Are you afraid to die?

are you afraid to die?

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Are you afraid to die?
Me personally, Death's a very weird topic
Because you don't plan it out. Some may want to live until they're 100 but the next day will die in a car crash :/
What if there isn't heaven or hell? Like we as humans will never know until we're dead. It's not like you can ask someone that's already dead.
Its not like before you were born where you haven't experienced life you know?
Although these questions remain in my mind I'm not afraid to die. I try and live life to the fullest and if i were to die I'd be satisfied with my life. To me when your afraid to die you never really let loose because you'll never take risk because your so afriad to.
IMO, Being afriad of death means your already dead.
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Me personally am not afraid to die.
I would just accept my fate and go how ever whoever planned it planned it.
I wouldnt mind living till I was 100 odd years old but if I was to die tommorow i wouldnt be afraid to put it simply.
 
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As for being afraid of dying...It depends, I don't want to die anytime soon, but I don't want to live to the point where I'm in pain, or a burden on my family and friends. So, as long as I can look after myself and everything works..then yes, I would be afraid of death, but as soon as I need someone else to help me with everything, or if I had a terminal illness, then I would accept death.
 
Some days I'm afraid of death but most days I'm not. I believe in Heaven and Hell but would rather not see any of it. When I die I just want it to be the end of my long and rough life. I'm sure if I had something I wanted to do in the world I would want to live but I've been disabled for years now and its just boring. I may be depressing but thats how I feel about death. Death happens.
 
Yeah, i'd want to live life and do many things before i die.
I can't stand watch like T.v shows and movies where the patient is so sick and wants to die yet they still try to keep them alive.. If they want to die.. let them be. Phoenix, I have to agree with you on the part where someone else would have to cater to me 24/7 just because i couldn't do it myself cos im too old or too sick.
 
I'm not sure...sometimes I'm afraid, other times I'm not, although I do dread the day when that happens. I suppose you could say I'm more afraid of leaving my loved ones behind and not being a part of their lives anymore - that's something that leaves a very sorrowful feeling inside even just by thinking about it.

There's really nothing wrong with being afraid of death in general - who wouldn't be? It sneaks up behind you, sometimes in the most blissful chapters of your life and that's very unfortunate, especially to others who loves you. But I've come to terms that it's inevitable and you just gradually learn to accept it. Doesn't really mean that I'm no longer afraid of death - I still am, but it's not something I ponder about on a daily basis either because why waste time worrying and frowning about something that will happen someday anyway? Might as well make use of your time left as wisely and productive as possible.

IMO, Being afriad of death means your already dead.
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The idea of death doesn't scare me. It's the situation before death that does. I have lived my life with no regrets. I am happy where i am now. If i were to perish tommorow, i'd die knowing that i did all i could.
 
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I think she means if you live in fear of death and/or give up on living, you're pretty much useless and as good as dead anyhow.

For me, I can't really say I'm afraid of death. I'm sure I would be in the moment of my death and I certainly don't do anything to risk my life, but I'm not afraid of it. I don't sit around dwelling on it and I've pretty much accepted that when it comes, I'm ready for it. In other words, I don't really welcome it but I'm not afraid of it either. Shit happens. My death would only impact a few people and, at this point in my life, only emotionally. After that, at the very least, I'd just be a nice memory. At most, I'd be a soul in Heaven and a nice memory to those whom I still mean something.
 
Nah, it's something Ive never been afraid of, ever. I'm more concerned with getting old and not being able todo things for myself, Id rather be dead than helpless and need someone I don't know wiping my arse. Once your dead your dead - it's another one of those, why worry about the inevitable, happens to us all eventually

You could say that about my fear of being an old incontinent fool, but I plan on beign dead before that happens to me anyway

So in short, nope; I aint scared of snuffing it. If it happens tomorrow I won't know no different because I'l be dead. -shrugs-
 
Without death, there really is no value to life. It is necessary, so to fear it, well I don't know if I can. I mean of course when the time comes, I'm sure I'll fear it for the moment, but will accept whatever enables my passing eventually.

I have lived a good life, I have been graced with way too much, and am very thankful. So whenever it comes, I'll sure be ready.
 
Wow im the only one that answered yes, I answered yes because im afraid of the unknown and when you die what if thats it. Like your gone forever, you dont go anywhere you just die. When I die I want to go to Spira :D
 
This is an interesting question... I'm not too sure on the answer myself as I seem to have a bit of a complex, and at the moment I'm not thinking straight and everything is going kaput. :monster:

Throughout my life since discovering that life would end I have always feared it. I could never understand people that said they don't mind death, as me, I'd want to live forever if I had the chance - see the ages happen, watch, learn everything, know everything. I know it is inevitable that I will die, but the irrational side of my mind tries to convince me that one day I'll find a genie, and become immortal :monster:.

But no at the moment my life switches.. Some days I'm screaming at the top of my voice (when I'm alone) begging for death to take me on days I can't think straight and everything comes on top of me. Other days I beg for immortality. At the moment there is no middle ground. What I need is to be at peace with myself, and accept death as a part of the process of life and that nature will choose the time. At the moment I can't bring myself to that point, probably because I'm not happy with how my life is playing out (I'm 20 and I haven't lived yet, and now seeing everyone else "living" garr!).

