Well yesterday in my city a teenager was shot in the head, it was an accident but with only 7,000 residents in my town this hit fairly hard. Well what I mean by that is took our imaginations to the limit, everyone keeps repeating RIP *name* to be kind of honest I'm getting annoyed by it. I've never been much of a mourner I cry about happy things not death. Death to me is just another doorway, many of you know I'm a Christian but even if I'm wrong I always remember "to the great mind death is just the next adventure." So maybe I'm being a little bias but it almost seems like people are worried about them selfs and don't even care about him, or that somehow if you care enough he'l go to a better place. But whatever what are your thoughts on this, broad or general anythings welcome.
I'm not scared of dying. I'm don't really believe in some great place beyond, but hey, death comes to everyone. I don't have the power to stop it, and neither does anyone else. Some die very young or in very preventable ways, and that is a tragic ending for someone, but I'm not going to obsess over it and live a risk-free life. That doesn't mean I am going to do something extremely dangerous all the time without thought, I just believe, "Hey, your time comes, be happy you got to stay on earth this long."
Anyway, in response to what you said, any death of any kind will make people mourn for a life lost, but what really destroys their spirits is that it makes them confront their own mortality and many can't do that. Those with religious beliefs(like you) or those who just accept life as it is (like me) will have the best time of it.
well my cousin died when he was 5 mins old for some reson.Yeah he had a long time here.
That does seem cruel, but think about it this way. He could have died in the womb and never gotten to see any of the world. Even if he couldn't comprehend what he was seeing, he still saw part of the world, however slight that part might be.
Agreeing with thyll here. Don't be sad that someone's time is over, be happy that they got to experience everything that they did.
However, I, quite personally, am afraid of death. I can be somewhat paranoid sometimes, but generally am not. It's not so much that I fear the afterlife (or lack thereof), it's that... I fear not being able to say goodbye to those near and dear to me, and missing out on the most important parts of my life that have yet to happen.
I personally am not afraid of death, not in the way that most people say "well, nothing scares me"-- it's not a macho thing. I have about 7 friends (4 of them were pretty close), most of which died due to gang-related violence. Through their deaths I've learned that death is a thing that can both tear relationships apart and build new ones, it can cause pain but at the same time it can mend weakness.
More than anything else, I've learned that no one truly dies-- we do live on forever in the minds of our closest friends and relatives, no matter how cheesy and cliche it is.
"Cause when i drink i pour some for you on the block son, you might be gone but you damn sho' ain't forgotten, so um, remember, whenever or wherever, dead or alive real partners come together, nowyouknowthat." -Geto Boys (RIP)
My only fear of death is the fact that I promised a certain someone that I would not die before she, and it's pretty important. But, that's really my only beef with death.
I'm not scared of dying. I'm don't really believe in some great place beyond, but hey, death comes to everyone. I don't have the power to stop it, and neither does anyone else. Some die very young or in very preventable ways, and that is a tragic ending for someone, but I'm not going to obsess over it and live a risk-free life. That doesn't mean I am going to do something extremely dangerous all the time without thought, I just believe, "Hey, your time comes, be happy you got to stay on earth this long."
On another note, how did that kid get 'accidently' shot in the head? Sorry for being nosy, but that doesn't happen by itself.
His friend thought the gun wasn't loaded *shrug* also heard it was a gang shooting but that's just a rumor.
Anyway I'm glad a lot of people on here agree, celebrate life not death. To be honest when I'm dead I don't think I'll care if you mourn for me I'll be chillin with Jesus
