74 thoughts on “8 Ways To Deal With Your Future Death”

1. An old friend of mine used to say “every day you wake up alive is going to be a good day”.
   He would also say “you are going to die someday, what is beyond that you will find out or it will just turn black”.
   This article contains a lot of great knowledge. I would just supplement it with the following:
   1. Don’t waste your youth being drunk 3-4 nights a week. Make the most of it.
   2. By the age of 40 you really start slowing down. After about 25 the years just start skipping by. Keep this in mind and take any opportunity that is presented to you when you are young.
   3. There is no cure (at least not yet) for old age. It WILL happen. Deal with it accordingly.
   4. Enjoy your time on this planet. Maybe there is no “after life” or maybe there is. Doesn’t matter. Take that trip. Call up your grandfather who you haven’t talk to for year. Just seize every moment. You never know when it might be your last.

   1. I would argue that nobody really lives as if there’s no tomorrow except perhaps for some of those who truly don’t have one. It’s just the way we are wired, conditioned or whatever.
      Think about how many suicides just happen in silence with nothing but some moodyness to indicate it. If people who are going to end their lives next week cannot “live in the now”, what chance do we really have?

      1. Some people decide to exit this world in what us “sane” individuals don’t understand. About ten years ago had a good friend call me up, we hadn’t talked for awhile, chatted for about 15 minutes then that was that. About a week later he walked into the woods with a piece of rope and never walked out. No history of mental illness, no drugs found in his system, no terminal illness, no note, apartment was clean, finances were in order for his age, again no “rationale” reason us “sane” people understand. After talking to his parents my best guess was he had reached is “expiration date” and wanted to move on Strange but it happens.

   2. “chances are that you live your days never stopping to think that you have an expiration date”
      My expiration date is probably in the next 5 years (give or take), doesn’t really bother me.
      I’ve lived a life that’s full, I travelled each and every highway, regrets I’ve had a few, but I did it my way.

   3. I don’t agree that it can logically “just turn black” because even darkness/oblivion implies a subject that is there to perceive the darkness. So darkness is still just another concept, not any better than the heaven/hell worlds that people conceptualize.
      I don’t think you can know that you’re dead or actually experience nonexistence.
      I do think that your life grows more and more into focus as you get older and approach death, and things (that you remember anyway) start to fit into a big picture like puzzle pieces. Then you start to realize what sort of person you were/are, for good or bad.

2. That’s some good captain obvious stuff right there.

   1. Well how’s that been working out for you?

3. Good article. I experienced a great deal of tragedy in my life in my late 20’s, and now it’s hard to shake the feeling that I’m living in a tiny cabin at the foot of a huge alpine mountain… waiting for a tremendous, inevitable avalanche. It truly makes me want to drop out of society completely and just detach from the damn pain and frivolity of it all. I was involved in pretty wild accident a few years ago where I was certain I was going to die- It was like stepping off the cliff into the abyss; a strange feeling indeed. I guess now more than anything I question the worthiness of traditional pursuits and all the other facets of life deemed appropriate by society at large. When you realize life doesn’t stretch out before you like an infinite red carpet…there are only so many good days. I hope one day we all realize something greater than this somewhere else. I’m not sure I would wish life on earth on anyone.

   1. I’m in my 50’s and I have had enough of the human condition. I’m not complaining, but I have done all I can. I’m trying to figure out a quick and painless means of self deliverance. This is what occupies my mind these days.

      1. Sounds tempting but what if the next go-round ends up being worse?

         1. I’ve thought about that – but death is inevitable anyway. I have wondered if a man’s fate in the afterlife is different if he carries out self deliverance vs. dying a natural death – but that is somethint nobody knows despite what any fanatic from any religious sect may say. And if self deliverance is wrong, all I can say to the power(s) that be is to politely bring to their attention that they failed to denonstrate to this mortal what it was all about, and if I had the proper and clear understanding from the get-go early on in life, then I would have done things differently. I think this is fair, and hopefully the power(s) that be should understand this, unless they are outright sadistic.

4. “I am Immortal, I have inside me the blood of Kings. Yeah!”. -Highlander via Freddie Mercury

   1. Princes of the universe,
      Yeah, mercury had the blood of kings, the blood of a pozed fagget.

      1. Maybe didn’t have the blood of kings in him, but you can bet he had more than his fair share of prince’s spoof in him (when I say prince I mean the rank and the rank artist).

5. Loved this article Howard. It’s one of those topics we know we should accept but don’t want to do so. We don’t want to dwell on it. But you are right, we are better for accepting things we cannot change, even if they are unpleasant, and making the best of the time we have.
   I would add that the time spent in this life is best used by spending it with people you love and who love you. If you don’t have those people get them. If you don’t live near those people move.

