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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 33 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

Don’t listen to the audio. You can’t unhear it.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

^ ^ ^ ^ Take this advice! I can still hear the sounds of a terrorist decapitation video I watched at least 20 years ago.

[–] tazeycrazy@feddit.uk 1 points 2 hours ago

I've seen a fair few documentaries about aviation crashes. If it's an academic enginering discussion about ice and turbulence makes you forget the people inside the suspended tin can. I feel a bit different this time round.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 points 11 hours ago

I didn't know it existed. Now you have basically forced my hand, I've got to listen to it now. I am morbidly curious

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

her last, cutoff words have been haunting me for at least an hour. and here I was thinking I was desensitized for years.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago

A video of a plane is somewhat abstract. We know what it means consciously, but there's nothing deep-rooted in our psyches from tens of thousands of years of evolution telling us what it means and speaking directly to the deep, lizard part of the brain. So it's easier to feel desensitized to, especially if you were a kid in the early 2000s.

A human voice hits different. We know what it means. The emotional register hits our lizard brains even if it's in a language we don't understand. There's nothing abstract about it, so it has a much stronger affect.

[–] EatMyPixelDust@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 15 hours ago (4 children)

I listened to the recordings and I cried a little bit but it didn't seem to affect me much otherwise. Maybe there's something wrong with me.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

When the sounds come back to you after many years it will confirm you're normal.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 hours ago

Nahhh it’s incredibly sad, but I did not find it to be particularly bad compared to a couple others that come to mind.

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

I sincerely wish this was the case, I'm jealous, I have been trapped in a thought loop for at least 2 hours now about consciousness and existence and the incomprehensibility of what happens after one dies. I tried to go to bed early but I just kept panicking about the idea of my heart stopping in my sleep. I don't know what's happening but I shouldn't have listened to that audio

Ahhh, yes. I've been through all that thinking years ago. It's a lot to think about for sure.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Death is a rough thing to contemplate. I always zone out for a minute when I hear about someone dying, especially if it was untimely, avoidable, or otherwise tragic.

The history of human thought is full of ways to try to rationalize it or cope with it or even pretend it isn't final. They all seem to carry hints of at least one stage of grief. Contemplating death is like grieving your own mortality in advance, because you know you won't be able to do so after.

To me the most helpful thing (not helpful particularly, but more helpful than the rest) is to let it move you to appreciate life that much more while you still can. Maybe even that's tinged with "Acceptance," but ultimately that's the best possible outcome of grief. There's no better option.

This might not be helpful, but then again nothing is. It's all I can say on the topic though.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

After many years I finally believe reincarnation is the most likely scenario after death, and it has pretty much eliminated my fear of death. Now I just don't want it to be horribly unpleasant. In the words of Woody Allen (I know, an unmentionable name, oh well), "I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens."

[–] brachypelmide@lemmy.zip 5 points 13 hours ago

oh hey so it's not just me who bluescreens at the mere thought of death

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Can I help you with anything regarding this, being a person which had exactly that happen?

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Strider@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sure, I wouldn't have offered it otherwise. Early in the morning my heart stopped, I was lucky and got immediate support, was resuscitated. That's the very short version of it.

Still, I don't have any, fear regarding this, so I thought I might be of help.

[–] captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I'm glad there was someone to help you

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Thank you.

This whole thing was a cascade of very unlikely events. I'm close to survivors guilt with how it all went but luckily not there, too.

[–] DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 1 points 14 hours ago

ugh same, i got a slightly elevated heart rate for a minute or two but other than that nothing. like, intellectually i know it's a terrifying situation and i should feel empathic, but it just doesn't happen

[–] NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml -2 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

As someone who's actually desensitized, it's really not that bad lol.

[–] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

the crash itself didn't really bother me, it was mostly just hearing the recordings of their panic. either way I'm fine now though. I think it was just insomnia driving me mental

[–] NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml 1 points 34 minutes ago

Glad to hear you're doing okay!

[–] pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 hours ago (2 children)
[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Lol = millennial soft-end punctuation mark. Softer than a period, but not excited like an exclamation mark. Still indicates an end of thought, unlike ellipses. Text version of a smirk, which can indicate irony rather than humor.

[–] NonconfrontationaI@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 hours ago

My bad.

actually desensitized

[–] Fallibilist@feddit.uk 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

Except if you're one of the people celebrating this because a business jet was mentioned, then please do listen to the audio.

[–] BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I hope there aren't people like that.....who are we kidding? It's the internet, of course there will be. I just hope I don't see anyone with that stance.

But yes, I'm not American, but very anti-large corporations, but I would not celebrate this. Would I have been happy if the diaper man was on this jet? Yes, but still incredibly sad for the ones that didn't deserve this.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The fuck dude? Pilot and copilot were just normal people doing their job and you can clearly tell they were in distress from the audio. It's not that hard to give an ounce of respect for them and their loved ones.

[–] Fallibilist@feddit.uk 29 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

It’s not that hard to give an ounce of respect for them and their loved ones.

Which is exactly why I'm advocating for the people celebrating this to listen to said audio.

[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 8 hours ago

Ohh, I definitely interpreted your comment wrong first. Sorry

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

I don't think anyone is celebrating the death of the pilots, I wonder if they knew the conditions were not good for flying but were forced to fly anyway