How often do you think about death?

rowech · 04-14-2011, 08:47 PM

Poll to follow...

rowech · 04-14-2011, 08:51 PM

My wife and I have been hammered with deaths the last three years. It seems lately I am thinking about it every day. My wife tells me it's not healthy to think about it the way I do. I'm not really sure what "normal" is so I have no way to compare.

OldGiants · 04-14-2011, 08:58 PM

Death is all around us. Family, friends, work: Most every day some one dies that I know about at least by being a relative of a co-worker or whom someone I know was at the death scene -- a function of working for county government and working with public safety people.

You don't get used to it, but it makes talking about death an ordinary, but serious, event.

PackerFanatic · 04-14-2011, 09:01 PM

I voted hardly ever, but it's probably more in-between monthly and a couple times a year. I am fairly young (26 next month) so I don't deal with it too much, at least in terms of people I know. My wife is always talking about it and I tell her much the same as rowech's wife - just seems unproductive to constantly wonder "what if" and not just live your life as much as you can.

Groundhog · 04-14-2011, 09:12 PM

When I was in my teens I used to think about it alot and actually I guess I'd say I was afraid of it. Now I don't really think about it, and when I do I'm not really afraid of it. There's isn't anything so scary about nothingness to me anymore, I guess.

JonInMiddleGA · 04-14-2011, 09:13 PM

Probably hasn't been a day in over 30 years that I haven't contemplated it in some fashion. Whether my own or someone else's.

And that doesn't count potential homicides (which I'm pretty sure aren't ones you were asking about).

Suicane75 · 04-14-2011, 10:32 PM

When I was younger I was a major hypochondriac. Constantly checking moles, looking for lumps or bumps and crap. As I got older and quite frankly not exactly very healthy I sort of came to grips with it and started thinking of it in a much more cosmic way.

JonInMiddleGA · 04-14-2011, 10:54 PM

I'll also add here that since the death of my grandparents that the thoughts about death in some way are more frequent/pronounced. I'd guarantee that my wife would say the same thing since her dad passed away, starting even before that with the beginning of his serious health issues.

Pumpy Tudors · 04-15-2011, 01:49 AM

I wasn't thinking about it at all until this thread came up. Thanks.

AENeuman · 06-04-2011, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by rowech

It seems lately I am thinking about it every day. My wife tells me it's not healthy to think about it the way I do. I'm not really sure what "normal" is so I have no way to compare.

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Originally Posted by rowech

Everything anyone believes in is a religion. Just not a God based one. None of us will be right or wrong until we find out for sure.

It's not often someone answers their own question, glad I could help

rowech · 06-04-2011, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by AENeuman

It's not often someone answers their own question, glad I could help

Not sure that answer stops one from thinking about death.

thesloppy · 06-05-2011, 12:19 AM

Every GOTdamn day. I'll be 40 in October, and it looks like the odds are an even 50/50 whether I'll be the only member of my immediate family still alive.

Mustang · 06-05-2011, 02:31 AM

Once a month or so and not much how it will effect me (I mean.. I'm dead), but more worried on how it will effect my daughter and wife. I worry about my daughter being alone which scares me far worse than death.

B & B · 06-05-2011, 02:40 AM

"I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex."

Dodgerchick · 06-07-2011, 08:41 AM

I do but not when, how. Specifically, how I don't wanna die. Drowning or by fire would be the worst.

Autumn · 06-07-2011, 08:43 AM

I find I don't think about my death all that much except as it relates to my family. I probably worry about my kids and wife dying more than myself, and when I think about myself it's related to what would happen to them.

spleen1015 · 06-07-2011, 09:08 AM

I have had issues in the past thinking about it all the time. I think I may have even started a thread about it.

The worst time was when I lay down to go to sleep. I would always think about dying different ways. Some times it would even be pretty gruesome.

I tried to avoid this by thinking about better things like having sex with my wife instead. It seems to work most of the time.

BillJasper · 06-07-2011, 09:44 AM

Daily.

It's not so much about being afraid of death. If there's something on the other side, great. If not I'll never know.

I worry more about my wife and kids (17, 14 and 4) surviving without me.

Pumpy Tudors · 06-07-2011, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

I wasn't thinking about it at all until this thread came up. Thanks.

Still not thinking about it until this thread gets bumped.

jeff061 · 06-07-2011, 10:26 AM

I think about Pumpy dying all the time.

Pumpy Tudors · 06-07-2011, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by jeff061

I think about Pumpy dying all the time.

Funny, my neighbor told me that he thinks about me dying every Friday around 6pm. That's strange enough, but then I realize that I can hear noisemakers, hip-hop music, and giggling college girls at his house at exactly that time every Friday. So I'm not sure where I fit into all this, but it started soon after I peed my pants in his car that one time.

I also peed his pants at the same time.

Edit to add: It was an accident.

Edit to add #2: It was an accident if you believe the police report, anyway.

