Are you afraid of dying?

Comic Book Guy

Apologies for the morbid question late on a Sunday night!!

I don't want to get into a chat about the after life etc. just been thinking of my own mortality lately and the surreal thought that one second you are alive and the next it could be all over.

scwazrh

Yes

passremarkable

actually think about it a lot
scary so it is..
we have absolutely no say in it..
i never want to die...

desbrook

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

Apologies for the morbid question late on a Sunday night!!

I don't want to get into a chat about the after life etc. just been thinking of my own mortality lately and the surreal thought that one second you are alive and the next it could be all over.

It was "over " before you were born and you knew no different. No big deal!

danslevent

I am more afraid of my family dying because if I die then it's not like I will ever be aware of being dead, I'll just be dead.


But the thoughts of being diagnosed with some long,painful illness that will inevitably be fatal...yeah...scares me...

Saucy McKetchup

Yeah, thanks for reminding me

Frosty McSnowballs

No but I am scared of dying a slow painful death.

I hope it's quick, like sex.

Sunnyisland

Not afraid of dying, but don't want to skip out for a while yet,sure iam only a youngfella .

pixbyjohn

Its the luck of the draw that we are still alive. Hopefully when the time comes it will be quick and painless

Spring Onion

Dying ain't much of a living.

tracey turnblad

I am.. And often take slight panic attacks over it... Its not so much me dying...its leaving my children ... Also how I would die... Seeing my mam suffer and die from cancer..its not something I would like to go through... Id rather a bang of a bus...

Mariasofia

I dont want to die. I sometimes wish I never was born at all.
Carry on........

kneemos

Don't mind dying but colour runs scare me.

jazz101

No. I sometimes wonder if it can be deduced that it is more desirable than life.

desbrook

Mariasofia wrote: »

I dont want to die. I sometimes wish I never was born at all.
Carry on........

Nothing really matters ....

COYVB

Nope. No point fearing something I won't even realise has happened

Banjo String

Em. Not really.

The way I look at it is, right, I was essentially 'dead' before I was born, I.e, I didn't exist. Yeah wasn't that bad tbh. (don't recall much of it lol)

However, for the other possibilities after death.

I might go to heaven. (I don't believe Im due a roasting in hell)
Might get reincarnated. (lucky dip.)
Might live on in a spiritual form.

I've Prob missed out on a load of other stuff.

Not scared of dying, but certainly not planning on it happening for another 40-50 years at least.

My name is URL

desbrook wrote: »

It was "over " before you were born and you knew no different. No big deal!

That's got to be the worst bit of reasoning there is to not fear death =p

You don't experience anxiety before you're born.. that comes with life; and the idea of ones own mortality is something that causes a lot of anxiety for many people.

major bill

Death doesn't scare me too much thats life we should be just thankfull we made it past birth.

I am more scared of growing old alone or ending up with Alzheimers or Dementia, I'd hate to get to that age and forget the life i had or the people I loved..........deep thoughts but it scares the **** out of me

I'm not afraid of being dead, I'm afraid of how I might die.

What really horrifies me is the thought of dying old and alone, after losing every member of my family first. That is terrifying.

Captain Chaos

My name is URL wrote: »

That's got to be the worst bit of reasoning there is to not fear death =p

You don't experience anxiety before you're born.. that comes with life; and the idea of ones own mortality is something that causes a lot of anxiety for many people.

But you are just going back to the way you were before and you won't know when it happens.

It's the best way of reasoning it imo.

Every point you made will be irrelevant when you are dead anyway as you can't experience that or lack of that anymore.

Busted Flat.

Used to be many years ago when the conquer cancer campaign was on the tele, I knew people who become terrified about that. Now that I am older I have no fear, my parents and their friends had those fears in their last few years.
The church created those fears to protect their wealth. Ba$tards.

Chazz Michael Michaels

Dying, yes.

Death, no.

Lack of belief in god/heaven helps with the latter.

Michael Weston

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

Apologies for the morbid question late on a Sunday night!!

I don't want to get into a chat about the after life etc. just been thinking of my own mortality lately and the surreal thought that one second you are alive and the next it could be all over.

Thinking about it a bit lately, death of a parent has brought it to my mind but I was assuming it was a stage in my life that triggers it. How old are you o p ?

clairefontaine

Yes. Terrified of it.

However, there are times that the idea of it gave me great consolations, that I could end this whenever I feel like it, so long as I succeeded. If I failed and ended up paralysed or brain damaged, that would be worse.

