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Do you fear death?

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  • #32
    charliesheens
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 19 ✭charliesheens


    no cause it will just happen out of nowhere u wont even know it happened

    just make as much money and **** as much birds as you can before it does and your grand


  • #33
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Yes, it's my biggest fear. I hate the thought of not existing any more.


  • #34
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    What we do on the internet echoes in eternity, so we'll be grand I reckon


  • #35
    Dyr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    philologos wrote: »
    Funnily enough OP I feared death more as an agnostic than I do as a Christian. I don't really fear the concept anymore. I have no reason to if I believe what Jesus said. Whenever the time comes it will come.

    tbh If I didn't actually understand the concept of death then I wouldn't fear it either. :)


  • #36
    kylith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,745 ✭✭✭✭kylith


    I fear dying alone, or in agony, but I have no fear of death itself.


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  • #37
    Odysseus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,752 ✭✭✭Odysseus


    I don't know, I know I was not afaird of death in the past. I have had a few experiences where I thought this is it and I don't think I was afaird of it. I been with a few people when their time has expired and seen a fair few of my childhood mates go underground.

    However, I'm not sure why, what has happened to change my viewpoint, [if it has changed] but I know that for the past few years I don't have that certainity that I used to have.

    I have looked at this a bit in my personal analysis but have not answers as yet.


  • #38
    howamidifferent
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,819 ✭✭✭howamidifferent


    Like most, I don't fear death but I do fear any pain that might coincide with my dying. :(


  • #39
    Luca Brasi
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 300 ✭✭Luca Brasi


    Not afraid. Just hope I dont share a room with Jimmy Saville


  • #40
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Death Fears ME! :p

    Nah, the only fear or worry is how I go, may it be quick and painless.


  • #41
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    mike65 wrote: »
    Death Fears ME! :p

    Nah, the only fear or worry is how I go, may it be quick and painless.

    You know you cant take all them posts with you when you die, you should start spending them, maybe share them amount your friends or just donate some to charity. No point in hoarding them.


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  • #42
    SuperGrover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 991 ✭✭✭SuperGrover


    "And I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it – you've got to go sometime."

    — Gerry O'Driscoll, Abbey Road Studios janitorial "browncoat"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqCEPytSFqU


  • #43
    RossFixxxed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,102 ✭✭✭RossFixxxed


    After all the people I've seen die, I'm more terrified of it than ever. The screaming agonies some suffered, the sudden nature some people just shutting down so quick they did not have a chance to even look shocked. It's always sad and terrible.

    I see so many I know getting serious illness and other life threathening things and it just reminds me of how fragile we are. Watching it actually happen is shocking in its mundane nature, it's just a machine that has switched off.

    I don't want to go like some I've seen. I actually have not come to terms with my own mortality at all and it definitely affects my life with a constant, albeit slight, fear at the back of my mind.


  • #44
    seven_eleven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,558 ✭✭✭seven_eleven


    Death terrifies me. But I think the process of death scares me more than anything. Cancer, disease, suffering, they are the things I never want have to go through. I often think "what if I die tomorrow?" and it makes me feel uncomfortable because I'm not ready to die yet.

    I work with elderly, and Ive seen the suffering they go through. The ones who live the last years of their lives in pain, they cant move, they cant talk, they cant feed themselves. The ones who are still sentient but aren't allowed eat so all their food goes through a tube. They beg for food, they want to taste it again and enjoy it but they cant.

    Those literally trapped in their minds. Laying there, I feed them and they can hardly react, sometimes they cry or attempt to let out a moan, but its too much. You can never be sure what they mean or what they want.

    I'm not saying all elderly are like this. I work with those who are quite happy too, and that's fine. But I never, ever, ever want to get to the stage where I cant care for myself. Some of them live 10+ years in this state.

    Then there's the problem of whats after death that scares me. I don't have time for religion or particularly care about it. Sometimes you think really deep about what the hell is behind everything. Most people have this idea of something after death, even if its "nothing". But no, there isn't even that :eek: because nothing is something. There's no blank space, or darkness, no mind, just absolutely nothing. Or is there something? Its this uncertainty that I'm afraid of.

    :( I don't want to age anymore.


  • #45
    castletownman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭castletownman


    Tyrion Lannister when asked how he envisages his death: "I hope to be 80, lying in my bed with a belly full of wine and a young woman on my c0ck". Pretty much my philosophy on death too!


  • #46
    4zn76tysfajdxp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27,944 ✭✭✭✭4zn76tysfajdxp


    I really wish euthanasia for the terminally ill was legalised worldwide. I'm not afraid of death but the idea of dying in agony for days/weeks/months in a hospital bed is terrifying beyond measure. Not to mention people with severe paralysis or locked in syndrome, trapped in their own bodies for years on end. And it could happen to anybody at any time.


  • #47
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,335 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    meoklmrk91 wrote: »
    I do not fear death whatsoever, infant I feel very comfortable with the idea that I could die tomorrow, in 10 years or however long, it really doesn't bother me at all.

    As painful as suicide is I think it is nice that people get the chance to tie up loose ends, to say goodbye, to write a letter, etc. to me that's closure, of course for the people left behind there could be a hundred letters and they would still be angry, distraught and confused.

    So as I don't mind when I go the timing doesn't bother me, none of us know how little or much we have left, but would you really want to know? I don't think I would.

    Like you I don't believe in God, I also don't believe in a afterlife, it has made my life much better, death seems much less morbid now, it is my atheism that has helped me become so comfortable with the concept of the death, where as when I was a child and believed the whole thing was very frightening.

    :eek::eek::eek:


  • #48
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    Before I got married and had children I never feared death and lived quite recklessly however all that has changed now with the arrival of my two daughters. I still don't fear death however I have no wish to die anytime soon.

