Fear of Death.

Sindri · 09-01-2012 09:10PM

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Sorry, could you clarify that ^^ for me?

The normal response to our first contact to the concept of death is fear. Everything else afterwards is a coping mechanism to alleviate that fear.

What I was referring to was that some of the responses read like bad movie dialogue and that if one analysed the logic or reason behind those comments they would see that they were poor fatalist responses which is a coping mechanism to deal with death, as is nihilism, as is religion and as is quite a lot other things.

A rational egotistical being will always be afraid of the end of it's existence, and when we cannot cope to it, literally I mean do anything about it, we find a way to deal with it such as fatalism or nihilism, or any other concept at which we arrive at to make it easier, which are both effects of our inability to deal with death.

EDIT

See ^^^^ above for an example. That poster arrived at that conclusion using an egotistical invested reasoning. It is fatalist, yes, because that is one of the few responses with which we feel comfortable with as it is better than the alternative of depression. The other popular response is that we don't die.

cloud493 · 09-01-2012 09:13PM

I've been willing to accept death before. I've even tried to bring it about myself. And while my attitude has changed somewhat, we're all going to die at some point*. Everyone in the world dies, life moves on. People can waste their entire lives, fleeing from death, but it will catch up with everyone in the end. So why not embrace the relatively short time we spend on the earth?

*Except the Doctor. The Doctor never dies.

jaja321 · 09-01-2012 09:29PM

I'm more worried about not living my life to the fullest tbh

Doc Ruby · 09-01-2012 09:31PM

I vary between gibbering terror and meh. If there's nothing, I won't know about it, and if there's something, well I call that a win.

I've studied various religions extensively, and while obviously there is no evidence to prove the assertions of one or the other, I would say many if not all of them have some threads in common, it gets more interesting the further back you go, like flood myths. This leads me to believe that a) there's a lot more to the world than we know and b) if there is something, you'd be as well off to respect the common threads.

Sky King · 09-01-2012 09:33PM

I am not afraid of death itself but I am afraid of a potentially protracted and horribly violent death like drowning or being eaten by a crocodile.

Everyone always says going in your sleep is the best way to go but i would love to know how the fk they can be so sure.

I reckon there is a percentage of those people who 'go peacefully in their sleep' actually wake up in terror and expire slowly in absolute agony knowing they are dying.

But yeah, few naggins, be grand.

crosstownk · 09-01-2012 09:37PM

As posted before, I'd be more fearful of loosing a loved one while at the same time I'd also be fearful of leaving loved ones behind and how they may feel. When I'm dead "nothing really matters to me - anyway the wind blows......."

Yakult · 09-01-2012 09:44PM

I fear the death alright. My mind simply cannot comprehend what will happen when I die or how it will feel drifting in to the unknown. You have no other choice but to accept it and you just gotta live every day like it's your last.

Sky King · 09-01-2012 09:45PM

Interesting vid of a guy in a plane who gets into a flat spin and is finding it difficult to recover from it before he hits the ground (normally a death sentence - or at least serious injury - and pilots generally know that).

You can hear him say to the camera 'I think this is it' about 20 secs before projected impact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvbS-oHi9ro

he managed to recover barely in time - about 10 seconds to go - and crash land the plane in a condition of semi-control. He was alright in the end, luckily for him

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Linguo · 09-01-2012 09:46PM

It's easy to dismiss death sometimes when you're caught up in day to day living and safe with all the people you love around you, when it feels like it will never really touch you!

However I think everyone's had those nights lying in bed where you start thinking about an eternity of not exisiting and you're gripped by the horror of it! I definitely have.

It's more the thought of the people I love the most leaving, specifically those few people whom your whole life and heart is tied to completely, the thought of them dying would devastate me beyond anything I could bear.

But I'd rather follow them into an eternal rest than linger on while they died around me.

I think about the billions of years none of us existed, which will be exactly like death unless we're lucky enough to see a heaven, and it doesn't seem quite so unknown then but it's something I'd rather not think about most of the time.

