Not trying to be morbid, but I'm curious if anyone has been feeling their mortality lately.

Op, yes. More than usual over the last couple of years. It's as if my mind knows it has to accept it at some point so my subconscious keeps sneaking the thought up to the front of my mind.

I usually feel it most upon first awakening in the morning. Thoughts and feelings of death or dying.

Even the kids are beginning to question their mortality. Asking lots of questions of what happens when we die etc.

I just think it's normal and is part of the ageing process.

Yes I have!!!! and Im not old , I dwell on it a lot because many people my age that I know or went to school with or whatever have died in the last couple years. One died Tuesday fully vaxd, just sayin' of a particularly aggressive liver cancer. Diagnosed one month ago ,age 42.

I really think what I'm experiencing is more intense than natural thoughts on death. I wish I could explain it, but I can't find the right words for it. I'm a little frustrated that I can't adequately process it.

Thats when it hits me as well firstling in the morning maybe thats when we're the most vulnerable. Here's the crazy thing, I'm making peace with it more and more as the days grow darker

Same. We all have to one way or another. It's unavoidable either way and every single living being will experience it.

It's just the way of things. Natural order.

So far I see I'm the only one the voted less than usual. My oldest son recently graduated from tech and highschool. My youngest is a star athlete. My wife and I have been on the same page more. I'm getting healthier in both body and mind through hard work and communication. While the World outside my doors sucks, a healthy and happy home has made life better.

Savour every moment.

Every breath.

I totalled my motorcycle on Saturday night, just another near death experience, altho looking at what's left of the bike, not sure how I'm still alive with scrapes and bruises.

Only explanation is that my maker has other plans for me?

Life is precious, all life, so much beauty and wonder in Nature.

It's the unnatural that is marred and perverted.

Just breathe

I fall under the "not at all" category.

Take life one day at a time.

"The past is history. The future is a mystery. Today is a gift, and that's why we call it the present." Deepak Chopra

"There's nothing to do with a problem but see through it." Confucius

Hate to use such old quotes and sound cliché, but life is a journey, not a destination and you can constantly change your path if you don't like the direction you're heading.

Positive thinking works and surround yourself with likeminded people!

Have an AWESOME day EVERY day beginning today!

Obi

If you get a bad prognosis, after the shock and turmoil wears off, you’ll be surprised how well you deal with it

We are programmed to call it a day

We just don’t know it, until it happens to us

Nope. I have been born for the coming times and I know the end of my road is not yet reached.

Apart from that inner knowing of beeing here to witness certain things I simply don't worry, cause we don't really die anyway.

Don't be afraid of change...it's all just a game.

Ive had a triple bypass and 6 stents in the last 12 years so I never really feel safe, I drink alot and now Im having liver pains....it is what it is. Still pumping out 55 hours a week at a semi physical job. Paying my bills like a good little sheep till I go poof.
Im only 52, whats really scaring me is all my peers getting cancers and anuerisms in the past 6 months. Ive known a few people with cancer in my life, but like 6 active aggressive cancers in friends, 3 anuerisms and I have a reasonably small circle of friends.

Oh definitely. Not a fear of death, because I don't. Just trying to make plans for my estate since I want it to go where it is needed most.

After losing my parents in 2020 and 2021 ..you can't help but think about it and wonder and worry about how your wife and kid will handle it when your number is called..I just hope its a good long time away..I have work here that needs to be done

I'm not at all surprised by the lopsided responses, the majority of us here are fully aware that where this country is being fast-tracked to can only end in death for most of us. So yeah, I'm feeling it quite often now.

I actually brought it up in a convo with a friend not long ago, said, "I'm not much longer for this world, I can feel it". He got royally pissed, thought I was being a defeatist which is far outside my norm. I'm not at all, I'm a true Realist, always have been.

Not at all a morbid topic OP, it's quite relevant now actually, thanks for being brave enough to put it out there.

Age must be a factor, I'm 62. It is said that the age of 33 is when people start thinking of their own mortality.

There does come an age where a person does a thing for the last time. As youngsters these things are often positives - part of maturing. The older a person becomes there are things that are no longer achievable like improving scores at the gym or running. Things get ever more difficult, the body gets weaker and stiffer, joints start hurting arthritis etc.

At some point the recognition that death is the only fix for ailments. This is the stage when older people no longer fear death, but see it as freedom from hardship.

Once youth has left, and there are no dependant children, life has relatively little meaning, days are just ticked off.

With age comes understanding. I know (believe) that my country (UK) is gone, as is the world. There is no way that the planet can sustain the growth of the past, which means an unimaginable adjustment needs to take place where few young people will need to take care of large number of elderly.