   1. Thanks Jared. I completely agree with you! Life is too short for us to waste it with toxic people who envy or hate us. The wisest way to spend our time in here is by enjoying the company of those who love us and indulging into our favorite hobbies.

      1. Howard,
         I’m basically unlovable, so I enjoy spending time by myself.
         A bicycle and a pair of hiking boots are all I need.

         1. John Dodds,
            Lots of people who know me in real life find me unbearable as well. Let’s just say that throughout the years I’ve gathered more haters than fans…
            So I can relate to what you are going through
            I guess people simply dont want to hear sincere truths or different points of views. People are very superficial and spoiled now a days, they cant handle hearing something that confronts their world bias. All they want is to only hear beautiful things about themselves and their world of fantasies. I’m the kind of person who is not afraid of saying what I really think and what I stand up for. Thus most people dont like me.
            Thankfully I’ve found a small circle of people in my life, who still love me. Regardless of my straight up honesty. Still I enjoy spending most of my time alone especially when I’m writing. I love writing.

6. We non-whites excel in STEM and fuck your women hard and feed your lazy population. boom!

   1. Boom is the sound the bomb makes when it blows your turban off, you curly headed fuck.

      1. Princes of the universe,
         Yeah, mercury had the blood of kings, the blood of a pozed fagget.

      2. Migs,
         Someone got his feelings hurt, uh?

   2. “Our women fuck hard?”
      What do carpet pilots find appealing to the old, ugly toads?
      I’ll never understand that!

7. The first picture I ever hung in my home was an old looking washed out style picture of a bird on top of a skull surrounded by the words, “Memento Mori”. It’s by my front door so that it’s the first and last thing I see when I leave for the day.

8. I’ve never been a huge fan of the idea of learning to be happy and enjoying “every minute” of life.
   Happiness and enjoyment are by nature temporary conditions which cannot be felt during times of acute pain, hardship, arduous trials, etc. The pursuit of feelings of happiness and enjoyment during times like these is often little more than a self-constructed distraction from reality.
   As a mother, I think about death and dying all the time. Especially now that I’m fairly certain I won’t have more children, that places me pretty firmly in the dying population. The realization that I could die at any moment is all the more reason to detach myself from the idea of happiness and enjoyment. The question of “am I happy?” becomes unimportant in the face of the question of whether I’ve done enough good with my life and whether I’ve done all that I can to prepare my children for their respective journeys.
   Be cautious about over-indulging in happiness and enjoyment when there is work to be done, battles to be fought, or sacrifices to be made. Just because it might be possible to induce a pleasant emotional state at any given juncture doesn’t mean that’s necessarily what you should be pursuing. Trading a minute of productive misery for one of idle happiness is a bad deal, especially when you consider how unpredictably finite life is.

   1. I seek an arrangement with pregnant chicks . I do you for $500 and a 24 pack of gerber mashed yams

      1. I’ll tell all my pregnant friends, but I suspect they’re gonna hold out for the organic brand yams.

         1. Hahaha!
            You’re alright Kitty.

   2. Don’t get the connection between being unable to bear more children and being “firmly in the dying population”. You do realize that the ability to procreate doesn’t make a person immortal, right? Breeders seem to suffer from the delusion that they will “live on” through thier progeny. You won’t. You’ll die just like a childless person and your children will live on as the autonomous humans they are, because they are themselves, not you.

      1. First thing’s first: gonna take your trying-to-be-derogatory “breeder” label and wear it proudly. Motherhood has always been my greatest purpose and highest calling in life, and I’ve known that since I was a young girl.
         Now, you seem to be reading something into my comment which isn’t there for the sake of arguing – so let me clarify:
         No, the ability to procreate doesn’t make anyone immortal. Neither does having children. I’m not sure how you got that from what I said. Point is, the fact that I’ve already had children and will likely have no more means I’ve hit my peak. I am no longer a fresh bud on my family tree into which resources ought to be directed for the continuation of growth and new life. I’m more like a leaf that’s getting ready to fall to the ground and decay into the soil.
         Trying to eke out as much pleasure, happiness, enjoyment, etc. as possible in this later stage of life is a model which, left unchecked, often leads people into a cycle of reckless consumption to try to offset the discomforts of aging – which is only broken well after they’re six feet under and their surviving family/friends/community are done tidying up the messes they left behind.
         If happiness, pleasure, and enjoyment are your primary goals, it is unlikely that you will live a sufficiently productive life to offset the cost of your existence. Whether you have children or not, consuming more than you produce is a shitty thing to do that should only be forgiven of those who are legitimately disabled – and this is only possible on account of those who produce enough more than they consume for there to be a surplus.
         Chasing happiness can be a very expensive way to prepare for one’s death – although the cost typically can’t be neatly measured in dollars, and is often deferred to the next generation. I’d rather spend whatever is left of my life as productively as I can. Given the choice between my personal enjoyment of life and my duty to future generations, I choose duty.
         No, I won’t live on through my progeny – rather, I will make deliberate choices about how I live my life NOW, so that the time I spend is an investment in their future and not a bill they get stuck with when I’m dead.

