[Atomic Rooster]

If you do you're probably fat. Study shows people who dwell on their own death buy and/or eat more.

[turtle777]

No, I don't.

Don't MOST people that have serious issues eat more ? I don't think it has to be thinking about ones own death.

-t

[design219]

Interesting. I haven't until this year, and I'm not fat, but I've experienced a few deaths of people who were a little too young. It has got me thinking a little about who would come to my funeral, how will my kids turn out, will life be discovered on other planets, etc. I've got plenty of life insurance so my wife would be probably better off.

[Atomic Rooster]

Originally Posted by design219 

Interesting. I haven't until this year, and I'm not fat, but I've experienced a few deaths of people who were a little too young. It has got me thinking a little about who would come to my funeral, how will my kids turn out, will life be discovered on other planets, etc. I've got plenty of life insurance so my wife would be probably better off.

Watch your back.

[Atomic Rooster]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

No, I don't.


-t

You will as you get older and your friends/family/co-workers etc. start taking their turn at the forever dirtnap.

[design219]

How about you Atomic Rooster?

[Atomic Rooster]

Originally Posted by design219 

How about you Atomic Rooster?

Well, my mother and father are both dead. One of my older brothers committed suicide last year after suffering from MS for 30 years. All or at least most of my close friends that I grew up with have passed into history (all rather young and for various reasons). Death was not apart of my very young life but caught up to me in my late twenties rather quickly I might add. So yes I do think about death but not my own. Sometimes I think I see one of my friends up ahead or in a crowd then I remember. Weird.

I'm not bothered by my death but the few people I have left.

I don't eat much but I could eat better healthier not much.

[Zeeb]

Some people "eat their feelings". Food is the most popular anti-depressant so it doesn't surprise me--but I think those who dwell on *any* depressing subject and use food to cheer them up would be fat.

[Tiresias]

A lot of skinny people no doubt think about death. A lot of depressed fatties no doubt overeat for other reasons.

Yet another cum hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.

[PB2K]

"do you think about your own death much?" is a common question doctors ask when a patient seems to suffer from depression.

[Randman]

Love how "study" is mentioned by the OP without any details.


Study says people like to make stuff up.

[PB2K]

exactly

[Atomic Rooster]

Originally Posted by Randman 

Love how "study" is mentioned by the OP without any details.


Study says people like to make stuff up.

Read it it in the paper, buddy. On my daily sojourn to Timmy's and a read.

Are you fat? Why even post to this thread? Are you whoring?

[Randman]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster 

Read it it in the paper, buddy.

Are you fat?

I could lose a few pounds but not fat per se.

Also, it's not a wire service story from yesterday. I work at a newspaper and would have seen it.

[Atomic Rooster]

Originally Posted by Randman 

I could lose a few pounds but not fat per se.

Also, it's not a wire service story from yesterday. I work at a newspaper and would have seen it.

Calling me a liar?

[Randman]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster 

Calling me a liar?

No, just saying you should either post the link, or the article rather than making a statement without support. Kinda hard to discuss it without knowing the specifics of the alleged study.

It's not that difficult.

[Atomic Rooster]

Originally Posted by Randman 

No, just saying you should either post the link, or the article rather than making a statement without support. Kinda hard to discuss it without knowing the specifics of the alleged study.

It's not that difficult.

I wasn't asking to discuss details of the study. I asked if you think about your own death much.

Originally Posted by Randman 

Love how "study" is mentioned by the OP without any details.


Study says people like to make stuff up.

Sounds like you're calling me a liar here.

[Randman]

Whatever dude. You may not be a liar but you're not a good poster.

You post about some study but give no facts and no links to it.

It's not from any wire service I can find. Then you get your panties in a wad over it.

[Atomic Rooster]

Originally Posted by Randman 

Whatever dude. You may not be a liar but you're not a good poster.

You post about some study but give no facts and no links to it.

It's not from any wire service I can find. Then you get your panties in a wad over it.

I wasn't asking to discuss details of the study. I asked if you think about your own death much.

But if you insist I am a liar I will post a link, but it is not what I wanted to discuss.

Thoughts of death make us eat more cookies - mental-health - 29 May 2008 - New Scientist

So keep on flapping your gums. Your employers don't seem to be fussy about their employees.

[Randman]

Originally Posted by Atomic Rooster 

I wasn't asking to discuss details of the study. I asked if you think about your own death much.

But if you insist I am a liar I will post a link, but it is not what I wanted to discuss.

Thoughts of death make us eat more cookies - mental-health - 29 May 2008 - New Scientist

So keep on flapping your gums. Your employers don't seem to be fussy about their employees.

See, that wasn't difficult to do, wasn't it? Seems pretty vague of an article. Some people over do it on comfort food when troubled.

At least now I can stop thinking about your death.

[Atomic Rooster]

Originally Posted by Randman 

See, that wasn't difficult to do, wasn't it? Seems pretty vague of an article. Some people over do it on comfort food when troubled.

At least now I can stop thinking about your death.

You just don't get it, do you?

You come into a thread. Attack me and call me a liar. For what? You could have just ignored it. But no, you had to make a derogatory statement prolly to make yourself feel more masculine. I read that in a study.

Want a link?

[Atomic Rooster]

This place is really starting to suck and blow at the same time.

[Randman]

No, you don't get it. I asked for a simple link early on to read more about it since you said basically nothing. Then you get your panties in a wad with "Are you calling me a liar" crap. No, I was not calling you a liar, just not a good poster in this thread. For crying out loud.

[Cipher13]

Nope, and I'm about 57KG.

I also get heavy exercise every day at work (which is, quite regularly, life-threatening too >_> ).

[subego]

Originally Posted by Randman 

No, you don't get it. I asked for a simple link early on to read more about it since you said basically nothing. Then you get your panties in a wad with "Are you calling me a liar" crap. No, I was not calling you a liar, just not a good poster in this thread. For crying out loud.

Unless there's more server time-stamp errors going on, how you claim these events are ordered is way ****ed.

[Atheist]

I think about death (including my own) a lot. Probably too much. I lost quite a few loved ones (several way too early in life) while I was in my late teens and early twenties. It affected me greatly but I'm not overweight.

Oh, and Randman, you truly are being an ass.

[MacosNerd]

As I get older, its more on my mind, partly because the people I knew and/or grew up with start passing on so I do think about my own mortality from time to time but I am not fat nor am I depressed

The link the OP provided seems kind of backwards. Its not that fat people who think more about death but depressed people or folks with low self esteem think about death tend to eat more cookies. Kind of weird article and its difficult to make the jump about depressed people eating cookies to fat people thinking about death

[osiris]

I think about death more often than I used to simply because a lot of people of I know/like/care about are dying.
I am also about 10 pounds under weight, so it's not the weight.