Here Cometh The Reaper
The moment of my death. Not death itself, as it's something you never experience (as you're dead), but the moment of death. It really, really screws me up at times, especially as I'm getting closer to it (nearly 50). I just don't want ever to die, to cease to be. I don't think there's an afterlife, or reincarnation - just cold, black oblivion. I really, really want to die in my sleep. The whole "I'm dying, this is it ..." thing genuinely freaks me out. I hate (am jealous of) people who are so blaise about it - those who enter "death pools" or tweet jokes the moment a celeb passes. When someone famous dies I just feel sorrow, that they have gone through "that" moment, and which I will one day face myself ...

... having said that, the one moment I thought I was going to die (serious head injury, blood everywhere, pouring out of me) I was okay with it. But then I'd just smacked my head on a rather hard surface, so that may have had some influence on my state of mind at the time.

Curse you death!
(jrd, Fri 12 Sep 2014, 0:17, 9 replies)

No one dies in their sleep. The human body doesn't work like that - it fights.
When someone says "He died peacefully in his sleep", what actually happened was that he woke up in the middle of the night in terrible pain, and died alone and frightened in the dark.
(Baggenfrock get fucked, Fri 12 Sep 2014, 0:55, closed)

Hahaha

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Fri 12 Sep 2014, 9:07, closed)

My aunt died in her sleep in front of our eyes. She was on holiday with us and said she was feeling unwell, so went to lie on a sun lounger. She "fell asleep" and we carried on around her. Wasn't until an hour later her husband checked on her and she had no pulse.
(jrd, Fri 12 Sep 2014, 11:50, closed)

Best course of action would be to follow the example set by Aldous Huxley

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Fri 12 Sep 2014, 9:09, closed)

Write some truly appalling novels?

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 12 Sep 2014, 16:47, closed)

Blaise?
Also, grow up.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 12 Sep 2014, 10:12, closed)

Jesus. I think an irrational fear of death is a lot more "grown up" than an irrational fear of fucking spiders.
(jrd, Fri 12 Sep 2014, 11:52, closed)

"I want to die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandad. Not crying and screaming, like his passengers."

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 12 Sep 2014, 11:37, closed)

existential uncertainty
is a pisser
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Sat 13 Sep 2014, 17:08, closed)