         1. Your diatribe is really funny coming from a breeder. You do realize you only had children in order to eke out as much happiness as you could and increase your own enjoyment of life right? There’s no evidence that anyone wants to be born into this world. Most breeders recognize that human existence is essentially a big steaming pile of dog doo, and yet somehow also seem to expect the Nobel Peace Prize for forcing this existence onto others. And just by procreating you are causing more consumption of the earth’s resources than you are able to produce. I’m not denying your right to breed, everyone has the right to find happiness in life in whichever way they choose, but all you’ve done by fulfilling your “highest calling” is add more resource-consuming people to an already overpopulated planet. Literally anyone with functioning reproductive organs can procreate, it’s nothing to be proud of. Your insinuations that people who don’t breed are “dry leaves” is mildly insulting to those who choose not to procreate, or to adopt one of the hundreds of thousands of children who already exist in this world. Procreating is selfish, not necessarily wrong but selfish nonetheless, so get over yourself.

         2. I said *I* was like the dry leaf. We really can’t have a proper argument if I have to give lessons in reading comprehension every step of the way.

         3. You said that you’re the dry leaf because you’re not having any more children. That means according to you, people who cannot or choose not to have children are also dry leaves, undeserving of resources. That is insulting, but not really surprising coming from someone who clearly places all her value on her ability to procreate. Never understood why breeders think they are so special for doing something a cat can do. 90+ percent of the human population will have children at some point, it is literally THE most common, unspecial thing ever.

         4. No; you’ve taken something I said about myself and my own perspective as it relates to MY purpose in life and my own mortality, and you’ve IMAGINED that I might be measuring everyone else by my own yardstick (which I certainly am not) for the sake of arguing against something I never said, apparently because you’ve got a bone to pick with someone who probably isn’t me. I simply haven’t the time for that.

      2. “Breeder” is how gays label heteros.

         1. I was refraining from going there, but now that you mention it… I am getting that belligerent homosexual vibe.

      3. It’s more of the choosing not to add to the overpopulation problem we already have and finding sanctimonious breeders irritating vibe, but whatever you say. Not every heterosexual person chooses to procreate. There’s people who actually don’t want to have children, this must be news to you. Your highest calling was allowing a man to ejaculate inside you and spewing out some kids. Congrats. Your womb has dried up so you apparently have nothing more to contribute to society and can die now 😂.

9. There is only two things guaranteed in life tax and death. My favourite quote and what I live my life by is friends come and go tomorrow is never guaranteed.

   1. But no property taxes on your burial plot !

10. I will pull dead game on sluts by leaving them out of the will

    1. Yeah dckhead, good idea.
       Soldiers never die, they disappear! (Douglas Mc Arthur)

    2. Haha

11. Must write my final message to my girls. It’s everyone’s last best chance to tell your legacy the most poignant and important message they will ever hear or read, though it comes after death. One last final echoing message because I may be wrong and not be there in the spirit, overlooking their shoulder and their sixth sense that I am always with them, an expression of the “Force” as it were, that they will never be alone and to not fear the future and beyond this physical realm. That this physical life is temporary but necessary.

12. Attractive women die twice. At 35 then at death

    1. I’m so stealing that one. Nice.

    2. Women can look hot well after 35. Just depends on how well they take care of themselves.

       1. That’s great you bang them, and I’ll take another 20-year-old.

          1. If you’re restricting yourself to 20 year olds you’re not going to get much poon. Plenty of girls look like shit at that age anyway. Unless your goal is to impregnate every woman you bang why is her age the main selling point? Hot women are hot women. Age is only a number.