I often think of the quote though "Life is but a thin sliver of light between two immensities of darkness"

Temptamperu · 09-01-2012 10:19PM

I'm more afraid of life to be honest.

sonic85 · 09-01-2012 10:30PM

im scared sh!tless of dying to be honest and scared sh!tless thinking about my loved ones dying so basically im just scared sh!tless. do my utmost not to think about it too often though

Lady Chatterton · 09-01-2012 10:38PM

I'm not afraid of death itself but I would be distraught if an Oncologist told me I had only months to live

I don't think I'd like to know that I was dying.

Shiroki · 09-01-2012 10:51PM

This is a cool vid I like to watch from time to time. It kind of adresses the fear of death and how we as a race deal with it.

http://youtu.be/Ela3ChTzFcA

orchidsrpretty · 09-01-2012 10:57PM

I have watched many people die(I have worked in nursing homes) and it has made me petrified of dying. Every single last person has been so afraid when they realise that they are going to die. The last moments of life are quite anti climatic though

byhookorbycrook · 09-01-2012 11:02PM

I take a medication once a month that has 1,000/1 chance of giving me a possibly fatal and certainly incurable brain disease.So, no, I don't fear death,I just get on with things.

we'llallhavetea_old · 09-01-2012 11:07PM

the thoughts of dying young horrifies me. sure me child would be fecked!

TeddyTedson · 09-01-2012 11:08PM

I'm not afraid to die of a natural death.
Now dying in a plane crash or being sucked into an engine would scare me all right. Remember the story of the drunken kids who were drinking and fell overboard on some cruise with their parents who were believed to have been shredded in the engines, stuff like that would scare me, the impending inevitable more than anything I guess, then panic of a plane plunging into the sea.
But dying in my sleep or even dying of a disease doesn't scare me at all. If death is the price I pay for life then it's a small price to pay.

Karona · 09-01-2012 11:08PM

You are dying from the moment you take your first breath.

BrokenArrows · 09-01-2012 11:08PM

Im not freaked out about dying because once you die that's it. I'm not a believer.

I think if I was a believer I would be freaked out about dying because most people are going to hell. Belivers fool themselves into thinking that they are going to heaven but if you actually read any of the various belief systems you go to hell for pretty much everything.

Doc Ruby · 09-01-2012 11:19PM

Karona wrote: »

You are dying from the moment you take your first breath.

You're living until you take your last.

Dravokivich · 09-01-2012 11:21PM

Sindri wrote: »

EDIT

See ^^^^ above for an example. That poster arrived at that conclusion using an egotistical invested reasoning. It is fatalist, yes, because that is one of the few responses with which we feel comfortable with as it is better than the alternative of depression. The other popular response is that we don't die.

There was no intention of being egotistical in my post which you are referring to.

EGAR · 09-01-2012 11:26PM

I can't wait to meet Binky, I really like horses.

Eve_Dublin · 09-01-2012 11:29PM

I love life and don't want to die for a very, very long time. I'm terrified of dying.

Saganist · 09-01-2012 11:29PM

I think the thing that pisses most people off about death is the though that the party is still going on, just without YOU.. ( Cheers Hitch ).

Super-Rush · 09-01-2012 11:29PM

I'm scared of dying.

Big whoop.

Wanna fight about it?

Feeona · 09-01-2012 11:34PM

For years, my favourite saying was 'well I could be run over by a bus tomorrow' whenever I was about to do something monumentally stupid. It took my brother to point out that maybe I wouldn't be run over by a bus the next day, and that fuchsia pink hair colour would be there in all it's gaudy glory for another few months :eek:

I'd an awful view of life, all I could see was death. Death was a big part of my childhood, and my way of dealing with it was to pretend I wasn't scared, almost welcoming it in a 'I knew you'd arrive one day' sort of way. There's a small bit of residue left, though, in that my humour can be very black when it comes to death.

wandatowell · 09-01-2012 11:36PM

I better get my 72 virgins

Sindri · 09-01-2012 11:39PM

Dravokivich wrote: »

There was no intention of being egotistical in my post which you are referring to.

I know.

cassid · 09-01-2012 11:48PM

as long as its not too painful and my children don't go before me and I get to see them grow up a little, what will be, will be;)

TeddyTedson · 10-01-2012 12:04AM

Karona wrote: »

You are dying from the moment you take your first breath.

you mean living

Fear of Death.

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