We Are Death, Come For You

And we cannot let go of it. Interestingly enough, when someone dies, even the most religious folks feel sad. We hold onto life as a material property, thus blinding our spiritual beliefs. But you manage how. Come to terms with death. When we fear death, we stop living. We like to feel invincible or immortal for that matter.

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It takes guts to confront this vulnerable truth: We avoid thinking about death, yet we fear it in silence. Try this exercise I learned from Bernie Roth at Stanford. Answer one question at a time.

Imagine you have 10 min to live, what would you do? And the rest of your life?

Every time I facilitate this exercise in a workshop, it catches everyone off-guard. We take time for granted. But when the end is around the corner we regret our assumptions. Some people get anxious about finishing or starting their most valuable project. Everyone agrees that they want to spend their last 10 minutes with their close family. This exercise is very moving, especially done in a group setting. The premise of confronting our future death is a powerful reflection on how we are living. The purpose of this exercise is to stop taking life for granted.

Like it happened to me when I had to survive the cold weather in Patagonia. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

Adding a sense of urgency to your life makes you focus on what really matters. Spend your energy doing something worthy of your time on Earth.

Overall, those facing death focused more on what makes life meaningful, including family and religion. Everyone dies, and most of us are afraid of it. But before we get too ahead of ourselves, the research prompts a few questions. Lisa Iverach, a research fellow at the University of Sydney, explained that the study highlights how the participants may have been less negative because the mystery around death was removed.

They also have a very good idea about how they are going to die, which may bring some sense of peace or acceptance.

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Using blogs and poetry may reveal only the outward-facing emotions people are willing to share, or even simply created to fashion how they want to be remembered. Do people really tell the truth in their blogs? It is impossible to tell, but blogs are clearly not the most intimate mode of communication. I wasn't floating so to speak, I was just there.

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I knew there was light and love somewhere nearby but I had no urge or need to go to it right away. More like I was idly flipping through a book and snippets stood out here and there. I am still afraid to die, but I'm not worried about what happens after that. Schneidah7 was thrown from his motorbike while cruising at 50 mph and was medically dead when he was taken to hospital.

As he lay in the road before the ambulance came, he recalled someone he knew encouraging him. Come on man, get up. This was odd because my brother died from an overdose several years ago. Retired wartime nurse aged says secret to long life is to 'avoid men as they're not worth the hassle'. Have you had a near-death experience? While many users described their 'death' as being like a void, IDiedForABit had a very different experience after an allergic reaction which caused their heart to stop.

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There was a playground with a merry-go-round in the middle and two children running around it. A boy and a girl. As a teenager, TheDeadManWalks had been going through months of chemotherapy when his nose started bleeding uncontrollably. Due to a sepsis and Clostridium difficile infection, his condition worsened, and he slipped in and out of death, which he describes beautifully.

In the aftermath of a motorbike accident, Rullknuf's breathing and pulse stopped and he went "cramp and stiff".