How do you deal with fear of death?

Death is a part of life. Only living things can die. In 80 years, everyone who replied to this thread will be dead.
I wouldn't want to go to heaven, or see my loved ones again. I want a cessation of consciousness, and I'm glad that, sooner or later, I'll get it.
 
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I was pretty wrecked by this realization during the winter of 2019. I would take a shower and just cry for a solid five minutes pondering the fact everyone I love will be dead one day. Since then, I’ve come to appreciate the fact people at the end of their lives that are aware their day is rapidly approaching come to accept it. Sooner or later, everyone needs to accept the fact death is a part of life.
 
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If you combine the many worlds interpretation with the simulation theory you get that we all live eternally in many incarnations through different worlds.

So Chris is kinda right.
 
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I believe that I fear it, in a subconscious sort of way. I've sometimes caught myself thinking on death, of when I'm old and grey and possibly lying in a hospital bed. I think what frightens me about it is the very end—the threshold between being alive and being dead. That one final push into eternity. And I fear there might be blackness awaiting me. Then I chide myself on thinking such is possible.

I consider myself a man of some faith, though never as much as a man ought to have. I believe there is an afterlife and that Heaven and Hell exist. Yet a doubting part of my subconscious wonders if there is nothing. I think this lingering doubt is something that's been a part of my life ever since I converted to Christianity, for I'd never given life and death much thought prior to that. It's likely a mixture of my own foolish doubts and something to do with Satan, trying to make me afraid of leaving the world. There are certain comforts to be had, though. The Word makes it very clear that death has no power over us, and that though we must suffer it for our iniquities, it nonetheless does not undo us.

So while my mind does dread the idea of dying and being met with nothing, it's best to think on what my grandmother has said. If there is indeed nothing beyond this life, then at least we might die knowing we have lived lives in service to something greater than ourselves. At least we might look back and remember those we helped, those brought ought of their affliction and pain and given an opportunity for redemption.
 
have a dream of Death coming to "merge" with you and when you freak out cause he's faceless and holding you in outer space, he gets aggressive and plops me back on earth to live my menial moments in life, only to have Death start killing everyone around me while being pressured to accept Death's marriage proposal by one of many murderers on the street. once my dream self say "i do." i get transported to heaven.

needless to say, i have a belief that one day Death will come for me anyways, might as well cause chaos by staying on earth a while longer.

i like flowers too.
 
Being an atheist has pretty much entirely released me of fear of Death.

Being an atheist has placed the liability of my actions squarely on my shoulders and no one else's and also the responsibility for the welfare of my family on my shoulders and not some greater being. This gives me the incentive to do a better job and treat others better.

The certain knowledge that I will cease to exist one day is a comfort in that it is even more critical I do a good job and leave something positive for my family.

I think the pain of death and the discomfort it brings - as I witnessed with my own 2 parents should be viewed as uncomfortable but the inevitable cost of the wonderful virtue of living. Death is painful and unpleasant but there are many things in life that are unpleasant but we accept them in exchange for something else.

It is not a fear of death you have. It is a fear of not existing. And if you live with fear, then you aren't really existing at all - you are already dead waiting for the event of death to confirm your fear and release you from it.

Fear of death is sometimes the fear of existing; for those who live without fear are really the only ones truly living.
 
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You stop giving Death a spot in your brain rent-free.

"I'm going to die someday!"

Everyone is. So what? You might want to avoid unnecessarily, prematurely courting that, obviously, but beyond that? Everyone dies. It's not in your control, at least not in the sense of complete avoidance. If anything lies beyond the grave, it's not something we can see or prove. If you get too wrapped up in worrying about death and if there's anything past that, you forget to actually live.
 
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If you live in fear are you really living? If you let fear control your life you may live to be an old man one day sitting at home alone wishing you could go back and live life to the fullest.
 
I just try not to think about it. If you're too busy living, you don't have time to stop and dwell on the fact that no one can say for certain what happens when we die. I had periods in my life where I really feared death, and looking back, every time I was dwelling on death, it was when I had a lot of down time and not much going on in my life. Try to stay busy, OP.
 
Everyone dies, no way out of that.
My only hope is that my death with be easy rather than drawn out and painful, but even if it’s the latter it’s not like I’ll be around to contemplate it.

Every day could be the last one so I try to be happy about life.
 
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I think about it for 30 seconds I get a bit sad then I go back to what I was doing and get happy again.
 
I fear not death itself, but rather what comes after.

Will there be heaven? Hell? Purgatory? Will I just cease to exist? As humanity currently stands we cannot confirm, for as we have not once actually revived the dead. Perhaps we have had people who temporarily ‘died’ and then came back but thats not true death. And that is what makes it scary. We cannot confirm what happens after IF anything happens after. Therefore we humans have no clue on what lies beyond and realistically we never will. We can theorize all we want but an actual proper answer will never come.
 
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Because through the mercy of Jesus Christ, I've been born again to better serve my fellow man. Someday my body will die, but what I've been given lives on forever.
 
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Grub said:
Yeah, well, there's that whole thing where they found when people die you get this massive flood of DMT in your brain, and that shit can make a single moment feel like a literal eternity. Plus the experience you have usually involves things like lifetime regrets and such...So....yeah...
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It's merely a theory, there is not evidence for it as of now due to ethical and technical constraints.
Groon said:
Actually i think immortality is scarier than death itself.
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mindlessobserver said:
Honestly I think about what it would be like, or required, in order to live forever in this flesh sack and it becomes very obvious very quickly death is a mercy. Setting aside the metaphysical, the social catastrophe that would occur if people could live forever would be enormous.

Imagine eternally alive Nancy Pelosis for example. A gerontaucracy would set in very quickly leading to violent revolt by younger people who find the paths to success and power barred by the people who got there first.

Then of course there is the soul crushing weight of memory. Eventually you would find yourself a stranger in time, and just unable to cope. Weighed down by a lifetime of memories and past traumas. I think suicide would start to seem attractive in that scenario.

We are not meant to live forever. I believe something is waiting on the other side. But even if I did not not I would not want to live forever. That would be a cursed existence devoid of meaning and steeped in suffering.
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Funny that when I was a kid the idea of ceasing to exist was a nightmare for me, but upon becoming a teenager having semi-constant nightmares about a transhumanist dystopian hellscape with de facto mandatory immortality and "You will eat the bugs" type of shit made it sound like a blessing.
My personal idea is that anyone who claims to know if there is nothing after or not is wrong, but whatever happens, it sounds better than what I saw.
 
I'm afraid of death because I don't know what happens afterwards. It scares me thinking this is the end, that my life, emotions, my experiences and the family and friends I've loved will be completely lost when I die. And if so, what was the point of it all?

Anyone who claims they aren't afraid of death are either in denial, complete liars, foolish braggarts chasing some stupid warrior dream, ignoramuses or insane fools, whether now or 10,000 years ago.

I have strong confidence in an afterlife but what it is or what it consists of is far beyond my understanding.
 
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