Coffee
4:22 Mon Apr 29
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zico
Sorry to hear that. Dementia can be painfully sapping for close relatives. I wish you much patience and support for what's ahead.
Nurse
:-)
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zico
2:53 Mon Apr 29
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Not afraid of actually being gone but worried on how I will get there re any pain and suffering. Had enough in many ways to be honest. Saw the old man die of a heart attack at 59 back in 2000 and now seeing my mum in the early stages of dementia along with seeing my nephew struggling with Special Needs along with all the other suffering in this world makes you wonder what it's all about!!!
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Nurse Ratched
2:41 Mon Apr 29
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Cheers, Branded.
This is new information.
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BRANDED
2:01 Mon Apr 29
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YOUR BODY IS NOT BUILT FOR SURVIVAL
your genes define your destiny. Your brain gets in the way. Your genes only require you to reproduce but it hardly matters if theres billions of us and anyway our cells are reproducing all the time.
We are destined to die and even the entire cosmos will come to and end.
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The_Phantom
1:57 Mon Apr 29
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As one who suffers with depression, this is a tricky one.
Some days I think it will be a great release and would welcome it though not for the pain it would cause my family.
On better days, I probably still don't fear it as such.
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Chi-townHammer
1:37 Mon Apr 29
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When I read or hear this question, I always think of this by Larkin.
Aubade
I work all day, and get half-drunk at night.
Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare.
In time the curtain-edges will grow light.
Till then I see what’s really always there:
Unresting death, a whole day nearer now,
Making all thought impossible but how
And where and when I shall myself die.
Arid interrogation: yet the dread
Of dying, and being dead,
Flashes afresh to hold and horrify.
The mind blanks at the glare. Not in remorse
—The good not done, the love not given, time
Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because
An only life can take so long to climb
Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never;
But at the total emptiness for ever,
The sure extinction that we travel to
And shall be lost in always. Not to be here,
Not to be anywhere,
And soon; nothing more terrible, nothing more true.
This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die,
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
That this is what we fear—no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,
The anaesthetic from which none come round.
And so it stays just on the edge of vision,
A small unfocused blur, a standing chill
That slows each impulse down to indecision.
Most things may never happen: this one will,
And realisation of it rages out
In furnace-fear when we are caught without
People or drink. Courage is no good:
It means not scaring others. Being brave
Lets no one off the grave.
Death is no different whined at than withstood.
Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
Have always known, know that we can’t escape,
Yet can’t accept. One side will have to go.
Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house
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El Scorchio
1:11 Mon Apr 29
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Terrified.
I find it hard to even contemplate or reconcile the fact that I will inevitable die.
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Razzle
1:05 Mon Apr 29
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I wonder what the emotion of taking your last breath is like?
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arsene york-hunt
12:16 Mon Apr 29
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Everybody is afraid of death, your whole body is built for survival and being afraid to die is what keeps us alive. If we think logically and without the influence of our emotions or religious mumbo-jumbo, then there is nothing to fear, as we will just revert to the conscious state we were in before we were born; which is thinking of nothing, nada, fuck all
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Son of Sam
12:00 Mon Apr 29
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Coffee 8:05 Mon Apr 29
Superb documentary, it may not seem to start well but stick with it for 5-10 minutes , it is excellent
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BRANDED
11:15 Mon Apr 29
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These are all things your brain is telling you.
Why not get your brain to tell you different things?
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Lee Trundle
10:43 Mon Apr 29
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I'm afraid of leaving my family, and afraid that it might be painful.
But I don't think I'd like to die in my sleep. I think it would be a pity to live your life then not experience death by sleeping through it. I don't believe in any after life or anything so I'd like to see it all the way through to the end.
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JustAFatKevinDavies
10:42 Mon Apr 29
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tbh, yes. fair play to those that aren't but the older I get the more I think about stuff like that and the more it scares me.
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Russ of the BML
10:38 Mon Apr 29
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Obviously afraid of death but don't think about it.
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BRANDED
10:33 Mon Apr 29
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Well. You can do things that make death more likely but you might enjoy them so it’s just a gamble.
Drinking. Rock climbing. Taking drugs. Screwing brasses. Eating too many calories. Visiting Rwanda.
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Agent Scud
10:27 Mon Apr 29
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Nope, had a few incredibly close shaves (two car crashes, a coma, massive drugs) which made me consider the fragility and fleetingness of life. I came to the conclusion that life is there for the living and implemented two rules for a better life.
1. Have fun.
2. Don't be a cunt.
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BRANDED
10:24 Mon Apr 29
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Not at all.
You only live in the present so fucking enjoy yourselves.
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BetterthanKaka
10:18 Mon Apr 29
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Petrified, if I'm honest
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Stevethehammer
10:17 Mon Apr 29
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Personally I cannot wait for the day it happens.
I'm reaching a point where I think what's the point in anything anymore. Sad and lonely existence I know and a selfish way of looking at it all but really what is the point.
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joe royal
9:54 Mon Apr 29
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When I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me. Morrissey.
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Bungo
9:49 Mon Apr 29
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Not sure, but I have to say I'm quite enjoying my 50s as I have given up any residual pretence of being sociable. I do or don't do exactly what I want and feel no need whatsoever to be 'cool', fashionable, 'with it' or indeed anything other than a fairly grumpy middle aged man.
Body crumble has started, but not TOO significant so far.
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