Dying Young (797 hits)
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Submitted by <lordjimi2.at.aol.com> (View user info) at 2003-03-28 00:49:12 EST
Am I insane for wanting to die young? Everyone else I know wants to live into the twilight years, becoming old and feeble and useless... the thought of being old just depresses me, especially if I had to rely on someone or something else to live. I think I madeup my mind when I read Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury, a great author, although I hated this particular book, but I loved one particular message in it. Asthe woman was dying (I forget who exactly she was, I read this in 8th grade) she told the other guy that, if he had a choice, he should die before he was fifty. It made perfect sense to me. I never want to be old, and apparently I'm different for that.
Anyways, am I alone? Is there anyone else out there who wants to die young, or if you're on the opposite end of the spectrum, please tell me why?
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Submitted by Titinita (user info) at 2003-03-28 17:35:29 EST (#)
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Holy shit! You are officially the FIRST person to talk about my momma on Ubersite!!
Submitted by TheMan (user info) at 2003-03-28 16:18:07 EST (#)
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Titania,
I've seen your mom at the gym, and she's hot. I've never seen a woman that age dead lift 500 lbs before.
Submitted by scott_ny (user info) at 2003-03-28 14:54:52 EST (#)
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Hey Loren sweetie,
Sometimes, looking at life objectively, can seem a bit insensitive. Although I could have taken a better 'softer' route... something 'girlish' (just ragging on you from hidden's comments)
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2003-03-28 14:35:09 EST (#)
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Scott, that was a seriously fucked up analogy. I'm going to go puke now. Or crack up. Or both.
OMG.
Loren
Submitted by scott_ny (user info) at 2003-03-28 14:22:42 EST (#)
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Hey dude:
I had a guy friend, who at the prime of his life, drove his motorcycle into a tree.
I had a girl friend, who at the prime of her life, killed herself.
I had yet another friend who was one of the best soccer players I know. Died of cancer at 22.
What do they have in common? They all died over 15 years ago. Why am I telling you this? Because I, still being alive, can picture everything they missed out on.
Embrace your life challenges. Someone's post had it right, you have different stages to look forward to. Think about it... if at the age of four years old, someone were fucking the shit out of you that would be a horrific experience, yes? But now, at your age, I imagine it would be ecstacy for you. What you feel, at you age now, may be horrifc and miserable because you haven't reached that stage yet.
Submitted by IndianOcean (user info) at 2003-03-28 13:57:32 EST (#)
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"Seriously. This post sucks shit. I'm 32, and have been around the block a few times. Nobody could ever accuse me of getting ANYthing for free or even easily.
When I was a snot nosed little shit, I had an attitude as shitty as the rest of yours, but at least I knew to keep my ignorant mouth shut and live on, because that's the best anyone can do.
So shut up, and don't become a burden to someone else - whether it's with your bitching and whining or your laziness, because that's all this bullshit fatalistic ideology is - an excuse to be fucking lazy. "
you are fuckin right loren, my two line post wasn't much and i was very drunk when i wrote that after playin poker with my loser loser fuckin loser room-mate. bum is moving in a month but i will be trying my 100% to make his bumass miserable(i have helped that punkassbitch with my car, my money, with my time, with my tv, my ps2 but that asshole doesn't have time to say hi. fuck him)
anyway I am def not lazy and i wasn't given anything for free and i worked for everything I have, no freebies. like TheMan says u just have to live without fearing death and knowing you might just die tomorrow.
Submitted by beer-turtle (user info) at 2003-03-28 12:48:09 EST (#)
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I take risks with my life, because without tasting death you are not truly living. Life in an of itself is a gamble anyway. You could be taken out while standing on a street corner and bus just doesn't see you hops the curb and WHAM. Or get hit by a meteor or something equally unusual.
Life is short in the grand scheme of things, while you learn from the past you live in the now and plan for the future but live every moment like it may be your last. If you die doing something you love, it is not tragic but a risk you took, knowing the risk, and failed to beat the odds.
They say life gets better as you get older, personally while I most likely will leave a mangled corpse and need to have close casket funeral, there is also the possibility I will 105 years old, cruising around in my souped up 4wd powerchair, cranky and cantankerous(sp) and trying to get little college girls to sit on my lap and tell me a story while I take a nap in the comfort of thier breastages
-Turtle
Submitted by blanchfor (user info) at 2003-03-28 12:33:57 EST (#)
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Shit, might as well just kill yourself... if ya wanna die young don't depend on God to give you the ticket... best to do it yourself.
