Are You Afraid To Die?

[karate_woman]

I think if I was afraid to die, and lived in fear of that, it would basically mean I'd be afraid to live as well.

[Drunken Monkey]

the one thing that scares me right now is not seeing the person i love ever again.

 

the thing that scares me about death is the thought of all the wonderful people in the world that i never got the chance to meet, the things that i never did, the places i've never been to and things i never learned.

 

i guess i'm scared that i might end up on my deathbed regretting all the things that i've done or all the things i haven't done.

 

am i afraid? yes. it kinda makes me appreciate things more. it's been said before but the only certaintly in life is that it ends. for that reason we should make our short stay worthwhile.

[mikS]

I am much, much more afraid of an immediate family member dieing, than me dieing myself.

 

Yeah, i feel exactly the same way.

[mArTiAl_GiRl]

I am much, much more afraid of an immediate family member dieing, than me dieing myself.

 

Yeah, i feel exactly the same way.

 

Me too! I'm specially afraid of loosing a person I love, a family member or someone else. I myself am not so afraid of death.

[mArTiAl_GiRl]

I would even die for the one I love!

[Fenris-wolf]

Yeah, it's more complicated than it sounds... I spent a long time not wanting to be alive, but not wanting to hurt myself... and more importantly I couldn't do that to my loved ones.

 

Now I'm feeling a lot better and despite no fear of the concept of death it's quite amazing how much your body doesn't want to give up when push comes to shove.

 

So baisically I have no problem with death in itself. Unfortunately the less intellectual parts of me have a big problem with dying!

 

P.S. Definately, I could never choose my own life over someone elses. Even if I wasn't particularly fond of them.

 

P.P.S. Except of course in the case that they're trying to kill me!

[Sunsu]

hah! Death holds no power here! I am the great Isshinryuka Sunsu! Death still owes me five dollars from a poker game last weekend!

 

And the devil still hasn't delivered my refrigerator yet!

 

[Just kidding, God. Please don't smite me, all mighty Smiter! ]

[WC-Strayder]

No, I do not fear death!. What I do fear is the pain I'll suffer before I die, but not death it self. Death is for me a totally normal and nessesary thing in life, we all gonna die sooner or later so that do not scare me anymore, but what scares me is how I die. To put it this way: I rather be strucked by lightning, runed over by a truck or shot dead, with other words die very quicklly than die in old age after years and years of living pain hell, but who cares. Put in other words you can say that it is life that scares me, not death it self.....

 

We don't own life, we just borrow it from the earth we live on..... sort of like KI...

[Shorin Ryuu]

I'm not really all that afraid of dying. I try to live my live each day with a positive attitude and the way I like (as much as the military lets me, anyway ) and if its my time to go, then its my time. Of course, I don't have a spouse or kids or anything like that, so this philosophy is much easier for me to hold now then possibly later.

[VargTimmen]

I'm one of the undecided ones, sometimes I feel that there is a God and then we go to heaven/hell - sometimes I think that we don't do anything and just decay.

 

But there are many ways to look at the situation, from a religious point of view is the most common one. Now I don't mean to generalise but nearly every religion believes in a better place for the good and a worse place for the wicked. So in which case then there is nothing to worry about if you know within yourself that you have been good and tried to be good to others.

 

The second point is the athiest point of view, this means that nothing happens after death and we just decompose. This view also cannot be bad cause if there is nothing, there is no pain, no hurt and no other negative things concerned with life.

 

Then finally the scientific point of view, we are made up of energy and minerals. This energy must be passed on as energy cannot be destroyed and the minerals must go onto some type of evolution/re-incarnation.

 

Whichever one it turns out to be then it can't really be that bad for us, I used to have a terrible fear of death which would keep me up all night, make me feel sick and occassionally still does. But in the same way when I grow old (I'm 18) I think I would be ready for it.

 

At the moment I do not fear death, I don't believe if you don't fear death you are stupid or anything. I respect death which I find is the more important thing - it happens to all of us so we must just try and suceed within our selves in this life and when the next one comes along if it does we must just embrace it.

 

I apologise if that doesn't make much sense - I'm tired.