Are you afraid of Death?

[Overcast]

I want to be able to accomplish everything I want to do first at least before I die.

To me, death is a reminder that we all need to live our lives to the fullest. You never know when your time will come or when someone else who's close to you's time will come.

So until then, just keep on living.

 

[Y2K Baby]

I want to be able to accomplish everything I want to do first at least before I die.

To me, death is a reminder that we all need to live our lives to the fullest. You never know when your time will come or when someone else who's close to you's time will come.

So until then, just keep on living.

No, but be scared though, the OP's wearing his black cloak and everything.

Death is an uncomfortable fact of life

Death is undeceivable . . .

Death is undeniable . .

Death is certain !

Every breath you take is a step towards DEATH.

Every year, about 8 out of every 1,000 people die.
That's about 55.3 million people per year.
Or: 151,600 people a day,
6,316 people an hour,
105 people a minute,
Nearly two people a second.

When your very short life end (100 years old? Good luck with that..) your death most likely will be quite average and boring just like your life.. And by the time you will be completely forgotten, like you never existed in the first place!

 

[CrunkLord420]

I'm only afraid of dying because I'll miss out on what happens next. I'd be okay with dying if I was the last person.

 

[Teri-Teri]

There's no point of being scared of what's inevitable.

 

[HazamA]

It is useful to think about death only to the point that it frees us to live fully immersed + meaningful life.
The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

 

[Kataomoi00]

I think most people don’t fear death itself because, as mentioned before, it’s inevitable. I think people fear what happens or doesn’t happen beyond death. They fear the unknown. That’s at least what scares me.

 

[QT 219]

Here's the best part about death. You don't know you're dead. Ever pass out after a night of heavy drinking? Work super long hours and crash into slumber with no recollection of how you fast you fell asleep until after you wake up? People will miss you, sure. But you will experience none of this. You've been cut from reality.

There's peace in that. You're all done. Nothing to worry about. It's over.

 

[vhstape]

Depends on how soon and what of. At 90 for old age no, but death from cancer in a year's time would scare the shit out of me.

 

[Smith Banquod]

It's not like the thought pops up from time to time about how it all will end one day and that everything could randomly be all done and over. And there's only a hope that it will be quick when that comes around.

Even so, regardless; Can't say it's something that I'm always afraid of, but you know self-preservation and all that stuff plays a more significant role over whether or not that moment when life expires is something to fear, instead of enjoying the time we still got left on this gay earth.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

Here's the best part about death. You don't know you're dead. Ever pass out after a night of heavy drinking? Work super long hours and crash into slumber with no recollection of how you fast you fell asleep until after you wake up? People will miss you, sure. But you will experience none of this. You've been cut from reality.

There's peace in that. You're all done. Nothing to worry about. It's over.

So does that make Kiwi Farms purgatory?

 

[NotoriousD]

This is going to come off as some kind of bullshit pseudo-philosophy but here goes:

When major goals in life are ever brought up in a conversation and I give my input, my answer is always "To die having lived a satisfied life."

To say any more would be offtopic, but ideally, yes, it makes sense to be afraid of dying if there is something you want to still accomplish. And for some people, they never run out of things they want to accomplish. I may end up being one of those people, but most of what I want to accomplish in the first place is related to my hobbies rather than actual big important things in super important fields of work or research.

For me, I used to be, very much so. But a therapist once told me: "if you spend too much time worrying about death, then you miss out on life". Ever since I've been a bit influenced by those words gradually, over the years, up to the me of today who sees death as a natural inevitability and just spends his days enjoying his hobbies in his free time and loving life and family while it all lasts.

Everyone is afraid of the uncertain, but some don't realize that death is never uncertain. It's a guarantee at a certain point in life.

That said I have contemplated the idea of uploading my conciousness to a cyborg body or the internet should technology ever advance that far, but that's the technophile in me talking, and another conversation topic entirely.

 

[Gus]

Death is only natural, and I do not fear nature. I will embrace death as a part of life, for I shall be content with what life I have lived if I have lived it well in every moment, with in mind what a great gift life is. With love, with persistence, and with deliberate action.

Spoiler: I quote...

Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you’re living now, or live another one than the one you’re losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have? Remember two things:

I. That everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period.

II. That the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose.

Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book II, Passage XIV

 

[NoFeline]

I'm not scared of death, I'm scared of loss.
If someone in my family abandoned me I'd probably go through the same exact grieving process.

 

[Black Waltz]

It's not death itself that scares me, it's what happens after that.

 

[idosometimes]

Not really. What is the point? Dying is more scary than the concept of death. Death as a concept is more sad because everything you did and whatever is simply forgotten. Maybe you have a headstone that becomes unreadable and falls over in 100 years. That is it. Scary? hardly. Not a fun thought though.

 

[Your Weird Fetish]

It is useful to think about death only to the point that it frees us to live fully immersed + meaningful life.
The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

Nah you mostly feel more dead.

 

[BeanBidan]

Nah, I await deaths embrace

 

[Foltest]

The only way I can be afraid of death is not living a fulfilling life. Leaving my loved ones behind etc.

 

[Bassomatic]

Nope, and never really have been. Even though my thoughts on an afterlife or lack of have changed.

I don't like to say for a fact I won't know it, or see it coming or that that is all. It's out of my control in some ways, other ways it's in my control. It's a strange grey area is it not? We have some loose control over life and death you can jump off a bridge or live healthy, maybe you still get hit by a train or something that negates your smart life choices.

I'm not looking forward to what ever is next or lack of, but I'm not scared of it. I just don't want it to be meaningless. I don't want anyone hurt by it either.

 

[White bubblegum]

Thinking about death is the shit that keeps me tossing and turning at night.
But I'm young, haven't really had any close calls(does jaywalking down a busy street count?), and thankfully no one close to me has died yet. I should be the least afraid of death, but the thought just disturbs me at the most inconvenient times. Example: Trying to jack off? You're gonna die one day, deflate that boner.

Here's the best part about death. You don't know you're dead. Ever pass out after a night of heavy drinking? Work super long hours and crash into slumber with no recollection of how you fast you fell asleep until after you wake up? People will miss you, sure. But you will experience none of this. You've been cut from reality.

There's peace in that. You're all done. Nothing to worry about. It's over.

That's part of what scares me.