Time just goes too damn fast to keep on top with your life.. And everything is TOO damn focused on work in the Uk, or perhaps my nature or upbringing, or other peoples expectations has led me to think this. In that we hit the balance wrong, and the finer things of life are left to the sidelines and work becomes THE thing.. I've always seen it that if I fail at GCSE's then my life is over, I deserve to DIE! If I fail my A-levels, my life is over, I deserve to DIE! But now I'm at Uni, I'm reaching the point that I realise that none of that REALLY matters at all. I may be losing my mind at the moment, but I believe some good is coming out of it, in that I'm opening up to what really matters...

But yeah..
When I daydream I dream of being immortal. I dream of being invincible and guardian of the earth, protecting everyone, but being alive forever and able to do all the things I have missed out on in my life so far. I really do daydream quite a bit, and this is the most common daydream I get.

Perhaps what I can conclude is that I don't want to die now, even if I feel like I can't be bothered to carry on. I want to experience life so that when I'm older I won't fear death so much, as I will have lived. I'm pretty much a living example of your original post of "being afraid of death means you are already dead". Harsh words but true.


I apologise one-hundred times if this post happened to be a bit crazy. The truth is... I AM crazy at the moment. I just know I'll regret most of my "crazy-Argor" posts when I sane-up. :monster:





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To add to that if I were to get knifed tommorow and I was left in a puddle of blood with my life flashing before me.. I think I'd probably come to accept it was my time. The initial "oh crap! panic!" at seeing the mad knife murderer, or monkey-expression-faced yob come towards me might die down. I'd reflect on the things I have been lucky at, and that is travelling quite a bit, and being true to myself (i.e not acting up to blend in with people, but being myself - not refining myself to fit a category of people to look cool).
 
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Fear of death can mean more than just not wanting to live life to the fullest though. Take being a life or death situation. Say a mother is having a baby and her blood pressure is extremely high which is causing bleeding and many other complications that could ultimately end the mother's life. Is she scared to die? No doubt. Is she already dead because she's given up? No. She just wants to make it through the situation alive.

Being afraid to die isn't necessarily a bad thing. Think also about military servicemen going into War and risking their lives against an enemy that you have no idea what they are capable of.

Vehicle accidents. Diseases. What about people who are facing a rapist or a murderer. They fear death possibly because they just want everything to be alright and back to normal.

So overall, being afraid of death isn't bad given the situation. As for myself, as long as it's nothing to brutal, I don't concern myself with it. I mean people give me shit because I'm going into the Military and the possibility of war, but I'm joining the safest branch, and even if that came into play, it's the last thing I have on my mind. I'm more nervous about Boot Camp.

Death? Nah, doesn't play in my mind much at all. If it happens, I just hope it's short and sweet so I don't spend more time worrying about it than actually going through it.
 
Absolutely. I've always been afraid of dying, and I always will be.

Living is what I do. I don't want to stop it. It's my purpose. Not living means I'm nothing more than an object, and just being a thing is an awful concept. I value my perceptions and experiences enough not to want them to end.
 
Hmmm i dunno ive always wondered whats out there after death, anything could happen really, know one knows. So when the time comes i guess thats something to look forward to.
I dont wanna die anytime soon though, id be gutted if i did, ive gotta get through my list of things to do first, ive checked some of them off the list but i still aint starred in a porno yet:wacky:
Saying ur not scared of death is easy but i wonder how some people would feel if they were told when they were gonna die, their whole perspective would change, i know mines probadly would.
I think thats whats so tragic about ilnesses like cancer.:/
 
I probably won't really know if I would be afraid of death until I am facing the situation. I also imagined that if I ever got struck with cancer or something I would then relax and try and enjoy myself to the fullest as I can. If I was in a situation of being attacked by someone with a knife with no one around for help then I would probably imagine that I would fear death.
 
No, I'm not afraid to die. Tbh, I'd be very happy to live to at least 30 years old. I consider the best part of your life is your late teens to early 20s. (not that I've reached that age yet) There have been a couple of times I have brushed death, one of them involving quicksand in a quarry, and another was a cliff in Spain. :/
 
For me its why fear the inevitable? much like kelly put, I dont have a fear of something I have no control over.

For me I see it like this, why worry about dying when you have a life to live? why worry about something you cant do a damn thing about when you have something you can do something with?

Those that usually fear death, fear it because there life is not complete, they dont want to go to the grave when there is so much they feel they need to do...

Although my life isnt the greatest thing ever, things could definatley be better, would I feel any regret if I was to die tomorrow?..... Not at all because I dont see a point in regretting something that has already taken place.

and thats my thoughts in a nutshell :)
 
Nah, I'm not afraid to die. We're dying with each and every single passing day, anyway.

I might be afraid of not being able to finish doing things I want to do, but death... is just death. Happens to everyone.
 
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