It's like I've heard it expressed in the past, if you die quietly in your sleep it's a gift from the gods. — boagie
Your Thoughts? — boagie
There is no downside to death, if one does not see it coming and there is no suffering involved, whether psychological or physical suffering. Suddenly BINK, the lights go out and there is no experience good or bad for that particular subject. — boagie
Suddenly BINK, the lights go out and there is no experience good or bad for that particular subject. — boagie
I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather did. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
Tip 'o the hat to some forgotten wag. — James Riley
There is no downside to death — boagie
if you die quietly in your sleep it's a gift from the gods. — boagie
what is mourned by loved ones — boagie
If it were not for a built-in fear of death it could not be said to be bad. — boagie
There is no downside to death, if one does not see it coming and there is no suffering involved, whether psychological or physical suffering. Suddenly BINK, the lights go out and there is no experience good or bad for that particular subject. — boagie
Sorry you lose me right way when you get biblical. I do not have any respect for it. — boagie
assuming you even believe in the concept of evil. — Derrick Huestis
Your answer is in your own statement, all things change, nothing is eturnal. — boagie
Everything is "Eternal", as everything descends from the natural essence of the Universe: — Gus Lamarch
In my intro post, I did mention no downside where there is no form of suffering to the process. — boagie
I am afraid I am unfamiliar with the references you make here but will check it out. Is it Greek mythology? — boagie
I agree there is much suffering involved in most deaths, but there are those the gods smile upon and it's BINK, the lights are out. The big sleep is granted utterly without suffering, never knew what hit them sort of thing. — boagie
Your point here about the adoption of a myth, an unlikely method alone to find truth, simply to obtain existential comfort, is a betrayal of your intellectual integrity. — boagie
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