Not are you ready to die. Are you emotionally prepared to die?

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    3 days ago

    Why would I need to be? I’m not going to have to live with the aftermath.

    My loved ones dying, now there’s a problem.

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    Not all. Kudos to those who are, and deep condolences to those in this thread that have had such trauma that they seek it. But at 48 I’ve never felt more at ease with the world, and I simply don’t want to go.

    That said, I’m a fucking idiot. I drink too much most weekends, I overeat and I’m a light smoker/vaper.

    Yes I exercise, but nowhere near enough. I need to change, I know it. But I always retreat into excuses.

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        I’m actually pretty comfortable in my skin, and with my family at this stage in my life. A few bumps on the road to get here, but never been as content as I am now. Of course family brings it’s own worries. I very much need to start working on myself health wise. The reckless almost nihilist attitude I had as a younger man has taken its toll. Hopefully I can correct things, but I’m leaving it pretty late at 48.

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    It doesnt matter if you are prepared or not, and once it happens you wont be around to feel anything about it anyway. So its not really worth worrying about.

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    I feel like I’ll be prepared later on but I’m fully expecting to not be ready when the time comes.

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    I don’t think so.

    As bleak as things are in the world, I still have hope. I want to observe the next 20 years unfold. I also want to watch my kids grow up.

    The thought of dying makes me incredibly sad.

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      I want to thank you for having hope today. I don’t have it in my heart to hold hope right now. Your hope helps me, and I appreciate it.

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    2 days ago

    Yes. I’ve been faced it. I’m on borrowed time anyway.

    Your “god” wanted me dead at birth, me and my mother both. Modern science saved me. Ha. Saved.

    I was abandoned by both parents before I could walk.

    I have never wanted to be here. This world is shit. Humans are shit. There’s too many shit people.

    I will not end myself because of the people around me. My small fucking family who I care for. Therapy placates me.

    I been ready. I been ready for decades. My moment will come and it will be bliss.

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      I have never wanted to be here. This world is shit. Humans are shit. There’s too many shit people.

      AFAIK no one asked to be born. Not even shit people. Just in case you were keeping that receipt for a return at anyone in particular.

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    I’ve been shot, I’ve been stabbed, I’ve had thousands of pounds of aluminum fall straight toward me and get caught in the last half meter, I’ve had semis clip my clothing while on a bike and send me flying, I’ve been pushed off the road by shitty carbrains who can’t share anything, and I’ve been told I have less than a week before most of my organs shut down.

    I’ve thought I was going to die many times. And not once did I think anything other than “huh. So this is it”. Most of the I was laughing afterward, and I’m not 100% why except maybe a nervous response.

    Ultimately I don’t know if I’m emotionally prepared to die, but there’s things I am absolutely willing to die for. I’d rather NOT die, but I’d say I am accepting of it.

    Uhhhhhhh I’m not actually sure I answered your question, sorry.

  • Fedditor385@lemmy.world
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    Yes, I simply don’t find enjoyments anymore that make me say “oh, I am so glad to be alive”. Not that I am rushing to die, it’s simply… waiting for my time to run out. Modern world doesn’t prioritize enjoyment anymore and interaction with friends and family as it doesn’t bring shareholder value.

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    I’ve had one foot in the grave (doctor literally said that 50% die the first three days. after three days you have a good chance)

    I remember the time the thought shot through my head: “If I’m dead I don’t feel the pain anymore” I immediately realized i’m not afraid to die, i’m just not ready to do that. So yes, I am prepared, just don’t wanna (yet). I also know it’s not hard on me (i’m dead then) but for those who love me and have to sit powerless and watch it happen and go on living.

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                It is technically supposed to be near-death, but I have no other words to describe it so I use that term. “Timeline jumping” is a fad on reddit, so is “reality shifting” and “glitch in the matrix,” but the closest I’ve come to finding something that describes what I did is the concept of time being simultaneous and there’s actually just “possibility/probability vortexes” and I just directed my consciousness to a different vortex. That comes from the Law of One channelings (free at www.lawofone.info/s/1.) They also describe densities that we go through during our consciousness’s evolution, which I described as “layers” when I was going up then back down them in my NDE. But yeah, my old body wasn’t viable anymore, there was no going back to that timeline or vortex or whatever

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        Basically my heart (and consecutively my breathing) stopped 27 minutes. I was very lucky to be immediately resuscitated and have quick emergency response. The statistical chances of coming back from that without damage is very low.

