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Is it odd I think the most fulfilling thing to do in life is to die.
Is it not what you live your life to do? There is no purpose in life or one singular acition to do, so therefore in the end is the one thing not to do die? I don't mean at all to say this in a pessimistic edgy way, but truly do we not just wait our whole lives for the end?
I've really been thinking about the terms of death, and curious about all the different ways other perceive it to be. I feel that I'm not really scared of death at all. At any moment I actually think I'd be content and okay if dying. (that sounds bad and suicidal but I promise I don't mean it in that way)
So many people just seem to be so afraid or have such a huge aversion to the thought, but are you not curious? Do you really not think about it at all?
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SonataMirage!
It's the ultimate truth
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Life and death seem to me to be words that are intrinsically related and that need each other to have meaning. Without death, the concept of life as we know it wouldn't be the same and would definitely lack meaning. Relatively recently, I read a 20th-century book titled "Four Hearts with Brakes and Reverse," by Jardiel Poncela. The conclusion this work attempts to leave you with is that the product of altering the course of life itself is nothing more and nothing less than the loss of happiness and meaning. It's a comedy melodrama, not too long. You can probably read this book online for free. I highly recommend it.
PL9050
We live in an age where truth is no longer accessible. Most acknowledge that they really know nothing. Our lives are a cycle of suffering due to our incomplete knowledge. This ceases with death, where truth is no longer of importance.
We spend our lives in a fruitless search for truth. Unless we do find that truth, we know that our troubles cease with death. The search ends, and so does our commitment towards it. That's why many are suicidal, or are just content with death, like you and I.
Of course these are just my thoughts. I could be wrong.
I actually really like your take on this.
A commitment to life and the obligatory need to embrace the possibilities of it seems exhausting. Death is an escape from everything which can equate to a sense of peace and escape.
I don't have an extraordinary need to search for something to fill my life with so I can see how my content is a symbol for that. I think your thoughts are very interesting, and I appreciate them.
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Nastyenka
Weird? Maybe.
But most “weird” things are often just truths that are rarely spoken out loud.
Seeing death as something satisfying might make sense when you realize how exhausting, expectation-filled, and tangled in the search for meaning life can be.
But maybe the real issue isn’t the satisfaction of dying — it’s that we still don’t fully know how satisfying life could be.
Because we know the ending, but we never quite manage to live the middle fully.
Death isn’t frightening — it’s uncertain.
But so is life — only longer, messier, more layered.
So maybe what’s satisfying isn’t death itself;
it’s the effort to make a seemingly meaningless life meaningful despite death.
And perhaps true courage isn’t in choosing to die — but in choosing to keep going, to live with questions that may never have answers.
Your questions, in the end, might be far more human than any answer could ever be.
I think this is a much more positive take :)
Perhaps when you view it in a way where there is no meaning in life and so therefore there is only opportunity, death becomes less of a fulfillment. There is uncertainty in everything and only movement forward despite the intricateness of purpose.
If there is no reason for being, it only brings about the chance to try everything instead.
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Jin
I think about it a lot of times too
I think death is like an answer for our life
every experiences in our lives is like a huge formula and death is answer for that formula
we are not afraid of death itself I think we are afraid of the fact
that we can't take anything we built up so far and we don't know how we are gonna die
Yes I think very often people are too hung on the materialistic value of life. A little in a corny way, your comment reminded me of ancient Egypt and how the pyramids (the tombs of pharos) held mass portions of gold and objects for them to carry onto the afterlife. A little silly if you think about it really, but I guess if you do believe in the afterlife it may be a way of justifying the efforts of the life you've lived until reaching that point.
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Thanks for replying to my comment.
well, actually I don't believe afterlife to be sure.
In fact, I believe there's nothing after death.
But what matters? as I said, we will get the answers of our life after death and our every desires will get fulfill.
and after that, we just let darkness slowly swallow our body, not in a scary way, but in a beautiful way.
And also about fear of death, I forgot to say this, it's also like the fear of something we yet can't understand. death is something far beyond our knowledge. People feel fear at something that haven't happen to them yet or something that's too big to understand. it's also like that. and it combines with the reasons like I said before(you can't take anything with you like that), making it bigger and bigger.
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1nt3rn3t_l0s3r
ive been thinking about death for a very long time, and more recently have i been really looking into it and drafting up my own answers.
your blog reflects some of the more neutral standpoints i take on the topic, like not necessarily seeing death as something sad or special, but more so as a mere certainty of life.
but i can still admit i have lots of fear about it, and i dont think thats something that will ever go away for me, and im ok with that.
I really appreciate your acknowledgment and acceptance of your fear for it. When I bring up this topic to most people they genuinely freak out. I think they find it hard to understand that it doesn't have to an extremely morbid and dreadful outcome but the natural and inevitable path of life.
While I defiantly don't fear death exactly, I do for sure can say I fear the pain associated with it physically at least In terms of leaving memories and people behind, I find it just yet again another inevitability of life to accept and live in the moment for. This is only my opinions now at least. In the future I can defiantly see this changing.
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glad you blogged this. hope you get what you want out of life.
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