Phil and Death

I have another piece from my writing vault to make up for the horrendious amount of days that I have missed. This is another unpolished piece that I really like. Hope you enjoy it and please excuse the spelling errors:

How do you deal with problems in your life? Better yet, how does the pain of others affect you? When you see someone on teh street who is odvisouly in pain how do you react. I say this as my roomate has just receved a phone call that causes his whole world to come crashing down. I have no idea what it could be, and he shure as hell ain't talkin right now. You just don't know correctly how to act. Albet, most of us do. As it comes to tradegedy, I know a few things. And that is something that is more depressing than impressive. From what I gathered, it must have been a death in the family. And to see my normally stotic and very laid back roomate start to cry in the male way (you know, long, low sobs that aren't noticeable untill you see them with their head in their hands) really sent my mindset ary. Unless they want to talk about it, you really can do nothing about someone in distress but to simply say, "I'm here for you." Or, simply say nothing. Sometimes silence helps the most until they are ready. All that brings up is how people approach death. The biggest problem I have is the way people react to it. This goes fro everyone out there, when someone dies in somebody's life, please, for the love of god, never say "I'm sorry." It really is one of the most infuriating things in the world to hear something as unhelpful as that. The reasoning? It simply does not make sense. "Sorry"?? what the hell are you sorry for? Did you cause teh death? (most of the time this is not teh case, but if it is, a sorry can do wonders. but try not to be in this situtation very often) I know it can sound corny, sappy or ever "gay" to some people, but the best thing to do other to say nothing is simply something along the lines of "I'm here for you man" Truly, it really makes the other party feel better. What you are saying is that if and when you feel like venting or talking, you are here to help in any way that you can. And even if yo uhave no experience dealing with any kind of death in your life, just being there to listen is enough for the opposing party.
But talking about death really brings up more and more qestions about life, teh universe and everything (42) and how we still don't know the answer (or more importantly, the qestion) Personally, I don't belive in stuff like afterlife and crazy (to me at least) relegious crap. What I beleive is you die and that's it. Morbid, yes, but I know tremendiously relegious people who are increadably scared of death even though hey beleive that there is a better place waiting for them in the end. Its that type of stuuf that really renforces relegion's frowning down upon suicide and other stuff of that nature. Its a horrible thought, yes, but think about it, the church had to think of a way to prevent people from just offing themselves so that they can reach paradise and escape this world filled with pain and suffering. Personally, I am not afraid of death. Its not like I welcome it, its just when its timeto go, its time to go. And to not belevive in heaven or god or anything like that, makes my life all that better that I know I have to make the best of what I have. Also, I have no idea what philisopher said this, but let it be known that I thought this of my own occord, It truly is the purest thing when an atheist does good. Becasue, think about it, they could be as evil as they want becasue there is no punishment that they need to worry about. This brings up another problem I have with relegion, I really feel that some people are simply good becasue of teh concequences rather than not doing it simply becasue it is the correct thing not to. Its good deeds based on fear rather than the idea that it is truly the correct thing to do.