Are you afraid of death?

i am not afraid of death.

i am, however, afraid of most forms of dying

 

No, not at all. If I had to die tomorrow, I'd be totally fine with it. I'm not a happy person and most things in this life don't really interest me. If I wasn't religious, I'd kill myself.

 

I fear death, but not because i am scared of dying, but because i am deathly afraid of not existing. I am 99.9 % sure that we stop existing when we die, and that just depresses me more than anything because existing is the only thing that there is and it is everything that i would ever want. I love being alive too much to accept death because it is the end of our existance. I do wish i could live forever but yeah people need to die because of overpopulation.
I just wish i were part of a species that lived 2-5 thousand years, and had a big enough planet to not need to worry about population and also wouldn't overpopulate because they would realise sex isn't the most important thing and has the negative consequences (overpopulation). Seriously people on this planet think sex is god and thats why our planet gets shittier by the day.

 

oh i would be totally fine with dying tomorrow. the idea of being dead doesn't bother me, when its my time to go, its my time to go and i accept that and welcome it

but i would hate to be tied up in some creepers basement and have my limbs slowly amputated my some freak whose mother abused him as a child. you know what i'm saying?

 

if you stop existing after you die, none of it matters anyway.

so it's not worth fearing.

 

i don't think you should let it depress you. don't fear not existing while you are existing.. it can put a damper on your existence. when you finally die, and you stop existing, you won't know you don't exist or have ever existed, because you won't be able to think about it, since you won't exist.

 

I used to be suicidal.
However now I ave some fear of death.

 

i really just don't. i never really did

don't get me wrong, if i had a terminal illness and know i was going to die i would be upset, but not for me, mostly for my mom

 

That is the only thing that i worry about in life is that it ends. I am completely aware that when i don't exist i won't be aware that i'm not existing. When i'm alive i can do anything possibilities unlimited, when i don't exist there is nothing. It is just my worst fear in the world.

 

yeah but you won't know there's nothing.

how can you be afraid of something you don't know?

 

Ditto.

 

I'm not scared of dying. I'm scared of getting old.

 

Thats where I like the absurdist philosophy as opposed to the existential one. It says that we are only truly free when we accept the limitations of our existence. The freedom we do have is far more valid and real when we can accept our own mortality.

 

Because i know now, and i know how good i have it now compared to what it will be. So yeah nothing matters once you don't exist but it matters to me now because i do exist. And it will always have mattered to me even when i don't exist. (because it did matter when i was aware)

 

Dying with knowing that something you did will be remembered here would give me some satisfaction but this whole species will die one day.

Here comes the anxiety again.

 

Here you go, FreshDacre.

I'm pretty goddamn certain of this as well. So is science, and many philosophers.

Life is just one aspect of existence. Use the certainty of its transient nature to your advantage and set yourself free. Leave your fear behind and live life truly and fully.

 

Yeah, i guess i am kinda arrogant assuming we stop existing. But its really hard not to assume since my brain likes to know everything. I still live my life to the fullest but my mind thinks about this stuff and i can't convince myself things that i don't believe in. All i can do is tell myself i'll never know for sure, and that is pretty much just as frusterating.

 

I think you're more free by accepting the limitations of the only life you can be certain of. Any freedom not guaranteed is a cheap one.

 

Isn't that pretty much what I said, or is my reading comprehension failing me?
Realize/accept that you will die, understand that nothing really matters, and you will be free to do anything.

 

i am not affraid of death itslef, i am afraid of the way it is going to happen. i am afraid i am going to suffer knowing in a few min. probably i am gonna be gone forever.