Death and sleep

By Rumple · Mar 18, 2017 · ·
  1. To die is just like being asleep I'd imagine, but you never wake up, never have to worry about the next day, work, bills needing to be paid no responsibilities. Well, the only real duty which we have no control over after life has ceased to exist would be to decompose and give back to the Earth.

    When you are not engaged in R.E.M. sleep, you just sleep whether that's restful or restless, that's it, it's dark no thoughts or actions going on in your conscious thought. Death seems welcoming. The act of dying, however, seems to be what gets people.

    Are you afraid to die, or are you afraid of how you will die?

    This is common amongst people. I'm prepared to die at any given point, I don't mind if I simply cease to exist. A worry free stress-free task, to rot away. It seems like a good gig to have sure there's no interaction no laughter no colors or sounds it's just like being asleep or going under the knife for surgery no recollection of what occurred.

    I love to sleep, most do for the reason mentioned above. What do you worry about when you are actually sleeping unless you are dreaming, the answer is nothing.
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Comments

  1. Lew
    Well, having spent 25 years in the Navy, doing dangerous things, dying is a bit less abstract for me, and my line of work, might also involve a considerable amount of pain. Not my tag line below... you can see that I have left off "dying gallantly" to end. I have actually practically everything else on that list.
  2. Lew
    I spent 25 years in the Navy, doing dangerous things that could get me killed, with people trying to kill me at times. And that kind of dying usually comes with considerable pain, so it is not something I look forward to. My tag line is

    A man should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

    Other than setting a bone and dying (note the last on the list), I have done everything else, so perhaps I am getting dangerously close!
  3. Rumple
    I myself am military as well. Sounds similar to something I wrote about killing another human and how you should be able or are expected to put what just happened out of your mind and keep pushing on.
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