When Was the First Time You Thought About Your Own Death?

[muffeoniv]

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When was the first time you thought about your own death? How often do you think about your own death now? To be honest, I think about my own death almost every morning. It helps me live my life to the fullest. It sounds depressing, but it's actually inspiring.

 

[apumic]

In other news, this thread shall now be about....

CHEESE: Is cheese good for you? Growing up, we always heard about "The Power of Cheese" but could Cheese get a 45T on the MCAT?

 

[NickNaylor]

Haven't you made this thread before?

 

[ozzi22]

I think about my own death but not every morning. I usually think about it when someone I know dies

 

[Overload]

Life is the greatest gift of all, so why do think about death every morning? You can think about death now and then since it's part of life, but why would you waste your time thinking about the end when you're still young? It's not like you're in your 70s right, so LIVE your life NOW.

 

[apumic]

Haven't you made this thread before?

No, Cole, we have not had a thread about cheese (and death) in awhile. Discuss.

 

[Wermz]

Every time I smoke a cigarette

 

[MediCynical]

I remember when I was 9 or 10 sitting in my backyard and trying to grasp what it would be like if there was no afterlife.... I'm now an atheist

 

[Mbeas]

 

[LoveTheRunner]

 

[deleted307836]

No, Cole, we have not had a thread about cheese (and death) in awhile. Discuss.

I know an ER physician who avoids cheese like the plague, and recommends everyone else does too. He explains that it's a food that is perceived as healthy, probably because it's plastered all over food pyramids, but can too often be the culprit for too much saturated fats.

However, I can't help but succumb to its power whenever I'm in its presence.

Emmantale, Gruyere, or any variety of Swiss really is enough to do me in.

As far as its standardized testing capability, I would tend to think that European cheeses would tend to defeat their American/Cheddar counterparts. So much more care is put into their upbringing that I can't help but think they would be far superior (probably 32+ compared to <25).

 

[VikingLegacy]

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[Overload]

 

[deleted307836]

In all seriousness though, the first time I really thought about my death/the preciousness of life was right after I narrowly avoided a serious car accident. It was at an intersection where a car would have directly hit the seat I was in. It's hard to describe the feeling of realizing how close I could have been to an extremely serious traumatic injury. I don't think I had ever been more thankful in my life.






brb eating cheese

 

[CaptainSSO]

I know an ER physician who avoids cheese like the plague, and recommends everyone else does too. He explains that it's a food that is perceived as healthy, probably because it's plastered all over food pyramids, but can too often be the culprit for too much saturated fats.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...against-cardio

 

[Mbeas]

[URL="https://owa.austincollege.edu/owa/redir.aspx?C=5fdfbd29dd384139a2c71eb555b4ad34&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.scientificamerican.com%2farticle.cfm%3fid%3dcarbs-against-cardio"]http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carbs-against-cardio[/URL]

interesting read

 

[Endolas]

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carbs-against-cardio

Username and password? 😕

edit: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=carbs-against-cardio

edit2: Okay, I read it, and agree. At the risk of sounding like a hippie*** (I'm very not), my nutrition mantra is to eat "natural." Food that is in a more natural state, to me, is better. Real butter, raw milk, raw cheese, organic fruit and vegetables, honey, eggs, organic meat, etc. I don't eat anything out of a tin can, and I don't own a microwave, i.e. nothing "instant." Seems to work. Beer gets a pass, but I brew it myself to feel better about it 🙂

Incidentally, most of my food I can get from local producers (same town/county) or at least the same state. It's really neat to know the face of the person who milks the cow that makes the milk you drink, or the person with the beehives and chickens, etc...I think the local movement is great for nutrition.

 

[Silverman780]

 

[gettheleadout]

This is the only gooda thread muffeoniv has ever made!

 

[oldyogurt]

I think about my own mortality throughout every day. When I was 20 I used to think "I'm going to live fast and die young" like a lot of people do, but a lot of things happened since then and right now, especially since my job deals with a lot of older people, I'm always thinking about aging and dying as part of a natural cycle.

I also try to eat cheese in moderation, but gouda is pretty hard to resist.

GTLO I see we are on the same page here.

 

[AbbyNormal]

 

[goldenwest]

Doesn't work. 👎

 

[DrOoze]

Wow! Sadness...

 

[Malice]

When was the first time you thought about your own death? How often do you think about your own death now? To be honest, I think about my own death almost every morning. It helps me live my life to the fullest. It sounds depressing, but it's actually inspiring.

To be fair, if I were as annoying as you are, I would also be worried about being killed daily.

 

[Geneticist]

 

[Mr Hippopotamus]

Surely if you haven't died yet, you don't have a death that you can think about. Unless of course you believe that everything is predetermined, and also that you know what your assigned death is. But obviously that's bull****. So maybe you want to know if I've ever attempted to imagine what it's like to die? But since death doesn't occur in degrees, and one is either dead or not dead, it is difficult to conceptualize death, as how can you imagine a lack of anything? There is no experience there, only the lack of experience. This is getting boring, so let's get back to the important issue of this cheese that thinks it can get a 45T. Frankly I'm skeptical. I don't think it's mature enough. On the other hand, it should get in somewhere, as admissions committee members will be reluctant to admit cutting the cheese. Now go study or something.

 

[BlackPanties]

I think about it a reasonable amount. I thought about it a lot today when the plane I was on went through some crazy turbulence and kept dropping! I thought I was on a roller coaster.