To ask if your NOT scared of death?

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I'm utterly petrified of what might be beyond this life, but presumably others have reasons they don't fear an afterlife - why not?

God I hope there isn't a bloody afterlife. Once this one is over I'm done it's been very hard work and i happily look forward to the long sleep.

of course there is no afterlife, just as there was no pre-life.
'from dust we came and to dust we shall return'.
Anyway i have a theory that we are just a genetic experiment by an extra terrestrial master race...:)

I do not fear death, and I've faced it three times.
I don't believe in an afterlife, when we're dead, we're dead. It's sad for those left behind, but our lives are richer for having known those we loved.
Death is part of life, every living thing will die. Why fear the inevitable and unavoidable?

Death doesn't sound that great but the alternative is far worse.

I'm not afraid but I struggle to comprehend not exsisting and that bothers me a little. Sadly I've had a lot of practice lately and at acclimatising to the fact that one moment a person is and the next moment they aren't.

I was scared when I was younger, now I'm more scared of anything happening to my dd. Like someone upthread, I've now lived long enough to know nothing is certain and to try and enjoy the moment, where possible

Nope, not afraid of death. I am a Christian, but I don't think that's why, not really. I just can't imagine what there is to be afraid of.

I am however afraid of the pain I will cause my children by dying. It is the very shitty flipside to the amazing love I feel for them. My DM is terminally ill, and it is a terrible thing to feel.

So, I wish I didn't have to die in order to spare them the pain that I feel now, iyswim.

The way that I think about it is that there was a time that was before I existed and that doesn't scare me. So it's the same for a time after i exist. I don't think there's an afterlife. This is it.

I'm not scared at all.

I held my daughter as she died. My son also died.

There is literally nothing worse in this world, or any other, than that, so I have nothing to be afraid of. The worst already happened.

You won't care if you die, you won't be around to care.

I'm more bothered about:

a) the effect on my family if I were to die
b) losing a close relative

Elsa

I can't fear an afterlife I don't believe exists. I fear some ways of dying. I fear dying early and not being there for my dc. But my death itself is not a scary thought.

Not at all worried. I'm more worried about filling the next 40ish years. I am reconciled with all my relationships, and have done all I can with the rockier ones. I do not know what comes next, but do not believe there is anything to fear. I have faith that there will be an afterlife which we cannot appreciate from here, or eternal rest/nothingness.
I have young adult DCs who I would like to be able to support onto their next stage of life, but they are capable and well prepared and will manage without me. I'm more worried about DH, and wouldn't want my PIL and DPs to see me go first.
That's it.

I'm not afraid at all. I have longed for death several times in my life, had failed attempts to kill myself and then had my ds so I had to stop trying for his sake. But part of me will definitely welcome the day when it comes. I am pretty scared of the pain that might come with it, of course. But not death itself, I accepted my mortality long ago.

I fear a long and lonely old age, out living all I love more than death and I fear an early death, but not the actual element of being dead.

I am only afraid of leaving my surviving two children whilst they are very young. But like Elsa, I watched my elder daughter die. And she is right there is nothing worse in the whole world. Nothing. At all. I'm not afraid of dying, no, but of leaving my children when they are very young or of one of them dying, too, which will result in my own suicide as soon as possible and possibly before they die if they're in a situation like DD1 was.

I'm not chuffed about death but not really worried, either.
Death without fear is what I hope for.
A good death is a fine thing. I've no doubts there's no thereafter.
Also, I think I'm with the Jehovah's Witnesses.. I can't believe in a God that would invent something as terrible as Hell.

Scared of dying in a painful or unpleasant way, yes. Scared of being dead? No, not in the slightest. I don't believe in any form of afterlife. When you're dead, that's it.

Not scared but more scared of leaving my children motherless was at the doctor today turns out I might have cervical cancer have to go to hospital Friday now that scares me more than dying.

Tbh, I just don't think about it.

I'm not scared of what is after death. It will either be more of the same or nothing at all. I am scared of pain. I am hoping to be sudden.

The only deaths I fear are my husband's and my daughter's, so I hope I die before my husband and our daughter is only 25 and hopefully has a very long and happy life ahead of her. I have had lifelong depression and can't imagine being able to bear either of their deaths.
I'm terrified of bereavement and of old age (I'm already 62, my husband is 70). I have no friends and my only other relative - apart from aforementioned husband and daughter - is my 96 yr old mother. My own death doesn't worry me at all. It would if I had any religious belief and/or believed in some form of afterlife, but I don't, so to me death = oblivion. Dementia and mental and physical incapacity and what care I would have is very frightening indeed and has been on my mind a lot more since turning 60.

I am scared in case I die before my children are adults.

I would be furious and would come back to haunt the world!

But most of the time, I feel so tired, I can imagine being very old and thinking, "I've had enough now. Let me go."

i was brought up as a catholic so i would like to beleive in an afterlife but i,m not sure i do i try not to think about it .

I think about death a lot.

I don't fear it. I often think of the line in Harry Potter in the tale of the three brothers/deathly hallows when the brother "greets Death as an old friend" - that's how I feel about it.

I'm six-months recovered from 20+ years of depression, the worst of which was the last two years when I didn't want to exist. As PPs have said above, the process of dying is rather off-putting so I technically didn't want to kill myself or die per se, but I wanted to be dead.

Anyway, despite being well now, I'm actually pleased that I don't fear death.

I did find myself sobbing the other day (possibly hormonal) at the realisation that if DD lives long enough to die an old lady, as I wish for her, then I won't be there to hold her and comfort her as she slips away. Idiot.