Are you afraid to die?

[theNGclan]

Depends on the context of the death.

 

I welcome death, but I don't want to die without experiencing some things.

[Mister Kay]

Death is mundane. It only breaks the illusion of I.

Everything is lifeless on the physical plane, you can also say everything is alive.

Everything is arising and passing, arising and passing.

 

i isn't afraid to die.

i only seeks liberation from Sankhāras before the final truth comes to stare in the face of "i"

 

 

Ed: i also wants to pay karmic debts before death so i doesn't have to come back to toil.

Edited February 26, 2016 by Mr.Monk

[Flachbau]

No. So many people from my life are gone from this "real world". I don't know where they are but I hope to join them when that time comes.

[Sombra]

i aint afraid of anything cept spiders and hemorrhoids

 

 

[SupaDoopa]

Yes, because I'm afraid of the unknown.

[Original Light]

I'm afraid of death. I've been thinking of it more so lately with death occurring all around me. My grandmother passed on June 3rd, 2015, only for my aunt to pass away two months later. Then another family member passed away (though I didn't know him much).

 

I'm young. I'm enjoying life to its fullest, but sometimes we all get caught up in thinking about this. I was raised as a Christian, Catholic to be specific, though I think it's normal at times to doubt your own faith and become fearful of what happens after death. Either way, for most of us here, the technology of the future (about 40-50 years from now) will help us live much longer. Think about how big of a difference the medical field was from 1900 to 1960, and 1960 to 2016. I wouldn't be surprised if the first person to live to 150 has already been born.

Edited February 26, 2016 by Original Light

[HelloMyNameIs...]

Its the circle of life we live and we die its nothing you should be afraid of.

 

I know this thread is old but meh, thought I'd answer anyway.

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

I want to die beforr i relize it....atm

Sadley i cant control that.

Its realy a bit akward...last month for an examplei had a headace and i was fantasizibg about it being a braintumor that Woud kill me within the year and then just thinking about taking all money from the bank and spend it over that period...just going wild...

then other moments the idea of any death scares the sh*t out of me

Edited February 27, 2016 by goldadderXD

[Cripto136]

In all honesty, I sometime relish at the thought of ceasing to exist. What does get to me is how will my death affect my family emotionally and financially. I don't want them to struggle with money to give me a proper funeral or cremation.

[Richard Power Colt]

I mostly just find it annoying that I can't see what's gonna happen hundreds of years into the future.

[Kohr-Ah]

Afraid of death? No.

Afraid of the pain that usually comes with death? Yes.

It's such an odd fear, really.

[Crossed]

To fear death would be to fear the unknown. I dont like the unknown but I more often then not, dive head first into it.

[Girish]

Perhaps, slightly. But only when I'm thinking about it though. The fact that death may be waiting around any corner unbeknownst to me is what scares me sometimes.

[Vile Snarfely Esq.]

me afraid to die? does Tump sh*t in the woods? we will never know, and YOU will never know. i will tell you this about death though.. she-is-a-cumming for us all! there is no escape. you could always sign up for one of them thingies ol' Disney did.. you know, where you freeze yourself? But what if like, you wake up in like 2069 and there is no more genders wars because there is no longer a female and male... just one sex called FeMales. so basically people who have both a meat sausage AND a roast beef taco. so you could just arch that sausage right over into that taco and basically fornicate yourself. so basically what all this comes down to is, would you rather freeze yourself or embrace the arms of death?

 

i just might choose the latter, folks!

 

:-]

[GIRR]

Nope. Death is only the beginning, who knows what happens when we finally die.

[SinZer0s]

Yes, that's why i'm getting a robotic body in the future.

[DoctorStar]

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Edited March 30, 2016 by DoctorStar

[Mercury_]

No, absolutely not. My life is also one big nightmare without pretty things in it.

[Undyne]

I died inside a long time ago so...

 

 

No I'm not scared of death, but I'm scared of what's after.

 

Edited March 1, 2016 by Mona Sax

[IAKSOTOT]

What will you feel if you feel nothing?

It's not bad at all. If you've ever been knocked unconscious, been under general anesthesia or had a seizure you've been there. No time passes and there are zero concerns. You only ever think about it once you wake up (even marginally).

 

If you never wake up from the experience, you will never even know you died for sure. It's not bad, but it still scares me to the degree that I spend time thinking of ways to minimize the odds of it happening. I like having my memories. Those being gone forever boggles my mind. But, oh well. It really is nothing.

