anyone afraid of death?

[Jacobcc]

Is anyone here scared or afraid of dying?..i know i am.

 

[Lesheik]

I'm not.

 

[omfgomfg]

i will reiterate lesheik's words so there is really no point in posting here other than to say them
but anyway it does not ask anybody to give their reasoning why or why not they are afraid of dying, so there is no need to do so

 

[Phlemingo]

I'm not necessarily afraid of death itself but I have a strong fear of the unknown as most people do.

 

[cF=)]

Live life to the fullest and you won't be afraid of loosing it all. That's my philosophy.

 

[Crimson King]

There is no point fearing the inevitable.

 

[Dodongo]

Existential dread has been in the back of my mind for as long as I can remember. It's definitely the defining question of human life. Everyone has a different way of dealing with it, whether by ignoring it, coping, or believing in life after death.

 

[Kitten]

I'm more concerned about the effects of my death, whether it be on my parents of my legions of screaming fans. I think if we all didn't fear death to some extent, there would be a lot of humans just not bothering with life. A lot more than we have now, at least. That being said, I'm not particularly worried about dying, and if it does happen, I doubt I'll care, being dead.

 

[antimatter]

i actually look forward to it. for one, it cant get worse than it is down here, and it could be even better if i stay a decent person.

 

[Blackadder]

You know, I'm not really sure. I just tend not to think about it -- it's a long long time away for me right now. I'm hoping that by the time I'm an old man, I'll have just accepted the idea of dying.

 

[SilentCapybara]

^ Agreed. But I'm not so much as fearful of death as much as not having enough time. As in, finding out my purpose here and what I'm supposed to do. But my time will come, as will everyone else's, but I'm just focusing on the present and what I am doing at the moment.

 

[Xsyven]

I fear the deaths of my friends and family, not myself. I had a really close friend die this month-- she was the wife of my best friend, and his world is completely shattered. It shook me up good, but she was everything to him.

I really don't want anyone that close to me to die like that. Unless they're old. I don't find old deaths sad at all.

 

[Pluvia's other account]

Woah! DeJa Vu!

I was seriously muddling over making this thread recently, I've been doing it for quite a few days now.

The other day, I brought up that someone died during a play fight of Mortal Combat, (Which I read here remember), and I was talking about it with my friends, and we all decided that basically that would be an awesome way to die, in a fight of Mortal Combat.

Then this other boy, Joshuah, who was listening in, said that all that stuff scares him, and he doesn't even like thinking about the thought of death. It just scares him altogether.

He asked me what I thought it was like once you died, and I just said what I always say, "I just think that your brain switches off."

He said that that was a very bleak outlook on life, which eeeveryone seems to say when I say that. But death doesn't scare me, I don't really care about death. If it's someone around me though, I hate it, but for me myself dying? It doesn't bother me. But I would rather not die before Brawl comes out though.

But then again, ever since the foggy times a few years ago, I've had this strange feeling that I don't think I'll make it past 21.

 

[Vicious Delicious]

I don't fear death itself (unless it's in a gruesome enough form), just the unknown that nobody knows for certain what lies after death. As CF said, just live your life to the fullest.

 

[adumbrodeus]

"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror." - Frank Herbert


I am mortal, I know that and I have nothing left to fear, I will live my life to the best of my ability, and I will attempt to preserve it for the time that I can, but when the end comes, it come, no matter what I do it will have an end, and the point is, "what will I do with the time that I have?", I have merely resolved not to squander it.

 

[Gerudo Warrior]

wow..... this topic is trivey

 

[Jacobcc]

We come in this world with nothing and leave it with nothing..so i have been told.

 

[spindash]

I'm not exactly afraid of death... I think. But I'm more or less trying to get an understanding of the unknown.

The death of others is what I fear the most though. Tis' why when I can, for those close to me, and people who really happen to be in some form of danger? I'd do my ****est to protect them.

 

[Taco Head]

I'm only afraid of HOW ima die

might get shot, car crash ...

 

[notftomearth7]

I believe everything happens for a reason really, and if you die well...you've done what you've can

 

[OffTheChain]

Everyone fears death to some point, anyone who says other wise is full of **** most likely.

As for me I do fear death at times when I think about it but then sometimes its just the fact that I know it will and can come anytime and theres no stopping it so it relaxes me a little to know I can go in peace.

 

[Pluvia's other account]

Everyone fears death to some point, anyone who says other wise is full of **** most likely.

Of course everyone fears death at some point, but not everyone continues to fear it.

