I'm not. Once you think about it, it's not so scary. But then it takes the fun out of horror movies

This is a good question. I have thought about this a time or two. I am not at all afraid of death, it's the dying part that I don't like. I want a nice quick and painless death.

If you do not die one thing is for certain, you were never alive.....


Any thoughts?

I have heard a few theories on death.

1) When you die, the last pain you feel is what you will feel for all of eternity.

2) There is heaven and hell.

3) Reincarnation.

4) Eternal sleep.

I am not so much afraid of death itself, I am afraid of not knowing. I personally believe in reincarnation. I suppose there is only one way to find out, just wait.

This is technically true.

To live is to one day die.

I am not afraid to die. To worry about such a thing is, I think, foolish. We all will meet our end some day. To those who have lived the way they wished, with no regrets or forgotten debts, death will be a most welcome venture.

I am not afraid to die.

Infact, i am ready to die.

This doesn't imply i wish to die in any circumstance. Just ready, because well, it is inevitable.

But i imagine if it was my time, i'd scream and holler like anyone else.

death is someting to be embraced not feared everyone dies eventually. some sooner than others.it isn't about when you die but how you die.

It's what may happen before you die you should be afraid of

I'm frightened out of my mind about dying. It's the not knowing what happens part that I don't like. I can't believe that one day I'm just going to cease to exist, I won't be able to take a walk outside or eat my favorite food- everyday things. Five years after I'm gone, no one will even remember that I existed. I'm a control freak and I can't control the fact that someday I'm going to die... that is scarry to me!!!

I don't think about it too much, but for me, death is fearful on one level and not so fearful on the other.

Emotionally speaking, I am afraid to die, mostly out of regret - regret that I won't get to see how the future turns out, to see if humanity settles planets around other stars or destroys itself.

Rationally, I'm not really afraid of death. After all, unless you believe in an afterlife, it's not like you know that you are dead; I would imagine it to be like the dreamless anesthesia that you are put under for surgery, where you have no consciousness or comprehension of time.

No. Been dead (clinically) twice. My experience, both times, was that there was a moment of panic first, especially the first time, then pure peace. More interesting was the fact that I really didn't want to come back either time.
Also have done some oob things. The attitude with those was similar: looking back at body, I really had no feelings about it, other than not particularly wanting to get back in.
That should cause some comments.

For some weird reason im excited about death,when I think about it I et this weird feeling (not that kind of feeling u sick perverts) and I dont think it scary Im kind of looking forward to it, not that I got a deathwish or anything but I wanna know what it's like after that

I thinking about it constantly. It is inevitable, which brings to me a certain curiosity of myself, and my life.

For example:
If you (i) aren't afraid of death, why is it so hard for you to go speak to strangers?

" ", why am you so antisocial, so afraid of the unknown.

Yet, I welcome death with open arms. I am going to die, so live life, eh?

I'm with shadowlady, I'm frightened about "death". Not the dying part and not directly afraid of how it will be being dead, but more afraid of not being alive and exist.

And the fact that it's not something I can personally control bothers me even more
The most important part of being alive is the one part I cannot control, -when I will die.

I love to exist, it's all that I am, so of course it bothers me that this will end. I can't understand that for some it doesn't matter ??? Then I'm thinking you haven't really thought it through - it's not a pleasant thought.

I'm not to keen on slow or painful deaths. But for the most part, I don't fear death itself or what comes after it.

I'm excited to find out about post-death. But, i'm in no rush

Thats me. I don't really care about the dying part, I just don't want it to be a long drawn out painful procedure.

Well, as for right now I am afraid, but after my loved ones pass on, I dont think it will be so scary, I will look forward to being reunited with them.

I hope to have a chance to pee one last time before I die. With that eternal pain and all, this might get rid of some. As long as I get to pee, anyone can come kill me. No idea why. I just get a strange feeling of peace while urinating.