          2. Infertile women are not hot.

       2. Rule of thumb for the distinction: Who really feels like a woman, runs around like a woman and not like a Christmas tree or Ronald McDonald

13. What is Time?
    CHAPTER VI.
    Q. What is time?
    A. Since the commission of original sin, time is the delay granted by divine justice to guilty man to do penance. For this reason the Council of Trent says that a truly Christian life is a continual penance.
    Q. How is the year divided?
    A. The time of the year is divided by the church into three parts: the first comprises Advent, and recalls to mind the four thousand years during which the Messiah was expected; the second extends from Christmas to the Ascension, and comprises all the mortal life of our Lord. The third begins at Pentecost and ends at All Saints; it comprises the life of the church.
    Abbé Gaume’s: Catechism Of Perseverance (1850 A.D. Imprimatur)
    We must make sure that we are ready to die. We begin to die the day we are born, every day is a gift from God that many others do not receive.
    Here is a classic on the subject: The Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven
    

14. Uncle sams misguided children This article reminds how much I miss it

15. I’ve been ready to go for some time now. I’ve made my peace with those who matter.
    I don’t fear the Reaper, I don’t relish the fact about getting old though.
    Although like Mean Gene Okerlund, I do want to be buried face-down so my enemies can Kiss My Ass.

16. “Do not be afraid when the time comes to leave this realm. Be proud of all your personal, biological and financial achievements! You will still be able to watch the future of your loved ones and legacy in heaven.” Barf.

17. You can be damn sure that Clinton won’t be in jail, the debt will be higher, the US will still be at war, and Americans will have even less freedom in 2020.
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/gingrich-says-trump-is-done-with-drain-the-swamp-slogan-173426892.html
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-signals-willingness-raise-u-minimum-wage-222204133–business.html
    http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/25/polling-show-trumps-newfound-support-of-amnesty-is-a-betrayal-to-his-base/
    https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2018-02-20/trump-moves-to-outlaw-bump-stocks-after-florida-shooting
    https://nypost.com/2017/08/21/trump-will-send-4000-more-troops-to-afghanistan-report/
    https://nypost.com/2017/09/06/white-house-and-congress-agree-to-raise-debt-ceiling/
    https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-wont-try-to-prosecute-clinton-after-all-aide-says-150537237.html
    http://thetandd.com/news/opinion/new-boss-same-as-old-boss/article_fd660c3d-2437-5b09-82d2-183aa6e8947a.html
    http://fortune.com/2018/02/13/food-stamps-blue-apron-americas-harvest-box/

18. Why would you want to be proud of your financial achievements once you’ve popped your clogs? No pockets in a coffin, chap, or perhaps you think you’re gonna make like a Pharaoh and carry your shekels to next life?

19. The religious tone of this article is hilarious. Here’s the real deal, people- There is no God. There is no Heaven, no afterlife. When you die you will flatline and cease to exist, forever. Scary? Yes. Depressing? Maybe. But it also brings into sharper focus the need to live fully and appreciate every single moment, because this life is all we are ever going to get. Religion is for weak-minded people who lack the courage to face reality.

    1. See, there’s the rub,@ Cjacobs, drawing a comparison with a belief in God and a belief in religion. The two are not mutually inclusive. Taking an atheist tack is just an easy option. “Religions are bad, m’kay, therefore God is is bad, m’kay.” Baah humbug. Come back and speak to me when you have a few years under your belt and more than your fair share of life experience. I suppose you have no problem with defending the “chosen” , or downgrading their critics, but your personal paradigm is “I don’t believe!” I suppose you didn’t realise the irony in giving yourself a moniker like C((jacobs)) and trying to come off as anti-religious. Take a number, sit down, wait, your time will come, defend your bullshit to your maker…

       1. I’m not sure how you came up with the assumption that I’m young or lacking in life experience. Your paragraph doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense, but here’s the “rub”- I don’t believe in God, for the same reasons I don’t believe in Santa Clause, the Tooth Fairy or the Easter Bunny. I can’t see them and there’s zero evidence that they exist. To believe in the existence of something an intelligent human needs actual evidence that it exists. I can tell you for example that there’s a ten foot neon pink tree on my front lawn. You can’t see it, and I can’t provide any evidence that it exists, but I believe it’s there so therefore it exists. Such is the logic of religious people. Moronic and childish, stemming from a fear of death and the unknown.

          1. @Cjacobs I’m not sure how you came up with the assumption that I thought you were young. I didn’t assume your age at all, I just pointed out you needed more time to accumulate experience to make a better argument, either for or against God. That you equate belief in a creative force that drives all reality with belief in a fairy or Father Christmas is a strawman argument, you also claim an intelligent human needs evidence before they can believe it exists, my counter-argument would be there is an abundance of evidence proving the existence of God, going out into the unlimited expanse of the universe, and right down to the tiniest quantum level. In fact the only evidence lacking is in the atheist default position of Darwin’s theory of evolution. Taught in schools around the world as a fact, but still only a theory. With as many holes (missing links) in it as Swiss cheese. I’m not a religious person but I believe in God, however, I respect people of religion as they are just searching for the answers that we all are, or rather should be, searching for. They just lack the confidence in themselves to have the ability to experience God directly, without the need for a middleman. So there’s the rub again, perhaps if atheists spent less time trying to disprove God and ridiculing those that wish to find out the important answers to life’s questions, they might discover what is real, or not, as the case maybe.

