The Deathbed Fallacy

Re:The Deathbed Fallacy by najuloj on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:21PM (#43946810)

Thank you for sharing.

I’m in the exact same boat as you and what you wrote matches my experience and thoughts almost to the word.

These days my motto is “Make today a good day” and every day I do my best to live up to that.

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Re:The Deathbed Fallacy by shermantanktop on Saturday May 10, 2025 @12:30PM (#43946874)

I’m not deeply thoughtful about this stuff, but my personal philosophy could be called “positive existentialism.”

I am here. It is amazing that I exist, and have an opportunity to be alive and aware. I don’t want to waste it, and so I try to say “yes” to life. And life comes to us moment by moment, day by day. I don’t want to regret things I’ve done, but I also don’t want to regret things I didn’t do.

I’m not in the position that either of you are in (sorry about that btw) but in a sense we all are, and just don’t realize it yet.

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Re:The Deathbed Fallacy by dleink on Saturday May 10, 2025 @04:36PM (#43948777)

> in a sense we all are, and just don’t realize it yet.

one of the luckiest breaks you can catch in life is to live through something that forces you to realize this.

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