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[Yaya]

The Myanmar cyclone and now the quake in China have me thinking about the world. A friend of mine was almost on Phuket when the 2004 tsunami hit, and well, the world is having more than a fair share of disasters to make me think of the fragile nature of human life.

Feel free to share your thoughts.

[kentucker4]

[GoldMember]

I do, I' m a coward, but Koreans don't, fearless people they are:
Ride Motorcycles without helmets,
Drive without wearing seatbelts,
Stand in the middle of roads,
Use dangerous heavy machinery without safety measures or protection,
and for the biggest death defying feat of them all.....
Travel to the US to eat L.A. Galbi

[Kimchi Cha Cha]

I'm a bit odd in that I don't have a genuine fear of death. I definitely don't want to die anytime soon but, I'm relatively at ease with the fact that I will die and that there'll most probably be very little I can do when the time comes that I pass away. I was fairly sick as a child and there were a couple of incidences in my early childhood where I was close to death. Whether this somehow subconsciously influences my relative lack of fear, I don't know.

For me, 9/11 was an event that really made me ponder about life, its many uncertainties and twists of fate, and our ultimate lack of control in just what happens as whole in the world around us. I witnessed all the events unfold live as it was late evening in Australia when the first plane struck the World Trade Center from which the late news switched to the unfolding events and didn't deviate from CNN's coverage until about 24 hours later. As I watched the awful, uncensored events live all the time trying to remember that this wasn't a movie, it made me think about my mortality, my view of the afterlife and my ultimate vulnerability to the forces of nature, freak events and forces of evil and destruction which I have no control over.

The Tsunami, the London and Madrid bombings and Pakistan earthquake among other disasters reinforced within me, our overall lack of control over what occurs on this Earth - whether man-made or natural.

I no longer fear death as I believe our consciousness ends when our life ends. I no longer believe in an afterlife. This makes me try to live life as well as I can, yet I still follow the basic premise of treating others as you would like to be treated. I'm still open to the idea of an afterlife, but I increasingly believe our 'selves' end when our bodies die. As a result, I'm more curious of death than fearful of it as I don't believe in heaven or hell. For me, death will either be nothing or something, neither of which I really fear.

[toddswift]

only thing I fear is my kgirlfriend sitting me down and saying that I am a gonna be afather. Then I have to get married, have to meet the whole adams family, strange wedding, unlimited bows to them, a life long purgatory of bringing novels to family chusook parties while men sit and talk about the 'world', pushing a cart around emart during peak times, having my 'wife' control my money, her head gets big and fat like a pumkin as she metaphorphasizes into an azumma.......and finally being in the presence of so many women, but knowing a great force is watching everything I do, 24/7. (andmight put my photo on yahoo...........AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

[ChopChaeJoe]

It's all a 'case of the death' for other people. Not believing in our own deaths is what keeps us going. Once you internalize the idea, Camus' belief that suicide is the only important consideration comes ringing true.

[ED209]

RUN!!!

[Dances With Wolves]

My opinion on death is this, I am not scared to die as much as I am scared not to live. I want to experience as much as I can before that day comes. Everyone dies, not everyone truly lives.

[nolegirl]

I am not scared of death, I'm about to go to Korea by choice, now that is scary!!

[smedini]

[PRagic]

Well, I don't sleep in front of a fan if I can avoid it, that's for sure!

[Hobophobic]

[sargx]

Less worry, more glory.

[poet13]

Already did it....twice. Only exciting for everyone else.

[crusher_of_heads]

"People die everyday."-OJ Simpson