthwhile.

well I thought the answer to the universe and everything was 42 but I guess I was wrong

Why!? Why on Earth would YOU be okay with that?

is this a religion that has writings and stuff or is it your personal one? what is it called? i'm interested either way.

Remember before you were born? That's what it's like after you die.

You will change states, and you'll answer for what you did here. So be careful. You know the way.

Because I can do whatever the hell I want. Death isn't a real consequence if you accept you're already dead. My parents live in constant fear of everything, and it annoyed the fuck out of me, so I try not to be scared if the ultimate consequence because it's coming whether you like it or not. So, in that sense, I'm already dead.

I feel like I could do that. I'm empathic and compassionate but detached from suffering. Do you have any advice how how to find that work and how to be good at it?

You obviously can't do what you want, you can't even live. And no matter what you tell me or yourself, you want to live. Otherwise you would have killed yourself.

Ok man :)

Absolutely understandable. Thank you for doing what you do.

I always thought so too, until I had a psychosis that was very much religious in nature. Made me kind of a believer but then again, it could have been my brain making things up for me, kind of like a counter reaction to my life devoid of religion. Then I had a second even more intense psychotic episode that pretty much wiped away all doubt. My atheist friends still think its all hallucinations and delusions though, but I would advise anyone to listen to anons like these: In another time I would have made a good prophet or shaman or whatnot, in these modern secular scientific times it made me a psychiatric patient. I'd still propose to listen to some of the crazy mystics out there, and to at least try to not be a giant dick in life at all occasions, because you might regret it.

Depends on where you are. I'm in the UK and it's VERY easy to get into that kinda work at the low end.

If you can get care where you visit people in their own homes and help with tasks like washing, meals, toileting - do that first. Do that for at least a year and get good at it. Then go to residential care. The care work there is harder but now you're good at it you'll be able to cope fine, but now you won't have to deal with hit like traipsing through town on an impossibly tight schedule.

It's a misconception you need a shitton of qualifications to do this. Some places employ people like that, some employ ONLY people like that, but in most care businesses in most countries you can get trained in-house with no experience. Personally, when I started I was shocked by how little training I got. So be ready for getting chucked in the deep end early on.

Keep thinking to yourself, when faced with a tough call (shit everywhere, ambulance, equipment failure etc) that no matter how bad this is for you it's way worse for the client. That makes it easy.

Finally, you'll need a clean or cleanish criminal record. A warning for shoplifting in 1973 is no problem in most places but recent/serious offending is a straight-up bar to entry. These are vulnerable people, they are protected.

Hope that helps.

I know depression make it feel like nothing matters, like you might as well be dead but you have the power to live, if you choose it. Right now.

Thank you for recognising. It's a hidden industry but it turns out we're everywhere, silently doing this shit.

I was suicidal on and off up to a few years ago, starting when I was 14. It stopped scaring me and then I found I could easily deal with my mental health, now it doesn't affect me day-to-day. So I could work in a high-stress job like that more easily and while death saddens the fuck outta me I can deal.

That is intense. The feels and wiping asses at the same time. It's a saintly calling. Thanks.

Thanks Satan.

I take comfort in the fact that one day i will die and cease to exist. I won't even know I lived because I simply won't be.

>but
Sounds like hinduism

bump

>Finally someone who understands my feeling
I'm too fear of the idea of myself cease to exist. In the biological perspective, the brain and nerve system give us the feeling of “me”. When our body stop functioning then we stop existing right? That is some scary shit that haunted me for years now.
I'd love that, at least I change my lifestyle once a while

>I'd love that, at least I change my lifestyle once a while

If you're not doing it now, you're not going to if you're immortal.