Remarkable how often the two coincide.

Not to those feeling it it isn't. There's got to be tens of thousands of near-death stories out there by now. As Jagar pointed out, it most probably depends on circumstance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSMFE-TeV8

When I die, my atoms will disperse and travel all around the universe. Which sounds amazing. In a solemn way I look forward to it, until then, the billions of atoms that are me are procrastinating when there is college work to be done!

Didn't mean to come across as much like an angry homeless man as that probably did . I just was saying my point was that I fear a painful death, not really ceasing to live and being dead.

Heh, okay man That would be one terrifying homeless guy that said that...

i'm scrappy and i have a lot of heart

Not the new 24 season?

Shooting at targets, moving targets, and exploding targets helps my state of mind. The thought of all I have to live for and haven't experienced yet is another one, and my morals and sense of duty, virtue, dignity, and pride goes a long way as well. I used to be a pretty bad teen (self loathing, angry at the world, etc.) but I've changed a lot. I don't like to talk about it too much though, it sounds really pathetic to me.

But, what's bothering you OP?

Homeless Christopher Walken.

That's an odd question. What choice do I have? Im here and forward is the only way to go now.

Life. Because I like living.

Hardly. They will be contained here. They aren't just going to float off into space. In fact, they will most likely decompose first, and in which case, they definitely won't go anywhere.

Learning. And the desire to see whether we develop fusion energy, or destroy the modern world in a war over oil. And the purely biological urge to succeed.

Also,

C₆H₁₂O₆ + 6O₂ -> 6H₂O + 6CO₂ + energy which is used to attach phosphate to ATP which other organelles in my cells then break off, releasing energy for use in the various processes which keep me alive.

There is a way...

This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1o3byr-xuo.

'On the very day I die

The very last of my desires
Is that you take my broken body
And commit it to the fire

And then when the fire is finished
Scraqe the ashes in a tin
Take them down to London’s drinking reservoirs
And throw them in'

The Glory.

Milkshakes. I love them too much <3 XD

Baseball.

Very few. They're generally given generous amounts of morphine for pain, and comes along with a prognosis of less than 6 months*. Even people in hospice with acute symptom exacerbations get sent to the hospital, but it's just to manage your symptoms. If you're in a fatal injury, you'll end up in intensive care first, and between the two hospice is better for the patient. No one wants to be kept alive by mechanial ventilators and IV.

*Not really sure.

Phosphate to ADP, not ATP. ADP + P_i => ATP. Also, you're not kept alive by glycolysis either, but the TCA cycle and the ETC which runs the mitochondrial proton gradient between the inner mitochondria membrane and the mitochondrial matrix that makes most of your ATP via ATP synthase.

basic human instinct for survival.

the rest is just escapism

I love you Lexicon.

Don't do it. The forums won't be the same without you.