# Thoughts on death...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-death/107560>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 6, 2002, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-death/107560 "2002-05-06T16:38:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-death/107560/21 "2002-05-07T18:34:41Z")

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I like being me. I like experiencing things. I don’t believe in any form of afterlife.

When I die, yojimbo (well the twit behind the username 😉 ) will be no more. That doesn’t really scare me but it depresses the fuck out of me.

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**Author:** ![MickNickMaggies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@MickNickMaggies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MickNickMaggies)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thoughts-on-death/107560/22 "2002-05-07T19:12:38Z")

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We’ve just finished a run of _Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead_, so I’ve been thinking about this lately.

I’ll skip the benefits of being alive in a box versus dead in a box and just leave my opinion to Mr. Stoppard:

“Death is not.”  
Cyn

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