I've suddenly just got the urge to pee................... much better. I too had a strange feeling of tranquility. Odd.

i'm not afraid to die,just afraid about the effect it'll have on my family

I used to feel that way. Still do i suppose.

Very Admirable Juno

I'm not afraid of dying, but I am afreaid of being killed. I would like to live out a long and natural life without it ending prematurely.

I should probably quit smoking. But damned if I don't love it.

Personally, I believe the spirit lives on after death, and that our physical shell is shed as we enter immortality. This comes of course with my Christian faith. I believe those faithful to God will spend eternity with him. And I am not saying that if you don't believe in God you are going to hell, because frankly, I don't know. I don't know who God will choose for heaven or hell. Only He can make that judgement. But as for myself, I am confident that if I remain faithful to Him, I will spend eternity with him.

And that's fine by me.




BUT, if I do ending dying because I was killed, I have but one choice of how to go out:

I want to die fighting in the Moon Wars.

Let me explain. I have it in mind that as the space race continues, there may be colonies, and rival territories over the moons surface. And if I could die doing one thing, it would be fighting a battle in space. Because I'd always be historically remembered as "The Guy who died in the moon wars".

Pretty nerdy, eh?


EDIT Good topic for a thread though. Some responses were very interesting. Cudos.

Yeah, this is a good topic. I have been thinking about it recently. I was on holiday last week and my girlfriend is absolutely terrified of flying. I was just wondering why we are so afraid of death. If we were to crash it would have been quick and relatively painless. I personally have been unafraid of dying for a while, but I wasn't always like that. My reading and research into things like astral projection, near-death experiences, reincarnation and other things has given me a firm belief in the immortality of our souls. (I've got some past-life regression CD's I am going to try this weekend).

We, especially in the West are manipulated to fear death. It is a part of our society. That's why everything in society is so youth-orientated and ageist. We are made to resist the inevitable aging process. Wrinkles and baldness are now a signs of flaws, as opposed to signs of experience and wisdom, hence the plastic surgery boom. This fear of death and the fear of not doing everything we want leads us to become consumers and keep the capitalist system going. (I know - a conspiracy even in a thread like this. Those who've read my posts know what I mean).

I realised the only thing that frightens me about death is leaving my family behind, as someone else said. I feel I should square things with everyone I love, let them know what they mean to me then I can be totally free.

Also, consider these words of wisdom: One thing in life is certain, when you die someone will find your porn stash.

Hehe, I really like that word of wisdom RedEyeJedi.
Yes, once you can strongly believe that something will happen to you when you die, that you are not leaving the existence for all eternity, death doesn't sound terrifying at all. I myself has also read quite a lot of the different research and documentation on this, and hoping for the best. But, I guess I'm one of those that can never believe something enough before I actually see it with my own "eyes"...I wish I could settle with what everyone else tells instead of constantly seeking the truth. But I keep my fingers crossed that I'm not moving towards an end

I used to be scared of dieing awhile ago. Back then, I didnt believe in any religon and thought when we died it was nothing..game over..worm food.

But through a few experiences and changes of opinon, I dont believe that anymore. I believe in some kind of life after death, what will it be, I dont know. But I'm sure 100% in my heart there is something else. Personally I dont believe in hell or that if you dont follow a perfect life you will suffer for all eternity (though, murderes and other evil people..who knows) but thats just my opinon.

I just tend to live by karma now, as long as I do good things and treat people nicely and just dont do bad things, if I come back to this world again through reincarnation (which is something I believe in) I will come back and have another good and happy life.

The amount of stuff I have seen from so many different areas makes me believe without needing to have seen it myself. So much corroborating evidence from so many varied sources on a variety of subjects.

Also my belief in reincarnation is somewhat personal (indirectly). A younger cousin of mine was plagued with bad dreams when she was younger. She would wake up in the middle of the night screaming on a regular basis. Her mum would come in the room and she wouldn't see her mum she would just be talking to things/people that weren't there. She was probably just half asleep.

