Afraid to be pulled under?

Henry Plainview wrote: TODDLER wrote: I am too in much in fear to think about any conclusions regarding life after death. During my high school days, a young man 3 years older than me decided to take his own life. He convinced his 2 closest friends to bound his hands and feet and surfboard him into a lake. He claimed that he would be resurrected from the dead and that he would be in command of an infernal legion. And he would be in charge of 40 legions of demons. Instead of rising from the dead, he drowned. and his friends were charged with murder. This happened about 37 years ago and it puts things into perspective for me regarding life after death. Not to be flip, but this is one of the best damn stories I've ever read on the internet.

Thanks for the support. There might be some interesting points regarding life and death in this particular case.  Obviously, he had read something + was deeply interested in the subject but whatever ritual he was trying to use was so hopelessly screwed up in his mind/interpretation as to be more tragic + stupied than ritualistic, but he was definitely responding to something he had read + believed. Because he was human he could have easily delude himself into believing that his sacrifice would grant him the Philosophers Stone, so to speak, in his sacrifice, but trusting his life to some ritual in a book is pretty delusional & in the end, his act was not a rational one at all.

TODDLER wrote: I am too in much in fear to think about any conclusions regarding life after death. During my high school days, a young man 3 years older than me decided to take his own life. He convinced his 2 closest friends to bound his hands and feet and surfboard him into a lake. He claimed that he would be resurrected from the dead and that he would be in command of an infernal legion. And he would be in charge of 40 legions of demons. Instead of rising from the dead, he drowned. and his friends were charged with murder. This happened about 37 years ago and it puts things into perspective for me regarding life after death.

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I think you're taking this poll a tad too seriously

I don't know what I believe in and that's why I'm afraid of death. And I just know I should try to figure it out in case it happens soon.

I don't fear death, I don't want it but I don't fear it

Living's overrated. I await death's embrace....

Yes. But I'm equally afraid of living.

I believe in an afterlife, but I don't see why that would make me fear death any less. 

Am I afraid of dying? I don't think so. It's hard to fear something that is eventual. I could die in the next five minutes for all I know. I think it's better to just not think about and just keep living rather than fear the inevitable. 

I'm sure that thhere's sone sort of existance after death, but I don't fancy the process of dying. I've heard it stings a bit.

^ For some reason I am getting a strange urge to dance.

I don't believe in life after death, nor am I afraid to die. - Me

Neil is thrilled he can claim he's a mammalian
"but the bad news," he said "Girl you're a dandelion."
Dandelion. Hey I need to think about that.
Yeah, I thought about that and I said, "What the Hell?"
He said, "Nope, you are Earth bound, blow them seeds away
maybe one will make a sound."
Make a sound, Make a sound-
music, good friends,
I'm not Dyin' Today
may be 6 feet under full of thunder
I'm not Dyin' Today - Tori Amos




Edited by Slartibartfast - August 30 2009 at 07:17