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I want to die, be a female and be the first evolved human.

As others have mentioned, people have been revived. Some describe the tunnel of light, which is probably an effect of the limbic system shutting down due to anoxia. Other describe a complete discontinuity of sensation with nothing experienced in between. In any case, the transition from life to death doesn't take a nanosecond unless you sit on an exploding atomic weapon (even then, it's probably more like a few nanoseconds as X-rays only travel 30cm in a nanosecond) -- you'd be vapourised but you wouldn't feel a thing as nerve impulse speeds are far too slow. In more usual reality, some of your cells die before others in a cascade of failure with you probably losing consciousness hopefully after seconds or minutes rather than hours. For many people, the time before becoming unconscious can be a painful, unpleasant process. Pass me the milk of the poppy please...
There is another angle though and it would be intresting thing to do just to see how you would handle the situation. Would you try and die with dignity or would fear overwhelm you and you die begging for anyone or God or whoever to save you. Some might call it a test of character but I think that isn't acurate because even if you have a bad and horrible death I think that reflects more on how random and unexpected it is.
I think people who even sort of know they are close to death because they might have a terminal illness or just been in a terrible accident I don't even they epect that final moment to happen when it does. There is always hope you might just live to see another day or maybe a extra hour.

Jason
 
Tests of character are bullshit in such circumstances -- especially when there's neither a God nor an afterlife -- only your reputation might affected and it won't matter to you anyway. If the universe is deterministic and free will is an illusion, you would do what you would do anyway.
 
It's not just an age thing, I know men of all ages who do it. It's a sexist thing. But it is one of those subtle things: in some contexts "female" is the more appropriate word obviously, in other contexts it is used by men to treat women as less than human. You don't really see people referring to men as "males" in random conversation, yet you hear men refer to women as "females" in random conversation all the time.

And before anyone gets their boxers in a twist about feminists overreacting, it's borne out by evidence. A man referring to a woman as "a female" in inappropriate context is one of the most surefire signs that he's sexist.
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Yep. Watch Andy Griffith, any episode, and see where Barney, or even Andy (sadly) gets upset at Helen, or Peggy, or any woman, and you're likely to hear something about "she's just bein' a stubborn female" somewhere in the rant. Never stubborn "male," only women get the whole title.
 
God is dead... It is time to celebrate? he died for our sins... I hope I can do better... but really I want to live more than die usually.. since like a long time. mmmmm 2-3 year now... save the world ... enjoy life.
 
Interesting premises.
1. I don't want to experience death yet... but I'd like to converse with someone who HAS died. Supposedly specially sensitive/aware people can do this. And so it goes, there are more charlatans than the "real thing", unfortunately... but I know someone who had a reading with a medium and she was blown away. She's scientifically minded and she can sense when people are lying. This medium was able to dredge up things that there's no way she could have known, or deduced from the brief meeting beforehand. I'd really like to know if we end up completely dissipated, or if our "life force" somehow goes on... and if indeed, we can do things to help prepare for it. Meaning, promoting the opportunity to have a strong or weak energy signature (powerful versus practically inert spirits). I'd like to continue... even though I've been dead far longer than I've been alive, I don't want to go back!! :thumbdown:

2. Experiencing what it would be like as a woman is kind of ambiguous. Because personal characteristics - race, perceived beauty, age, etc., would make a world of difference. I used to work with a black woman who was overweight. Usually she and I would be with a group of coworkers for lunch. One day the others weren't around. It was just her and me. And she asked me if I wanted to grab a bite to eat. I said sure, and we went out. We went to a sit-down Indian restaurant. And... it was painfully obvious to me that other customers in the restaurant were giving my lunch companion curious looks. It wasn't just an initial thing upon being noticed entering the restaurant. She was getting looks periodically throughout the meal. This was in the late 1990's... in Connecticut. We never talked about it, but I could tell she was aware of the periodic looks... and I felt really badly for her. I didn't want to make a scene and speak up. But in retrospect, I should have trusted my gut and just asked her if she wanted to eat somewhere else moments after we sat down. If I had a choice as to what woman I could be for a while, I'd probably stick with my own ethnicity/race, and probably younger... and I wouldn't mind being modestly attractive.

For a brief period of time I had a friendship with a very beautiful blonde woman. She was the most down to Earth and unpretentious attractive woman I'd ever met. She took very good care of herself, but she wasn't obsessed with what people thought of her. She was in a romantic relationship and the guy she was seeing was a very successful, attractive guy, so she was happy and not looking. I was fortunately able to have a conversation with her about sexual attraction, and how her life was in dealing with men. And she really opened up. She's not the kind of person to "doll-up", and she was pretty conservative, but a few times she tried out what it would like to be a "bombshell." She didn't dress like a slut or a prostitute, but she dressed very nicely, in high heels, luscious red lipstick, dress with tasteful low cut, moderately high hem, etc. And then she visited a few places with different crowd levels. Overall, she said that the attention she got from men was overwhelming and demeaning. She found it shocking how there were so many men who had the audacity to think they would be attractive to her, or she experienced overt sexism laced with latent hostility (men who knew they'd never have her, so they acted really chauvinistic and lewd). Apparently some women crave attention from men, even if it's overtly sexual in nature. I wouldn't want to have that kind of appearance. Nice looking, but definitely understated.

Sexually speaking, women are supposed to have more erogenous zones and are able to experience multiple orgasms much more easily than men. I'm curious to know how that would feel. But it comes with a price... on a monthly basis. Some women get lucky and have fairly easy menstruation, and some women have a terrible time of it (cramps, frequent changing, etc). Would I want to experience having the body of a woman? I don't think so. Because I can't relate... being a man, I have absolutely no interest in other men and wouldn't want to be sexually entangled with one. Of course, flipped to the other sex, I might feel differently.
 
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