Thoughts on the next life. Do you fear death?

Grayson · 14-11-2014 11:33AM

Corvo wrote: »

Not in the slightest. Not because I believe in an afterlife and not because I'm some hard man, I just don't. You can't be beat the clock and no-one should be afraid of what they can't overcome. You just accept it and kind of forget about it. I mean what's to be afraid of? You die suddenly, you're gone. You don't die suddenly, you go eventually.

Way I see it, I won't be the first to go and won't be the last. Might as well just enjoy what I can when I can. The rest of the world can do what it likes!

Sure you can. well, you can at least extend it through healthy living.

God doesn't exist. there's no afterlife. That's my opinion.
i do admit i find the idea of non-existence a bit baffling. That's mainly because i can't really comprehend it. When people try to imagine it they tend to think "when I won't exist" but that's contradictory. I can imagine being hot, cold, taller, shorter etc... but I can't imagine what it's like when I don't exist because there's not even an I.

Grand Moff Tarkin · 14-11-2014 12:05PM

I will fight to enjoy life till my last breath but when the time comes I will have no fear for myself just for the loved ones I leave behind.

Micky Dolenz · 14-11-2014 12:06PM

Being dead is ok. How I die could be an issue for concern.

AudreyHepburn · 14-11-2014 12:09PM

I believe in heaven/afterlife so I don't fear death that much....but having said that I want to be old and grey and warm in my own bed before it happens.

It's how I go that would bother me.

HalloweenJack · 14-11-2014 12:15PM

I fear death because I don't know what's going to happen after and I don't like the idea of nothing.

Frigga_92 · 14-11-2014 12:22PM

I have always been afraid of dying, not of being sick or pain but just, what happens next?
I have been afraid of dying since I was 7. A character in a book I was reading died and I asked my mother to explain what it meant, no close family relatives had died at that stage so I hadn't experienced a death or a funeral. My mother told me that when you die your heart stops beating and you stop breathing and you're put in a wooden box in the ground and you stay there. She wasn't exactly the mothering caring type.
So since then I have always had an image in my head of being trapped in a wooden box in the ground, even though I know I'll be dead I think I'll still be able to feel things, and I'll feel sad, scared and alone and I'll have no way of getting out of the box.

allibastor · 14-11-2014 12:31PM

26sdrawkcab wrote: »

I have always been afraid of dying, not of being sick or pain but just, what happens next?
I have been afraid of dying since I was 7. A character in a book I was reading died and I asked my mother to explain what it meant, no close family relatives had died at that stage so I hadn't experienced a death or a funeral. My mother told me that when you die your heart stops beating and you stop breathing and you're put in a wooden box in the ground and you stay there. She wasn't exactly the mothering caring type.
So since then I have always had an image in my head of being trapped in a wooden box in the ground, even though I know I'll be dead I think I'll still be able to feel things, and I'll feel sad, scared and alone and I'll have no way of getting out of the box.

Your mother sounds like a bit of a bitch

cd07 · 14-11-2014 01:30PM

no matter how u die or whether there's an afterlife or not a simple rule of physics states that energy cannot die or be created so what happens Ur energy? is it passed on to the so called worms or bacteria that feed off Ur remains? or if u die instantly where does Ur energy go in that instant? The mind boggles I guess! is Ur energy what u could call Ur soul?

Packrat · 14-11-2014 01:37PM

^^^^^ Be ok hun xoxo

Micky Dolenz · 14-11-2014 01:40PM

cd07 wrote: »

no matter how u die or whether there's an afterlife or not a simple rule of physics states that energy cannot die or be created so what happens Ur energy? is it passed on to the so called worms or bacteria that feed off Ur remains? or if u die instantly where does Ur energy go in that instant? The mind boggles I guess! is Ur energy what u could call Ur soul?

I'm of the same thinking. Energy can never be destroyed, it is merely transferred.

If that transfer of energy is in a concious state is another matter all together.

Trent Houseboat · 14-11-2014 04:00PM

I don't believe in an after life and I don't fear death.
I just hope I clear my search history beforehand.

Idjit · 14-11-2014 04:02PM

I don't fear my own death at all because as far as I'm concerned I'll be gone and that's that.

I am absolutely petrified of my parents or siblings dying however. It is my worst fear and I think nearly every day about how I might have to face it at some point.

masonchat · 14-11-2014 04:04PM

HalloweenJack wrote: »

I fear death because I don't know what's going to happen after and I don't like the idea of nothing.

Nothing is a lot better than a hot poker up the azz for all eternity lol

Smart Bug · 14-11-2014 04:13PM

SkyBlueClouds wrote: »

I fear dying before my parents. No parent should have to bury a son/daughter.

There's a way to ensure that doesn't happen. Just saying.

Grayson · 14-11-2014 04:18PM

Trent Houseboat wrote: »

I just hope I clear my search history beforehand.

just encrypt the whole fecking harddrive.