Izulde · 06-07-2011, 11:41 AM

Every single day and it drives me insane. It's gotten even more pronounced with my parents' ages and health issues.

stevew · 06-07-2011, 11:43 AM

Where is the option, "I talk about it more often than 2Pac?"

Maple Leafs · 06-07-2011, 12:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

Still not thinking about it until this thread gets bumped.

Really? You never think about dying? Not even, specifically, on Thursday morning, right after you finish with that one thing?

I mean, that's cool if you don't. It just seems odd. I mean... it just seems like it would occur to you that...

You know what, forget I brought it up.

AENeuman · 06-07-2011, 12:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rowech

It seems lately I am thinking about it every day. My wife tells me it's not healthy to think about it the way I do. I'm not really sure what "normal" is so I have no way to compare.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rowech

Everything anyone believes in is a religion. Just not a God based one. None of us will be right or wrong until we find out for sure.

You seem to limit religion to purely the afterlife. A "right" religion/belief for someone is one that becomes fulfilling now and often takes away the sting of death.

JediKooter · 06-07-2011, 12:35 PM

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Originally Posted by AENeuman

You seem to limit religion to purely the afterlife. A "right" religion/belief for someone is one that becomes fulfilling now and often takes away the sting of death.

He also thinks that anything you believe in is a religion. I don't think you're going to get through to him.

Desnudo · 06-07-2011, 12:53 PM

Everytime I see this thread listed. What a depressing title.

Pumpy Tudors · 06-07-2011, 12:54 PM

This is getting stalker-ish. I may mean Maple Leafs' comment to me, but I probably don't.

TCY Junkie · 06-08-2011, 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Pumpy Tudors

This is getting stalker-ish. I may mean Maple Leafs' comment to me, but I probably don't.

I'm a pretty good actor. If I act stalkerish will that help, nevermind I never could get you to believe I was crazy. Well, not to the point were you didn't know that I knew I was crazy.

CrimsonFox · 06-08-2011, 03:29 AM

It depends on whose...

CU Tiger · 06-08-2011, 10:01 PM

An unhealthy amount.
It is seemingly the one thing I can't beat.
And there isnt enough time to do it all.

MJ4H · 06-08-2011, 10:15 PM

Way more often that I used to. Still randomly have to stop and cry for 10 to 15 minutes almost every day. It sucks.

CU Tiger · 06-08-2011, 10:29 PM

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Originally Posted by MJ4H

Way more often that I used to. Still randomly have to stop and cry for 10 to 15 minutes almost every day. It sucks.

FWIW couldnt imagine, brother.

Bad-example · 06-08-2011, 10:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MJ4H

Way more often that I used to. Still randomly have to stop and cry for 10 to 15 minutes almost every day. It sucks.

You're not alone brother.

View Poll Results: How often do you think about death
Daily	26	34.67%
Weekly	12	16.00%
Monthly	11	14.67%
Couple of times a year	12	16.00%
Hardly ever	12	16.00%
Never	2	2.67%
Voters: 75. You may not vote on this poll

04-14-2011, 08:58 PM	#3
OldGiants College Benchwarmer Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Location, Location, Location	Death is all around us. Family, friends, work: Most every day some one dies that I know about at least by being a relative of a co-worker or whom someone I know was at the death scene -- a function of working for county government and working with public safety people. You don't get used to it, but it makes talking about death an ordinary, but serious, event. __________________ "The case of Great Britain is the most astonishing in this matter of inequality of rights in world soccer championships. The way they explained it to me as a child, God is one but He's three: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. I could never understand it. And I still don't understand why Great Britain is one but she's four....while [others] continue to be no more than one despite the diverse nationalities that make them up." Eduardo Galeano, SOCCER IN SUN AND SHADOW

04-14-2011, 09:12 PM	#5
Groundhog Coordinator Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Sydney, Australia	When I was in my teens I used to think about it alot and actually I guess I'd say I was afraid of it. Now I don't really think about it, and when I do I'm not really afraid of it. There's isn't anything so scary about nothingness to me anymore, I guess. __________________ Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. --Ambrose Bierce

04-14-2011, 09:13 PM	#6
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	Probably hasn't been a day in over 30 years that I haven't contemplated it in some fashion. Whether my own or someone else's. And that doesn't count potential homicides (which I'm pretty sure aren't ones you were asking about). __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

04-14-2011, 10:54 PM	#8
JonInMiddleGA Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Behind Enemy Lines in Athens, GA	I'll also add here that since the death of my grandparents that the thoughts about death in some way are more frequent/pronounced. I'd guarantee that my wife would say the same thing since her dad passed away, starting even before that with the beginning of his serious health issues. __________________ "I lit another cigarette. Unless I specifically inform you to the contrary, I am always lighting another cigarette." - from a novel by Martin Amis

04-14-2011, 08:51 PM	#2
rowech Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2006	My wife and I have been hammered with deaths the last three years. It seems lately I am thinking about it every day. My wife tells me it's not healthy to think about it the way I do. I'm not really sure what "normal" is so I have no way to compare.

