Do you fear death?

Like Rotters I see death on a weekly basis sadly. I work with mostly palliative patients so I see it more than most do in a lifetime. I would like to go quickly and not be laid in a hospital bed life ebboing away from me. Cancer to me is one of the most evil and undignified ways of dying so I hope I never get that.
For me personally death doesnt scare me, what scares me is the thought of close family and frioends passing.
 
I don't want to do, but at the same time I don't really think about it, whereas some of my friends gets themselves into little neurotic states if they do.
 
Yes. Deeply. To the point that if I dwell too deeply on the subject I start to have major anxiety issues.

Even reading this thread is making me on edge. So im outta here...
 
In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be,
The roof despair to bar all cheerful light from me,
The walls of marble black that moisten'd still shall weep
My music hellish jarring sounds, to banish friendly sleep.
Thus wedded to my woes, and bedded to my tomb,
O, let me, living, living, die, till death do come.
 
Do you fear death?

Someone's just watched Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest!
 
Everybody fears death, if anyone says otherwise they are lying or bat**** insane (or about to commit suicide). Surviving your average walk to work depends on your fear of death if you were not afraid you would just walk out in the middle of traffic or jump of a bridge for the fun of it.

There are those thrillseeker types that claim to have no fear, skydive with no parachute then we will believe you.
 
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Skyfall said:
Everybody fears death, if anyone says otherwise they are lying or bat**** insane (or about to commit suicide). Surviving your average walk to work depends on your fear of death if you were not afraid you would just walk out in the middle of traffic or jump of a bridge for the fun of it.

There are those thrillseeker types that claim to have no fear, skydive with no parachute then we will believe you.
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Surely fear from an extreme sports point of view is to do with their being the risk of death, not certain death. Doing something that will definitely kill you is insanity.
 
Skyfall said:
Everybody fears death, if anyone says otherwise they are lying or bat**** insane. Surviving your average walk to work depends on your fear of death if you were not afraid you would just walk out in the middle of traffic or jump of a bridge for the fun of it.

There are those thrillseeker types that claim to have no fear, skydive with no parachute then we will believe you.
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Fear is a very active word. It means it's ongoing, or if you think of death and dying you feel fearful.

I do not at all. I don't want a painful death, but nor does anyone. The thought of dying and of death in general promotes no fear in me whatsoever. Of course I don't want to die because I generally enjoy my life as a human, and there are people who are important to me that I want to continue spending time with, and other activities which I don't want to give up just yet. So it's not fear of death that stops me from walking in the traffic or throwing myself in front of a train, it's the wish to continue doing what I'm doing and spending time with the people who matter to me.

Death can come at any time, and we have no control over it. I think there's a line from a Foreshadowing song, "who knows if we'll wake up at dawn?" that puts that rather aptly. You can't go through your life fearing when it will end anymore than a footballer should stop playing football for fear he'll break a leg.
 
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Everybody fears death, if anyone says otherwise they are lying or bat**** insane (or about to commit suicide). Surviving your average walk to work depends on your fear of death if you were not afraid you would just walk out in the middle of traffic or jump of a bridge for the fun of it.

There are those thrillseeker types that claim to have no fear, skydive with no parachute then we will believe you.

Surely fear from an extreme sports point of view is to do with their being the risk of death, not certain death. Doing something that will definitely kill you is insanity.
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I guess thats why they locked me up in a mental hospital then.
 
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