Submitted by streetpunk (user info) at 2003-03-28 12:21:51 EST (#)
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I actually pray everyday that I will get old and have alzheimers or dimentia. I think I have done to many drugs in my time, because I love not knowing what the hell is going on.
Peace,
STREETPUNK
Submitted by Rodent <epl.at.aol.com> at 2003-03-28 12:09:57 EST (#)
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Give me a fucking break. If you want to die young why don't you start right now and do us all a favor. Your life must be real shit? You poor thing you. How old are you now?
I'll bet your not evewn 30.
Submitted by Titinita (user info) at 2003-03-28 11:26:54 EST (#)
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What's old to you now won't seem old when you get there. My mom is fifty-three--she looks thirty and is a monster at the gym. Remember Sheri Lewis? Her sixty-year-old ass was doing cartwheels and shit. There are ninty-year-old contortionists on the Discovery Channel still doing their thing. That said, I'll probably die before I'm thirty.
Submitted by MassD (user info) at 2003-03-28 10:02:46 EST (#)
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Personally, I don't give a shit if I live long or short. The only thing that matters to me is that I live well. Life sucks, no matter how old you are. Sitting around, bitching about the future ain't gonna accomplish shit, trust me. Its all wasted.
Submitted by Loren1 (user info) at 2003-03-28 08:56:06 EST (#)
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IndianOcean
"i wish i can die before i turn 30."
I'll bet you aren't the only one with that wish.
Seriously. This post sucks shit. I'm 32, and have been around the block a few times. Nobody could ever accuse me of getting ANYthing for free or even easily.
When I was a snot nosed little shit, I had an attitude as shitty as the rest of yours, but at least I knew to keep my ignorant mouth shut and live on, because that's the best anyone can do.
So shut up, and don't become a burden to someone else - whether it's with your bitching and whining or your laziness, because that's all this bullshit fatalistic ideology is - an excuse to be fucking lazy.
The future is always a scary thing to think about, for ALL of us. I used to think that I'd be an old hag at 32. And even if I am, fuck it, all I know is that I certainly don't feel like it when I walk down the street or when I'm fucking like a banshee. In ten years from now, I know I'm still going to kick ass, it will just be in different environments, etc. All you can do is make the best of what you have.
grrrowl.
Loren
Submitted by Lici <DaBoLi.at.attbi.com> at 2003-03-28 06:47:34 EST (#)
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Honestly? The idea of getting Alzheimer's or dementia, scares the shit out of me. If I were guaranteed that I would still have my memories and thoughts when I was 80, I would like to live to that age (but then again, if that were a guarantee we all probably would)
But we never know what will happen as we age, which kinda sucks.
Submitted by TheMan (user info) at 2003-03-28 01:54:55 EST (#)
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I've been saying since I was 21 that I would be dead before I turned 30. Subconciously I actually believe it, because that is the kind of luck that i have. Now, I have only a year and a half before my time is up, and it looks like I may beat that mark. I'm here on borrowed time anyway, having been nearly killed twice in the last 10 years. This explains my eratic behavior and people always asking me if I have a death wish. I stare death in the face, and welcome it's cold embrace, for I know no fear of it; I've been close enough twice before to know when my ticket does get punched there's no going back. I've learned to just say "Fuck it."
Submitted by IndianOcean (user info) at 2003-03-28 01:42:21 EST (#)
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i wish i can die before i turn 30. there isnt' much out there or to live for, to be honest. enjoy it while you are young..
what is there to look foward to... not much..
Submitted by Kasarius (user info) at 2003-03-28 01:21:28 EST (#)
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And I know this is the third time I've commented, but I'd just like to say that I'm not a goth, as that is usually someone's first impression of someone depressed. I'm not a "tortured artist," anyone who thinks they have potential usually pisses me off. I'm just a regular honors student who became depressed after the summer of 7th grade for multiple reasons, which most unfortunately all occured at the same time.
Submitted by Kasarius (user info) at 2003-03-28 01:19:09 EST (#)
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Oh, and about devoting my final hours to a book, obviously I have bigger problems if twelve lines from some story can make me accept death. And it didn't make me decide to die, it just made me assure myself that death would be welcome whenever.
Submitted by Kasarius (user info) at 2003-03-28 01:15:33 EST (#)
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Right now I agree, I could care less if I died right now. Maybe it's a lack of life experience, maybe it's just depression, but right now death is not a fear, it's an option.
Submitted by Hairsphincter (user info) at 2003-03-28 00:55:21 EST (#)
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After reading this I am very happy for you to die at any time.
When you have lived a few more years, you will realise that there are many life stages, all which are rewarding.
You may wish to live a few more years before devoting your final hours to memories of Charlotte's Web.