Are you afraid of death?

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Thought I'd follow on with the spiritual and morbid life/death paradigm the threads seem to be following at the moment.

Threadgeist? Yeah, poor. :p


Anyway. Are you afraid of death? A very simple, but heavily loaded question.

Personally, I'm not afraid of death. I've accepted my mortality and I know that there is absolutely nothing I can do to prevent the eventual breakdown of my body and loss of conciousness; without spirit, the body is afterall, garbage.

Although I'm not afraid of death as a finality, I am however afraid of not maximising the time that I do have. I'm afraid of putting a foot wrong and falling short. I'm afraid of never living up to my ideals. I'm afraid I'll die unimportant - this isn't a desire for status, but more about achieving what I know I can.

Aside from that, I am afraid of death in one small aspect; pain. I'm not ashamed to admit it either, but the pain brought by a fatal injury does scare me. I find it curious to imagine battlefields of days gone by and the finality of being hurt beyond help. I'm terrified of the idea of laying helpless in a hospital bed with wires coming out at me, losing my dignity as others watch me cry for an end as my organs slowly fail. In this respect, I am very much afraid of death.

I'm not afraid of the finality of death, but I am afraid of dying.
 
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I'm not really scared. For me it's more about leaving my loved ones? But everyones time has to come one day.
 
I'm not afraid of being dead. I am only scared of the physical pain that may be felt during the process of dying.
 
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I think everyone thinks of death.

I am afraid of the whole idea of not existing any more, and question why and what is the point of it all. But then I think I have what I got and we are here to make the best of it. But then I think about how quickly the years seem to be slipping through my fingers and I worry about people I care about not being around any more.

I can only guess that if I am luckily to die at an old age my 'soul' will be ready to accept it, but right now I can't.

I dunno.. is just a massive subject and lately I am thinking more about it than usual.
 
Being dead, no. I'd have no issues with being hit by a bus tomorrow.


The standard methods scare me tho. Dying of cancer scares the bejesus out of me.
 
I always used to answer no, until I actually faced it and then realised hell yes, I'm terrified of it.
 
jp_bl_68 said:
It's not nothing, it's the end of your existence. Surely a fear of death is a natural instinct all living creatures possess.
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Living creatures tend to have instincts like killing other living things (not only for food, but for territorial reasons or even the lulz), and other such nasty stuff. Some living creatures have advanced to the point where with the application or logic, reasoning (and something of a social contract) they rise above it though.

Humans can quite easily make a distinction between the survival instinct and the fear of death as an entity. Then again probably only humans had a conception of death as its own entity to begin with. Double-edged sword. :D
 
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It's not nothing, it's the end of your existence. Surely a fear of death is a natural instinct all living creatures possess.
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I somehow doubt an apple tree is afraid of death.


Only humans can comprehend death, and much of their fear stems from the old 'hell' thing, or the fear of the unknown.
 
Cob said:
The lack of it.


How can you be afraid of nothing?
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We knew nothing before birth but now we are on the flip side of it all... we know what is coming now like we didn't before we were born. We are all heading in this direction of death.

To say that the thought of not living any more doesn't bother you is to me a strange one.

I enjoy life, and right now I don't want it to end. But I am guessing if I live to be much older my body will be aged and maybe I will feel tired.. maybe tired of living?
 
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I wouldn't say that I'm afraid of death, but I'm much more aware of time and the time that I have left. I'm only 32 but but I look at so many things in a different way than I did 10 years ago. I've been living in my flat for 4 years. It seems like a blip but it's over 10% of my life so far. I also have a daughter on the way. Thinking how those 4 years have flown by, It seems strange that by the time she is 18, I'll be 50. I sometimes find it hard to get my head around the fact that I finished school 16 years ago (which seems a lifetime ago) but things that I did 4-5-6 years ago still feel new in my mind.
 
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