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"As each day comes, there is a report of another celebrity or sportsman of our era who has died. We're all in that queue and being first in it gets closer and closer. Does death scare you, or are you resigned to its inevitability? If it happened tomorrow, would you have regrets, or muster a smile before your last breath and think 'yeah, I've had a decent life. Can't complain'. Is there anything, given the chance, that you would have done differently? Is there someone who you loved but never told, but wished that you had? Do you believe that you will be welcomed by an angel, or a close family member, to take you to wherever our souls go, or that you will simply become compost? Would you choose a different path in the way that you lived your life? Do something different? And if, when you find yourself in the clouds and are told reincarnation is a thing, and you will return - would you choose to support West Ham for your next lifetime, or have a less stressed life and opt for Man City or Liverpool and become a glory hunter?"

"I AM content and happy, and you WILL believe me."

but spellchecker is still a BASTARD ....LIFE!

I have a wonderful and fulfilled like .. RUNS!

As long as I get to play GTA6.

"Manuel, You are fully entitled to that opinion...Although I strongly suspect you are judging from your own experiences and narrow view of what you define as wonderful and fulfilled. Whether I am kidding myself and am delusional or not I AM content and happy. And I have spent over 20 years on here talking bollocks"

"By the way, anyone that has been posting on here regularly for say 15-20 years and claims to have a wonderful, fulfilled life is not being honest with themselves and is basically talking bollocks. Truly successful, happy people would not behave in that way and spend decades talking bollocks and arguing on here, simple as that. Carry on kidding yourself though."

"I wouldn't mind sticking around mainly out of curiosity just to see what happens, but at the same time not fussed to bow out anytime soon. I'm fucking tired and can only see 'more of the same' in the future, so what would I miss?"

"Death doesn't scare me, my family are all provided for and the days I am not happy, I am content. I tell those that matter to me why on a regular basis and I reflect regularly. Pain in life and a lingering illness that makes me a burden, scares me so much more. I can honesty say that I would not change a thing. My journey to contentment and positivity has been as much about learning from mistakes and learning from being weak and vain as it has been about my good choices. Good looking, lovely positive compost. I settled down early, (So has my eldest) I look at my youngest who went to Uni and has travelled and I wonder what would have happened...Then I remember that I have a eldest and a youngest and my 2nd wife would not have even met me if I changed something and I shake that line off. Never too late to pivot if you are truly unhappy but that is the future, not changing the past."

I enjoy life but am very aware that the end may come at any time. I believe at my age (50) I could accept it and be grateful for the life I have had. So no regrets as such. I hope and endeavour to keep going for as long as I can for the sake of my children and my wife rather than for me.

And when I'm lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death And neither one particularly appeals to me

"Non, je ne regrette rien I love Edith (Little Sparrow) Piaf Also love Mireille Mathieu who is probably the closest to Edith Piaf and the songs she sang."

One other thought - I always hate it when people say they wouldn't do anything differently and have no regrets. Bollocks they don't. Fuck off Edith Piaff!

"I have always liked these words from C. S. Lewis: ""You don't HAVE a soul, you ARE a soul. You HAVE a body."" Puts a different perspective on things, and you don't have to take it in a religious sense."

"Can you remember anything before you were born? Of course not, that's what death is like."

Branded. Thanks for posting that article. An interesting read.

"I'm 56. Think about death on a daily basis, sometimes several times a day and have done so for about the last 10-15 years. It doesn't depress me and I'm pretty happy with my lot... just one of those things I guess."

"When my mum died last year it left me as the last remaining one (dad and sister died years ago) and that gets you wondering and maybe thinking too deeply. Funnily enough I went for my ""MOT"" yesterday and had bloods done for organs and prostate etc so should get a heads up in the next day or so. I feel fine, blood pressure was spot on, i'm still going gym and running 4 times a week so I'l hoping they all come back with green lights."

"When my mum died last year it left me as the last remaining one (dad and sister died years ago) and that gets you wondering and maybe thinking too deeply. Funnily enough I went for my ""MOT"" yesterday and had bloods done for organs and prostate etc so should get a heads up in the next day or so. I feel fine, blood pressure was spot on, i'm still going gym and running 4 times a week so I'l hoping they all come back with green lights."

"I should have mentioned I’m 49. You don’t expect people to go at that age, although many do. We always think of death as something that happens to other people, or it’s a long way off and not tangible. I suppose the older you get, the more you experience it with people you know and love. I don’t think it makes me change anything ultimately. We just go on the same."

joe royal 2:38 Wed Feb 14 Sorry to hear mate.

"Two of my friends have died suddenly in the last two weeks. Both the same age of me, give or take a couple of years. We never know when our time is up."

Without a shadow of trout?

"My mum died on Sunday, and I felt relieved and sad in equal measure. She had alzimers and had been in a care home for 4 years. To watch someone go from enjoying a slightly confused life to being asleep in a hospital for 8 days isn’t the best. I’m the least religious bloke in the world but when my sister rang me there was a shadow of a fish on my beer."

"Well this has cheered me right up! Is there anything, given the chance, that you would have done differently? FMOBs how long have you got?"

Thanks Coffee I will check it later. My favourite philosopher on consciousness Is Bernado Kastrup. He has a short essay on death here. It's a bit deep so not for everybody but to preface it he believes we live in consciousness not the material world and each of us is unique. https://www.bernardokastrup.com/2016/04/conquering-fear-of-oblivion-in-15.html