Anyone who has taken care of old people understand the time and effort required. If not, a Great Plague extinction event is the only other likelihood. But I have understood this since a child.

The world is so broken in general now, that it does seem we are coming to an end of sorts.

So much chaos has been created by tptb, I believe it signals the appearance of the 3rd Anti-Christ.

Ordo ab Chao!

At first the change it brings will be welcomed by most, a weary society seeking order turns to the promise of 'normality' it brings.

Sharia law will be welcomed as a means to purge society of it's ills and transgressions, but with it comes a determined persecution of Christianity and all it stands for.

These are the times of troubles, so those of faith are going to have to stand strong

I'm sure a lot of older folks may have the idea rolling around in their heads. I try not to think of death it will come soon enough.

During the plannedemic what was a eye opener was seeing folks in church running scared of dying seemingly begging to not die.
Taking the Shots/ masking up, quit going out of the house ordering food off line. Complete unadulterated Fear of dying!
As I saw dying/going to church was a means of Faith in (if your a believer?) in a higher power going to a better place with no need to fear death. Granted I'm in no rush to go toe tag anytime soon. You have to accept the facts we are all going to Die sometime.

5 for me OP this was thought provoking.



Yes, 5 people born in the 1800s are still with us
as of 2015 most likely all gone by now.
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no I am a long eternal being... but my body I use is not... and it does feel a bit old.. and it will at some point wear out.

Just learned a childhood friend committed suicide yesterday. They were 48.

I have always yearned to be home with the Father, but even more so now. I am ready to be done with this meat suit and this crazy evil world.

I am 50 but for some reason I feel like God's going to keep me around, perhaps as a witness, or a warrior... maybe both.

I don't know. Every day we teeter closer to disaster. I am torn between wanting to be here to help others, or just being finished with the struggle and misery.

OP it's hard to put into words. How about "yes and no"?




I believe so

People of this world are lost, most are doomed.
This world has nothing to offer me, therefore i seek Gods Kingdom.
God Bless

I’m old, so thoughts of my own demise crop up occasionally, although not often enough to be intrusive. It has certainly been a more frequent occurrence since the pandemic began.

Let’s face it, we’ve all just been through 2-1/2 years of the fear factory telling us that we could sicken and die at any time, so it’s only natural that death will occupy people’s thoughts more than usual. Now that we have the possibility of nuclear war looming in the background, those feelings and thoughts can only intensify and become more frequent.

I only worry about my kids' futures. I'm living my future now, and dying is part of living

When you get to your mid-seventies, and you wake up
without any pain...it's a good day.

After we turned seventy, I sat the old lady down,
and we had a long talk.

She was still living as if we had all the time in
the world. (So was I to an extent)

SAVING THINGS
(because I might have a PROJECT where this nut or
bolt or bracket might come in handy)

REALITY: There won't be many more "projects",
because our "future" which once seemed endless,
now seemed very FINITE.

Your entire perspective changes when you KNOW
that time is RUNNING OUT.

Carl Jung's collective unconscious theory. There are people with knowledge of a mass depopulation, of plans or inescapable events that are already in motion. This knowledge is in 'the soil' and our consciousness taps into these through its deep root into the soil of which we all grow from.

For sure. Trying now to get body and belongings trimmed down to absolute basics. My goal is to fit everything I own except a bed in my SUV.

Trying to figure out exactly what family and friends would have a hassle with if I croaked today and trying to minimize that to nothing.

Well stated, and very true.

Voted the same Buddy! Went with mom to prepay her funeral and it got me thinking I should do the same. Grandma bought us cemetery plots before she passed.

Verizon wants me to have a smartphone by the end of the year. I went through my phone list and about 10 of the people are no longer here. Older relatives, but also a boss, two old boyfriends, and younger sis - all aged 55 - 65 are gone.

On my list of things to do are will, POA and living will. Also make a list of all usernames/passwords for the sites where I pay bills and list whether they are auto-debited, paid manually online, or sent a check. I've already shown daughter where the guns and money are hidden. Also listed the "rare" cancers that are popping up in the family.


Niece knows where the weed is.

Love your sig, I think today I'll dust off my Cat Stevens cd.

"Will you, will you ride the great white bird into heaven
And though you want to last forever
You know you never will"

Indeed God calls the shots, and it wasn't your time... for this I am thankful. Miracles do happen and you are proof. Hope your road rash heals up quickly, friend

Not really. I always have thought about it. Even when I was a kid.