Do you fear death?

Jelly 292 · 28-11-2012 01:48AM

This threads been done already:

'To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils. And surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one does not know.'

APOLOGY OF SOCRATES

Agricola · 28-11-2012 03:29AM

Not at all. I'll only be returning to my state before birth. That didn't do me any harm. I fear a slow painful death though.

Concur with all the atheists. Not having to worry about saying prayers etc is a great help to me in the not giving a toss about death department.

Gauss · 28-11-2012 08:07AM

Furious_George wrote: »

Oh I hope they figure out how to stop ageing pretty soon. Id stay thirty forever quite happily. I'm enjoying my life a lot, its not perfect and I have worries too about the future but I also have a hell of a lot I want to do before I clock out.

I don't fear death but I don't want it to come any time soon.

Why do you care if you don't do everything you want to do before you die?

You'll be dead anyway so you won't realise you haven't done everything. So long as you are enjoying your life what difference does it make?

smurgen · 28-11-2012 08:35AM

Agricola wrote: »

Not at all. I'll only be returning to my state before birth. That didn't do me any harm. I fear a slow painful death though.

Concur with all the atheists. Not having to worry about saying prayers etc is a great help to me in the not giving a toss about death department.

not afraid of it at all.also I don't understand why we should fear having to explain ourselves to God either. the way I see it if God exists, he owes us an explaination. Seriously there's so much hurt and pain in the world. Some people have really terrible lives. Why would these people need to explain themselves to God when he put them through it?

TeddyTedson · 28-11-2012 08:43AM

smurgen wrote: »

not afraid of it at all.also I don't understand why we should fear having to explain ourselves to God either. the way I see it if God exists, he owes us an explaination. Seriously there's so much hurt and pain in the world. Some people have really terrible lives. Why would these people need to explain themselves to God when he put them through it?

Got a good lol from that. If I trolled I'd post that in the Christianity forum.:p

smurgen · 28-11-2012 09:18AM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Got a good lol from that. If I trolled I'd post that in the Christianity forum.:p

why is that so funny? If there's a God then he stood by while millions/billions of innocents were raped, tortured,murdered etc....

Furious_George · 28-11-2012 06:21PM

Gauss wrote: »

Why do you care if you don't do everything you want to do before you die?

You'll be dead anyway so you won't realise you haven't done everything. So long as you are enjoying your life what difference does it make?

Damn you and your logic

. Well the things I want to do are things that will make me happy, I like happiness and enjoy being happy therefore I would prefer to be alive feeling happy than dead in the ground. That's all I meant by it.

newmug · 30-11-2012 02:20AM

nozzferrahhtoo wrote: »

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.

Yea but, I want to read about whether or not people fear death. That is what this thread is specifically about. You are not discussing that topic. You have an entire forum dedicated to what you wish to discuss, so, you know..........

Anyway:rolleyes: No, I do not fear death.

Giselle · 30-11-2012 02:24AM

I fear dying much more than I fear death.

As Eve Dublin said, its the thought of people I love dying that terrifies me. Or the thought of being old and dying alone as the last one of my family.

I'm better off avoiding thinking about it at all tbh.

OneArt · 30-11-2012 02:32AM

TheBegotten wrote: »

The only thing that would REALLY worry me is the thought of dying before giving something back to the species. Weird, I know, but that bothers me more than anything else.
After that, heaven sounds boring. Since you're not 'alive' I don't think we'd have bodily functions or desires - no food, no repreduction instinct, no endorphins...just flying around with halos. Fun.

But maybe that stuff is fun for a disembodied consciousness? Like MDMA for ghosts or something.

fkt · 30-11-2012 02:51AM

No.

Infact, I crave it. I think about it all day, like an adolescent boy does about sex.

Galwayguy35 · 30-11-2012 03:09AM

Hopefully when the Grim Reaper calls for me it will be a quick death and I won't have time to think about it.

It's going to happen to us all some day so no point dwelling on it.

NIMAN · 30-11-2012 05:47AM

No, although I hope it ain't anytime soon as I would like to spend quite a few years with my young children.

anitaca · 30-11-2012 10:00AM

CJC999 wrote: »

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.

What is your belief about other animals? Will our dog be reunited with her family? Will we be reunited with our dog? Will I be reunited with every animal I have ever eaten?

1ZRed · 01-12-2012 04:35PM

I don't fear death at all. I'd rather try to live a good life and not waste time because I think the biggest fear is regret of not doing enough with your life at the point when death looms just around the corner.