Some people, like the topic creator, fear it completely, whilst others don't. Some people even go as far as taking their own life, which they wouldn't be able to do if they feared it as much as the topic creator.


EDIT:

Just corrected spelling mistake.

 

[Lefticle]

I don't fear death so much as I fear the event that will take me to it.

 

[AltF4]

A while back, I hit my head and passed out for a couple seconds. But I didn't pass out right away, I got up started walking and then passed out a minute later.

The sensation was very curious. It was just like falling asleep. Exactly like it. I just suddenly felt so sleepy that I couldn't stay awake, even while walking.

It occurred to me afterward that that's probably what death feels like. It was really creepy.

 

[Kix]

Absolutely not.

 

[SirroMinus1]

not really i just wonder how i'll go. everyone days are numbered!

 

[iMichael]

I'm only afraid of HOW ima die

might get shot, car crash ...

I agree with Taco Head.

Death is going to come...it's just the way that I'm going to die is what I'm scared of. I don't want to have a dirty, gruesome, rated R death.

 

[TheDuplexDuo]

''When death exisits, I am not. When I am, death is not''



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[Pokec]

god, you have no idea.

its not so much the fact that we die, but the fact of where we go after we die. Sure, we say our soul is sent into heaven or wherever, and we live an after life, but theres never ever been any solid proof to show that.

How do we know we have a soul? After all, the brain and our personality is only created by the connection of different neurons - once those connections die, where do we go?

my interpretation of death is kinda like sleep -- we just...dont exist. We're done. Wherever you were (if you were anywhere) before birth is where you would return -- into that mass of nothingness.

Pessimistic, yes, but I live strongly with science.

 

[Kix]

god, you have no idea.

its not so much the fact that we die, but the fact of where we go after we die. Sure, we say our soul is sent into heaven or wherever, and we live an after life, but theres never ever been any solid proof to show that.

How do we know we have a soul? After all, the brain and our personality is only created by the connection of different neurons - once those connections die, where do we go?

my interpretation of death is kinda like sleep -- we just...dont exist. We're done. Wherever you were (if you were anywhere) before birth is where you would return -- into that mass of nothingness.

Pessimistic, yes, but I live strongly with science.

Science does not necessarily deny the supernatural but rather is that which is testable within nature. See supernatural is that which is 'other' than nature but it does not me the clues are not there. (logical absolutes, ect.)

 

[TheDuplexDuo]

I'm afraid people you can never know until its too late. You can't prove God does exist, or he does not for that matter. Why complain people? Do both!

Agnosticism FTW! ​

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[Eor]

Every now and then I think about it and it dawns on me that this will end, that I will die, but in all honest after a few moments of spookiness nothing happens and I go on.

 

[Aesir]

no religious debates plz LOL.

Honestly I'm not so much afraid of dying just when I die is what irks me lol.

 

[Tom]

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.

 

[sakuraZaKi]

I don't think you would be afraid to die, but afraid how you will die.

Dying will eventually come to every single human, animal, blah blah blah, in this world. How you will die, however, is a different story.

This is one of my own philosophical views. Now, I won't go into religion and beliefs, since this thread isn't in the right place for a debate to occur. I'd be forgetting about my philosophies and talk about Christianity, Heaven, Hell, etc. In other words, don't get me started. xD

 

[Weed]

When I see creepy looking people walking down the street, sometimes I think "That guy could just pull out a gun and shoot me in the head, and I wouldn't be able to stop it." throws me for a loop every now and then.

Other than that, it's not death that scares me, but the idea of eternity that freaks the hell out of me, whether it be an eternity of nothing, an eternity of Heaven, an eternity of Hell, an eternity of... reincarnation?

Something that never ends.. I just can't picture it.

 

[ULTRAMURDERSAM]

I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of a crappy funeral that no one goes to.

 

[slave1]

sure death is a little scary. i dont know how it is. but i have a good after life plan so i wont worry. :D

 

[Tipo mastr]

about 2 years ago, i started really considering the fact(?) of death. The question of death has that special way of make me feel cold to the bone with fear. I soon discovered that simply trying to ignore the issue ("dont think about it") just made the question more prevalent in my mind. I'm not sure what happened, but eventually i got over it, and i think now i've decided that i don't have a viewpoint on death. Just as I don't have a viewpoint about God, ghosts, other supernatural things, etc. The unknown is something i dont think i'll ever truely know (hence the UNknown part lol), so i dont really decide anything on it.

 

[Grandeza]

A 12 year old isnt supposed to fear death. I still have a ways to go.