I'm really sorry to hear this. You should put together something called a living will if you haven't done so already. I don't want to be kept a vegetable or in a state where I can't care for myself.

death.. the final adventure, the last white spot on the map.

personally, i don't really know what to think of it - imho, there's only two options:

1) it's all over - in this case, your consciousness is gone and *poof* you are no more. (just like before you were born)

2) your consciousness separates itself from your body/brain and you roam around happily ever after.

..i'm leaning towards the first, the second is just wishful thinking.

I have zero fear of death itself. It is inevitable so I don't concern myself with it.

However, I don't want the act of dying to be painful. I'm OK with dying, just don't make my last moments be in agonizing pain.

Actually, about to get a will made where my body is not sent home to American and is burned here instead at the local temple. I don't see any reason to send my body back to a place I don't even live in with an expensive funeral full of people I never hung out with or liked in the first place.

As far as what happens after you die... I don't know. Part of me thinks nothing happens and another part of me thinks my energy may somehow return to whatever source it came from. Only one way to find out.

I want to live forever.

Life is a BITCH.. one day it will leave us for sure ..
Death is a DARLING.. will take us along..

I faced the prospect of dieing 2 years ago. It was in February 2008 when I was diagnosed with severe throat cancer and not given a lot of chances.

The surgeon who did the biopsy asked me if I believed in God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In July I was told by the surgeons, outside the trauma ward, to go home and make plans for the future. After she had read out a 2 page list of Eva's injuries.

So lived with death a lot recently.

Now Eva's fully fit, I'm going to do my first shoot in nearly 3 yeas and getting a dog so I can take him for walks. :thumbsup

All I wish for is to see my second daughter in a good job. Getting married or partnering up with a great person would be cream on a very thick and juicy cake. Holding my third grandchild would be the cherries of all cherries.

She's 9 and has no interest in boys what so ever. :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

So looking at the long game. :winkwink:

Quite a number of intelligent people are convinced that practical immortality will be achieved within 20 years.

We probably belong to the first generation in history who might live to be immortal if we live long enough (i.e another 20 years or so). We also probably belong to the last generation in history who might have to suffer death (from old age) and see our loved ones die.

You only have to look at the breakthroughs with stem cell technology to see that lifespans are going to radically increase very soon. The big question is whether the cells of the brain can be rejuvenated and replenished. Every other organ will be grown in a lab within 10 or 15 years, but there's no point in having an immortal body if your brain still crumbles from Alzheimers. But just yesterday scientists found a way of turning adult stem cells into brain cells. So, yes, if you are under 60 and in good health, you are almost certain to live forever (just take more care when crossing the road - might also be a good investment to finally join a gym).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4003063.stm

The following book explains how to live long enough to live forever :

http://www.amazon.com/Transcend-Nine...dp/B003GAN06W/

Just because of this thread I hired a baysitter for the night and I am going to take my wife to the swinger club and fuck a little russian hottie while she watches. ;)

thats why u gotta live every day like its ur last

You talk about interesting issues. A lot of people are interested in your life expectancy - you, actuaries, insurance companies, banks, doctors, businesses, friends, relatives and loved ones. You can sure take steps to improve your health, such as: quit smoking, quit drinking, quit drugs, go on a good diet and workout. Not only will these things increase life expectancy in the future, but you will also feel better at the present time.

Unfortunately, you cannot predict events like a sudden death from a car crash. Don't drink and drive and drive carefully. Perhaps you should not think about when you will pass away - you don't know when it will happen. Perhaps you should not bother yourself with such sad thoughts. Good luck.

Doctors are bastards sometimes. I mean, I get they deal with death every day, and I don't expect them to be sensitive, but I am caught off guard by their extreme insensitivity at times.

Probably close to 3 years ago I had a doctor tell me they suspected I had pancreatic cancer. not just any pancreatic cancer, but a real rare son of a bitch kind. To "break" this news to me they didn't give me any heads up, I thought I was just coming in for a follow up and to get the results of my latest bloodwork. I came alone, I drove myself.

In the office the doctor told me, without pause, that they thought I had this rare pancreatic cancer, and she seemed delighted. She said that "You could see 100,000 cancer patients in your career and never see this kind of cancer". Like almost excited about the prospect of working with this rare cancer ignorant of the fact that she was pretty much handing me a death sentence.

To verify these suspicions I had to have an MRCP done, which I guess is super expensive and my insurance initially denied the claim, extending my time in limbo.. So I had to fucking wait for several weeks not knowing.

Words can't describe how fortunate I felt to find out I didn't have it, which was matched by the extreme anger of being put through that. No one should be treated that way, and I by far did not get near the worst of how bad a doctor can treat a patient. They don't need to be psychiatrists, but having one present when you're dropping bombs might not be a bad idea.

I will probably live for 35 more years. I haven't take good care of my poor body. :(

woman, blind since birth, sees her body and doctors working on her after bad accident

and of course there is Pam Reynolds, hers is one of the most famous NDEs out there. Had brain aneurysm and had one of the riskiest surgeries performed on her - they had her heart stopped, her body temperature was lowered to 50-59F, blood from brain was drained completely for about an hour so to modern medicine this woman was dead for an hour

If I dies today I can honestly say I loved my life. I was never super rich but Ive pretty much done all I wanted to do been all over the world a couple of times. I am very curious on what it will be like the moment before and the moment after. Does everything slow down at zero hour. I know its silly but I dreamed of being in the NHL and altho I never will I feel like part of a pro team here in LA in a small capacity. One of my lifes small pleasures.

I'm crossing my fingers for a zombie apocalypse...