That said though, I don't want to grow old and die that way. I just don't see it happening, like a feeling I have. I'd prefer to burn out then go that way.

Galwayguy35 · 01-12-2012 04:48PM

The aul fella next door to me is nearly 93 and is still able to mow the lawn, ideally I would like to live a long and healthy life and die of a heart attack so I wouldn't even know what happened when my time is up.

The thought of getting something like Alzheimers when I get old would be my greatest fear, not the idea of dying.

If I was told this was going to happen then I would be making a trip to Switzerland before things got to that stage.

dd972 · 01-12-2012 05:04PM

'' I don't want to achieve immortality through my work, I'd rather achieve it by not dying '' - Woody Allen

LeeHoffmann · 01-12-2012 07:39PM

hmm I don´t know really. I guess I fear dying before I have the chance to do all that I really really want to do. I don´t want to do before I´m ready :pac:
Also, I think everybody would be a bit afraid of dying in a traumatic and/or painful way. I definitely don´t want to be scared or panicked at the end - e.g. I don´t want to die from an attack or some horrible gruesome accident like that poor man who drowned in a slurry pit in NI a few months ago.
After that, I guess I´m afraid of never getting to see etc the people I love again. Not being able to experience them one more time. But then, if I don ´t exist anymore after death, it won´t be possible for it to bother me.

cloud493 · 01-12-2012 07:43PM

Not really. I mean, it does come for all of those. Like Dumbledore in Harry Potter acknowledges, death is but the next great adventure, and what counts is what we do on this earth while we're here.

brianc42 · 01-12-2012 07:45PM

I don't fear death. How i get to that point is what scares me.

flipflops on 5th ave · 02-12-2012 01:04AM

seven_eleven wrote: »

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.

you so hit the nail on the head for me! this has given me panic attacks for the last 20 years, since I was 10. If you really, really lay there and think about it, I don't know how you can't be freaked out.

As for dying itself, no. I wouldn't waste my time worrying about how I will die. Cos even if I get over that, there's the nothingness afterwards that scares me more.

Dempsey · 02-12-2012 02:07AM

Which part of death? The part leading up to it and whether it will be slow and painful beyond comprehension or what happens when we do die and the infinity of absolutely nothing.

I've more a fear of the unknown than death! At least if you knew how you would die and what actually happens afterwards you could begin to wrap your head around it!

TheUsual · 02-12-2012 02:40AM

I don't know about the rest of you sheep, but I paid $100,000 so the scientologists come and freeze my head until there is a cure.

Death ? HA !!

ashers22 · 02-12-2012 02:59AM

not really. My father died when I was relatively young and I grew up with the idea of him still being there in a comforting sort of way which took a lot of fears away until that idea was scrutinized and I lost those beliefs. Now that I'm getting on a bit, rather than focusing on the end I try to live as best I can in the hope I can leave behind some good memories too.

Smidge · 02-12-2012 03:04AM

I'm terrified at the thought of death.

It's the "nothingness" of it that freaks me out.
That and I feel like I will never achieve what I have wanted before it comes.

Oh, and old age

Cork24 · 02-12-2012 03:14AM

i Don't Fear Death, but what i do fear is how i will die,

I dont want to get ill and die in pain. i would like to be giving a choice that if i did come ill and was in pain, that i would be allowed to end my own life.

Allyall · 02-12-2012 03:19AM

I never feared death, and still don't.. Of me.

I fear becoming mentally ill, but have decided, if i was, i wouldn't know, so i f i was, it cancels itself out..

I fear the death of my family/friends sometimes. Especially my Mother. My Father died at a young age (when i was young), and i'm approaching that age now, and i'm very unhealthy.

I had a drunken heart to heart with a friend of mine a few years ago, where i said i'd rather die before her/my family, and i was told i was being selfish..

Probably true, but i can't help feeling that way. I'm not afraid to fdie, but wouldn't try to make it happen. I would do anything to keep my Family alive.

I want to die peaceful, in my sleep, like my Grandfather, not like the passengers on his bus, screaming as they went over the cliff.

starviewadams · 02-12-2012 03:19AM

No.I'd welcome it at this stage tbh.

Only so long you can go on living a pointless and lonely existence where the only thing you look forward to in life is getting drunk,and even thats losing its appeal at this stage.

Esel · 02-12-2012 03:21AM

No, but I do fear your threads.

MickFleetwood · 02-12-2012 03:22AM

Not really. I mean, we're all going to kick the bucket eventually, so you may as well just disregard that and continue on.

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