    I do not believe that death is the final frontier and that there is nothing afterwards. I get comfort from the belief I will be reunited with my dad and grandparents in the next life. I'm not a religious person and I have absolutely no way of qualifying that belief in the same way that those who say death is final cannot qualify their beliefs either.


  • #49
    tmc86
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭tmc86


    I don't fear death, but I'd fear the impact it would have on my family.

    I also fear growing old and useless and not being able to do anything. Simply just existing as a pensioner is what scares me.

    As the wise Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson once said,:P
    "Death gotta be easy, cause life is hard"


  • #50
    lukesmom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,401 ✭✭✭lukesmom


    Cannot wait to see what awaits us on the otherside. Hopefully not too soon though as I've 3 young kids to see grow up yet.
    My brother will be there when I die, ready to meet me again, as will the rest of my family and friends that have gone before me. Of this I am certain. Ok no proof u could put in front of you but it is a knowing I have always had. It has zero to do with any religion.


  • #51
    MUSEIST
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,258 ✭✭✭MUSEIST


    Kenya Small Schoolteacher wrote: »
    I really wish euthanasia for the terminally ill was legalised worldwide. I'm not afraid of death but the idea of dying in agony for days/weeks/months in a hospital bed is terrifying beyond measure. Not to mention people with severe paralysis or locked in syndrome, trapped in their own bodies for years on end. And it could happen to anybody at any time.

    This. No reason to believe being dead is anything but what it was like before you were born. Just nothing. However I think most people fear dying in pain and the reality is that most people do to some extent.


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  • #52
    nozzferrahhtoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,369 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    philologos wrote: »
    Look at the other thread about Jesus in AH. I've explained why I can trust the accounts concerning Him.

    No, you have not really. Your "explanations" are basically made up of:

    1) Saying it all makes sense to you therefore it must be true and
    2) Saying his mates would not have acted the way they did had it not been true.

    Neither of which is even close to being an explanation or evidence. Anything else you have ever offered has been thoroughly dealt with numerous times but you do not reply to _those_ posts do you.


  • #53
    newmug
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,571 ✭✭✭newmug


    nozzferrahhtoo wrote: »
    No, you have not really. Your "explanations" are basically made up of:

    1) Saying it all makes sense to you therefore it must be true and
    2) Saying his mates would not have acted the way they did had it not been true.

    Neither of which is even close to being an explanation or evidence. Anything else you have ever offered has been thoroughly dealt with numerous times but you do not reply to _those_ posts do you.


    This is not the A&A forum, GTFO.


  • #54
    nozzferrahhtoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,369 ✭✭✭nozzferrahhtoo


    Nor are you a moderator. This is a general discussion forum on many topics of interest to people here. If a user makes a point here then I am perfectly in my rights to make a counter point. If the thread bothers you then I question the wisdom of reading it and suggest you may find another more to your liking.


  • #55
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    "Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws".

    Jim Morrison


    He really did come out with some awful shíte.


    As for me I don't fear death one bit. There is no afterlife good bad or otherwise. We die and thats it. I find that somewhat liberating. Knowing that I can enjoy this one and only life I have without feeling the need to owe something to higher being or worship a deity that I never chose to accept.

    Life after death is the same as life before conception. Non existant. Nothing to be scared of.


  • #56
    somairle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 92 ✭✭somairle


    Matt_Trakker wrote: »
    I have sleepless nights from time-to-time coz I'm so scared of it.
    Not religious too, but I don't think that's the reason.
    I like living, I just don't want to die. Too many things to do and see and experience. I fell like I'm constantly running out of time.

    I'm the same, not so much sleepless nights but when I think about I get that 'oh god' feeling in the stomach. For me it is purely about not experiencing life anymore, so much will happen in the future that I will never experience & that scares me/ makes me sad.

    I need to start enjoying life more & making the most of the time I do have!

    (I'm not religious n don't believe in an afterlife)


  • #57
    candy-gal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭candy-gal1


    Tbh the older I get, even though im still in my mid 20s i know, the more I fear death! Id never worry about it when I was younger, it was just something that would never happen to me is what I would think.
    As people have said here previous and I have to agree seriously, its the whole not existing thing that scares me, also the fear of dying in your sleep/not knowing whats going to happen, and also being buried or cremated as I dont like the thought of either, especially cremated! :(
    Best not to think of these things though if your scared of it, as you only wreck your brain, worry too much, and then end up dying anyway!
    I consider myself spiritual but not reiligous, so I do think/hope that death isnt the absolute and final end, and that there is something after this, more likely imho a constant loop where were just born again as someone/something and just go on like that.
    Enjoy the here and now to the most you can :)


  • #58
    ruthloss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 637 ✭✭✭ruthloss


    I don't fear being dead., I hope to arrange the act of dying with as much dignity as I can muster.


  • #59
    dd972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭dd972


    As for me I don't fear death one bit. There is no afterlife good bad or otherwise. We die and thats it. I find that somewhat liberating. Knowing that I can enjoy this one and only life I have without feeling the need to owe something to higher being or worship a deity that I never chose to accept.

    Life after death is the same as life before conception. Non existant. Nothing to be scared of.


    ....errr and how do you know all this :):)


  • #60
    OneArt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,910 ✭✭✭OneArt


    nozzferrahhtoo wrote: »
    It is the mind killer. The little death that brings total obliteration.

    Beaten to it!

    I think it's instinctive to fear death. Survival and whatnot.

    I'd like to say I don't, but I think I'll be sh!tting it when the time comes. Certainly afterwards anyway.

    Better carry some toilet paper...


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  • #61
    Pacly
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 99 ✭✭Pacly


    I don't fear death as much as I fear missing out on life. (if that makes sense)

    I hate worrying about stupid things when I could die tomorrow!! :(


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