[TheGodDamnMaster]

I'll admit, my fear of death seems to come and go over time. I guess it's not so much being dead itself would be so terrible (it actually wouldn't be anything because you're gone), but the idea that it lasts forever absolutely terrifies me. It really makes you think about what the real point of being alive is. I'm almost tempted to say I'd rather have not been born in the first place just so I wouldn't have to be afraid. I hate the concept of eternity because it's so beyond the realm of human comprehension.

 

This TED Talk may be helpful to those struggling with the fear.

 

 

Edited March 4, 2016 by TheFoxRiverFugitive

[UshaB]

I'm afraid of dying for I am afraid of not really living at all.

[The Dedito Gae]

I'm the only one who doesn't give a f*ck if there's an afterlife?

 

Don't get me wrong, i wish i went to heaven to play with my brother to the PS2 for eternity, but a void doesn't sound that bad, gotta be like sleeping, no worries or thoughts, that's complete peace IMO:

 

[Youtube]

[TheGodDamnMaster]

^I don't fear the void itself. I fear the fact that it's eternal. I cringe thinking about just how short our lives are in comparison to the entire history of the universe, how the Earth predates our species by billions of years and how it will be here for millions/billions of years after us.

 

I suppose it's the fact that we don't have a real purpose other than to reproduce like all other organisms that's disturbing to me. Everything just suddenly feels so unimportant in the grand scheme of things and I find myself asking why the f*ck I get out of bed everyday.

 

In some ways, our higher intelligence and self-awareness is our weakness. Pretty much all other organisms on the planet don't have to worry about dying because they lack the ability to comprehend what death really is.

 

This past week I've been thinking about this so much and it really has me in a slump. I don't think I've ever felt this depressed and hopeless in my life. I'd always known deep down that the likelihood of there being an afterlife was slim, but I hadn't really truly accepted that until just recently. Now I'm f*cking terrified.

Edited March 6, 2016 by TheFoxRiverFugitive

[The Dedito Gae]

^^They say ignorance is bliss, guess they are right, huh?^^

[CantThinkOfOne2013]

Nope, I'm a Christian and I believe that Jesus Christ paid the penalty of death for all who believe.

[Gnocchi Flip Flops]

but a void doesn't sound that bad, gotta be like sleeping, no worries or thoughts, that's complete peace IMO

I don't think it would be like anything. I mean you're just not there. There's no worries but no peace. There's nothing. Kind of hard to comprehend.

[or1]

I may start to fear death only if there is high probability that I could die.

 

I'm only 27 years old and very healthy so I don't even think about it.

[Mister Kay]

Anicca or impermanence is what we run from, anicca is what we fear, anicca is what we join forces against and attempt to smash. Anicca is the destruction of our personal power, the loss of our world as we know it. Anicca is what drives the world mad. But the experience of anicca, a precious and fortunate opportunity into which one develops slowly, the actual direct experience, as opposed to our images, bugaboos, and sideways glances - the experience of anicca is a simple, clear, fact, like the wind.

 

It is a release, like a dip in a healing, cool, fresh river. Now I am washed away in the river, after so much fussing, I am torn away and alone in current. But I can swim, or rather, float. The self I held, I left with my towel on the shore, but I'm still alive, I haven't drowned or died. Pieces of what I imagined I had to grip to me come floating along beside me. The current of the world is unravelling in faces and forms. Without my will the universe unrolls, and fills my arms with muscles, my heart with human concerns. The scintillating milky way of my back is a winking and shimmering constellation, my body itself is a river, a continent of rivers, a flickering, vibrating, shoreless ocean of currents and channels, unfathomable, beginningless, endless. The living ride on life like the foam on the crest of a surge on the cosmic ocean.

 

The realization of anicca is a deep insight into ourselves and the world around us. It exposes the absurdity of clinging to a passing life in a passing world. It relaxes the clenched false hopes of narcissism, and enables the flow of spontaneous identification with all other transient lives. From the experiential realization that all things are anicca, that I am anicca, comes the deepest empathy possible, a feeling of kinship with all beings who suffer alike from the pain aroused by the illusion of separate self, a feeling of fellowship with all beings who yearn for liberation from the agony of separation, dissolution, death.

[Arachne]

Meh, it's better not to think about death...