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Conceptualizing Death, Doing Psychological Research on Death
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3dassets
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Jan 11 2011, 05:13 PM
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What does death mean to you? Nothing Where do you think your meaning/idea of death originated from? Nowhere / science What emotions/feelings do you experience when you think about death? None, had enough of life? Can you share any personal experiences that you connect with death? We came not by choice and we shall go anytime.
Age: 42 gender: Male race: Chinese religion: None hometown: Not relevant, I settled in KL 33 years ago.
What is there to conceptualize about death? Religious people may want an answer and cause of suicide is more of the social concern than what death means.
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3dassets
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Jan 12 2011, 12:12 AM
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What does death mean to you? Nothing, death is dead and the ultimate end to me so it means full stop, hence nothing.Where do you think your meaning/idea of death originated from? Nowhere / science, My understanding of living things as a whole is based on science and the theory of evolution, we are an animal body and it has a life span, when there is a beginning, there is an end.What emotions/feelings do you experience when you think about death? None, had enough of life? Only mean something when we thought of leaving behind the people we know and when these people die, memories of us no longer relevant, unless we are able to leave contribution for the next generation that are prominent enough to be recorded in history, otherwise we cease to exist.Can you share any personal experiences that you connect with death? We came not by choice and we shall go anytime, that is the reality exclude the complicated emotion. Sad? Its your own emotion towards the meaning of life, not mine because it is influenced by the question of purpose, many people want to think we are here for a purpose while others don't.According to your study, my interpretation of death is negative, what is the characteristic of positive? My understanding of psychology/ therapy is there are no right or wrong like math only patterns, hence your own life experience and studies is everything you've got. In other words, your age, gender, living circle and education background to where and which era you are brought up is all you have to make judgments. In this case, I am older and have done the things that are beyond your knowledge and experience, particularly things that are not documented because it is ever improving. If you are not married nor had sex, you are not qualify in the subject even if you read and watched video about it, I also don't think that suicide is wrong, it is just a social standards, not everybody wants to be somebody or the same thing and most that I know don't want answers to the meaning of life. I accepted the facts and know who & what I am. Ok, analyze me.
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3dassets
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Jan 12 2011, 02:15 AM
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No apology needed, I like to know what is positive perception towards death since I have the negative part in your context of understanding, was it because I excluded emotional interpretation? Was it imaginative after life and reincarnation sort of things? Human don't need to know what we are to live until today, we only care about who we today and who we will be in the future and perhaps will think about what is install after death at old age.
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3dassets
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Jan 12 2011, 02:19 PM
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Ah... you should indicate eternity, heaven and hell in your question then. Because death is full stop, my opinion isn't what your sought and there is no emotion.
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