David Jon Gilmour, CBE (born March 6, 1946) is an English guitarist and vocalist with British rock band Pink Floyd. Following the departure of Roger Waters in the mid-1980s, Gilmour effectively assumed control of the band. “I’m an atheist, and I don’t have any belief in an afterlife,” Gilmour says. “You could say that I’m
The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better–but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn’t care.
I asked myself what I believed. I had never prayed a lot. I hoped hard, I wished hard, but I didn’t pray. I had developed a certain distrust of organized religion growing up, but I felt I had the capacity to be a spiritual person, and to hold some fervent beliefs. Quite simply, I believed I had a responsiblity to be a good person, and that meant fair, honest, hardworking, and honorable. If I did that, if I was good to my family, true to my friends, if I gave back to my community or to some cause, if I wasn’t a liar, a cheat, or a thief, then I believed that should be enough. At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped I would be judged on whether I had lived a true life, not on whether I believed in a certain book, or whether I’d been baptized. If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn’t say, “But you were never a Christian, so you’re going the other way from heaven.” If so, I was going to reply, “You know what? You’re right. Fine.”
Hefner is the founder, editor and publisher of Playboy magazine. He was interviewed in the January 2000 issue of Playboy magazine. PLAYBOY: Do you fear death? HEFNER: No. I’m very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What’s most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and
An excerpt from the July 14, 2004 edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer. The article: “Busy Shatner has The End on His Mind” by Gail Shister:
“There’s a sense of not being fulfilled… I don’t know what it is. It bothers me, because I’m approaching the end of my life, and I’m trying to do better and better at whatever it is I’m doing.”
The death of legendary actor Marlon Brando at age 80 hit Shatner hard, even though the two had never met. “He lived not far from me, up on the hill. His death is the end of an era, and my era is closing in on me. “
“I’m so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone.
From the online newsmag, The Onion- The Onion: Is there a God? Angelina Jolie: Hmm… For some people. I hope so, for them. For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn’t need to be a God for me. There’s something in people that’s spiritual, that’s godlike. I don’t feel like doing