Are you afraid of death?

Yes, I'm terrified of death, because I'm not done living.

 

I embrace death and can't wait for it to happen..I am not encouraging it, I want it to happen as it happens but I am not afraid and am never sad over death..

 

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend. - Jim Morrison

 

When will someone explain this Ian thing.

Sort of time to reflect.Yeah I follow that.
I think sociable, but I don't always act it.In college people would say "are u playing football".I'd just think "no I'll save my energy to be the big martial arts man tomorrow".But now I realise, it was never about the football.It was about sharing time with people, socialising, sharing stuff.It was a valuable lesson that went over my head...

I think the universe is very, very complicated.But at the same time, has some very simple themes.I don't see why many religions can't be true.

The religion people choose is often down to where they were born.I can't believe someone could be sent to hell because they were born in Japan or Africa.What sort of heaven would exist if that was true?- A very unheavenlike heaven

I think its easy to get away from the idea that consciousness is a chemical phenomenon that simply decomposes.Consciousness exists beyond matter.It can't be defined as "atoms".So I don't see how it can be destroyed.Even time can be manipulated, reversed.

The bottom line, to me, is that humans are still very primitive.But I think we will evolve massively.And all our mysteries will tie up together.Concepts such as the passage of time, and death will become meaningless, when we realise that we can exist beyond these barriers.Much in the same way as our ancestors would not believe in televisions or aeroplanes.

Anyway, I'm tired.Maybe I could explain it better tomorrow...

 

Mabey the pain is over but so is everything and anything worth looking forward to.

 

I'm not as afraid of actually dying as I am more afraid of leaving behind the people I love. But then again, it makes me happy because I know that Austin will be waiting for me with one of his back breaking hugs and his fucking gorgeous smile
Fuck, I miss that bastard.
Rest in Peace, sugar.

 

like many of the great artists of the past... picasso, van gogh, da vinci... their deaths were the start of another kind of life. i feel i will have a similar fate.

i do not fear death... it is the one thing i can count on.

 

Death, old friend, death and my cock are the world.

 

I have an infinite variety of sick, decomposing, festering matter within crevices mental images in my subconscious mind that make my skin crawl. And, somehow they are related to fertility. It's deathly sick and yet, it's life! Multiplying!

 

I swear Andruuu, you asked this question last month. Your thoughts aren't random anymore! They're stuck on shuffle.

 

Death does scare me but i think the thought of living forever scares me even more.

 

But why?

 

me too.

i couldn't think of anything worse.

 

:cheers2:

 

Am I afraid of death? Absolutely terrified. I already came *this close* to it 6 years ago with the birth of my twins.

My fear of death is what makes me worry ridiculously over health issues. Because if I had paid attention 6 years ago to my symptoms, I might have prevented what happened to me. Maybe, maybe not, but still, it's left a major impact on me. I used to not fear death, but after coming so close, it's made me realize I'm terrified of dying.

I think the most scarey part of it all to me is, when it almost happened years ago, I was a healthy, young woman, it was so out of the blue, it shocked the hell out of everyone, my doctors were floored. Which makes you realize, it can happen to anyone, anytime. And the way it happened, there I was one minute, holding my newborn babies, feeling like the happiest, most proud mother in the world, and then clinging to life the next minute in the ICU.

It made me think of how if I had let go, and I know I was holding on so tightly, I can remember fighting so hard to hang on, I would have never been able to say goodbye to anyone. That's the scariest part to me, having it happen and not being able to tell those I hold dear to my heart that I love them, one last time.

 

pfft... i'll take eternal life over death any day.

 

Are you sure it's not the whole becoming-a-mother thing that made you fear death? And if so, probably more a fear of leaving your offspring behind, than death itself?

I'm sure I don't need to tell you this, but let them know each day and this won't be an issue.

 

See, I'm not sure. I had already had my oldest son at the time of my near-death, he was 3.5 years old at the time it happened, so it wasn't as though I was a new mother when it occured. However I agree that it could be a part of it, but I think before it happened I was in this state of denial, almost as if I thought I was immortal, death was not something I had to worry about. What can I say, I was young, I was naive. Of course, in the back of my mind, I knew death is inevitable, however I never thought I could come so close, so soon. It was a major reality check for me. A wake up call.

Oh, believe me, I do. It's just I've got this fear that I won't be able to say it one more time before I go. Maybe I should compose some sort of letter for those I love, just in case.

 

NO

 

not anymore.
everything is a part of the cycle, including death, and since it's a cycle that particular part doesn't equal END, I believe.
I used to be very afraid. until my fiance died, and now my perspective has changed completely.