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        Welcome back, what happened? I’d like to know.

        (My heart stopped 27 minutes.)

        Do you have anything similar to survivors guilt, trying and having to just live on on this messed up world?

        • HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world
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          Thank you, you too!

          I had a couple genetic syndromes that made me sickly and wound up with strep throat and MRSA in my kidneys at the same time. Died in my sleep on the couch at home and was gone for 5 hours. When I got back close to my old body I saw it was no longer viable, so I told my higher self what type of place I was wanting to go and it directed me to this timeline. I brought all my memories from the old one tho and this place is slightly different. And apparently I was an ass before the old timeline me took over bc the stuff friends told me I had said was wild, I went on an apology tour for a couple months. I don’t have the genetic syndromes or infections in this timeline tho, so I’m in worlds of less pain. My scoliosis is gone too. Also my father is still alive, I now have a half-sister, and my half-brother no longer has Down Syndrome

          No survivor’s guilt tho, and since I came here on purpose I’m not all “fuck this timeline” 😂 This is the place to be to get to where “everyone can learn to heal themselves like I did (by understanding consciousness creates matter.)” I’ve seen a lot of cool stuff online towards that end in the almost 8 yrs since I got here. I do have some mild curiosity about what happened to my old body and to the “me” I took over from in this timeline. Closest I can find online is the concept of “walk-ins.”

          Why do you think you carry survivor’s guilt? Hmm… maybe think of it like… there’s tons of timelines, so if you wanted to survive there were lots of options and you found one. This place really is better than where I came from, there’s Mandela Effects here for one. That dude was just dead where I came from, so there was no effect named after him. Didn’t find out he had lived til awhile after I got here, I laughed so hard!! A ton of ppl came with me to this timeline bc they also wanted to be in the one where ppl can heal, and I often wonder if they’re the ones that remember things like I do

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            Oh okay thanks for sharing, that’s wildly different. Although I scientifically believe multiverse (as in black and white holes and limits of visibility by speed of light) I do not believe we can carry over.

            I am happy for you to be good!

            I carry the damages (and documents) from dying and regarding similarities to survivors guilt I was referring to most people telling me how lucky I was and how thankful I must be when from my perspective I survived, am off worse and expected to just go on as before and be thankful about it.

            It’s not easy to understand and relate, that’s why I thought you might experience this similarly. However with the differences in our experiences it’s logical to not have.

            You could possibly relate to the series undone.

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              Yeah there’s a lot of differences between my NDE and ones I read about online. You’re welcome tho, I’m glad to have read about your experience as well!

              I love that series! Borrowed it from a middle schooler a few years ago 😂 me loving it made her actually want to read, so I was like ha, cool!

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                  Oooohh, yeah I mixed up Unwound (books) and Undone 😂 I’ve seen Undone, I like it a lot bc one time I got a cut on my finger at work and couldn’t be bothered with it, so I said “That didn’t happen” and it blurred and disappeared. Maybe she moved the keys a similar way?

  • kubofhromoslav@lemmy.world
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    I wouldn’t say that I am fully prepared, but to significant extent prepared that my physical body will die eventually. As a spiritually based person I believe that the real self is timeless and spaceless, so eternal, never entered the flow of time in the first place, so can’t die in the usual meaning. But to some extent, I am more terrified by such eternal existence than the prospect of entirety nonexisting…

    But I prefer to die extremely old. I am not speaking about around one hundred. I mean at least several hundreds, preferably at least several thousands of years old. Really old! Medicine is not on such level yet, but progressing. The field of longevity / rejuvenation / aging-reversal / anti-aging is still criminally underfunded, what slows progress down, but it is going.

    If also you want to make sure that most of humans can live to such world, where aging related diseases are gone, request your government to fund aging-reversal research and sign the https://dublinlongevitydeclaration.org/