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WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 52 points 1 year ago

That is what happens when you consume dihydrogen monoxide daily. No one has survived after drinking it.

[-] Jamie@jamie.moe 18 points 1 year ago

Oxygen makes iron turn into rust, don't let that be your lungs. Oppose Big Oxygen.

[-] roanescence@mstdn.social 4 points 1 year ago

@Jamie @slazer2au Big oxygen is crazy 💀😭

[-] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

And those fuckers give it to us as soon as we're born, ensuring our inevitable demise

What a sick cruel twisted world

[-] stck@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Around seven percent of people who've consumed dihydrogen monoxide have survived.

[-] ArianaGrande@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It has a higher pH level than any known acid!!!

[-] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 year ago

Might as well fucking go for it.

[-] ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Looking good! The t-shirt as well.

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 year ago

Has anyone in their 30s 40s 50s had a sudden change of perception of our own mortality? I found myself thinking a lot about it recently (no significant events around me). I just find life so ephemeral now as compared to how I used to see life so grand and long it might as well have been infinite. Not anymore. I guess it's part of growing old. Anyone else feel similar?

[-] 6mementomori@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

in my case it happened much sooner, at 16 to be exact

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago

Yep. IMO it's a good thing. But there's still a grand and long scale: how is that we arrived here at all, a momentary ripple in a larger fabric?

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[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You will someday lose your life, but try not to mope. You did get it for free, after all.

[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Childhood is the free trial, adulthood is the subscription that keeps increasing in cost.

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Could you not, right now? I'm literally just about to sign a new lease.

Not moping. I AM ALIVE

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I intend to live forever, thank you very much

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Me too. We should get to know each other. Eventually. We have time.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 10 points 1 year ago

WE'RE DOOMED!

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!

[-] Kissaki@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

You're screaming in the shower?

[-] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

You're not???

[-] Cabrio@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

What I feel isn't existential dread of my pending non-existance. What I feel is FOMO.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

What I feel is a need to fire arrows into the future, that I know will fly further than my small personal life, that will land somewhere and sprout huge trees that people live around and under.

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I refused. Y'all know you can opt out, right? Don't ask how. That's not allowed.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago
[-] who8mydamnoreos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Life is finite, but shit it feels like forever

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

It’s longer than the longest time you’ve ever experienced.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

Unless you happen to live an entire simulated lifetime because of an alien probe.

But do I get to learn and inherit an instrument?

[-] handofdumb@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The days are long but the years are short, it’s been said.

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Is it weird that I've become less existencial with age? Like back in school I struggled with suicidal thoughts and couldn't cope with the "meaninglessness" of it all. But honestly these days I'm content just living how I like to and enjoying the simple things

[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Not weird, happened to me too.

I think my brain got bored of it and moved on. Plenty more to do than attempt to answer the unanswerable question!

[-] SethranKada@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe? I never really grew out of it, my brain just realized that emotions don't solve problems and stopped bothering me about it all the time. Though, my fears are more along the lines of forcefully being prevented from dying, rather than the alternative. Still get the chills whenever I imagine having dementia and not being allowed to kill myself.

I'm not suicidal anymore, but still. There are things I'd rather choose the forever-sleep than experience.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Still get the chills whenever I imagine having dementia and not being allowed to kill myself.

Well stop imagining that then!

[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

First time having thoughts of death?

It's fine, you'll get used to it. Making a movie about it helps.

[-] FiFoFree@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Speak for yourself.

[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yep. In the grand scheme it’s pretty much already happened. I mean sure, you get a little bit of time to say your goodbyes and enjoy some final yayas. How are you going to use it?

Welp, back to work.

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago
[-] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Hopefully it’s a cool death, like a public beheading or a space travel accident.

Knowing my luck it’ll be death from boredom or something..

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Why not both?

Why not a mysterious spinning saw blade that’s been in orbit for ten years that comes out of nowhere while you’re giving a space walk and talk to a bunch of other astronauts, slices your head off, and is out of radar range before anyone grasps what’s happening.

So astronomically fast is this saw blade traveling that it imparts almost no momentum to your head, except a gentle nudge that sends your grimacing head slowly upward. It gets almost a foot away from your shoulders before people realize something is wrong.

[-] Hoomod@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

We're all dying at different speeds

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Except that guy that fell into the black hole. He just looks frozen.

[-] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Personally I am living on indefinitely as an information ghost.

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[-] seaQueue@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You didn't have this realization at like 5 years old?

[-] debounced@kbin.run 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Except for me
You know why?

'Cause I had my tray table up
And my seat back in the full upright position

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago
[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago
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