Do you ever think about dying ?

[whiffey]

I am watching Coast on BBC2 and often also read RAC illustrated travel books in the small room, and it has made me think on dying. Statistically speaking, I might expect another 50 years of hale and hearty life, but despite this I do stop and think - what is there after all this ? Surely we don't just STOP

[pinkkitty]

morbid though it sounds, yeah i do sometimes. I'm 28, and my mum died at 61, so going by that standard my life could be already almost half over!

since i lost my mum i do wonder if there is some kind of afterlife. i so want to believe, but i really doubt that it could be possible. On the other hand, all the energy that makes you the person you are - where does that go to when your body dies? surely it can't just dissappear? what do you think Whiffey?

[tigwig]

Well I don't think it stops although I'm sure most people will disagree. My mum in law died 2 months ago and my sister in law saw a clairvoyant who told her things what her mum was saying, things she couldn't have possibly known and she described the afterlife as much better than this life. Apparently you will meet up with everyone you have ever cared about (who is dead), there is great peace, no pain and you are happy and at an age you want to be. You can also 'visit' your loved ones who are still alive as well and since this reading, we are finding white feathers everywhere both inside and outside and that is what my mum in law is supposed to be sending to let us know she is still with us........come on now, I suppose I'm going to get the usual abuse I had on my original post about this

[Dassie]

pinkkitty. Why do you think afterlife is not possible? There is the body and the soul. You have no doubt read about the people who are clinically dead in hospital and look down on their own bodies until they are resuscitated. That's the soul or energy as you put it leaving the body getting ready to go so to speak.

[crossroads]

Pittypink, why not try astral projecting. hat will surley convinse you of having a soul and the afterlife.

Simply lie in bed, relax as mutch as possible and focus as hard as you can on an object that you own that means alot to you. Picture everything about it and also picture the emotional side to it, and start to feel the energy flowing to you. When you fall asleep you will hopefully wake up into astral projection.
may take a few tries but well worth the wait, untill you get sucked back into your body and wake up in the process.
That was not funny, i can tell you!!!

[crossroads]

And Whiffey, i don't think about dying myself, i think of moving to the other world when its my turn to leave and when i've learnt my lesson in life.

[FUZZYBEE]

Hello whiffey, I do believe that there must be something after this life.........what ,I don't know. But if the thought of seeing my mothers face again keeps me believing there is something then why should others dismiss it.
I also know that when a person dies in hospital or at home there is a bit of an unwritten rule that you must leave the body and not touch or move it for an hour...it's not an actual protocol just something that's adhered to. Giving the soul it's time and space to leave the body perhaps ?? I had to do this just the other day when my patient passed away whilst having a ct scan.
fuzzy x

[Doc Spock]

There is bu55er all after death, just a coffin full of maggots.

It is the here and now that matters.

[kevo2k7]

Well being a realist i honestly believe once we are dead we are gone forever and we wont ever know anythin about it just like we dnt remember anythin before we were born! i am absolutely petrified of dyin for this very belief that i av and am sure of,we believe in life after death as a comfort 2 soften the fear of dying and as for clairvoyants well i dnt know how they do it but i am sure they are not genuine and just like many magicians they will never reveal their tricks because they are making 2 much money from it.

[shaneystar2]

Coast is a superb programme.
I don't t think too much about about dying ...at my age it's inevitable and so far life has been quite good as lives go .So if I pegged out tomorrow I would have no regrets .

But If there is an afterlife and Neil Oliver were to be hanging around there I would be quite happy :)

[tradey]

yep i do quiet often,i lost my dad 10yrs ago aged 46 and when i think of dying i think of seeing him again,that is the only thing that stops me from being scarred

[whiffey]

Thank you all folks, here is what I think for what it is worth.

I cannot conceive of just ceasing full stop. I often go in to the garden late at night and despite the wretched Croydon streetlights I look up into the sky and the stars and just ponder. That lot didn't happen without a cause.

The simple act of being quiet with yourself and reflecting that you have been created is wonderful, it's like the wind in the trees and at least the sodding magpies are giving it a break.

[Jugglering]

Whiffey sweetie - just listen again to Ms DeMent:-

Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.
Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done.
But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me.
I think I'll just let the mystery be.

Some say once you're gone you're gone forever, and some say you're gonna come back.
Some say you rest in the arms of the Saviour if in sinful ways you lack.
Some say that they're comin' back in a garden, bunch of carrots and little sweet peas.
I think I'll just let the mystery be.

Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.
Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done.
But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me.
I think I'll just let the mystery be.

Some say they're goin' to a place called Glory and I ain't saying it ain't a fact.
But I've heard that I'm on the road to purgatory and I don't like the sound of that.
Well, I believe in love and I live my life accordingly.
But I choose to let the mystery be.

Everybody's wonderin' what and where they all came from.
Everybody's worryin' 'bout where they're gonna go when the whole thing's done.
But no one knows for certain and so it's all the same to me.
I think I'll just let the mystery be.
I think I'll just let the mystery be.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?vxMkD_qrItsA&mode=related&search=

Ms Dement singing with some fab Scottyland singers and musicians.. she has such a cheeky grin

[Doc Spock]

what a bl00dy awful voice.

[Huderon]

I'm a lot closer to dying than you are whiffey, and I never bother to think about it. It'll happen when it happens and in the meantime I'll just carry on bumbling along

[pinkkitty]

about 5 weeks after my mum died i had a really vivid dream where my mum came to see me to tell me that she was alright, and she wasn't suffering anymore, and she told me that she loved me, and wherever i went she would always be there because she promised that she would never leave me. I was quite upset when i woke up, but chalked it up to my mind trying to help me come to terms with what had happened, i told my husband, who doesn't believe in anything like that, and all he could say was "well, you never know..." 2 nights later she came to me in a dream again, and this time she told me my sister-in-law was pregnant, and would eventually have a girl. As soon as i woke up, i told my husband that his sister was having a baby and he said he didn't see why she would be, as her son wasn't even a year old at the time and she wanted to leave a 2-3 yr gap between her kids. Nevertheless, she phoned us within a few hours to say she'd just found out she was pregnant. She was very surprised when we told her we already knew! I have no idea how to explain it on a rational level. She wasn't planning to fall preganant, i hadn't seen or spoken to her in a couple of weeks, she herself was very surprised to discover she was preganant. Some of my friends think that the dreams were clearly signals from my mum from "the other side" and some of my friends think there must be a more rational explanation, but no one can think what it might be. People have told me that it's quite common for someone who has passed on to visit their loved one in a dream so as not to alarm them. So i really don't know what to think.

[Champagne]

No, but I quite often think about living life dangerously and therefore having lots of near death experiences but always outwitting the grim reaper JUST before I'm about to die.

I spend, ooh... 19 hours a week on average thinking about it.

Which is nice.

[Hellyon]

My Dad always said he knew my baby would be a boy as he had had a dream where he met his father and his father told him so. And he was right.

[smeghead81]

"statistically speaking", stop talking out of your rectal orifice you jerk