Poll: Are you afraid of death?

[Booze Zombie]

Do you dread the day that your life ends and your energy returns to the earth?

I would answer a resounding "no". I acknowledge that by being given life I have been given death as well and I accept that and I await death, hoping it's embrace shall not occur for quite some time.

 

[AkJay]

it's more on HOW i die, then death itself.

 

[Aardvark]

Ask me when I'm dying.

 

[seidlet]

as mark twain said, i was dead for millions of years before i was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

 

[SharPhoe]

Everyone knows that death HAS to happen, there's simply no getting around that. I know it's gonna be there in the future, but that doesn't exactly mean that I have to look forward to it. I like living. It makes me feel alive.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Everyone knows that death HAS to happen, there's simply no getting around that. I know it's gonna be there in the future, but that doesn't exactly mean that I have to look forward to it. I like living. It makes me feel alive.

Imagine that.

 

[darthzew]

As a Christian, I'll go ahead and say not without delving too deeply into why.

But if didn't believe, I wouldn't fear it either. You slip into nothingness, but the thing is you wouldn't notice. There'd be nothing... some people see a black abyss... but even that's not there. There's no prison or anything. There's nothing.

I'm not afraid of "nothing".

 

[Lukirre]

That's not an easy answer to give, really.

The first, and most natural, response would be "no", because all logic points towards your inescapable death and there's really nothing you can do about it. Therefore, you have to accept the fact that you will die. However, just because you accept your inevitable doom, that doesn't really mean that it's something to not be afraid of. Logic doesn't always control emotion, obviously. There are a lot of things on this planet that are going to be sorely missed, and there are a lot of things that you'll probably never get to see. Not to mention all the people you leave behind, as well as how they'll handle it. It's not really an easy task to think about your existance just ending, and then to say "Hah, that doesn't even matter."

 

[Noamuth]

I think I'm more scared of growing old than dying.

 

[jockslap]

umm yeah, to fear death is in part to fear life. Death is the counterpart and centrepeice for all of life, a final conclusion from which none escape and no exceptions are made. It is the proverbial elephant in the room, and nothing we can say or do will change that. How can a human being fear death and not fear life? They are but flipsides of the same coin.

 

[Archaon6044]

i don't fear death itself, what i fear is the unkown and unknowable "after" that come with it. that's what scares me.

plus i suppose the actual dying part is somewhat scary

so actually, i'm cool with death, it's just the 'before' and 'after' parts that get me

 

[TurretedCasius]

I laugh in death's face. Death barely even phases me. Admittedly if my whole family died right now, I wouldn't care much.

 

[chunkydude84]

i don't fear death itself, what i fear is the unkown and unknowable "after" that come with it. that's what scares me.

plus i suppose the actual dying part is somewhat scary

so actually, i'm cool with death, it's just the 'before' and 'after' parts that get me

That sums up my feelings.

 

[Xanadeas]

It's not so much dying that I'm afraid of as it is how I die and what happens to me afterwards... I sure as hell hope there's some sort of afterlife. Existing's really all I do. D:

 

[Booze Zombie]

I laugh in death's face. Death barely even phases me. Admittedly if my whole family died right now, I wouldn't care much.

There's not being afraid and there's needing psychiatric help.

 

[space_oddity]

as mark twain said, i was dead for millions of years before i was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

Sweet Scientific Theory!
(my version of omg)
As soon as i saw the thread topic i thought of quoting this, but you massively beat me to the punch. Also a favourite:

"Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist." - Epicurus

 

[blackhunt40]

i just think of something my priest said at church.
"imagine that life is like the womb and death is like being born. If the baby had the choice it would remain in the warmth of the womb, but we know how much it would miss out on. People not wanting to die is like the same. We would prefer to stay alive but we don't know what we would be missing.

 

[Archemetis]

Do you dread the day that your life ends and your energy returns to the earth?

I acknowledge that by being given life I have been given death as well and I accept that and I await death

What a great life you must lead, I mean sure realising death is the biggest certainty in a human life will set you free to take much more risks in life and potentially improve the standard of living in the sense of experiences.

But on the other hand, by acknowledging it and "Awaiting" it you've essentially rendered all your human endeavours pointless...

Me? I'm more or less on the same boat as a few previous posters, I realise it's coming, like most i'm all for staving it off for as long as I can and it's not the prospect of death that frightens me, it's simply the means.

 

[Skalman]

When I'm dead I'll be nothing, which isn't anything to fear really. I just won't be. No afterlife. No consciousness. No nothing.

What I do fear is to die excruciatingly painfully. That, I'd like to avoid.