Anyway, she was plagued with these dreams up until about the age of 11. She used to dream of a school classroom and childish drawings of flowers - nothing scary, but she was absolutely gripped with terror.

One day she was watching a documentary on TV with her mum about the Aberfan Disaster, something I had studied at school in Geography. For those that haven't heard of this, it was an incident in Wales where a school was buried by a hillside coal tip that collapsed onto it.

Anyway, her mum said that she just instantly froze when she saw this program and she said that she was there. She said that she used to live there and she died in that school. Ever since then her nightmares stopped.

This story is exactly like other stories of past-life regression therapy done by people like Dr Brian Weiss, William Buhlman and others. Their patient's symptoms instantly stop when they relive past life traumas.

There are also children all over the world who talk of previous lives when they are very young. They recount events in detail too advanced for children of their age and a lot of the time the events they speak of are verified, and even surviving family members meeting up with reincarnated relatives. Researchers like Dr Ian Stevenson have studied these events and present overwhelming evidence for reincarnation. I mean, it used to be in the bible!

One amazing story is that of Jenny Cockell, who from the age of 3, spoke of her 8 children she had left with an irresponsible husband. Cut a long story short - when she was older she found 5 of the children who had grown up in orphanages and were now elderly. There were reunions, as the youngest 2 didn't even know they had siblings - they grew up in separate institutions. She told them things about their childhoods, that only their mother knew.

My girlfriend's niece used to say when she was very young, that she lived by a beach and her other mum was killed by a shark. Her mum used to say it was weird and it was a more detailed story containing more specifics, than you would expect from the imagination of a child.

We do live on.

Sorry - I talk too much.

im afraid of whats after, im more afraid of my loved ones dying than of me dying.

I'm a bit afraid of the process of dying. I imagine if I would drown... can't breathe...I imagine all my organs stopping...that is scary...because im very afraid of those body things, I am even terribly afraid to vomit, then what about dying!!? I am not so worried about the afterlife. If I will simply dissapear - it is not so bad.
Anyway, I like the thought that I will die. Because it gives beauty to life. I would be really dissapointed if I had'nt ability to die - maybe death is the only real adventure in my life. It may be the only paranormal, unusual, extreme experience in life! (of course, better if not)

There is no hell by the way. That's an invention of man.

Reference drowning: when I was training to be an unarmed combat instructor, we were all killed by a method that cut off air and cranial circulation, until clinical death. I assure you that the main feeling was a short (very short, in this case) period of panic, then a move to another place, although it really wasn't a 'place', not being physical. It did lack the chaos of our current environment. This was done so 'we wouldn't be afraid of dying.'
What's after, to me, is a place where I can be in complete peace: it is hard, very hard, to describe. My personal belief is that each one of us chooses what comes next. The karma thing, I guess: so if you need to come back to the dream, you do, but if not, you don't.
I would agree that hell is our invention; however, in my opinion, this is it. In biblical terms, look around: weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Chaos. Pain. What could be closer to the description of hell than this?
So anything that comes after must be better, right?
The above is not to say I've had a bad life at all. Just an observation about the world and humanity in its physical sense.
I personally believe that all this is a dream world, and I have my reasons for this.

I`m not scared of dying, I (and all other alien-beings) know that death is not the end, it`s a new start. *starts lauhing of what I just said*

I don't want to burst anybodys bubble but lets say a asteroid hits earth, and earth is
uninhabitable, how will u be reincarnated? or our sun burns out and exploded and
destroys earth? that is why i believe their is another plane to exist in, like heaven.

Back to the topic though, i am sorta scared of death for alot of the same reason other people said, i'm just not finished doing all the thing i want to do with my life, and the fact that it can all be takin away is kinda scary but i do believe in heaven so i don't feel that once you die it all over, once i am an old man though i will have no worry about it, reincarnation is a cool idea though i have always just wondered about what i said at top.

Any thought?

I don't exactlly know how to say it, except fear of death and worship of life don't mix too well together.

Think of it in this way ; suposedly there is life in millions of other places in the universe, in that case u could theoreticly get reincarnated anywhere in the uneiverse, right?

