I am Litterally Petrified of Death

ChocolateStarfishRammer said:
Im not scared of dying. And it wont stop me doing dangerous things.. But Ill shiver into a nervous wreck at the thought of being dead.

Just Dead. Nothing Else. Nothing More. Never Again. Gone.

I hate the thought of it so much I just cant stand it if I think about it.

What are your own feelings on it? Anyone else like this?
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I'm exactly the same and have had this fear for 10 years or so. It's not something that i try to dwell on for too long but it is something that if thought about even a little bit, really petrifies me.

My way of coping with it is just to try and not to think about it. Go to bed early, wake up early and don't have caffeine late. I'm thinking as i get older, I'm only 23, i'll overcome it. If i die of old age then i probably won't know what's happening anyway...i hope.
 
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ChocolateStarfishRammer said:
Im not scared of dying. And it wont stop me doing dangerous things.. But Ill shiver into a nervous wreck at the thought of being dead.

Just Dead. Nothing Else. Nothing More. Never Again. Gone.

I hate the thought of it so much I just cant stand it if I think about it.

What are your own feelings on it? Anyone else like this?
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I used to have thoughts like this, but I'm just enjoying everything as much as I can. ;)

I will die, I will be gone forever, but there's no need to dwell. Just don't have any regrets.
 
RationalGaze said:
On QI they mentioned an experiment a doctor was doing where he had placed some pictures on shelves in the operating theater which could only be seen from above. He would then question anyone who claimed to have an OOBE to see if they could describe the pictures (and thus prove/disprove their claim). I don't know what the results were, so perhaps I will Google it.
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I have heard of that but not sure what the outcome was either, however I do remember a story where the patient died and watched from above as he was saved, he then told the staff about an item he saw on a high shelf, can't remember what the item was now, and when the staff looked on the shelf there was the item the patient had described.
Interesting stuff.
 
Doctors have been able to induce out-of-body experiences by stimulating regions of the brain. It doesn't surprise me at all that the brain does weird things when it's dying, it's failing and as such won't be working properly.

Funnily enough, in an OOBE, people only ever experience the religion that they were brought up with. You never hear of a Christian experiencing Vishnu, with him saying, "Why didn't you believe in me and what's with all this son of God nonsense?"
 
I had the same feelings, couldn't sleep properly for about 2 weeks.

Eventually you just become numb to it, and you find that death is quite upsetting. Sort of ruined a few Family Guy jokes, but meh.
 
it does scare me, the more i think about it the more it works me up.im always thinking so cant imagine it, and even if things in life arent so good i still love being alive..had depression before and now appreciate every second..
My fear is of nothing i guess, i dont really care that i was nothing before, now i have memory and expjerience and i guess i fear loosing that, seeing the sky etc

I dont know if its better to die wishing it was going to happen or the opposite lol. I know i dont want to die with regrets and what ifs..but i already have lots!

So yeah its often at night when im just thinking before bed that ot worries me, a few years ago i got absolutely petrfied by it, tortured me, now if i start i just think of something nice..say boobs.. I for one would be happy with eternity long as it was good..dont wanna come back as a self cleaning tampon lol.

I guess it sort of seems life is a waste if there is absolutely nothing, like no point in anything..i do understand there doesnt have to be a point
 
I actually found this quote while reading The God Delusion.

I think its a pretty good way of looking at it :)

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” - Mark Twain
 
Johno please? said:
I actually found this quote while reading The God Delusion.

I think its a pretty good way of looking at it :)

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.” - Mark Twain
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But before you were born you had no context as to the cool stuff you'd be missing. So a pretty poor comparison, really.
 
I have these exact thoughts! I was going to create a thread, but then didn't bother. I'm glad I'm not the only one.
 
Live and let live; if it gives you comfort believing in some sort of deity then that's your choice and good luck to you; I mean it. :). The thing that I do not like is when it is sometimes (not all the time) thrust down your throat, i've noticed on some religious programmes on SKY I see T.V. evangelists (Usually U.S. not all) claiming they can cure Arthritis, Cancer, AIDS, HIV ect, that is where it gets out of control. But I think I'm going way off-course on this subject.

Personally, I believe in science, and if I were to go it would either death by Black Hole, Supernova, Gamma Ray burst or a passing star eg Magnetar, it would be quick and awesome.:p, I'm not mad; just a lack of sleep and OCD.:D
 
There is an idea someone told me once, that we are all made up from little sparks of energy throughout our being, and that leads to consciousness, and that the first law of thermodynamics, an expression of the principle of conservation of energy, states that energy can be transformed (changed from one form to another), but cannot be created or destroyed.

That being, it seems that the energy that makes us exist as beings can only be passed on in some form or another. Whether you think that energy leads to basic bio-degradation and the resulting carbon exchange that effectively "pushes up the daisys" or that its some sort of passing to another plane of existence is a topic for debate, but in any case its pretty reassuring.

I personally like to think that we are all made from stars and one day we will all become stars once again, but then I smoked too many bongs as a youth.
 
Basher said:
But before you were born you had no context as to the cool stuff you'd be missing. So a pretty poor comparison, really.
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Not at all. After you're dead, you won't have any context as to the cool stuff you'd be missing once again.

Lt_Red said:
There is an idea someone told me once, that we are all made up from little sparks of energy throughout our being, and that leads to consciousness, and that the first law of thermodynamics, an expression of the principle of conservation of energy, states that energy can be transformed (changed from one form to another), but cannot be created or destroyed.

That being, it seems that the energy that makes us exist as beings can only be passed on in some form or another. Whether you think that energy leads to basic bio-degradation and the resulting carbon exchange that effectively "pushes up the daisys" or that its some sort of passing to another plane of existence is a topic for debate, but in any case its pretty reassuring.

I personally like to think that we are all made from stars and one day we will all become stars once again, but then I smoked too many bongs as a youth.
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There's some fact in there if you ignore the artsy pseudo-philosophy of energy tranfer somehow being related to consciousness.
 
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