Who is afraid of Dying/Death?.....*taboo subject yeah?

[fourandsixpants]

I'm not but read in local newspaper yesterday that a Clinical Psychologist and a meditation teacher are opening a 'Death Cafe' for informal forums and cups of tea's to look at how an understanding of death can bring richness to life.

....the gathering will look at end-of-life options, grieving for loved ones, meditation and emotional and legal issues associated with death......The more aware we are of death and it is going to happen to all of us, it makes life more imminent and in a way that is what this whole movement is about.......though people talk a lot more freely nowadays about childbirth and sex, death is still very much brushed over......The idea is that it is an informal gathering where people can come to talk about any aspect of conscious living and dying that interests them.

All wrapped up in a 3 hour session.

Thoughts?

[carls*world]

Nope. It's the one inevitable, and no amount of fear or worrying is going to change it.

As with Darki, I would be more at ease going if I leave nobody (animals) behind to deal with things.

[*crikey*mate*]

how do you know what being dead is like?

and living babies don't just hang around in your tummy twiddling their thumbs.

Plus, I can have entire conversations with my husband when he's asleep.

And, society doesn't frown on you when you wake your OH whilst he is asleep for recreational activities. But a civilized society doesn't think very highly of you if you do that to someone who is dead.

Dead is forever, sleeping is temporary.

and Dead people smell a whole lot worse than sleeping ones.

[*crikey*mate*]

and Bob, being dead and not single (apropros the otherr thread) means getting to the morgue before you start to smell.

[joz*garage]

Every night you go thru the sensation of being dead. It's peaceful. You just don't exist. 

you do dream whilst in sleep mode, so.. do you believe you can still dream if you no longer exist ?

[kengillard]

esoteric or is it ethereal???lol

just that an aquaintance used to say eesott..erric. and  ether...real.

[spotweldersfriend]

Anyway I am not that worried about death yet.I'm related to Methuselah so I'll probably be around for at least another 800 years.

[kengillard]

I'm not afraid of death..  it's living until that time that worries me.