Are you afraid of death?

[ichbins]

Hello everyone!

Maybe a bit of a morbid question, but sometimes I think about how I enjoy life and my friends and family, everything, and I feel a bit sad, that someday it will all be gone. I know it's something natural, but still I feel sad, that it's going to end, and then probably be done forever. What are your thoughts on death, or being dead? Are you afraid or not? Why?

Greetings 🙂

 

[4Pawz]

I don't fear death. I fear the process and missing out. I fear what will happen to those I love when I'm gone.

 

[Dragonmaster]

Because of my beliefs, I don't fear death.

 

[rdhd]

These days, I fear life.

 

[lostphilosopher]

The Dalai Lama was once asked this question in a Q&A and he started laughing before moving on to the next question. I'd like to have that attitude, someday.

 

[Mitchell]

I used to be terrified of death.

As I've gotten older, during my mom's illness, and after her passing, I did not obsess about it as much.

Currently, with my Senior Citizen relatives age, and health issues, I'm too concerned /worried about them to obsess about or fear my own death

I figure, at 51, unless something unexpected happens, I hopefully have at least another 25-30 years or hopefully more.

I just try to live life, and not to think about it.

 

[MBDex]

i've found things in life to be both more wonderful and more horrible than death. to me death just kinda... is.

"if you want a long life, laugh at death."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUxOnM0daAk

glad we're among people who fetishize laughter...

 

[BlasterMaster]

I'm a bit terrified at what happens to my consciousness AFTER my body suffers brain death.

I do believe in souls as well as an after existance but I also hope beyond hope that there is something good and restful in that existance after death.

 

[luvgirlsfeet]

I don't fear death for it's inevitable and I don't have any control over it, therefore it's not a consequence to suffer from.

I will admit that I've been watching a lot of videos on youtube about death, the afterlife and the explanation of the preparation of the deceased.
That way i have a better understanding of my loved one's who've passed away before me.

In closing death is both an ending and a beginning at the same time

 

[BlasterMaster]

Well, I do believe there is existance after death.

Or rather, I HOPE there is.

 

[isabeau]

i realize that i have probably about ten to twenty good years left, if i'm lucky...as the inevitability of my death approaches, i find that i have a fear as to how i'll die...but my most basic concern or fear, is that i will outlive my husband...that i could never face...

 

[FrenzyTickles]

Don't die every day worrying about that. "Just breathe," enjoy life.

We are already light years ahead of those unfortunates centuries ago, though this generation might be the first not to live longer
due to all the artificial **** in our food, water, environment.

Spend less time in front of a screen, access daylight

Eat better, drink more water

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...You'll FEEL better, look better, have more energy. Walk every day, keep moving....

Couch Potato-ism is a slow death. It's all about balance.

I also worry about those who'd be left behind, but if you obsess about it, you die every day. Focus on improving, you'll live longer & enjoy living.

 

[FrenzyTickles]

Then again, there's...

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[Miss Sassy]

"Fun" Fact: I technically died once, when I was in my young infancy/toddler years, for fifteen minutes. They called the time of death and everything, but something happened (I"ll explain in another post if someone wants to know about it) and my heart started beating again. Turns out that I was over shunted.

Anyway, on with the answer to the question. I actually have mixed feelings about death. I don't fear it itself as I know where I'm going when my time does come, but I fear how I'll go. I have a lot of health issues and then there are crazy things happening in the world (riots, ISIS persecuting Christians, etc), so there's always a thought about how I'll go. Will it be painful or pain free? I'm hoping, when I do go (hopefully when I'm a lot older), it'll be painless, maybe in my sleep? I don't know if that sounds too morbid or not. =/

 

[lostphilosopher]

"You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes. You look and look, and one day you are going to wake up and say, 'Why, that's me!' And in knowing that, you know that you will never die." - Alan Watts

 

[chicago]

Heck no, I can't wait lol

 

[Saint Sycamore]

You see a new candy in the shop and decide to sample it.
You don't know its flavor, but you figure it's good because it's candy.
Surprise, it's Pistaschio and Grass flavored.

You see death and think it is bad, but how do you know?
You were confident about the candy.
Keep that Candy Energy with Death, and you'll be fine.

 

[drkjedi458]

i Believe in God and Jesus Christ. yes im afraid of death and the day when i have to stand before God and try to explain myself. WTF am i going to say? i did the best i could...im sorry i wasnt able to do better. i really did try tho...yes im very scared of that day

 

[ComradeZach]

I'm coming up on the 2 year anniversary of me almost dying, and honestly I still think about it all the time. It scares the shit out of me to think if my day had just gone a little differently, I'm not here typing this right now. Mainly I'd say it just really changed how much I appreciate the people in my life and to not take things for granted like I may have in the past.

 

[BlasterMaster]

i Believe in God and Jesus Christ. yes im afraid of death and the day when i have to stand before God and try to explain myself. WTF am i going to say? i did the best i could...im sorry i wasnt able to do better. i really did try tho...yes im very scared of that day.

With any luck the creator of all of existance will be both patient and understanding...just like a Jedi master would be. 😉

 

[lostphilosopher]

I'm not always good with words (and when I am, it usually gets me in trouble) but I'll try my best rather than posting another quote.

I think being afraid of death is natural but wanting to live forever (as in, be immortal in the life you currently live) is equally unnatural. It's not the way of the Universe. And this is the great paradox we all face. So as the sun rises in the morning, it must also set in the evening.

That's not to say things necessarily begin or end, but that the Universe is constantly changing. Atoms and energy that make up a piece of paper exist long before and long after the paper has been burnt and withered away. Many great thinkers of philosophy and spirituality believe the same may be true for us.

 

[MrMacphisto]

I'm not always good with words (and when I am, it usually gets me in trouble) but I'll try my best rather than posting another quote.

I think being afraid of death is natural but wanting to live forever (as in, be immortal in the life you currently live) is equally unnatural. It's not the way of the Universe. And this is the great paradox we all face. So as the sun rises in the morning, it must also set in the evening.

That's not to say things necessarily begin or end, but that the Universe is constantly changing. Atoms and energy that make up a piece of paper exist long before and long after the paper has been burnt and withered away. Many great thinkers of philosophy and spirituality believe the same may be true for us.

Being immortal would only be cool if you stopped aging past a certain point. Being 30 or 35 forever would be awesome.

 

[Alliekat]

I have a healthy fear of death or at least a natural instinct to survive. But it's not this crippling fear that consumes me

 

[lostphilosopher]

Being immortal would only be cool if you stopped aging past a certain point. Being 30 or 35 forever would be awesome.

I'm not so sure. If that were the case, you'd have to watch countless loved ones come and go from this world. Unless you were truly immortal (a "god" or godlike being) chances are you'd only be postponing the inevitable as you would eventually die from an outside cause, and that could be as soon as tomorrow. This may cause some people to not truly value the time we are given. You would also be taking away resources from the countless lifeforms being born into our Universe everyday.

And, at the end of the day, wouldn't being immortal take away some level of meaning?

 

[Wolf]

Nah. I was aware of my own mortality before I was 5, well before I was equipped to process it, and I spent a lot of time after that going between being terrified and putting myself at risk to see if it would happen. Eventually, I got over it. I like my life now, and I feel like I still have a lot of good to do, so I don't want it to happen, but if does, my family's well taken care of, so I'm not afraid. Patton Osawalt said it best after his wife passed away; "It's Chaos. Be kind."