I don't think so since we will all face it sooner or later (unless you're immortal). My only concern is not being able to leave a final message/ will to my love one (I should start making a will or something).
Are you afraid of death?
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Remember the days of the VHS tape? I would let the tapes run through to the end of the film and through the credits. After the credits there would always be a few seconds worth of tape which would show nothing but blackness and white-noise. I've associated death with something like that; life is the movie and the credits but death is what you get after. Only instead of lasting a few seconds it just goes on eternally. The idea of that for eternity has terrified me since I was a kid. Even if that's not what the afterlife is the idea that life is the first part of an eternal time span of something unknown is freaking terrifying.
Death, no.
Dying, fuck yes. Christ.
When I'm dead, I cease to exist, so that's not a problem.
When I'm alive, I'm not dead, so that's not a problem either.
Dying, though. Terrified. How will I die? Under what circumstances? Will it be painful? Shameful? Will my life end before it truly ever began?
Dying, fuck yes. Christ.
When I'm dead, I cease to exist, so that's not a problem.
When I'm alive, I'm not dead, so that's not a problem either.
Dying, though. Terrified. How will I die? Under what circumstances? Will it be painful? Shameful? Will my life end before it truly ever began?
I personally look forward to it... I'm just not into hurrying into something so final. Just kinda hoping I die fighting.
The idea of not existing isn't something my brain can imagine and therefore I don't believe I will not exist anymore when I die.
What I do believe will happen after I die? I have no clue.
What I do believe will happen after I die? I have no clue.
As I've never personally faced it, I'm not particularly worried. I'm far more worried about hurting other people when I leave, not because I believe I'm special, but because I have family and one cannot help but hurt when family passes.
But, then, I believe in God. Or, more specifically, I believe in Eternal Justice and an Arbiter thereof. If I am to be condemned to eternal torment, it wont be much different from my life, but at least I'll know I deserve what I have, rather than this unjust life wherein I have so much without having paid for it.
I imagine when I am facing death I will be terrified, however. No amount of belief is going to calm that fear.
But, then, I believe in God. Or, more specifically, I believe in Eternal Justice and an Arbiter thereof. If I am to be condemned to eternal torment, it wont be much different from my life, but at least I'll know I deserve what I have, rather than this unjust life wherein I have so much without having paid for it.
I imagine when I am facing death I will be terrified, however. No amount of belief is going to calm that fear.
Death is, in a way, a quite fulfilling thing. But yeah, it would suck if I were to die so early in my life. And so, I am a little afraid. But who knows what happens after...
I'm afraid of death, of course I am. I don't think anyone wants to die (Unless they've got serious shit going on in their lives) and no one likes knowing their existence is fleeting.
I'm not afraid of death, although I'm not in a hurry to get there.
I don't believe in any kind of afterlife, so once I'm dead, I believe I'll be gone, and not around to care one way or another.
But the idea of losing my loved ones terrifies me, especially since so many of them start to be old.
I don't believe in any kind of afterlife, so once I'm dead, I believe I'll be gone, and not around to care one way or another.
But the idea of losing my loved ones terrifies me, especially since so many of them start to be old.
I kind of have 2 views about death. One is that I'm not scared of dying as long as there is someone who will remember me, whether personally or because of something I've done.
My other idea is that what is now me will at some point be part of someone or something else entirely. My atoms could have come from Hitler's spunk, from a long since supernova'd star or from the last mammoth, and one day they could become part of anything. That, to me is a really romantic amazing idea.
My other idea is that what is now me will at some point be part of someone or something else entirely. My atoms could have come from Hitler's spunk, from a long since supernova'd star or from the last mammoth, and one day they could become part of anything. That, to me is a really romantic amazing idea.
The only fear of death I have is the potential grief it would cause loved ones. I don't want to die (usually; sometimes it seems like staying alive is more trouble than it's worth), but I'm not particularly offended by the fact that it's going to happen one day.
Life is a game; whether I win or lose is up to me. I'd hate for the game to end, but am I afraid when I've lost? Upset perhaps, but there is no fear preceding it. The victory is sweet though, yet the idea of victory scares me. For if I truly succeed, then I may never again be happy. But that fear is nonexistent in comparison to the idea that victory is not possible; thus I must strive for victory, regardless of the outcome.
If I thought all subjectively important things ended when I died, I wouldn't care about their grief one way or the other.Logiclul said:
Put another way, existence goes on without me (not that I can prove it). And thus, whatever grief (assuming there is any) that occurs is still a cause for regret for me.
