When it comes time I will snuff myself out after I have done all can do and see all i can see.

I have never really been afraid of death although i don't want to die for obvious reasons before it is my time. I have a bright future ahead of me and its not getting to experience life to it's fullest that I am afraid of.

I don't think one can truelly say they don't fear death until they are face to face with it. You may say you don't fear death now but when your staring down the barrel of a loaded gun you might change your mind.

Death is the birth pangs from this life to the next - like a baby dies to the womb to come into this life.

There is a difference between afraid of death - and dying a painful death.

Jj -

I'm not really afraid to die. But I'll hold onto life as long as I can. Since death is the start of a new life. ^^

Being that I'm not religious I don't know what death will be like, so I am kinda fearful. Sometimes I actually wish that I did have a weak enough mind to have religion just so atleast in this life I can be happy in thinking that I'll go to heaven...

That's all too easy though and no fun at all. Don't you like suprises?

I dont fear death!@! I say this but it might be different if someone had a gun to my head..... But I have faith in the perennial philosophy which in short states that i am in essence consciousness/awareness which is eternal. This means i can never doe because i was never born. No beginning or end in eternity otherwise it wouldn;t be etenity. And since science can;t prove how the brain creates consciousness/awareness it doesn't seem so crazy!@!

not afraid of death, but its somethingi want to avoid for as long as posible

ive been shot at by a crazy x girlfriend,,and have been in 2 wrecks i should have died in,,all 3 times,my last words were the magic f word......people say you see your life flash before your eyes,,i didnt see $hit,,,but a flash ,,saw a flash both times i was knocked out in the wrecks,,and a flash from the gun when she pulled the trigger...i didnt get scared till after wards when i started picturing my funeral in my head,and thinking about my family crying or not crying things like that...that botherd me far more then the wrecks and the attempted shooting.

i personally believe that there is a lot more pain and suffering in birth rather than death. I believe that when my time comes i might very well expeience panic and unexplainable pain... but i will reassure myself that i am about to experience the ultimate freedom. I dont think it will be as horrific as we are all led to believe.

I'm not afraid to die. I used to be when I was younger. When I first realized that I was going to die, I freaked out. I remember that. I used to think about death alot, so much that I couldn't sleep because of the anxiety I would get. I don't know what happens after you die, you go to heaven, or a ghost, or worm poo. I don't know. I used to think I would like to live forever, but now even that scares me. I kinda feel screwed either way, I live forever I'm screwed, or it's eternal nothingness and I'm screwed. I don't really know how to explain it, but I used to think about it alot and I decided whatever happens, happens. I rest easier now, and I have no fears(except for clouds, I mean c'mon, look at them up there, just scheming...)I don't know, I hope I die consciencely, if that's possible, with everyone surrounding me, maybe a little alice in chains playing or nirvana something, sounds good to me.

I was just thinking, I wonder about people who go into comas or whatever. You know, it's like they are in a different world. They stair at certain places, and call for their parents or whatever. I don't know. I have lost some relatives in the last year, and they have all passed in this way.

Being afraid to die is not the question!

The real question is, 'Are you afraid of who kills you?'

I have died and I had no idea or hint nor did I have any pre-conceived biases that the wedding I was coming back to work from was going to be the final action of that life. It wasn't me that got married though, it was a friend from work. I don't know that anything has changed in the physical world; I do not have any exceptional abilities as far as teleportation or invisibility or any of those things, but the ability to communicate with the unseen is phenomenal. It is tiresome and very dangerous to the physical.

Because I don’t know if there is anything after my death it makes me feel "afraid" of what I don’t know, it’s also very frustrating because death is inevitable and neither I or anyone else can’t do a damn thing about it.

We know that there is nothing that is here there and nothing there here. But is that saying that there is nothing there?

No, there is nothing physical there.

Sometimes im afraid, and sometimes im not.

If i died anytime soon, then i would want to be aware of my death. I would not like death to cut my back when im not watching.

You are the worms eating your own corpse

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Hahahaha yeah so in effect im feeding myself!@!

Hmmm...think i'm scared of the dying itself. if there's heaven and hell or whatever else - i'll find out soon enough. If there isn't it won't really matter cos my brain'll be food for the wormies.

Unless I'm already dead... :cue Twilight Zone theme:

I used to be afraid of dying, but in the past few years I've become more spiritual, and because of that, I've lost the fear I once had.

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