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The meaning of life ?

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Redhead56 Fri 07-May-21 10:57:12

My mum always used to say life is a game of bingo when your number is up that’s it!

vampirequeen Fri 07-May-21 10:50:42

I know a lady who has just turned 100. She says we should all live everyday as if it's our last. Some might be living their last day to age or illness but even healthy people die in accidents and no one knows when their time will be. Just enjoy today and let tomorrow sort itself out.

Peasblossom Fri 07-May-21 10:50:06

Death is just a human concept. We say a living thing has died but really they have just changed one state of matter for another.

Doesn’t St Paul say “I show you a mystery. We shall not die, we shall be changed”.

Once, not so long ago, the matter that made us existed in another form and then it changed and became an embryo and then a human being. And we grew and valued what we had become. So much that we don’t want it to change.

Don’t fear change -or death if you want to call it that. Who knows what wonderful new state awaits us!

M0nica Fri 07-May-21 10:23:35

By not worrying about it. I have always known it was inevitable, I have never not thought about it, so I am now quite comfortable with it.

MaggieTulliver Fri 07-May-21 10:18:59

I find that as I get older (63) I’ve become preoccupied about death and am thinking more and more about why we’re all here and the possibility of there being some form of afterlife. I was raised Catholic but left the faith in my teens but feel drawn to it now. I know death is a dirty word in our society and that most people don’t seem to think about it and just get on with living. Am I in the minority to be thinking this way? How do you manage to live reasonably contentedly when you’ve entered the last phase in your life and death is round the corner?