The Three Deaths (1 Viewer)

[Jon]

I just came across this today again and it filled me with great sadness:

The first is when the body ceases to function.
The second is when the body is consigned to the grave.
The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

It brings home that inevitable truth...we are all going to die. And to think that our own identities will be lost to history.

How does "The Three Deaths" make you feel? What does it make you think about?

 

[CJ_London]

bit morbid today are we?

There was something on the box the other day (can't remember the program). Someone who played for the school football team decided on the last game before he left school to score an own goal - reason: so he would be talked about in the future.

 

[Galaxiom]

I remember it as:
When you body dies.
When the last person who knew you is gone.
When nobody ever mentions you again.

Everything is temporary.
Make the most of your opportunity as one of those who got to exist.
A virtually infinite number of potential people never won this exclusive lottery like we did.

 

[Jon]

A virtually infinite number of potential people never won this exclusive lottery like we did.

That is an argument for why vegetarianism is cruel. The denial of life by decimating an industry that has life at its very essence. But I digress.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

A virtually infinite number of potential people never won this exclusive lottery like we did.

Yes we won big time. We "first world" inhabitants, in what? the top 10% in terms of wealth and privilege compared to the rest of the world?

 

[Isaac]

I certainly have a lot to be thankful for. I personally believe in life after death, which is a comfort of sorts. But I am like everyone else, in that imagining life suddenly without a spouse or she without me, my kids etc., is a very sobering and overwhelming thought.

 

[NauticalGent]

This thread has a new meaning to me these days. There has been a few deaths in my own family as well as my extended family over the last two years - one was COVID related.

I have never been saddened by death, I know it is the natural cycle - but what is becoming front and center is that before long I will soon be the oldest generation in my family and they will be saying the same things about me that I am saying about my father's generation. Very sobering realization.

Only one cure for that...question is do I use an IPA or single malt...the struggle is real!

 

[Jon]

Experience can give insight you never had before. Stating the bleeding obvious, I know.

 

[conception_native_0123]

There has been a few deaths in my own family as well as my extended family over the last two years - one was COVID related.

sorry to hear that, Gent. and yes, this is a heartfelt message.

 

[Isaac]

NG, that is indeed a very sobering thought. Whenever I deal with other people dying it is a painful missing. Whenever I think of me dying, although it doesn't make me feel afraid, yet, it makes me STRONGLY question my purpose in life, like "What am I doing?? What should I be doing? Life's more than half over!"

I often think, that feeling would be overwhelming to me if I didn't try to believe in some higher purpose. We are not an accident.

 

[conception_native_0123]

I often think, that feeling would be overwhelming to me if I didn't try to believe in some higher purpose. We are not an accident.

I'm happy you feel that way. =)

 

[NauticalGent]

I often think, that feeling would be overwhelming to me if I didn't try to believe in some higher purpose. We are not an accident.

No, not by accident. I have a real hard time subscribing to the idea that there is some kind, grandfather-like being in the heavens who remembers everyone's birthday but there HAS to be more to this than

With Life
    Do Until EOL
        .born
        .eat
        .shit
        .sleep
    Loop

 

[conception_native_0123]

With Life
    Do Until EOL
        .born
        .eat
        .shit
        .sleep
    Loop

I think this is what it would be like, Gent. sorry to correct you lol:

With Life
        .born
    Do Until EOL
        .eat
        .shit
        .WRITE_CODE
        .sleep
    Loop

 

[Jon]

Or, as you get older...

With Life
        .born
    Do Until EOL
        .eat
        .shit
        .sleep
        .wake up
        .take a pee
        .sleep
    Loop

 

[NauticalGent]

Yep, that code is mo' better...

 

[conception_native_0123]

Where is the work in that loop you guys? Hahaha

 

[Isaac]

Where is the work in that loop you guys? Hahaha

Progressives have proved, work isn't necessarily a required element of existence.

Oh boy, I may have gone too far true on that one.

 

[conception_native_0123]

Progressives have proved, work isn't necessarily a required element of existence.

Oh boy, I may have gone too far true on that one.

Progressives have proved? How so?

 

[Isaac]

Progressives have proved? How so?

The nanny state will take care of you if need be.

 

[conception_native_0123]

The nanny state will take care of you if need be.

The Nanny state that is currently in place?