However those consolations depended upon an assumption that conciousness also ends. When it dawned on me I could be wrong about that, it no longer seemed a consoling thought. More like OH ****.

weldoninhio

Not at all, wish it would come sooner. Bored living.

kneemos

Generally I think people don't fear death,it's more a fear of the pain associated with it or leaving loved ones.

Pawwed Rig

It was one of the positives of religion where you do not have to worry about death as afterwards everything will be rosey in the garden. With the decline in belief I suppose people have to face their mortality in a much more morbid way as an end. Some will welcome nothing after death while others will fear oblivion.

rwg

I dont wanna die, not now anyways when its looking like Liverpool will win the league

Sam Kade

To all of you people afraid of dying think of it this way every day you spend alive is a day less and a day nearer death

Days 298

Sam Kade wrote: »

To all of you people afraid of dying think of it this way every day you spend alive is a day less and a day nearer death

Good.

petrolcan

Comic Book Guy wrote: »

Apologies for the morbid question late on a Sunday night!!

I don't want to get into a chat about the after life etc. just been thinking of my own mortality lately and the surreal thought that one second you are alive and the next it could be all over.

F*cker!

I'm currently dying but had forgotten about it until you started this thread!

Holsten

Yes.

weldoninhio

rwg wrote: »

I dont wanna die, not now anyways when its looking like Liverpool will win the league

You think it looks like Liverpool will win the league? Your delirious, must be on your way out!!!

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

I never thought about it much until last year when I got a bit of a scare, which I won't go into. But yeah, thinking about dying scares the living sh*t out of me. I'm nearly 29, haven't lived anywhere near half of my life yet (hopefully) and there are so many things I want to do, and to see, and to have done to me.

rwg

Sam Kade wrote: »

To all of you people afraid of dying think of it this way every day you spend alive is a day less and a day nearer death

wait until the body starts deteriorating, you will be wishing the days by

Larianne

Fast, painless death, grand.

Slow & painful, no want!

Comic Book Guy

Michael Weston wrote: »

Thinking about it a bit lately, death of a parent has brought it to my mind but I was assuming it was a stage in my life that triggers it. How old are you o p ?

I'm 33 so would hope to be around for a good while yet. But that's just it ya never know what's around the corner.
It's not that I'm anxious about it or anything but last few days I have been thinking about it that literally one second you are experiencing emotions and living life and the very next its over, screen goes black like end of Sopranos!!

Larianne

deccurley wrote: »

I never thought about it much until last year when I got a bit of a scare, which I won't go into. But yeah, thinking about dying scares the living sh*t out of me. I'm nearly 29, haven't lived anywhere near half of my life yet (hopefully) and there are so many things I want to do, and to see, and to have done to me.

Get on it so!

Days 298

I'm afraid of dying now. But the prospect of dying in the future at a senile age. Nah. There would be no point if we could live forever. What makes things special is we know they are limited. Pack as many once in a lifetimes and friendships into your life, make yourself proud, then smile and kiss the darkness.

Chazz Michael Michaels

Sam Kade wrote: »

To all of you people afraid of dying think of it this way every day you spend alive is a day less and a day nearer death

I'm genuinely glad. Eternal life is a nightmare scenario.

jobeenfitz

Candie wrote: »

I'm not afraid of being dead, I'm afraid of how I might die.

What really horrifies me is the thought of dying old and alone, after losing every member of my family first. That is terrifying.

keep having children and encourage your kids to have plenty more.

whupdedo

I hope I have a long and prolonged agonising illness in my late 80s that will leave me in such a way that I will look forward to the relief of death,

rather than the untimely or wasted death of a young virile man in the throes of youth from a car crash or fall or whatever

Busted Flat.

Chazz Michael Michaels wrote: »

I'm genuinely glad. Eternal life is a nightmare scenario.

Jaysus if that was the case you'd be worn out.

rwg

Chazz Michael Michaels wrote: »

I'm genuinely glad. Eternal life is a nightmare scenario.

this is true, its concept is in Interview with a Vampire

jazz101

There is a certain slant of light that gets me thinking of this. Every January I get into this. I do hope it comes before Spring.

SBPhoto

Haven't heard of anyone regretting it!!

irishfeen

Not afraid of dying but afraid of how I might die - dying in my sleep a very happy old man would be just perfect.

whupdedo

jazz101 wrote: »

There is a certain slant of light that gets me thinking of this. Every January I get into this. I do hope it comes before Spring.

You hope death will come before spring ?

Sky King

Have you ever considered that a dying brain might have no concept of time and a painful / terrifying death could feel like eternity?

Donkey Oaty

Sky King wrote: »

Have you ever considered that a dying brain might have no concept of time and a painful / terrifying death could feel like eternity?

We talk about this and nothing else in my house.