Dark knifer said:
It's inevitable really so why fear it?
Marcus Dubious said:
We all die, it's inevitable.
steeltrain said:
I don't think it's the inevitability that scares people, it's the unknown.
You can't fathom what death is, you can't measure it in the first person, you can't imagine it.
And therein lies the fear. Inevitability has nothing to do with it.
I think anyone who says that don't fear death, or dying, is really fooling themselves.
I won't try to get into an internet tough guy debate about it, but everyone here, for the most part I'm sure, is speaking from a position of relatively good health, good prospects, and maybe even big plans. You don't fear death because it doesn't factor into your thinking in the everyday.
Color me a skeptic if anyone, outside of an elderly man or woman who has lived a long time, says that, in the face of obvious death, they'd be totally fine with it. I myself have a firm faith as a Christian (No, I won't debate you here about that), but I still give death it's healthy dose of fear. There is a finality about death that is unmatched by anything else in human understanding, and it demands, and deserves, a certain respect.
