Fear of Death.

Chuck Stone · 09-01-2012 08:09PM #1

I was watching a documentary about longevity of age and one of the scientists said she was terrified of death (not dying but ceasing to exist).

So it got me thinking and being the curious fool person that I am I thought I'd find out what was the general attitude to death of the freaks good folks of AH.

Here are the parameters of the vote. We have no proof of an afterlife so let's assume, for purposes of expediency, that when you die it's over - you cease to exist except in the memories of loved ones.

So does the idea of ceasing to exist trouble you?

Mr Benevolent · 09-01-2012 08:10PM

So does the idea of ceasing to exist trouble you?

No. It's people around me ceasing to exist that troubles me.

MagicMarker · 09-01-2012 08:13PM

''Where death is, I am not; where I am, death is not.''

Epicurus

Trigger13222 · 09-01-2012 08:14PM

People close to me dying would be a bigger fear.

bbam · 09-01-2012 08:16PM

I don't see the problem...
You die.. we all have to....

Either:
1. There is an afterlife and grand we all have a happy existence..
2. There is nothing and I know no difference because I became nothing, fine too

09-01-2012 08:16PM

When i was small used to freak me out what happened after u die.
Not really bothered now unless the buddists are right and u come back as something truely horrible like

jedward

KeithAFC · 09-01-2012 08:17PM

I welcome death. Death is essential. Without it, we are in trouble. Have no fear.

Immaculate Pasta · 09-01-2012 08:18PM

Trigger13222 wrote: »

People close to me dying would be a bigger fear.

This.

Watching my Grandparents getting older, and seeing they're still in good health, I'm certainly not ready for them to pass on at the moment.

I'm not afraid of death. I don't want to die of course but I feel if my time has to come then so be it. Hopefully it won't happen for a very long time but if I get knocked down by a bus tomorrow then so be it. I won't let a fear of the inevitable hinder how I'm going to live my life.

Sindri · 09-01-2012 08:21PM

Everyone is afraid of death. They find a way to cope with it, but the problem with death, why we fear it so much is that we cannot control it, it will happen, so to cope we presume we will die at some undisclosed date far in the future or we turn to religion or god.

Death is also n attack on our ego and self esteem.

Lone Stone · 09-01-2012 08:22PM

Death brings peace to the suffering and loss to the living

im a poet.

RichieC · 09-01-2012 08:22PM

Ive been dead for Eternity.. it's life we should worry about.

whirlpool · 09-01-2012 08:24PM

Death doesn't bother me. It's the pain that my death will bring to the people who love me that bothers me.

(yeh yeh, "well ye needn't be too worried, so!" etc etc.)

stoneill · 09-01-2012 08:24PM

All those molecules that you are made from need to be recycled somehow.

Chuck Stone · 09-01-2012 08:24PM

Sindri wrote: »

to cope we presume we will die at some undisclosed date far in the future or we turn to religion or god.

I suspect that a large part of belief in an afterlife is motivated by the fear of death.

Sindri wrote: »

Death is also n attack on our ego and self esteem.

This is so much to do with it.

bleg · 09-01-2012 08:24PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

So does the idea of ceasing to exist trouble you?

Terrifying. Singularity FTW!!!

whirlpool · 09-01-2012 08:25PM

P.S. Re-incarnation is my biggest fear.

Imagine - this, all over again. Or much worse.

Micky Dolenz · 09-01-2012 08:26PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

So does the idea of ceasing to exist trouble you?

I don't believe I will cease to exist after I leave this world.

stupidusername · 09-01-2012 08:28PM

I use my fear of death as a motivator to do ballsy things. when i think of it.

Chuck Stone · 09-01-2012 08:29PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I don't believe I will cease to exist after I leave this world.

Do you mean you believe you will continue to exist in some form?

mandate · 09-01-2012 08:30PM

I am afraid of not leaving behind something of significance that I created, for example, I would hate to think that all I left was a thousand Exel spreadsheets and Word documents that no one will ever read.

Micky Dolenz · 09-01-2012 08:33PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Do you mean you believe you will continue to exist in some form?

Absolutely.

Badgermonkey · 09-01-2012 08:34PM

Sindri wrote: »

Everyone is afraid of death. They find a way to cope with it, but the problem with death, why we fear it so much is that we cannot control it, it will happen, so to cope we presume we will die at some undisclosed date far in the future or we turn to religion or god.

Death is also n attack on our ego and self esteem.

Afraid of the process of dying perhaps - especially so if it's slow, painful and/or undignified. But death itself, no.

Chuck Stone · 09-01-2012 08:36PM

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Absolutely.

Fair enough.

ZombieBride · 09-01-2012 08:37PM

To me, as long as someone remembers I existed then I'll never die.

Ghandee · 09-01-2012 08:37PM

Meh.....

I didn't exist before I was born, and I'll cease to exist after death.

Life is but a mere break from non existence.

Ghandee. Jan 2012 ©

WindSock · 09-01-2012 08:38PM

I have a bigger fear of regret on my deathbed.

'I wish I thanked more posts on boards'

'I should have started more threads on immigrants'

'Perhaps I should have had a wittier signature'

:eek:

My name is URL · 09-01-2012 08:42PM

I don't fear it.. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Actually, screw that.. I do fear it. I don't get how people can say that they don't fear it in any way. Surely the fear of death is one of the best survival tools we have?

Sindri · 09-01-2012 08:43PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

I suspect that a large part of belief in an afterlife is motivated by the fear of death.

This is so much to do with it.

People are afraid, don't mind that bollox of how it's necessary or we have to die or how I will just cease to exist nonsense. There just coping mechanisms and if one analysed them even minimally they would know that for themselves.

The people who god honestly are not afraid of death are the ones to watch out for.

Most problems of depression and of unhappiness manifest themselves usually due to some existential quandary or an existential quandary is usually relevant to it.

44leto · 09-01-2012 08:46PM

The idiom every body dies,,well I'm not convinced yet,

Chuck Stone · 09-01-2012 08:56PM

Sindri wrote: »

People are afraid, don't mind that bollox of how it's necessary or we have to die or how I will just cease to exist nonsense.

Sorry, could you clarify that ^^ for me?

Dravokivich · 09-01-2012 09:01PM

hmmm, when I'm gonna die, I'm gonna die, fearing it or the consquences of such won't change much of anything, so I don't.

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