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?

I am only scared I will die early. I am petrified of dying young and leaving my kids behind since three of them lost their dad to cancer.

I don't believe in life after death. I believe you die and that is it.

I am not scared of the process of dying either. I am around it all the time and in the majority of cases it always seems very peaceful. I used to be scared of the process of dying but since working in health care I no longer am. I am scared of having an illness that leads me to spend years with little independence before I die. The thought of living like my nan did for years after a major stroke and not being able to communicate well or do anything for herself scares me.

I used to believe in an afterlife but I no longer do, so when I think of death what happens after doesn't cross my mind.

You've not seen me this morning

I used to be petrified of dying - I spent most of my 20s in a low level panic about it! Then one day my Mum said "it will just be like before you were born" and something just seemed to click and that thought stopped my fear.

Now I'm in my 30s I'm scared of getting old (but don't fancy the alternative!) and I'm worried about the process of dying i.e. knowing I'm dying and my body deteriorating/being in pain etc. But not worried about being dead.

Since becoming a Mum I mostly worry about my children growing up without a Mum/Dad if something should happen to DH or I. Especially as DS is so little he wouldn't remember us.

I'm very scared of it

I don't fear an afterlife for several reasons.
I have lived the best I can. If there is judgement I am content to face it.
I do not believe that a loving God would sentence us to perdition without another chance to repent and be saved. Worst case scenario, I believe, is nothingness- being deprived of whatever the good stuff is.
There is nothing else I can do. I genuinely try hard in every area of my life, and can't do better. I can't change the outcome, so why fret?

I also don't entirely enjoy life, find it rather wearing. The idea of another 30+ years to fill...

Is there something in particular bothering you, OP? I had a friend who was terrified because of something she had done that she felt she would be judged for.

Not scared. Are you scared to sleep each night?
"Sleep. Those little slices of death". Edgar Allen Poe

Orgasm. "Le petit mort" do you think during orgasm? No. Your consciousness is elsewhere

Physics 101 something cannot become nothing

Philosophy-your brain is a physical organ, but where is the mind? Eg Descartes pin tack test: hand touches down on pin, which causes the nerve to send a message to brain saying "urgent stimulus" brain then sends message to hand muscle to say "nooo, abort abort, retract hand as it will cause pain" hand is then removed averting serious damage...question is, how does the brain differentiate between physical sensation or pain/pleasure as it is an organ. Is it the mind that has learned the differences of stimuli of pain and pleasure, and if so it must reside somewhere outside the physical body.

Out of body and near death experiences-some of those that have not had experience, claim they are BS experiences. Even medical doctors that previously denied the existence of such experiences, admitted the converse when they themselves experiences them

My father died a couple of weeks ago. Peacefully, in his sleep, after a long and difficult struggle with Parkinson's and dementia. Death was a liberation for him. I am not afraid because I saw what death brought to him - peace at last.

I don't have a fear of death. I know there is a life after death through both personal experince with deceased relatives as well information passed on from other psychic mediums. Our loved ones are always around us, vist us in dreams and are only a thought away. The only hell is the one that we create within our minds on earth.