          2. Atheists do not try to disprove the existence of God. You can’t disprove a negative. The onus is not on us to prove that God doesn’t exist, it’s up to Theists to prove that he does, which you have failed to do. Not fully understanding the origin of life does not count as evidence of some invisible father figure in the sky who supposedly made everything. It means we have unanswered questions about life and the world around us, hence scientific research. There was a time in human history when everything was explained away by religion, this time was known as the Dark Ages, rife with disease and poverty. Humans made zero progress or scientific discoveries, because everything was attributed to “God’s Will”. It was only when people started questioning religion that the human race began to progress and develop (The Age of Enlightenment). Religion hinders humanity and always has. You can believe in a God all you want, but the fact remains that there has yet to be presented a single shred of evidence that any such entity exists. I would say that war, poverty, starvation, torture, disease, child abuse and genetic disorders are sufficient evidence that if there is a God, he’s either incompetent or doesn’t give a flying fuck about humans.

    2. Cjacobs: it’s telling that your assertion reads much more like faith itself than reason.

       1. @CJacobs, again with the strawman argument’s, what’s the point of debating someone who assigns assertions to you that you never made? Fair play, chap. Tell you what, if there is no God, and therefore no point to life, then what is your point?

    3. How would you know?
       We’re just a big bag of chemicals? How does that work?

    4. Cripes you make it sound like you’ve been there and back again to tell about it. Or found a handy site to cut and paste some cliches from.

20. You white guys looking like some whooole bitches with posts like this. This shit is embarassing.

    1. You’re too stupid to effectively talk shit and that low IQ is not from your White paternal line.

21. Life, destiny, mortality.
    All to be known and to be lost in time, ‘Like tears in rain.’
    One thing, that picture of a German and English soldier shaking hands after a football game during the unofficial winter armistice?
    You Yanks should all know the truth.
    We beat the Germans 3-2.
    Just to be clear.

22. Or else realize that we live in the 21st Century, and give cryonics a look:
    https://www.scribd.com/document/354215137/Why-Cryonics-Makes-Sense-Tim-Urban

    1. Oh yeah, first priority in the 22nd Century is growing stem cell bods for all those frozen 21st Century heads, just for shits and giggles.

23. I don’t see how “going to heaven” solves anything. What keeps you from rebelling against God there?
    I’ve never heard an answer from a Christian which makes any sense, because the Christian world view can’t explain how Satan could rebel against God in beginning of creation, nor what keeps this from happening again and again.
    For all any of us know, some Christian reading this website has drawn the short straw in the next stage of God’s plan, where God has predestined him to become the next Satan.

    1. “What keeps you from rebelling against God there?”
       This question makes no sense, just like asking what keeps you from dividing by zero. This defies basic logic. You’re in heaven = you don’t rebel against God. You don’t rebel against God = you’re in heaven. If you’re in heaven it mean’s you’ve already made up your mind about rebelling against God, those inclined to rebelling will never be in heaven, they don’t belong in there, they’re not part of this set. It’s as simple as that- if you’re in Heaven, it means you haven’t rebelled, you’re not rebelling now, and you won’t in the future, although nothing keeps you from it, you never will. No way anybody who might rebel finds himself in the presence of God. As if someone was going to live like a saint, through all the hardships of life, sacrificing, struggling, only to rebel against God when he reaches the ultimate reward. Satan and all his angels were created in a different realm, they were already in the presence of God and that is where they could make up their minds, they were not given a “probationary” life in a separate realm. Angels are a different order of creation, they rebelled in the space in which they had been created, humans were given an earthly life in a different space. The devils knew what God was about, all the necessary data, and they knew everything they needed to know to choose which way to go, so God kicked them out, and created Hell especially for their ilk. The Christian view is that God put us here to see who would choose to do as he would like us to, or not, now that we know all the evil and the good, and can choose freely. We make our choice about where to end up after death right here on Earth.

24. “A jack-of-all-trades may know a little bit of everything, but unfortunately this comes with a big cost. He will never master any of them!”
    Leonardo da Vinci mastered of all of them.

25. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved

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