I was reading Er Gen's Renegade Immortal's mortal arc and I suddenly felt a sort of melancholy then I got chills when I read the insight chapter. "Death is to die. If a person dies, it is death. If the heart dies, then it forgets…" I made me ponder what is life and death; if ever I die someday will I also forget.... I just felt like making a thread and wonder if anyone ever felt the same as me.
uh....i don't want to think of dying and i don't want to die. I wouldn't mind being a ghost but I don't want to die. Don't ask me why cuz i don't know
"Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist."
This is a strangely morbid yet reflective thread. However I have come to accept that I will have to die one day but at the least before that I want to be remembered.
What is immortality? Is it being undying....but I always think that being forgotten is worst than dying. I want to be remembered forever; I want to carve my name in history; I want the world to know that I exist in this world...I want to be immortal!
Renegade immortal can do that to you sometimes. I think it's the only one that focuses the mc on the mortal world AS A MORTAL for so long even after he gets super strong. Anyway, ahem. this is what I figured from living. What will be left of you when you go to heaven or wherever else? nothing. Memories? Insubstantial. Future generations? So what, you're still dead. In the end, you should become happy as you live and die without any regrets. Of course, this could be helping others and getting self satisfaction, lazing around, or even laughing randomly out loud. If you have a religion, follow it and be fulfilled. Chase for fulfillment but not shallow happiness. Familial love, sharing, contemplating on life, enjoyment of nature. Not like money, lust, or anything like that. Well, hope that helped you.
I'm not really sure what you mean, if you die you will forget? Do you mean that you will be forgotten or that you are scared of moving past and forgetting things you love? Or is it about some reincarnation cycle where you'd forget your past life? If you die, eventually you will most likely be forgotten after a period of time, there is no way around that. However if you leave a bit of yourself somewhere you can always be a change in the tapestry. It might not be a large change like Brunelleschi inventing perspective, Newton making physics or Tolkien creating modern western fantasy, however there will always be a permanent impact.
I'm hoping to go full on ghost in the shell before I die. Let's get digital! Come on technological advance!
Don't worry time is an illusion the past present and future are one, and they extend even beyond that. Even if you die tomorrow you will still be alive, because you are actually dead right now. You are dead in the past before you were born, and you are dead in future. Existence is a constant, every moment of your life is experienced an infinite amount of times. Like a CD being played over and over, your life right now is the music, but your existence is actually engraved on the CD along with everything else in the universe. Did a mention the whole multiverse thing? So basically that CD is being played an infinite amount of times, and the music comes out an infinite number of different ways. Honestly this part is confusing to me, in fact this whole thing is confusing, but hopefully it makes you feel better.
To be honest your brain holds your memories, if you die you probably wont feel anything, there's probably no after life or some shit like that, you just die. Don't bother thinking what you will think when you die because you wont think.
I stumbled upon this video and have the same feeling as you, existential crisis. A very informative and entertaining video. "We can never die, because we were never alive in the first place"
I've walked down this path. Immortality is branding history with your emblem, planting your flag on the sands of time. Adolf Hitler, Julius Caesar, Isaac Newton, etc are all immortal. I aspire to join their ranks.
I don't want to be immortal~ sure it will live for looooooooooooooooong time~ but meh~ short and colorful~ if there many immortal sure it not lonely but being alone as immortal seem pretty depressing~ seeing people who close to you aging and die while you still the same sound too sad~ if you want to leave your name in history go ahead~ action reaction~ cause and effect~ too lazy to make my name~