Are you afraid of death?

It scares me, mainly because of the idea of Hell.

@mano521 said:

i guess so. i mean id rather not die, mostly because theres no proof to show anything will happen after i die. im not really jumping at the idea of nothingness for eternity

Just think of it like the time before you were born. That wasn't so bad now was it? I bet you hardly even remember it!

I'm more afraid of not dying.

Nope.

I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of the consequences. It literally makes me said if I think about the opportunities I would miss if I died, but then again I don't do anything that will get me killed and I don't plan on getting myself killed. Well time to get on with some looting and fighting police!

@Claude said:

@Hailinel said:

@CL60 said:

@bkbroiler said:

Yes, I am. And I think people that aren't in some way afraid of death are either deluding themselves or must believe in some afterlife.

A vast nothingness at the end of your brief existence doesn't get to you in some way? Just think about it... uuhg.

I'm Atheist and don't care if nothing is there when I'm dead. If I'm dead I'm dead. Not going to fear something that's going to happen regardless of what I do.

Try saying that after you've had a legitimate brush with death.

What was your brush with death Hailinel?

Pneumonia and a fever so bad I thought I'd seriously die from it.

@FluxWaveZ said:

@biospank said:

well yes I am afraid of dying.
and those who have told othervise are either suicidal or they have an ego who tells them that they are going to another state of consciousness.

Those who are afraid of death are pussies. Generalisation works both ways, yeah?

okey so you are not afraid to die why?

So you dont care if a guy pulls a gun at you or stab you in the stomach, kidney or liver. So you can feel the warm blood in you skin and the strong pain, and you feel the blood as you lifeline. But instead of trying to survive you would want to die, right there and then?

I can see how people would not care about an overdose of a substance like heroin, because when you die from that you are in wounderland.

okey so you are not afraid to die why?

So you dont care if a guy pulls a gun at you or stab you in the stomach, kidney or liver. So you can feel the warm blood in you skin and the strong pain, and you feel the blood as you lifeline. But instead of trying to survive you would want to die, right there and then?

I can see how people would not care about an overdose of a substance like heroin, because when you die from that you are in wounderland.

Why fear the inevitable?

yes, but i don't worry about it too much cause worrying doesn't change anything.

@FluxWaveZ: yeah I am really afraid of that, even if you are told you are going to die within a month, week, 15hours or 4hours. you will feel the worst pain you ever have experianced the last hours or min.

So this is why I am kinda pissed off when people say they are not afraid to die, because there are many factors you can die from. and the natural or overdose is not that scarry, but still scarry.

Meh... I used to be scared a lot, but it doesn't bother me anymore

I've accepted it, as you have to, but I'm still completely terrified of it.

I don't see what inevitability has to do with it.  All you young "badasses" saying "naw, the shit's inevitable" are all gonna be blubbering like babies when your time comes.  

Somewhat, although I honestly believe thirty years from now medical tech and science will be able to keep humans alive substantially longer. I do not believe in God, and I believe that gives life more meaning. There are many things I want to see, and despite our technological advances, politics and fear of an invisible man in the sky it seems will prevail over wisdom. For now. I want to live long enough to see sensibility take hold of the Earth. It may take a few hundred years...

I have almost died on several occasions, just to get back on topic and be serious about it. I was found almost gone on the side of the road a couple of years ago.

It was pretty bad, didn't return to work for a week, my knees were caked in blood and I don't remember what happened.When death approaches you like that it is not very fun.

Pants-shittingly terrified. As a CNA and EMT in training, I've seen folks die, and it's not this peaceful stuff I've seen in movies. 
 
Coupled with the fact that I have no real faith in an afterlife, I'd really not go through tremendous pain and then cease to exist. That sounds awful.

I FEAR NOT DEATH, FOR THE KHALA IS MY STRENGTH!

nope.

