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Do you want to know when you die?
This question, everyone must have asked others/be asked by others/asked by themselves.
If there is an APP that can let you know your death date, would you use it?
The movie "Time of Fallout" is a story about this theme:
There is an app called CountDown. As long as you download and use it, you can see how much time is left in your life. For example, 57 years, 56 days, 8 hours, 7 minutes and 4 seconds, this time will decrease every minute and every second. , Time is cleared, and people die.
In the movie, the programmer at the time of R&D/operation is the devil, or the god of death.
When the god of death is monitoring the death count of all mankind, as long as the countdown of time is cleared, that person will be taken away by him.
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Going back to our question, if there is an app for anti-fighting, would you use it? Do you want to know when you were taken away by death?
If you want, you can close your eyes and imagine that the countdown app is in your mind. What is the remaining time on it? Time is counting down every minute, -1, -1, -1... When the countdown is over, death will come and take you away.
If there is a god of death, what is the god of death in your heart?
When people think about these issues or imagine, they may have some emotional/thinking/physical feelings, such as:
Resistance (emotions)/I don’t want to know when I die (thoughts)/ My heart feels tense (physical feelings);
Fear (emotions)/Too terrible (thinking)/Heartbeat becomes faster...
Each person's emotions/thinking/physical feelings remind him of his attitude towards death.
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Most people's attitude towards death is denial/avoidance. What is death? There is no death, death is far away from me, don't say these bad words...
Just like in "Time of the Fallen", after people download and use this app and see their death date, their first reaction is:
This is fake, don't be so serious, whoever believes is stupid...
Some people will refute: I didn't avoid it, I knew I would die.
Indeed, if you ask a person: do you know you will die? Perhaps the answer of many people is: Of course they do.
But when someone says that he knows he will die, it doesn't mean that he is really aware of death and faces death in his heart. Because most of the time in his life, he is actually not aware of the existence of death, and he will not realize in his heart: I will die.
Whether a person faces death directly depends on whether he is aware of the fact that he will die, or facing death is a state of continuous change. When a person realizes that he will die, he is facing it, and when he takes death When it is placed in an inconspicuous corner outside of consciousness, he is not facing directly.
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Everyone has to face death at certain moments in their lives. For example, when my grandma passed away, I had to face death. When grandma is dead, I realize that everyone will die. This moment is grandma, and it will be other relatives in the future, and finally I will die too. It's just a matter of time.
In the movie, when Nurse Harris saw that the time of a male patient was cleared, and he was really dead, she panicked. The first layer of panic was when she realized that this APP is real. /Death is true. The second layer is because the APP shows that she has less than 3 days to survive.
This panic when facing death is called death anxiety. If you just followed the words to imagine the god of death, you may have experienced it more or less (of course, it is also possible that you have already experienced it in your life).
Death anxiety pushed Harris to do a series of things, including:
1. Attempt to delete the Jishi APP in the mobile phone, but found that it cannot be deleted;
2. If you can’t delete it, buy a new mobile phone. I don’t need the old one. As a result, the new mobile phone will be automatically installed with the Dajishi app;
3. Find someone to modify the code of the APP, and then change your own time of death. As a result, the time is automatically changed back to the original time;
4. There was nothing wrong. In the end, she used a ruthless trick to commit suicide first, and took the initiative to take herself away before death took her away.
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The movie plot setting, this is a bug of the APP. As long as someone dies prematurely/the time of death is inconsistent with the APP setting, the APP will crash. Therefore, Harris killed himself by injecting morphine and crashed the APP and defeated the god of death. In the end, my sister gave her another shot and she survived.
Harris’s series of actions can be called fighting against death, similar to, I know that death exists, I will die, but death is not good, so I have to fight against him, eliminate him, and let him not come. .
At the end of the movie, the app has been updated to version 2.0. It can be said that this is a normal operation of the movie. To make a foreshadowing for the sequel, I prefer to understand it as a declaration of defeat against death. Death is invincible. Yes, ta will come eventually.
Because death will come and cannot be avoided, it is futile to deny death and want to eliminate it; facing death directly and forming a well-functioning death anxiety coping strategy may be a better direction.
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Facing death = admitting death, the opposite is denying death. To admit death means to admit in our hearts: I will die. You can try to say a few times slowly in your heart: I will die sooner or later. Experience how you feel when you speak.
I will die, which means:
1. Death is inevitable, death is waiting for me in the front;
2. Death is uncertain. I don't know when I will die. It may be 30 years later or tomorrow.
Because of the inevitability and uncertainty of death, people will experience death anxiety. Death anxiety is a very important feeling. If people have a sense of existence in the world, death corresponds to a sense of non-existence.
I am alive now, I am/I exist; at a later moment, I will die, I will not be/non-existent.
It can be said that as long as they are alive, they are afraid of death. Even people with religious beliefs or practitioners are not afraid of death. Religion/practice may be just a way to defend against death anxiety. For example: Religion = I won’t die, I won’t really not exist, die After that, there is heaven, and the worst there is hell. I am still there, but I have changed the place.
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There are indeed some people who are not afraid of death. For example, people who have experienced severe early trauma are not afraid of death, because they have not survived. In their hearts, they have never lived and are always dead. Ordinary people are afraid of death (I am also an ordinary person). If you are afraid of death, you will have death anxiety. Naturally, some well-functioning ways to cope/defend death anxiety are needed, such as:
1. Think about your own death realistically. Death is indeed uncertain. It may be today, it may be tomorrow, it may be 30 years later, but the probability is different in different situations. Assuming that a person is 30 years old this year, it is a small probability that he will die today or tomorrow, and death is a medium probability in 20 years, and 40 years. Later death is a high probability, and it will become a small probability if it can last another 70 years. You can estimate the time of your death in your mind, and calculate how long you can live. For example, I think I should be able to live to 85 years old and have about 53 years of life.
2. Pay attention to health. Death is sure to die, but it does not mean that our lives are completely out of control and meaningless. Paying attention to health and taking care of one's body and mind can prolong survival time and improve the quality of life. On the contrary, some people unconsciously fight against death and refuse to accept that they will die. They will engage in a lot of harassment. For example, when they are middle-aged and old, they find a young partner (in an attempt to regain the feeling of youth); unrestrained/excessive pursuit of stimulation (Denying the fact that he is aging); morbid health preservation, "rejecting all unhealthy" (attempting to control death)...
3. Think about the meaning/plan of life. Since life is limited, we can devote our limited time to things that we think are meaningful. Suppose you have different survival times. Ask yourself how you will arrange your life in this situation: If I can live for 1 week, how will I arrange my life? If I can live for another month, how will I arrange my life? If I can live for another year, how will I arrange my life? If I can live for 5 years, how will I arrange my life? ...
Facing death will experience death anxiety, but in the long run, it is better than denying/avoiding death. Unless you like to die until you are imminent, you realize: So I am going to die...
Finally, if you can only live today, how would you plan for the next few hours?
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