Current Events > Do you personally fear death and dying?

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how much do you fear it, if you do?

Nope.

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You had no say in the way you came to this realm, you also have no say in how it ends

enjoy the ride one week at a time.

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those of you who don't fear it, are you religious or something?

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Joeydollaz posted...

You had no say in the way you came to this realm, you also have no say in how it ends

enjoy the ride one week at a time.

actually, some people do have a say on how it ends.

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now the answer is no but think in the moment id be 150 pounds wet

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I will fear death until I have lived.

DoubleOSnake posted...

those of you who don't fear it, are you religious or something?

Absolutely not, but that's one of the reasons not to fear it. When I'm dead, I won't know or care I'm dead because I won't exist to be able to do that.

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Change 1 vote from 3 to the first option.

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bumpo

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EmbraceOfDeath posted...

Nope.

Lol

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DoubleOSnake posted...

those of you who don't fear it, are you religious or something?

No I just see it as something I wont even be aware of. Like how you felt before you were born or when you sleep without dreaming.

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No. I'm a real man.

I only started fearing death after finding the love of my life.

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I fear it intensely. It was worse when I was younger though.

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Just the nothingness that comes after
The concept of nothing terrifies me

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Nah waiting for it

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I imagine death being much like before birth....nothingness. At worst there is no more pain to any degree, not even any tiny annoyances.

If there is an afterlife and NDE's are more than just a figment of your own dying brain, and it appears that only really bad and extremely selfish people have NDE's of hell as opposed to heaven, then there is categorically nothing to fear.

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Not necessarily. Like obviously I'm afraid of dying a slow and painful one because it is, you know, painful.

But death in general? Nah.

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Mareen posted...

Not necessarily. Like obviously I'm afraid of dying a slow and painful one because it is, you know, painful.

But death in general? Nah.

This is a great point. I fear my method of death a lot more than death itself.

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You'll never come back. It really makes you think.

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Turbam posted...

Just the nothingness that comes after
The concept of nothing terrifies me

This.

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im looking forward to it again

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I do. I would prefer immortality with an expanding brain drive, and a kill switch for when I get bored. But hey, nothing you can do to escape death.


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"Death and Dying" was an elective class in my high school. I didn't take it. I am still curious about the details, and this topic reminded me of it for like the first time in probably 20 years.

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asking a generally depressed forum if they fear death? yeah you're gonna get just 8% that fears it

Yes, but just because I have a family to look after

Otherwise, send it

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Death, no.

Pain, yes.

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No I don't really think about death, so I guess that means I don't fear it.

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Do you fear death? Do you fear that dark abyss? All your deeds laid bare, all your sins punished?!

I can offer you an escape...

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I guess the worst case scenario if this is the soundtrack to my eternity I would actually enjoy it.

https://youtu.be/yew9L0Xjm_g

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I dont fear being dead, but Im not looking forward to pain/withering away as it happens and I hope its quick. I definitely dont want to feel the pain of a heart attack, or struggling to breath or anything. Hopefully that shit wont happen to me. I can also imagine it will feel like a pretty big bummer to know that youre seeing everything for the last time in your final conscious moments.

Excerpt from the Venerable Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People (London: Penguin Books, 1990, pages 130-31), as reproduced in English translation. This text is Bede's account of the Anglo-Saxon's religious beliefs around the year 627 A.D. I have altered the spelling to match American conventions.

Book 2, Chapter 13:

He [the King] summoned a council of the wise men, and
asked each in turn his opinion of this strange doctrine [Christianity] and this new way of worshipping the godhead that was being proclaimed to them.

Coifi, the chief Priest, replied without hesitation: "Your Majesty, let us give careful consideration to this new teaching.
"For I frankly admit that, in my experience, the religion that we have hitherto professed seems valueless and powerless. None of your subjects has been more devoted to the service of our gods than myself; yet there are many to whom you show greater favor, who receive greater honors, and who are more successful in all their undertakings. Now, if the gods had any power, they would surely have favored myself, who have been more zealous in their service. Therefore, if on examination you perceive that these new teachings are better and more effectual, let us not hesitate to accept them."

Another of the king's chief men signified his agreement with this prudent argument, and went on to say: "Your Majesty, when we compare the present life of man on earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight of a single sparrow through the banqueting- hall where you are sitting at dinner on a winter's day with your thegns and counselors. In the midst there is a comforting fire to warm the hall; outside, the storms of winter rain or snow are raging. This sparrow flies swiftly in through one door of the hall, and out through another. While he is inside, he is safe from the winter storms; but after a few moments of comfort, he vanishes from sight into the wintry world from which he came. Even so, man appears on earth for a little while; but of what went before this life or of what follows, we know nothing. Therefore, if this new teaching has brought any more certain knowledge, it seems only right that we should follow it." The other elders and counselors of the king under God's guidance, gave similar advice.

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