# Are you ready to die? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [June 21, 2012, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895 "2012-06-21T22:19:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cumberdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Cumberdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cumberdale)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/21 "2012-06-22T04:06:47Z")
Yes, pretty much. I’m in no hurry but it’s going to happen at some point and I’m fine with it. Sure there is stuff I want to do, but that’s life so I try to do what I can now. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/22 "2012-06-22T04:37:42Z")
I’ve been suicidal off and on for almost 17 years, so obviously I don’t fear physical death. However, I was raised a fundamentalist and I still have residual nightmares about an afterlife filled with fire and brimstone. I’d be thrilled if nothingness was in front of me. Some days, I welcome that and a respite from the sheer torture that my life has become. Others, I’m still good for the long haul, so it all evens out. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 9:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/23 "2012-06-22T09:45:01Z")
I’ve been comfortable with my own mortality since I was shorter than the table. But with a project going live on July 1st, if I went and died now my boss would kill me… ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/24 "2012-06-22T10:27:00Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > No, not at all. I’m well aware that worrying about it is pointless, but that doesn’t mean I can always stop myself. > > My biggest fear is that there’s absolutely nothing after death. . .and you’re aware/conscious of it. So you are just floating along tediously in the darkness, crushingly bored, for eternity. Just thinking about it is making me panicky. You’ve been on one of my boss’ conference calls, then. I’m comfortable with my mortality,but I’m not quite ready to pine for the fjords. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/25 "2012-06-22T11:00:19Z")
Have some plans for this evening, but after that, yeah. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/26 "2012-06-22T11:02:29Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Hell, I was ready five years ago. My luck, I’ll live to be a hundred and fucking four. If you’re fucking four at a hundred, you’ve obviously got plenty of life left in you. ---
**Author:** ![Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Nunzio\_Tavulari](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunzio_Tavulari)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/27 "2012-06-22T11:42:11Z")
Never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/28 "2012-06-22T11:44:24Z")
Funny you should mention this. I just met with a guy yesterday about leaving my books to the University library. Yes, I am ready to die. ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/29 "2012-06-22T12:07:34Z")
If you had asked me this 6 of 7 months ago, my answer would have been absolutely YES, the sooner the better. But for the time being, I have found some happiness in my life that’s been a long time in coming, so I would kinda like to savor it for a while. Besides, my dogs cats, and the filly I’m training would miss me. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/30 "2012-06-22T12:40:45Z")
> [@Eve](#): > > Hell, I was ready five years ago. My luck, I’ll live to be a hundred and fucking four. I hope to be fucking when I am 104. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/31 "2012-06-22T12:51:25Z")
I like living. I am not really afraid of death, per se, but I’m not anxious to bring it on any faster either. You only go around once. I want my chance. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/32 "2012-06-22T12:52:07Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > I can’t understand worrying about death. Once it happens you’ll be dead and you won’t care. While you’re living, no amount of fretting will change that it will happen sooner or later. “Worrying about death” is pretty much #1 on my “stupidest wastes of effort” list. Nailed it. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/33 "2012-06-22T12:54:19Z")
> [@Cicero](#): > > I hope to be fucking when I am 104. The way they staff nursing homes, you probably \*will \*be, not that you’ll know it. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/34 "2012-06-22T13:18:23Z")
Sometimes I’m okay with it, sometimes it scares me. I think dying painfully is the scariest part. I think about my own mortality a lot, and gradually have become more comfortable with it as I age. I’m agnostic with atheist leanings, but I was a fundamentalist Christian as a teen, and the fear of hell never left me. While all evidence points to, ''consciousness ceases," we really don’t actually know because not a single person who has died has been able to talk about the experience. The unknown is the scariest thing. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/35 "2012-06-22T13:31:59Z")
> [@Hello\_Again](#): > > I can’t understand worrying about death. Once it happens you’ll be dead and you won’t care. While you’re living, no amount of fretting will change that it will happen sooner or later. “Worrying about death” is pretty much #1 on my “stupidest wastes of effort” list. I’m not “worried” about it, as it is of course inevitable. That does _not_ mean that I am in any way _ready_ to die. I enjoy being alive and would like to stay that way for as long as I can. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/36 "2012-06-22T13:33:59Z")
I’m comfortable with my own mortality, but am very uncomfortable with the idea of dying any time _soon_. We all go some day, but if I don’t make it to 85, I’m going to be pissed. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/37 "2012-06-22T13:45:36Z")
I’m not worried about death, but I can’t say I’m ready to die. It will be unlike anything I’ve ever experienced and just when it starts, the experience will be over. I dunno, I’m not sure there is any way to prepare for that. At the same time, I can’t help it and there’s nothing I can do to ultimately prevent it, so there’s not much use worry about it. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/38 "2012-06-22T13:50:54Z")
I’m not terribly worried about dying for my own sake, but it is way too early for me to die for my daughter. She’s only six and a half. She needs her Dad longer than this. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/39 "2012-06-22T14:36:15Z")
I couldn’t decide which way to vote. I’m not ready to go, but I am okay with it. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895/40 "2012-06-22T15:09:39Z")
I’m not afraid to die…I just don’t want to be there when it happens.😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-ready-to-die/625895.md?page=3)