Jim Jeffries on Dying (Wallpaper)

wrongsideofthewire · 6 months

What Mr. Jeffries doesn't think about is those minutes, hours, maybe even days leading up to death. You know you're going to die and there is nothing you can do about it. I've seen many people at that point where they know they are taking there last breath and almost all of them are fucking horrified. As an atheist, this is the single scariest thought I can have; to live that moment when the switch is about to be thrown.

SlyFox28 · 6 months

As an atheist I think it makes me MORE scared of dying. Death is so complete, so final. I want to live for ever I don't want to just not exist. I never understand why Christians always pray to god to not let them die. I mean heaven is supposed to be so great why be scared of dying then?

BigMacCombo · 6 months

I'm scared to loose my conscious existence.

MockingBird95 · 6 months

You can see every hair on his lip very clearly.

1gunners4 · 6 months

I'm not afraid of being dead, but I'm fucking terrified of dying.

StifleStrife · 6 months

I'm scared of dying, know why? Cause i'll be fucking dead.

Smills29 · 6 months

Thanks to denial I'm immortal!

Pareve · 6 months

This is bullshit. I don't believe in an afterlife, but I fear death. I am afraid of no longer existing. I am afraid of being utterly obliterated. This fear is what motivates many to believe in an afterlife, and to accept religion. Attempts to rationalize away that fear is useless. The only people who don't fear death are people who don't think they can die. Those people are fools.

To quote the fine, atheist poet, Philip Larkin:

This is a special way of being afraid
No trick dispels. Religion used to try,
That vast, moth-eaten musical brocade
Created to pretend we never die, 
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
That this is what we fear - no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,
The anasthetic from which none come round.

scottlol · 6 months

-Epicurus

tkmlac · 6 months

I love this guy. I went to the Punchline in Sacramento, CA to see him. He was incredibly funny and there was an old Christian couple up front he dug into. The woman was really gracious about it, but the man got all pissy. Jeffries really nailed him for it.

JohnWL · 6 months

I totally agree with Jeffries on this. Yes, it will be frightening, but I figure it is more comforting with diluting myself with the thoughts of the afterlife. I mean, what a wonderful surprise it would be to 'wake up' from death in a white robe at the pearly gates, with my family on the other side...wait...I take that back...that kind of sounds terrible...

grayziehobbes · 6 months

Death is the Great Equalizer. That makes me happy.

SongBillong · 6 months

Another brilliant joke by Jim Jeffries, best atheist comedian imo.

Eric_Snow · 6 months

Being dead will be just like before you were born. I think that's from South Park actually pretty insightful.

Sojoez · 6 months

I take solace in the knowing that my dead body will help other people live longer (organ donor) and if I could I would ask my remains to be turned into fertilizer for plants.

unigolyn · 6 months

I am an atheist and I'm terribly scared of dying.

I'm not scared of being dead for the same reason that Jeffries provided, but getting to that point is fucking terrifying and I'm certainly not happy about it either.

doomslice · 6 months

I accepted death as an inevitable consequence of life, and therefor do not fear the actual death part of it (as to pain or suffering leading up to my death -- I have no idea how I'm going to die so how can I be afraid of that yet?).

What I do fear is putting loved ones through the pain of missing me after my death. I feel the pain of losing others close to me, so it is no leap to imagine that others feel the same way.

reddell · 6 months

Dying and death are not the same thing.

NewShinyCD · 6 months

I am not afraid of death; I am afraid of the way I could die. I don't want it to be a long agonizing one.

LardAssHogan · 6 months

David Cross did a bit about this in 1998 I believe, about necropheliacs, I couldnt find a clip on it but the whole show is awesome. It was an HBO special called, "The Pride is Back".

devllen05 · 6 months

I posted the video to this the other day: the entire (~9-minute) standup is absolutely hilarious:

http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/oi721/jim_jeffries_talks_about_atheism/

awesomechemist · 6 months

I am disappointed that I will not live to see the technological wonders of our future. Look at how far we've come in just 100 short years. Imagine where we will be 100 years from now: Flying cars? Commercialized space flight? Computers that are hundreds of times more powerful than what we have today, and small enough to be implanted in your body? The wealth of new knowledge about our planet and universe that is bound to be discovered? I may be alive for some of these, but civilization will continue to advance after I die, and I will be missing out on some truly amazing advancements.

But on the other hand, I also won't be alive to witness any future wars, genocides, pandemics, natural disasters, etc. Something will eventually wipe human existence off of this earth, and I sure as hell hope that I am dead before that happens. I am positive that the process of extinction will be 1000% more terrifying than death itself.

The3vilpoptart · 6 months

Another day, another Jim Jeffries quote! I really like the fact that he is showing up more and more on here. I don't even need to try to find the special anymore, you guys are writing down all the great jokes.


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