we all have to go sometime

[thinkkank]

This is something I've been telling myself to come to terms with my situation. I'm not afraid of it anymore. I'm spending time being grateful for the life I've had, and I'm okay with it ending like this.
what's your process for accepting death?

 

[foreveryoung]

I try to think about where i'll end up if i kept on going. I read about all sorts of diseases you could get and how sick people are kept alive in hospitals like zombies and go through so much pain. I also met some people in the past who had a permanent illness and witnessed their daily suffering. Recently i notice things in my body, signs i might have cancer or some kind of severe illness. I'm always freaked out about it. Once you're ill you are helpless, you have to depend on medicine and the hospital. Theres no freedom when you get to that point, so im going to end it before it gets worse. I think I had my fair share of life. I enjoyed a lot of things but its my time to go.

 

[avoid_slow_death]

Overcame that fear quite some time ago. For me, it was a life full of being rejected and being the outsider. Plus, I have had a morbid fascination with death for over 30 years, so, yeah, that's it for me.

 

[Roger]

"By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death . . . . . . . . and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next"

 

[AlreadyGone]

My process of accepting death is that it is gonna happen sooner or later. I might as well have some control over it.

 

[Jean4]

Everything that is born, dies. Some sooner than others.

 

[TAW122]

My process of accepting death is that "death is inevitable" and all living things (eventually) die, some sooner than others, some due to unpredictable circumstances, accidents, tragedies, and of course, planned deaths (voluntary euthanasia, carefully thoughtout suicides). For me, it was realizing that life sucks, society sucks, and I don't wish to stick around for maybe temporary moments of joy and memories only to suffer the majority of the way getting there. It simply isn't worth it for me. I'd rather CTB than to live through hell which is this existence. I also figured once I am dead, no more pleasure or future experiences, nothing, but at least no more suffering and in a morbid sense, I win because I don't need to play the game of life.

 

[theguineapigking]

thrw_a_way1221221 basically summed up most of what I feel. But I may hate life more than he/she does.

We all die at some point. Society sucks dick. Most people seem to be beyond stupid. The USA president Trump is an idiot. People are stupid enough to want him to be president even though it's been shown how bad he is. That's just an easy example. This just makes me hate life more.


I hate the idea of working to survive. I hate humanity(not innocents. I just hate humanity as a whole) . I hate drama and all the crap in life too. I have mitochondrial disease that causes immense fatigue,dizziness,migrianes,Brain fog,etc. I hate my body and always feel like literal shit. I work 15 hours a week. I'm 21 and don't drive. My 17 year old brother now drives. F life. F it all.


That's why suicide is not wrong or selfish despite what people say. That's a lot of my process of accepting death in general.


I wish you all the best. Hopefully you all find some kind of happiness one way or another.

 

[Despondent]

I tell myself the same thing. It's also startling for me to think of how one day "I would lay on my death bed and die of a natural cause." lol My thoughts push me to want to ctb. It also helps that I'd rather cause my own death, at my own time than wait for time to take me away if that makes sense. I want to go on my own will. When I'm ready.

 

[Sensei]

Indeed. We will perish, mankind will perish, earth will perish, the universe will perish. I have yet to figure out what "some time" is to me, though. Tonight? Three years from now? I don't know.

 

[Soulless_Angel]

Like others have said we all die some day, so whether you accept death or not, it will visit you one day, I personally would rather be in control of mine, I have little to no control over anything else, esp birth. Acceptance of death is not an issue for me, it doesn't bother me, its gotta happen sometime anyway!

 

[voyager]

My reasoning is very much the same as yours, thinkkank. It is what it is and indeed inevitable, so basically the thought that the good times are over, and I'm just prolonging the bad, or at the very least meaningless times to face the same outcome. Sounds pretty stupid.

Of course some miracle might occur the day after I kill myself, but really it seems far fetched and no longer reasonable. Have waited long enough, run out of patience and I'm tired, don't care anymore, not least because now age and other issues are also grinding away at me. What's more, death doesn't frighten me for various reasons, and it's something every being on this planet went through at some point, which makes it almost trivial. Death is a gamble, maybe a door to something better, or at least different, and if there's nothing else so be it. The only reason I don't completely agree with @thrw_a_way1221221 and @theguineapigking is that I don't hate life, never will, and I'm going to kill myself because I loved it and can't live it to the fullest anymore. I'm sick of compromising only for it to get worse - I quit.

 

[Epsilon0]

Death is the only universal and absolute truth. Everything else is a matter of discussion.

 

[GoodPersonEffed]

Death is the only universal and absolute truth. Everything else is a matter of discussion.

I would agree, but with a tweak. I would posit that change is the only universal and absolute truth. Death is a change of condition that is universal for all things that live.

 

[Epsilon0]

I would agree, but with a tweak. I would posit that change is the only universal and absolute truth. Death is a change of condition that is universal for all things that live.

Panta rei.

 

[voyager]

I would agree, but with a tweak. I would posit that change is the only universal and absolute truth. Death is a change of condition that is universal for all things that live.

And yet death could lead us straight to where we were before, so no true change just repetition, thus I'm gonna go with infinity. Afaik, no one has been able to disprove that (yet). I'm just not sure if that makes sense or is even relevant.

 

[Mr2005]

"I won't care once I'm dead" , "People I know have gone" , "it just wasn't meant to be"

 

[Epsilon0]

And yet death could lead us straight to where we were before, so no true change just repetition, thus I'm gonna go with infinity. Afaik, no one has been able to disprove that (yet). I'm just not sure if that makes sense or is even relevant.

Making sense is overrated anyway. Please feel free to not make sense. (I do get what you mean, though)