do you feel that you are prepared to die?

[Torie]

It is kind of ironic, that just when you figure out how to live the good life, and mitigate all your little hang ups and whatnot, and have honed your mind into a fine analytical instrument, that right about then you begin to fall apart physically, memory skills begin to decline, and you die. What a waste!

[afleitch]

The funny thing is, I believe in God. I identify as a Christian mostly out of cultural loyalty, but I'm pretty convinced in a higher being... because I feel like there is proof of it around me. What I'm absolutely not convinced of is an afterlife. And that's very tough for me. Eternal nothingness isn't something I look forward to, even though it's completely incomprehensible.

I often think of those who yearn for an ‘afterlife’ to be a little egotistical, which isn’t the best word to use but it’s the only one I can think of. Don’t get me wrong, that desire is a by product of our evolutionary drive but I think of myself as one of several billion sentient beings, living some 15 billion years after beginning of time on one rock around one sun amongst trillions of rocks around trillions of suns (and trillions of moons circling those rocks) of which there are more than likely billions of life forms and possibly billions of intelligent life forms, possibly more sentient and intelligent that we. And this is just in our universe. Yet we humans like to think there’s a place for the good people and the bad people to go to that exists outside of all of this just for us. The universe doesn’t know me from an earthworm or from a proton. Why on earth should it set aside it’s own laws to preserve my existence? It’s a desire; it’s a coping mechanism for death. Nothing more. For me anyway.

If there was a creator of everything, why would it also know me from an earthworm or a proton? Why would I a bundle of atoms that in an act of happenstance fell into place to create this fleshy being on on planet mean anything to it?

Sometimes we're just not important in the small and grand scheme of things.

[© tweed]

When you become subjected to the humiliation of paid employment you will see - death is a welcome release.

If you feel your life is not worth living, why not kill yourself? I swear that's a genuine question, not a personal attack. I've always thought that if I considered my life to be horrible enough and without any perspective to improvement, I would have no issue committing suicide (of course, that's only a theoretical thought, but still).

there is fear of death that sustains past the point when interest in life itself wanes.  ("God is the pain of the fear of death" - Dostoevsky)

[memphis]

As I do not own anything more substantial than my car, there's no prep required. Every now and again, being a peasant as its advantages.

[Peter the Lefty]

Not until I've spent a little bit of time as an adult.

[dead0man]

Now that my youngest is almost the size of a regular human being, that anguish young dads go through about death has mostly past.

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I don't really care about death, one way or the other. I should probably be more prepared than I am, though, for the sake of the people in my life.

[Ban my account ffs!]

I'm sure I'll find out when the time comes.  I think being "prepared" for death and "accepting" death are two different things that I feel should be pointed out in the context of this thread.