From time to time, I’ll see headlines that read something like "When you die you realize what’s important in life, but then, it’s too late". I don’t think that’s true. I think that when you are dying, you see life from the perspective of someone who is dying. You are letting go of your body, so obviously that will change how you see things.
But when you are a child you see life from the perspective of a child. When you are a teenager you see life from the perspective of a teenager. Dying is no different.
I certainly don’t believe that whatever happens when you die will carry forward for all eternity. Of course, a lot of that comes from religion. Accept christ and you will be in heaven for all eternity; if not, you go to hell (scare tactic).
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.My troubles are many, they're as deep as a well
I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell
Swear there ain't no heaven and pray there ain't no hell,
But I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell,
Only my dying will tell, yeah, only my dying will tell
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MyTVC15
Level 7
Sep 5, 2021
1
Until we have substantially more evidence of what actually happens after we die, I don't see much value in spending much time thinking about it. Why spend your time while alive worrying about what will happen when you die? Death will come to us all soon enough; that's when we will know. Until then, we have life to live.
RussRAB
Level 8
Sep 4, 2021
0
What ever happened to the thought that when one dies they are dead and do nothing, they have no ability to do anything, they are dead.
dalefvictor
Level 8
Sep 2, 2021
4
I think each has their own idea of what's important in life and death. For some, as my late partner, tying up loose ends was very important. She made great pains to do just that (luckily her brain tumor only affected her speech). At one point I had to tell her I was still there and would do that for her. I have read the many make a great effort to put hings in order before they die and that includes me. When we first married my partner and I made a will and everything went to her kids (I had not heard from my daughter in years). As time went on her kids made it, financially and I became more involved in groups as FFRF, family planning and environmental groups. In the meantime my daughter as resurfaced and we have a great bond. My sister escaped Texass and now lives just an hour's drive to the north. Now it's time to organize and update my will and purge as much personal junk as possible. That is what's become important to me and I know there are others that feel the same.
JackPedigo
Level 9
Sep 2, 2021
3
Well, if there is a hell, there will be a lot of Christians living in it. However, I think that when you die your dead and that is about it. Made a good run and had a lot of fun.
MrDragon
Level 7
Sep 2, 2021
4
i think that doing ur best is more important than having fun
@HeAdAkE I suppose that depends on the kind of work that you do, I have always done the work that I enjoyed doing and had a fun time doing it. I am not saying that life itself hadn't thrown me a few curveballs along the way, but I have always found fun and creative ways to work around them.
People try desperately to convince you that Walt is really up there and when you die you can go to his land and ride his rides free forever. It will happen if you believe in Caesar and have a Holy Goat.
DenoPenno
Level 9
Sep 2, 2021
4
Oh, I get it: Disney. I was thinking Where's Waldo, lol
When you die, you're dead. Not a hard concept. But Oh does that scare the shit out of a lot of people!
MikeInBatonRouge
Level 8
Sep 2, 2021
5
I’m sure some people may feel regret at leaving unfinished business at the point of death, but some may also be quite ready to relinquish life and happy in the thought that their struggle us over. We can’t generalise any more about what a person may feel when facing death than we can generalise about what a person thinks on any other subject because that varies from individual to individual.
Marionville
Level 10
Sep 2, 2021
6
True, but what you just said lacks a certain poetic flourish that the fairytale has. People sure love that false sense of "revealed Truth!" 
Youth is wasted on the young, who have not the wisdom to use well it or know its power and value, and lost to the old who do.
Fernapple
Level 9
Sep 2, 2021
4
Shaw?
@Marionville My paraphrase of.
a wise man learns from other peoples mistakes so it can be said that young can be wise
@HeAdAkE I believe it’s a fallacy that we learn from other people’s mistakes. We generally don’t because we think we can succeed where others failed, it takes our own mistakes to make us realise we need to do things differently. Other people’s failures don’t teach us in the way our our own do.
@Marionville well said! i thank u for that perspective
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