I've been reading alot of past life regressions, and there are some that have some odd experiences. They talk of places different from our earth. Places were society is different from any society of earth. I believe that if there is life on other planets, then we should be able to be reincarnated there as well. I've heard that earth is the worst place someone could reincarnate to.

Ok I'll make my reply short and sweet :

I'm afraid to die . I still have so much things I have to do and want to fufil them first before I die . I'm only 14

thank you,

Well I don't really know. Ever since I heard the phrase "What is it to value life more than death", I haven't really been afraid dieing. I think I heard it in a Tai Chi book or one of my dreams .

I think the best way to die is to be listeing to your favorite song while you are fading away.


I used to think that after you die you cease to exist, and then I would get the nastiest headache from thinking about it

But reading about astral projection and whatnot, I know that there is alot more going down after your physical body stops functioning.

So ITS ALL GOOD

me to, i'm 11 and im not so much afraid of death itself i'm afraid of what death will be like.

is it like sleep? i like sleep




alien

Oh yeah I totally agree with you.

I use too be very scared about dying, about the possiblity that when we die we cease to exist. No thoughts, no memories, no nothing; we just cease to be. I have since read and researched extensivly on NDEs and OBEs and subjects related to it. I have come to the conclusion that we, our souls, our personal self-awareness continues on somewhere after death. I have read to many accounts that people have written about when they were clinically dead. That to me, more than anything proves that there is a very high chance that there is something after death.

Now I am less afraid of dying, but like everyone else in the world, i still do not like to think about it nor what being dead means.

Your last sentence with the smoking sentence make me think you smoke to be cool. And this part about being damned if you dont love it? What dont you love? Yourself. Smoking is a terrible thing that makes you depressed and disrespect yourself.

I think we create heaven or hell for ourselves right now. Everything is perspective. If we create heaven now I think it comes to us after but if we create hell now I think it comes to us after.



You missed the point a bit. We are not human beings. We are not brains that are able to be destroyed by asteroids. If the whole entire thing was destroyed we would be the same as we were before humanity existed. Buddhists talk about no death no birth. Its a really helpfull insight to the true nature of reality.



I think that the only thing that is afraid of dying isnt the true "self" we never really existed anyways...What was concrete about who we were anyways? We never played the same moment twice. EVER never was it the same. Never was I the same. So when I am dead I am not the same but I was never the same in the first place. Its really hard to put into english.

Nice to hear that so many people have hopes and beliefs for death Almost makes me believe myself, atleast I can hope It would atleast give more meaning to life... If we are just simple materials "randomly" come to life over a billion years, well that just would be a really intelligent but stupid nature making a lof of effort for really no reason.

14, 11 geez is everyone here that young ??

I'm not afraid of it... there's so much we don't know about the afterlife... so when you think about it, it's actually a transition into something else...

I am afraid of dying a painful death, I want to go in my sleep.

I am not afraid of being dead, decause you wouldn't feel it, and if theres a heaven then it's possible that heaven is better than living anyway.

THE WORST PART IS: I hate the thought of not seeing my family and loved ones again. I know that in death, I wouldn't 'miss' them, but being alive and thinking about never seeing them again just brings a deep pain in your heart.

And I hate walking through a cemetery and seeing those old forgotten graves that are falling apart and broken.... I don't want mine to end up like that.

There is this process I've heard of where they cremate you, then they can turn your ashes to a diamond and set the diamond in a ring or necklace or other jewellery... I think thats pretty cool, you could end up a family airloom passed down throught generation and you would never be forgotten about

no everyone isnt that young

Well I too would like to believe that there was no such place, go to the Divine Mercy website, and read the mystic, St Fautina's description of it! There would be no greater tragedy if you found youself there, having never believed that such a place existed! Here is the link. http://www.divinemercysunday.com/vision.htm

I don't want to die painfully, but I dont want to die asleep too, because I want to be conscious while I'm dying.