Are you afraid of death?

I don't think I am. No matter how often I ask this question of myself I can't seem to find a shred of fear in me. I try to imagine every one of death's minute implications just to be sure that I'm not externalizing the fact, yet I am still unable to feel afraid. I just can't bring myself to fear something that is so sure, so absulute. Part of me feels like there is something wrong, as if the fear should be inherent in me but has been erased by some horrible flaw in my personality.

I'm also very comforted by the fact that once I am dead I probably won't care either way.

 

i don't fear it at all

however i also tried to kill myself a couple times so there is many a thing wrong with me...

 

I didn't know that. My psychologist told me that suicidal thoughts are inherent to honest human beings, the problem is just learning how not to act them out. You're only half crazy.

 

you both too young to be getting ideas like that .. much less acting on them... or do you know my ex-wife

 

I don't fear death I am aware of

I fear seizure death.

 

What is the difference?

Death happens to all of us. Its the closest thing we have to a God as far as something we can be completely certain of. Fearing death is like fearing breathing. Its a natural side effect of life.

 

I don't fear it.
I do fear what it would do to my loved ones if I died.

 

I want to feel death claim me

I don't want to not be here, not know, not be aware, while I die.

 

i do not fear the implications of death in the slightest. to be honest, it kind of excites me. i'm pretty goddamn certain there's more to existance than corporeal life, and even if not it won't be until the point of death that i learn one way or the other for certain.

i am afraid of certain types of death, though. i fear suffering and agony. i don't want a bad death, i want to go calmly, peacefully, preferably with forethought, when i'm quite old and ready

i anticipate death being quite an adventure, but i'm in no hurry to meet it yet

 

I don't want to wither. I want a quick death.
I would rather be shot and die, and have my organs strewn about me than wither, or seize and die.

 

I think even non-epileptics would be lucky enough to have that luxury. You yourself could die in a coma, from dimentia, in an instant. The fact that we have no idea how we are going to die, that we can make no demands of death is another absolute certainty and therefore not worth our fear. That is just me though. I know you have a greater burden to deal with.

 

Dying took away my fear of death.

 

Perhaps this is naive of me to say this, but part of me wants a terrifying, agonizing, torturous death. That would be like looking god in the face, like looking at life in the face and accepting its terms fully. Peace is just one side of the coin.

 

i'd rather be shot or stabbed than die of old age with shit in my diaper

 

you don't know until you face it

 

My fear of death fluctuates a lot. Sometimes I feel completely numb to the thought and have zero fear. Then again, I sometimes get strong anxiety over it and I've been quite close to a panic attack a few times.

 

im not scared of the concept of it but like deranged said until its actually happening i couldn't say whether i would be scared or not. but i certainly don't stop myself doing things a bit risky coz i'm very scared to die. i think about death sometimes, but rarely and when i do, i find nothing to be afriad off, it's just a natural cycle of life.

 

Like I~S said....I am afraid of dimentia. I have been afraid of dimentia since I worked in an old folks' home. Shovelling food into peoples' mouths who have no idea how to eat while it dribbles down their faces, cleaning the shit off their beds, treating bedsores, treating patients like cases instead of human beings due to time constraints...to be subject to that 24 hours a day for years would be more demeaning than anything. People say that they "have no idea what is actually happening to them" but who knows what areas of consciousness still remain open to them, or re-awaken while they're covered in piss and shit but can't move or call for the nurse.

Death is nothing.

 

Gramma was Alzheimers

I wanna be killed if I get like that.

 

Me too. We were the first state in Oz to issue anti-rescuscitation orders. Good idea. I think life support is covered under the the orders as well. In other words you can sign a form that disallows anybody from treating you for a fatal illness (short of pain relief) even if it is easily curable.