How do you deal with feeling your mortality?

[Tiger]

I'd be interested to know how it feels conversely to be unable to stop someone from dying

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edit: that is, being perhaps responsible for their health in some way

, but I wouldn't impose that question on anyone.

I'm not exactly a professional yet in my field, but I know when I confront a time like that, I will probably not have enough time to talk and need to act quick, but minimal talk to try to comfort them, if it is an emergency situation. My brain would probably be filled with so many things happening and close to exploding trying to save someone's life.
But if they have a limited time or terminal or something, then it might be best to spend time with family and friends, talk to the Chaplain, and other social services.

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[Taser]

I believe life and basically everything is inherently meaningless. My mantra is basically "Its all meaningless". I feel this is a really freeing way to live. It kind of just lets me laugh most stuff off.

[WITCHCRAFT]

drink solves all problems

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Death is unavoidable. I don't have any tips for overcoming existential fear, but at some point as a child I understood that death is final. The dead go away. It doesn't matter where they go away to - heaven, hell, 6 feet underground. They're gone. It is sad when a living thing you care about dies. A family member, a pet, even just the squirrel that's always in your backyard or a fly trapped in a spider's web. When you die, the people that care about you will be sad. I hope that I live a long life and that my death is not sudden or tragic. For the sake of those that care about me more than for my own peace of mind. After I am dead I do not think that I will care that I am dead.

I would no doubt be upset and emotional if I died in a painful or preventable way, but I will die. I'm okay with that fact. I will regret the things I never got a chance to do, the important things I never got to say. Those can be changed while you are still alive. But the fact that you will die cannot be changed.

You just need to find a mindset or mantra or something to settle your mind over the inevitability of death. It is what it is. Be grateful that you have lived at all. Nothing lasts forever, including life. Make the most of it.

[Berserkadin]

I just get existensial panic attacks thinking about it.

So I don't. Better to live in the moment instead of feeling dread towards an inevitable ending. But the thought about ceicing to exist for all eternity scares the crap out of me, fills me with a really disgusting feeling that can pretty much kill the joy of living, and I have yet to find any good way to cope with it.

[Mammonist]

"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."

-H.P.L Abdul Alhazred

Don't deny the existence of the necronomicon! 

[LordBerenger]

Jesus will talk to u after u die i'd bet

[Umbra]

Yea he will say: U wot m8? U avin a giggle dere?

And if you dont answer with: Ill bash yer ead in i swer on me mum. Ill rek ya bruv.

You go to hell

[Taser]

Yea he will say: U wot m8? U avin a giggle dere?

And if you dont answer with: Ill bash yer ead in i swer on me mum. Ill rek ya bruv.

You go to hell

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[LordBerenger]

Yea he will say: U wot m8? U avin a giggle dere?

And if you dont answer with: Ill bash yer ead in i swer on me mum. Ill rek ya bruv.

You go to hell

PM me if you want pics of that Swedish girl i got instead of that croatian sexy girl living in Zagreb.

[Lannistark]

If you die, respecc, and try again.

[_schizo321437]

I'd be interested to know how it feels conversely to be unable to stop someone from dying

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edit: that is, being perhaps responsible for their health in some way

, but I wouldn't impose that question on anyone.

It feels like this:

http://forum.melee.org/spam/when-59053/msg1024401/#msg1024401

[wanteds]

Everybody dies. There is life and there is death. You will live and you will die. Death is not up to you, but life is. If you think of death as a waste, then don't waste your life wondering why. live it!


You can always go as a pro Chinese gamer martyr tho

[_schizo321437]

wrong

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http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=142880&CultureCode=en

[WITCHCRAFT]

Yea he will say: U wot m8? U avin a giggle dere?

And if you dont answer with: Ill bash yer ead in i swer on me mum. Ill rek ya bruv.

You go to hell

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