Not afraid of my own death, im much more scared about the people near me like my wife and my 9 months old daughter. You never know when your time is up, and the thought of loosing either before their time, is pretty bad. 

Death is afraid of me.

Death? No. At worst, it's just like before you were born, and how bad was that?
 
Dying? Absolutely. I heard it can be rather painful.

No, but only because I really don't think it's staring me in the face. Fearing random accidents or random violence doesn't work for me; as I've told you before, Claude, I'm 19, and my more likely causes of death are muggings and car accidents. Of course, I also don't taunt death by wasting life with drugs or recklessness. Also, totally read it in Bill Nighy's Davy Jones voice.

I just sooooooo miserable cause my life is sooo boring and full of thoughts of him with her. I just want to die, but I'm too much of a coward to do it; or is it a coward who does kill himself? Whatever the case, don't want to be alive, yet I live. I could end it all, but right as that last drop of blood filled the tile floor I would regret it all; what a predicament.

@CL60 said:

@m0rdr3d said:

I don't see what inevitability has to do with it. All you young "badasses" saying "naw, the shit's inevitable" are all gonna be blubbering like babies when your time comes.

Not quite. There's no reason to be afraid of death.

Fear isn't reasonable, though.

Obviously I'm afraid of death.  I think the people who say they aren't may not be putting themselves in the mindset needed to answer that question.  
 
Let's say one of us were to begin to fall from a great distance.  Say one of us began to slide down a mountain path toward a cliff where, if we fell down it, we would most certainly die.  What would you do?  Most of us would scramble to do whatever we could to stop from falling.  Now let's say I went up to that person and asked, "Why did you try so hard to stop from falling?"  We would likely answer, "I didn't want to fall."  Then I ask, "Why didn't you want to fall?"  Most of us would say, "I didn't want to die." 

So what I'm trying to say is is that we would all work as hard as we could faced with a life or death situation to live.  Why?  Because we want to live and we don't want to die.  We don't want the death as we know it is permanent and our finite lives would end forever.  To me, because we all would likely work so hard to keep ourselves alive in a life or death scenario I would argue that we all fear death.  It's just that that interpretation may not coincide with every person's definition for 'fear'.

Not really, tried to off myself this morning - but ended up playing TF2. Man that Huntsman is awesome.

Terrified. The fact that 58% of the answers is "no" seriously blows my mind. I don't buy it.
@CL60 said:

@m0rdr3d said:

I don't see what inevitability has to do with it.  All you young "badasses" saying "naw, the shit's inevitable" are all gonna be blubbering like babies when your time comes.  

Not quite. There's no reason to be afraid of death.

i wouldnt be scared of death if i knew when it was coming.  unexpected/sudden death is something to be scared of.  like everyone here, i would like to live my life to the fullest and experience the most i can before i go.  it would suck to just be hit by a bus one morning, not expect it and die a young age.

@CL60 said:

@m0rdr3d said:

I don't see what inevitability has to do with it.  All you young "badasses" saying "naw, the shit's inevitable" are all gonna be blubbering like babies when your time comes.  

Not quite. There's no reason to be afraid of death.

.....Except for the part where it literally marks the end of your existence.

I've had way too many near death experiences in my life. My fear of death subsided a long time ago.

And? I wont be there, I'll be dead.

@CL60 said:

And? I wont be there, I'll be dead.

Exactly.  You won't be absorbing new information, experiencing new sights and smells or well....pretty much doing anything. If being alive isn't reason enough, why the hell do you still live now? Do you not value your own life? If you knew you would die in 5 minutes, would you seriously not care?  I find that hard to believe.

Since I feel as if I haven't posted in here enough. 
 
Not afraid of the state of being dead at all, i'm fine with that. 
 
Of course everyone would be suprised when faced with a sudden or unexpected chance of death, thats human nature but live your fucking life if the thought of death controls you being able to sleep at night and enjoy it. Death isn't everything, and there is something after it. Whether that may be nothing or something cool i'm fine with it.

