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Originally Posted by Dottore
...I’d be interested to hear how you guys think about death, and generally deal with the subject. Do you talk to your kids about it? Are you afraid of it or not, and why
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I thought about death when I heard about when I was a little kid. It was hard to ignore growing up because I was raised in a Christian family and went to Sunday school and church, where I was taught that Jesus died for my sins.
That really puzzled me at first, because I was only five years old and really hadn't done anything...yet. I remember seeing a lot of pictures of Jesus nailed to a cross and that was unnerving. By the time I graduated high school, my religious beliefs had become totally unorganized, I stopped going to church and don't remember thinking about death much after that. Except, of course, when someone died.
I remember approaching middle age and thinking, hmm... I'm half way through my life. Since then, the older I get, the more conscious I become of the time I have remaining before I die, which is good because it reminds me to think about it before I waste it.
As far as fearing death per se, I don't. I do hope that when the grim reaper comes, he just throws the switch and doesn't cause me pain and suffering first.
Is there an afterlife or will I be reincarnated? Hell, I dunno.