I'd love to know peoples thoughts on why they are not afraid at all. I assume it's due to religion but I could be wrong.
I don't believe in an afterlife or an oblivion. When I die, there will be nothing. There will literally be nothing to fear.
First thing that happens is the naturally occurring DMT in your brain begins to release and you experience severe hallucinations. Some people go to their version of heaven or hell, and some people stand outside their own bodies and watch what happens around them.
No because I was clinically dead for several minutes during a surgery once (stopped breathing) and there was nothing. No bright light, no voices, nothing at all but silent darkness.
TyVulpine posted...
No because I was clinically dead for several minutes during a surgery once (stopped breathing) and there was nothing. No bright light, no voices, nothing at all but silent darkness.
So like when you faint or have a dreamless sleep only never waking up?
Exactly.
So how do you guys/gals feel about what happens after death?
The many roads of life all narrow down to the same path at the end, so why bother looking towards the destination when you haven't even checked the map?
As I was saying before you deleted this...
I don't think anything happens after death, so I don't feel there's anything to be afraid of. I don't want to die, but if it happens then that's it and there's nothing else I can do.
I like this. I should think more about actually living and not waste my time dwelling on things I have no control over. Thanks man.
Have you ever woken up and though "fuck. I still have to deal with _______"
When you die you dont have to go through that :D
Don't be so afraid of death that it makes you afraid of life.I'm like this most of the time. I don't limit my life out of fear of death, but at the same time, as I get older and the inevitable is closer, I do irrationally fear it if I think too much on it. Like reading this thread. :-)
The best you can do is to postpone death for as long as possible -- but it is going to happen to you at some point. It's the one 100% guaranteed certainty in your life, and you will have to face it sooner or later; we all will. No getting away from it. Just make the journey there a worthwhile one, try not to have too many regrets, and hope that you won't be too afraid when you feel yourself sliding down into the dark forever.
I used to be when I was young. I don't anymore, now I worry about life.
I totally respect your points of view. But I can assure you, when I realized my inevitable condition of going to Hell and accepted the pay for my sins through Christ, that fear disappeared .
I've never understood how atheists could be afraid of being dead