'Are You Scared Of Dying?'

Most young people do not think of death. As they grow older and their bodies begin to malfunction and age, (grey hair, diabetes, arthritis, etc) they begin to think of death a lot more. That's where religion really comes in. One older person told me that the terror of death becomes constant and very heavy, until finally you resign yourself to the fact that it'll happen and live your life to its fullest until it does.

Most young people do not think of death. As they grow older and their bodies begin to malfunction and age, (grey hair, diabetes, arthritis, etc) they begin to think of death a lot more. That's where religion really comes in. One older person told me that the terror of death becomes constant and very heavy, until finally you resign yourself to the fact that it'll happen and live your life to its fullest until it does.

That's not entirely true. I've thought about death a good amount of times in at my age. I find it relaxing to talk about death as a matter of fact.

I'm nowhere near EMO.

That's not entirely true. I've thought about death a good amount of times in at my age. I find it relaxing to talk about death as a matter of fact.

I'm nowhere near EMO.

At least in my opinion it's one thing to think of death as something philosophical and distant, and another to think of actually dying and having it sink in that you will die. I personally can't imagine how thinking of something so frightening and disturbing would be relaxing for anyone. X_x

i am afraid of dying in the sense that i'm not that old. if i were an old fart i probably wouldn't be as scared.

I am very afraid of death.
I will put it off for as long as possible without losing respect.

Im more scared of dying through horrible pain and torture. Even more scared of dying and finding out that there is NO afterlife/rebirth/heaven/hell/underworld.

I will die of a heart attack or committing suicide.... so yeah, I'm not afraid of dying. After all, when you die the worst thing that could happen is that all you see is black(like if you were sleeping).

I look forward to it.

I wouldn't fear death itself. Just the possible physical pain I would possibly endure while dying. Death itself happens, and I don't feel like it will make a differnece if I fall over and die right now or if I die when I am 100. When the brain dies it is just dead. I wouldn't know if I am missing out on things or anything. I would just be gone. So why should I fear what I will not even have any negative consequences of my own from. It is just neutral because it neither affects me positivly or negativly.

I don't exactly WANT to die, but I'm not scared of it happening

Not really. It happens a lot in my city.

I wouldn't fear death itself. Just the possible physical pain I would possibly endure while dying. Death itself happens, and I don't feel like it will make a differnece if I fall over and die right now or if I die when I am 100. When the brain dies it is just dead. I wouldn't know if I am missing out on things or anything. I would just be gone. So why should I fear what I will not even have any negative consequences of my own from. It is just neutral because it neither affects me positivly or negativly.

What he said. Of course, I'd want to experience life and do things; I would be dissappointed if I died right now. But as I get older and retire (if I ever get a job anyway) and get bored all the time, death would be okay. It would be nothingness, you don't have anything to "see black" with or anything, you're dead. You're just gone.

The only thing I have to fear in death is the pain that might accompany it if I die in a fire or something.

I'm not scared of death that much, more of what it does to the people I'd be leaving behind.

After seeing 2 siblings die, all 4 of my grandparents (granted, 'natural' causes), my parents both being quite ill, I have to say the effect of death scares the pomegranate out of me.

Im more scared of dying through horrible pain and torture. Even more scared of dying and finding out that there is NO afterlife/rebirth/heaven/hell/underworld.

Friend told me something once: It's better to have believed in god and find out there was no god at all when you die than to not believe in god and find out there was a god after you die. Not going against atheists or anything like that, btw. Just food for thought.

Friend told me something once: It's better to have believed in god and find out there was no god at all when you die than to not believe in god and find out there was a god after you die. Not going against atheists or anything like that, btw. Just food for thought.

Why would it be better to find out there wasn't a god to find out there was one? You know what you lived for was a lie either way, and you somewhat wasted your life with your beliefs.

In the end though I think it would be better to find out there is a god when you believed in no such thing because if he is so loving and will forgive you you will be fine. Granted you hadn't commited many sins. You can look as the afterlife as a positive then, and have renewed faith.

On the other hand if you believed in a god and found out there wasn't one you would be very disappointed. All your beliefs were lies in that case. Somehow if you could still preceive things if there was no god you would most liekly be depressed. How would that be better?

Nope.

Naah, I'd welcome death into my arms

Friend told me something once: It's better to have believed in god and find out there was no god at all when you die than to not believe in god and find out there was a god after you die. Not going against atheists or anything like that, btw. Just food for thought.

Haha...

So live your life in delusion to set yourself up for disappointment? Okay.

To be honest, I look forward to it as a learning experience - it drives me insane to not know what the next step, if any, is, and to know it could be 80 years before i find out - that's a long ass time...

@Huey, fear is not an acceptable reason to believe in/worship a Deity, in the same manner that apologizing for something means nothing if you are forced to do it.

On the other hand if you believed in a god and found out there wasn't one you would be very disappointed. All your beliefs were lies in that case. Somehow if you could still preceive things if there was no god you would most liekly be depressed. How would that be better?

The only way to find that out would be through dying, and if there wasn't a god, there'd be no way for the dead to find that out.

Haha...

So live your life in delusion to set yourself up for disappointment? Okay.

Is that a belief?