(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Have you ever thought to yourself how precious life is? I know I haven't until earlier.
Why you ask? Well, some of you know I'm a firefighter and I see some bad stuff.
I worked a call earlier and it came in as 79 y/o male unresponsive not breathing. The medunit (ambulance) was coming from the city (atleast 15 min drive). We get on scene and we work on him for atleast 45 mins. He didn't come back, he was gone.

I know you are probably wondering why does this matter? Well, I've worked alot of calls where some bad stuff has happened such as this, but this one touched my heart. To hear the mans wife say "no, no, don't tell me that", and to see her about collapse it truly heart breaking. To hear that her husband had passed away right there.

I'm not asking for rep, sympathy, or anything else.
I'm asking that you think about how life is, and what it would do to you or your family if someone close or even you passed away at this moment.

Please don't troll this thread.

This has touched my heart, I've only ever seen the people around me be affected like that about death. I dread the day that I lose anyone that is close to me because I fear being alone.

I want to live life to the fullest, and I will. I've already got a plan for the next year. Am going to finish school in January, get a job for a few months, and then I'm going to work on becoming a citizen of England (am from Canada, England is where my boyfriend lives). I hope that most people get to fulfill their lives and be happy, that's what life is for I think.

I'm glad you shared this, really made me think. I have mad respect for what you do.

My advice to you bro is to keep your A game in school. I just graduated, but reality has hit me hard. I have my diploma, but doing pot has taken away my scholarships and everything I worked for just because I wanted to be relax for the moment. Bust your ass, get good grades and stay away from trouble. I'm telling you that because you're young on the site and you have a chance. Alot of us are old and moving on with either college or work. Eat the words you live by now, and live by the words you devour.

It's funny how often the only time we really look at how precious life is happens in moments of tragedy.

Thanks man. My best friend is 20 and he turned to drugs when he was In a dark time of his life. But when he me his role model
Joe Budden, he stopped doing drugs, he stopped drinking, Nd he kept his head in the game. Me and him both want to become professional baseball players. His friend got drafted to the Toronto Blue Jays. He wants to be in the Met. So the both of us are trying really hard in school and baseball. I got accepted to the #1 JROTC school in America. I will take advantage of that and use it to get me a good career

That's good, I'm working on my ROTC scholarship also because it pays for full tuition in college.

its not cool at all

I contemplate death all the time and all I can say is that I'm happy but I do feel as though I have not lived my life to the point where I'd be happy dying right now.

Right now the biggest thing going on for me is school. Aside from that I don't have much of a social life, never really had one to start out. Aside from school the two things I'm wanting is a job and a relationship.

Life is short, we are just a moment of infinity. Whether you like it or not, billions of years past before our existence; our grandparents and our parents lived their lives up until the moment in which we know without a conscious and then we came to be. It is in our moment where we live life and see time before we end up like the billions of others who have lived their lives and died. When we die, another billion years will pass. Stars will die and the universe will move towards back simplicity.

Life itself is just a cluster of atoms that formed together and exploded producing a result; a result that has its eventual breakdown to nothingness again. Can this explosion occur again? I'm sure of it, somewhere somehow.

I'd rather live 10 years happy then 50 years alone because 1 second after those 50 years, there is no difference to my existence in comparison to the 10 years and the 50 years.

I unfortunately cannot feel these feels as of yet, no one in my family has died while I've been alive. No one I know has died, either. I can't even imagine the feels when someone you know dies, and I hate the feeling that it's only a matter of time.

This is my personal view on death:
I see death as a gateway to happiness, a simple "end" to this sorrow, hatred, despair, and agony we have to undergo called "life". I see death as a wonderful, beautiful thing.
As for seeing people die in front of you, it's traumatizing, yes, I've been there and saw that.
I saw a guy blow his brains out, a guy stab himself to death, a guy slit his throat, and a girl attempt to hang herself (all in reality, not in videos). I can definitely say it's a traumatizing thing to have to undergo, and it will definitely mess with your mind for the rest of your life.