04-14-2011, 09:01 PM	#4
PackerFanatic Pro Starter Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Appleton, WI	I voted hardly ever, but it's probably more in-between monthly and a couple times a year. I am fairly young (26 next month) so I don't deal with it too much, at least in terms of people I know. My wife is always talking about it and I tell her much the same as rowech's wife - just seems unproductive to constantly wonder "what if" and not just live your life as much as you can.

04-14-2011, 10:32 PM	#7
Suicane75 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: NJ	When I was younger I was a major hypochondriac. Constantly checking moles, looking for lumps or bumps and crap. As I got older and quite frankly not exactly very healthy I sort of came to grips with it and started thinking of it in a much more cosmic way.

04-15-2011, 01:49 AM	#9
Pumpy Tudors Bounty Hunter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	I wasn't thinking about it at all until this thread came up. Thanks. __________________ No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor.

06-05-2011, 12:19 AM	#12
thesloppy Pro Starter Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: PDX	Every GOTdamn day. I'll be 40 in October, and it looks like the odds are an even 50/50 whether I'll be the only member of my immediate family still alive. __________________ Last edited by thesloppy : Today at 05:35 PM.

06-05-2011, 02:31 AM	#13
Mustang Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Wisconsin	Once a month or so and not much how it will effect me (I mean.. I'm dead), but more worried on how it will effect my daughter and wife. I worry about my daughter being alone which scares me far worse than death. __________________ You, you will regret what you have done this day. I will make you regret ever being born. Your going to wish you never left your mothers womb, where it was warm and safe... and wet. i am going to show you pain you never knew existed, you are going to see a whole new spectrum of pain, like a Rainboooow. But! This rainbow is not just like any other rainbow, its...

06-05-2011, 02:40 AM	#14
B & B College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: A sports era long ago when everything didnt require a Nike logo	"I believe in making the world safe for our children, but not our children's children, because I don't think children should be having sex." __________________ Nobody cares about Kyle Orton because he's black. -PT

06-07-2011, 08:41 AM	#15
Dodgerchick College Benchwarmer Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Austin, TX	I do but not when, how. Specifically, how I don't wanna die. Drowning or by fire would be the worst.

06-07-2011, 08:43 AM	#16
Autumn Head Coach Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Bath, ME	I find I don't think about my death all that much except as it relates to my family. I probably worry about my kids and wife dying more than myself, and when I think about myself it's related to what would happen to them.

06-07-2011, 09:08 AM	#17
spleen1015 Coordinator Join Date: Sep 2003	I have had issues in the past thinking about it all the time. I think I may have even started a thread about it. The worst time was when I lay down to go to sleep. I would always think about dying different ways. Some times it would even be pretty gruesome. I tried to avoid this by thinking about better things like having sex with my wife instead. It seems to work most of the time.

06-07-2011, 09:44 AM	#18
BillJasper Pro Starter Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Northern Kentucky	Daily. It's not so much about being afraid of death. If there's something on the other side, great. If not I'll never know. I worry more about my wife and kids (17, 14 and 4) surviving without me. __________________ The Confederacy lost, it is time to dismantle it.

06-07-2011, 10:26 AM	#20
jeff061 Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: MA	I think about Pumpy dying all the time. __________________

06-07-2011, 11:41 AM	#22
Izulde Head Coach Join Date: Sep 2004	Every single day and it drives me insane. It's gotten even more pronounced with my parents' ages and health issues. __________________ 2006 Golden Scribe Nominee 2006 Golden Scribe Winner Best Non-Sport Dynasty: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty) Rookie Writer of the Year Dynasty of the Year: May Our Reign Be Green and Golden (CK Dynasty)

06-07-2011, 11:43 AM	#23
stevew Hall Of Famer Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: the yo'	Where is the option, "I talk about it more often than 2Pac?"

06-07-2011, 12:53 PM	#27
Desnudo Coordinator Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Here and There	Everytime I see this thread listed. What a depressing title.

06-07-2011, 12:54 PM	#28
Pumpy Tudors Bounty Hunter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	This is getting stalker-ish. I may mean Maple Leafs' comment to me, but I probably don't. __________________ No, I am not Batman, and I will not repair your food processor.

06-08-2011, 03:29 AM	#30
CrimsonFox Head Coach Join Date: Dec 2009	It depends on whose...

06-08-2011, 10:01 PM	#31
CU Tiger Grizzled Veteran Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Backwoods, SC	An unhealthy amount. It is seemingly the one thing I can't beat. And there isnt enough time to do it all.

06-08-2011, 10:15 PM	#32
MJ4H Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Hog Country	Way more often that I used to. Still randomly have to stop and cry for 10 to 15 minutes almost every day. It sucks.

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