To be or not to be, that is the question… So what was Shakespeare’s Hamlet on about here? We know nothing about death (and the proof, as Jerry Seinfeld says, is that we give dead people a pillow. There is no one you can ask about it. It is the …
If the Onion have nailed this one, it could be the most important article they have, since it doesn’t involve just a major life decision, a major life fear, regret and a decision that involves a whole life (or at least a massive chunk of it) of living your life in a …
Yes, life is chaotic. And yes, the major choices in life are difficult or impossible to work out and get right. And yeah, nature is unpredictable and even though we came from it, we still try to work it out. And mmmhmm girrrl, we know nothing about death, and can …
Everything that is something had to come from nothing. Every relationship you have in your life, at some point, was not there. So if you were fine before it happened, it’s prove you’ll be fine after it’s gone. Which is like life. At some point you didn’t live. And the world …
Occasionally as we get caught up in the changes taking place in our lives, or during the course of new situations, we can stray from our personal philosophy and our the approach to our lives that helped us become who we are. It’s important to come back to the thoughts …
One of my students in a nurse. And from where she’s from euthanasia or terminally ill (and sometimes not) patients is legal. A little while ago had a patient who had elected to for the procedure. And when she saw this patient a few weeks before, she was confused as …
There’s one thing, just one, that is impossible to ever know about. One thing that no one can ever experience and tell us about, for us to know, for a fact, what it’s like. And yep, that is pretty much my favourite topic to talk about, (just behind this): death. …
‘We Never Really Die’ *(go to 1:35) When the first single cell organism, the prokaryote, began to exist, it learned about its environment. It survived, and that information on how to survive and withstand possible dangers was passed on to its next generation. Then if the next organism because even …
How would what we consider to be ‘living’ change if we could live forever? Well for one, you probably wouldn’t be investing a fuckload of time and money and effort in learning skills that in 10, 20, 30, 50 years you won’t be needed for, because well, either for reason …
The problem with death is that a lot of us are shit scared of it and hate to talk about it, even though it’s the only thing guaranteed to happen (well unless this curing age thing is for reals). But we have a fear of it, a fear that’s going …
![What was [Hamlet] on about? – On the ‘undiscovered country’ of death, ‘from which no traveller returns’](http://whyyoudo.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/0e7119966_1521467067_lego-hamlet-copy.jpg)
![Hypothetical: If you could choose between dying peacefully (and unaware) during your sleep, or die FULLY AWARE, but have ONE SECOND after your heart stops (and before your brain shuts down) where you could see the universe’s entire past and future and understand every single thing in the universe ever (alas Lucy in yep ‘Lucy’), which would you choose? & The Philosophy of: Lucy [pt.4]](http://whyyoudo.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/maxresdefault.jpg)
![The Philosophy of: Lucy [pt.2] – If the first living organism passed on genetic information to its offspring, and that passed down information to its, then that passed it down to its and… ###FAST FORWARD x AMOUNT OF GENERATIONS TILL YOU GET TO US### …then you never really die.](http://whyyoudo.it/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/8bf68c0acb6ed115b342862ce86da68b-lucy-film-quotes-1.jpg)