                    @mutha3 said:

@CL60 said:

@m0rdr3d said:

                    I don't see what inevitability has to do with it.  All you young "badasses" saying "naw, the shit's inevitable" are all gonna be blubbering like babies when your time comes.  

Not quite. There's no reason to be afraid of death.

                   

               

.....Except for the part where it literally marks the end of your existence.

                   

               

And? I wont be there, I'll be dead.

                   

               

no, i don't think of it.

No.  Hell,  it cant be any  worse than these days we live in. I dont believe in God/Heaven ,The Devil/Hell so I'm actually quite curious to find out what happens when we pass on.  Not really in a hurry to get to that point and find out, but with all the variables within our daily lives,  I could very well get hit by a bus riding my bike tomorrow.  It's inevitable that its gonna happen.  No need to fear it.
 
I just dont want to be lit on fire and burned to death.  That would be a bummer.

Not scared, just curious what goes on when you die. (Atheist) 

Death makes me a little anxious. Not because I fear the end of existence (I don't have any bad things to say about my pre-birth state), but because I am intensely....interested in what occurs after (if anything). Dying sounds like it could be pretty unpleasant, however. 
 
Generally though, I gotta shrug and move on. Ain't no point worrying about it - you gotta do what you gotta do. Fear is the mind-killer.

Normally, I'd say I don't think about it. My time will come sooner or later.

However, after watching Joey's Final Destination montage: yes, I am a little more afraid of death.

However, after watching Joey's Final Destination montage: yes, I am a little more afraid of death.

Sometimes the idea of just no longer being there terrifies me. But not as much as being there forever. It's a hard balance but as someone who's always naturally been wary of the unknown I'm a little scared of death but that fear is subjective too my current situation.  
 
For example I collapsed a few years ago at school (I had a spate of collapses which, surprise surprise, one I improved my diet and exercise regime vanished). I collapsed in the disabled toilets which I had gone too when I felt uneasy. I regained consciousness before I regained control of my body, eyes or ears. So I was essential deaf/blind/paralysed for about  10 seconds but it felt like minutes. I remember having to force my body awake through sheer will power and through my blurry vision all I saw was the white of the toilet ceiling. At that point I was convinced I was dead or dying and I just accepted it. I wasn't worried it was kind of like an inevitability. Anyway I didn't die... 
 
One thing that sometimes scared me more than dying is the idea of living forever in heaven or hell or purgatory or elysium or where ever. Not sure why it worries me I just find the idea of being "alive" forever terrifying sometimes. 

@buzz_clik said:

Am I scared that I'll be kidnapped and eventually have my head cut off as I release a final gurgled scream? Well, not in a day-to-day way, but it'd suck if it happened.

There's your first mistake. ;)

No, I'm not afraid to die. Regardless of how I go I can be happy knowing I did my best to positively affect lives around me. Do I want to go any time soon? Not really. But I've done plenty to be proud of in my life. So if I go, I'll go with a smile on my face.

I am worried about dying before I have to. I am curious about this world that I live in. I am curious about what will happen, what new developments will be made and how society will change. I want to live as long as possible in order to see as much of the future as possible. I want to know what new technologies will be invented, I want to see what lasting impact the actions of today will have 50 or 60 years from now.

So I am afraid of death in the sense that I am afraid of missing out on seeing the future. But as long as I can live till I'm at least 80 or so, I'd be happy. Also, as woody allen once said, it's not being dead that frightens me. It's the process of dying that frightens me.

I don't think about it much.   
 
I fear getting older.  It just seems like a much more pressing concern.

I don´t fear death.. I fear the pain of dying.. Theres no good way to die.. If you sleep it might get stupid crazy death because the dreams have no limits.. Man i fear the way im going to die and how much pain im going to feel. 

It's in my human nature to be afraid of death with the pain involved.

It's in my human nature to be afraid of death with the pain involved.