What is the best age to die?
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Jericho Desu
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- 23 Feb 2008
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I don't think there is a "best age" to die, a lot of people want to die old, but usually old people have all sorts of problems past 70, so there are those who want to "live fast, die young" as they say which I believe is a whole load of bull... There are many people in this world who have complicated problems at like the age of 6 so to me I think you should just live as long as you can and enjoy the ride, don't ever "quit" that's quite a dumb thing to think, life is precious at any age.
Anyway as for being able to say I've lived a good life? I have no clue, I just want to do or at least try to do the things I want to accomplish with my integrity intact and a smile on my face, as long as I can do that then I'll say I lived the way I wanted to live and I guess that will constitute as a good life.
Anyway as for being able to say I've lived a good life? I have no clue, I just want to do or at least try to do the things I want to accomplish with my integrity intact and a smile on my face, as long as I can do that then I'll say I lived the way I wanted to live and I guess that will constitute as a good life.
Clawn
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- 6 Feb 2005
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Personally, I don't think it'll much matter to me at what age I die. However, I'd like to do a few more things before taking the long sleep, as I'm sure most people would. In light of that, I'll say that perhaps the best time to die is when you feel you've done what you set out to accomplish.
Half-n-Half
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I think that when I am dead, I will not care what I have or have not done in life. Because I'll be dead.
Putrefaction
不幸中の幸い. . . がない.
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I was going to say 80. I'm pretty sure most people have done what they need to do by 80. I'd be okay if I died after 80, but as most people are, I am scared of Death.
Putrefaction
不幸中の幸い. . . がない.
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I have a question for you. Would you want to live until 970 with current age trends? (From 90+ you're pretty much an old person for the next 800+ years...)
Elizabeth
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- 22 Apr 2003
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Me as well Justin. I try to spend more time amazed at and grateful for what life has brought than what more I can extract from it.
Some people live a long life blessed with peace, while others have walked through an earthly Hell, long or short, through no fault of their own. There's no rational response why we here are so comparatively graced except to take each day as a gift and nothing for granted.
Life and death are like parts of a whole -- it is impossible for one to exist without the other. To fear death is like fearing nature. So I am not in a hurry to get there but, i don't let it hold me back from enjoying time on this earth either.
Putrefaction
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You never wonder what'll happen once you're not in this world? I am the exact opposite... I always wonder, what would people from 1920 think of this world? 1930? What if I saw 2200, would I be as amazed? I want to see it, I don't want to speculate.
Half-n-Half
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All the time. I would love to see what the world is like a thousand years from now. Unfortunately, I'll probably never know, but I am content with that. You have to live your life sometime and people a thousand years from now will be wondering what the earth will be like in another thousand years. A thousand years ago people probably wondered the same thing.
Putrefaction
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True...I think we're living now so healthy and longer that we don't fear death, perhaps I'm still stuck in older views that death is to be feared.
Elizabeth
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Without a doubt it will blow my mind -- whether that's a positive direction or not I guess depends what it is. If it's a fully virtual world with computers ahead of human intelligence and everyone essentially immortal I'd probably kill myself anyway. But simply hanging around to see whether humanity will ultimately have a bright future isn't the force that gives meaning to my life today. On the other hand, not that you would ever have awareness, but naturally I don't want to die right before something really historical, a day like 9/11...:?
Mycernius
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Putrefaction
不幸中の幸い. . . がない.
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True, even if it were something like Brave New World, I'd want to see it before killing myself. It could also be like a Futurama-esque world...I think I have just adopted the old view where Death is to be feared and like rich old men I cling to life ☝ As for the historical, it really depends if you want famous or infamous...I'd've wanted to die before 9/11, ignorance IS bliss...
I don't think so either that there is a right age to die but something that I wouldn't probably be able to is be alive while all my family and friends have passed away. So I would rather be one of the first ones to die because I don't like the thought of being old and alone.
Haruspex
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- 30 Aug 2007
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Renew, renew, renew
Ahaha. I remember seeing some of Logan's Run as a small kid. Couldn't understand much of it. Now that I read the wiki article on the story, the book actually seems interest. Might even give it a go.
justin
The Rise of Cobra
- 31 Aug 2003
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''The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.''
- Mark Twain
When you die doesn't matter so long as you have lived everday before like it was your last. Besides, isn't death just another adventure?
''What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.''
- Albert Pike
- Mark Twain
When you die doesn't matter so long as you have lived everday before like it was your last. Besides, isn't death just another adventure?
''What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.''
- Albert Pike
Red5
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- 30 Jul 2008
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the death doesn't know the age if someone is old or young .....
most people think that the best age to die is more than 70 years, but my point is , when someone lived this life and gave his life their experience and then they can feel that it's no need to live more, but the fate plays important rule in this issue ....
for me , leave it alone to the fate and no one knows his/her death and when his soul will be in the sky ....
most people think that the best age to die is more than 70 years, but my point is , when someone lived this life and gave his life their experience and then they can feel that it's no need to live more, but the fate plays important rule in this issue ....
for me , leave it alone to the fate and no one knows his/her death and when his soul will be in the sky ....
justin
The Rise of Cobra
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Wow, now that would be a depressing outlook to have . . .