RoadhouseBlues · 14-11-2014 04:39PM

I'm terrified of the act of dying. And I'm only in my thirties, but it seems to be on my mind for the last few years. Will it be painful, will I just drift off, will it be peaceful. I would like to stop thinking about it, but its always hovering around the back of my mind. Terrified.

_Kaiser_ · 14-11-2014 04:40PM

Don't believe in an afterlife but I do occasionally wonder/worry about death

Serious answer:
Of course life will go on for everyone else and you'll be forgotten about by everyone except loved ones not long after but as someone else said, the idea of just not existing anymore is a tough one to get your head around.

Then there's the method of death. Quick and painless, preferably while asleep but I reckon the odds are fairly long on that one.

Also, since I became a daddy I worry about leaving something behind to support him and already regret the idea of missing key events in his life.

This is kinda depressing for a Friday afternoon, so AH answer...

Missing cool things like Star Trek style transporters, replicators and holodecks being invented .. oh and not getting to go to Mars for some 3-boobed hooker lovin!

gustavo · 30-01-2016 12:33AM

Sonderkommando wrote: »

or became a quadriplegic and my every need dependent on others, I would welcome death happily

You wouldn't if it happened to you

Spanish Eyes · 30-01-2016 01:10AM

I'm more afraid of an afterlife than nothing.

I mean come on, no one knows what an afterlife might be like, but everyone knows what nothing is like.

Go to sleep tonight, snore your head off and then wake up. To me that sleep is death, but forever, no waking up. How nice is that?

But an afterlife option scares me. The unknown.

As for a painful death. Morphine is your friend.

Bubbaclaus · 30-01-2016 09:09AM

Life after death is very similar to what life was like before you were born. Remember that?

branie2 · 30-01-2016 09:17AM

I know that I'm going to heaven after I die

Irishcrx · 30-01-2016 12:11PM

I don't fear death itself as such , I don't believe in any afterlife that when I'm gone I'm gone. I think some part of me will always live on through my son , and in his children....the same way I carry my mother and father/grandparents in me in some ways...that's comforting.

However , I'll be honest I do fear the process of dying...I would fear the pain and knowing I am dying. I've seen loved ones die and how it happened...and it can be long and horrible. I'd like the option of pulling the plug myself to be honest.

But life is a journey , we all will face death so were not alone...circle of life and all that.

Captain Chaos · 30-01-2016 12:15PM

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

I'm more afraid of an afterlife than nothing.

I mean come on, no one knows what an afterlife might be like, but everyone knows what nothing is like.

No one knows what nothing is like, even trying to think what nothing is like is something. The human mind cannot understand not existing because all it has known to this point is to exist.

RobertKK · 30-01-2016 01:25PM

I had a dream/vision of my death (not saying my death will be like this or the following event will happen, just what I experienced), it happened around May/June 2001 before any 9/11. I was killed in an airstrike from a plane that hummed and there was lots of them, it is only in recent times I realised they were drones, a vision of the future when it came to the drones. Ireland was being attacked in a war, as there were drones coming from a southerly direction.
A missile was fired close to where I was and in my dream/vision I felt myself dying and it was peaceful and then I saw a very bright white light and felt a presence in the light. Then I woke up by jumping upright in the bed.
Yes it was weird, but it was the most vivid dream I ever had.
But I see the white light is explained here.
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-23672150

A surge of electrical activity in the brain could be responsible for the vivid experiences described by near-death survivors, scientists report.
From bright white lights to out-of-body sensations and feelings of life flashing before their eyes, the experiences reported by people who have come close to death but survived are common the world over.

However, studying this in humans is a challenge, and these visions are little understood.

From my experience all I have to say is dying wasn't so bad. But I want to be old when I die.

The_Valeyard · 30-01-2016 02:01PM

Sure all the interesting people are in hell.

Be worse if every animal you ate also made it to the afterlife.

The Backwards Man · 30-01-2016 02:15PM

Everybody's wondering what and where they all came from
Everybody's worrying about where they're gonna go when the whole thing is done
But no one knows for certain so it's all the same to me
Think I'll just let the mystery be

eviltwin · 30-01-2016 02:17PM

I'm not afraid of dying but I am afraid of dying before I'm ready.

Junkyard Tom · 30-01-2016 02:27PM

I don't want to see a ghost
It's a sight that I fear most
I'd rather have a piece of toast
And watch the evening news

Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo, doo doo doo
Life, oh life, oh life, oh life
Doo, doo doo doo

30-01-2016 02:33PM

I admit that I'm petrified of death. Even just typing this causes my belly to tighten. The nothingness of it. Sometimes I wish I had faith to give me comfort but I don't. I believe that when we die that's it. There is no after life. There will be no tiny atoms breaking up and dispersing in to the cosmos. We die and that's it. I hope as I get older my mind will open more to the possibility of something after this life and that will make the inevitability of death a little easier to face.

nacho libre · 30-01-2016 03:42PM

I find the thought of nothingness comforting. I wasn't bothered about being in a state of nothingness before i was born.
The idea of living for trillions of years, then trillions of years after that, then trillions after that and so on.. no thanks.

Thoughts on the next life. Do you fear death?

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