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[–] 20 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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[–] 15 points 10 months ago (1 child)

Do you have more, less, or the same amount of existential dread since?

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    [–] 14 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    So you had unfinished business?

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  • [+] [S] 28 points 10 months ago (11 children)
  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (10 children)

    Oh shit, at least you learned how to craft an epic comeback.

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  • [+] [S] 7 points 10 months ago (9 children)
  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    This is how come you're back! You can't become a ghost with un-begun business, this isn't a Pratchett novel. Time to get some business started.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    You're the one who died, make up some shit about what you saw, start a cult, sell a book, trick some fuckers. You're not gonna have much unfinished business selling hotdogs and beers on the beach. Weirdest ghost ever, oooOOOooo, I need to finish pouring your caipirinhaaaaa

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Maybe he accepted the money, brought it to a safe elsewhere but nearby, and was planning to make the hotdog only once he's back at his hot dog booth? Your selling the hotdog is unfinished and as long as the customer doesn't get their hotdog, you're gonna stay a ghost.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    wtf? This person could sell hotdogs on the beach and write a best seller about people they meet, or meet the executive director that's going to make them a star. Even if not, who cares as long as they're happy doing it and it pays the bills?

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    What happened to cause the dieing?

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    [–] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Did you have a near-death experience or anything similar?

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  • [+] [S] 24 points 10 months ago (4 children)
  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    Honestly sounds kinda nice as long as the going is peaceful. Like I'm not suicidal and I'm on an upswing right now but it still genuinely sounds nice. Thanks for sharing. Have a happy new year.

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  • [+] [S] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I mean I think the fear of death is really a function of fear of the unknown. Like I know a person IRL who had a near-death experience where she died for a few minutes and she basically said the same thing, i.e. I have some evidence to back up my suspicion that it's "nothing", but I think that people practically being able to resuscitated is kinda recent in human history? So I absolutely do understand how people can be afraid of death when they have absolutely no evidence to suspect that there's no afterlife or anything else we've conjectured about death.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Fear of death is a survival instinct first and foremost I think.

    If you don't care if you die, chance of dying grow. And, as you said, fear of the unknown adds to that.

    I don't believe in the afterlife, but some people have near death experience, some people don't. Who's right? We won't know until it's our turn to die.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Okay so when is your resurrection party?

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    How did the hospital staff handle explaining what happened?

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    [–] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    How would you rate being dead, out of 10?

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)
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    [–] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    You and me both, brother, but mine was January, 2024.

    Had my 2nd heart attack in an emergency room, in the middle of a snow and ice storm, as the power goes out.

    "OK, you need a stent, but we can't do that here, we have to get you to a different hospital and the ambulance can't get here because of the snow and ice. It's coming."

    Ambulance doesn't come. I wake up at 6 AM and am fiddling with my phone, nurse comes in.

    "Were you asleep about an hour ago?"

    "Yeah, why?"

    "Your heart stopped for 8 seconds."

    ". . . Um, 'thank you'? I don't know the correct response to 'your heart stopped for 8 seconds'."

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I think the correct response is “oh, ok. Thanks for letting me know!”

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, I have an implanted heart monitor now that talks to my phone, it sends a signal back to the docs if anything goes wrong.

    My heart has stopped a couple other times, nothing as dramatic as 8 seconds, 4 or 5 seconds here and there. Doc says not to worry as long as it only happens when I'm sleeping and I'm like "Dude! How am I supposed to sleep now?"

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    [–] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    What purpose do you suppose I serve in your purgatory?

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    [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    How is your ghost afterlife going?

    Oh sorry to assume you're a ghost. Zombie maybe?

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    What do you mean you 'died'? What actually happened, causing you to say that?

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