To ask if you are not scared of death - what is your reason?

[Vilanelle]

For me, I am petrified of the idea. I wouldn't say it consumes me but if I do think about it, a wave of panic goes through me.

Do you think it is like birth - you don't know about it?

I had a dream last night that I was in a car accident and it felt like I could feel the life drawing out of me.

I can't wrap my head around the thought of not having any thoughts and just being nothing.

I would like to become more at peace with the though of dying, after all no one is getting out of here alive!

Tell me about your thoughts on death?

I don’t fear being dead as I won’t know anything about it.

Dying painfully tho, another matter entirely! Hopefully by then it will be legal to be shot, like a horse

I basically have massive fomo about most things so being dead is my worst nightmare

I'm sad to think that my family will go on and I'll just be a memory. But I'm not worried about the dying part. I came close to death some years ago, and it was a very pleasant feeling, as if I was floating on a warm ocean, just drifting away. I've never been scared about death since then.

While I’m very keen not to die while my kids still need me, I’m not scared of death or dying. I don’t know why, as I can be quite anxious.
I don’t mind the idea of not existing any more. And if it’s not about not existing anymore it’s the next chapter, and that’s ok.

I don't fear death - it scares me not knowing what happens after I'm gone.

Trivial things like if I were to die tomorrow, I'd never know how LoD ends.

Or do we get properly working AI.

Who does become the first country to drop the next nuke.

So much I'd never find out because I just won't be there.

I love science and knowledge and its the fact I won't be able to see what happens when that scares me,

No, i’m scared of a slow paralysing illness and loss of dignity and being able to communicate what I need. Unfortunately I have a 50% chance of getting like this. Death doesn’t scare me at all, it happens to everyone. Although i don’t believe in an afterlife i’m not sure what happens. I saw my Nan die, it’s not so bad.

I've never been scared of death. Everything dies, so why worry about something that is guaranteed to happen to you?

I worry about living for too long and ending up unable to look after myself.

@NewarkShark
I just looked it up. It's called 'For the anniversary of my death' by W. S. Merwin.

I dreamt I died, I was a traitor- they found me in a wooden shack in a snowy place, executed me there and then, kneeling on the floor with a foot standing on my back to hold my head against the floor- shot in back of head. I felt so calm as everything turned white and life left me. It was peaceful and I woke up feeling upset that I was still here. I'm not depressed or suicidal- I just felt like I needed to be back in the white. Just a dream but I hope it's like that, just calm and white!

The only thing that scares me is my kids dying. I feel nothing particularly about my own death.

I do believe we go on to a higher level (heaven?) but at the same time I'm also a bit afraid. The fear of the unknown I suppose. Ive read lots of accounts of near death experiences, which I have no reason to doubt (the majority) and there is a common theme. Basically I believe in God.

I’m not at all scared of death! I’ve never even thought about it. When it’s my time it’s my time. And after I die that’s it.

I'm not scared but maybe only because I think I have many years left, I might change my mind closer to the time!

I'm not scared because of my current belief system, propped up by sources designed to back it up by confirmation bias .
After my mum died, I started reading nde experiences, "the art of dying" by Peter Fenwick, watching theories on YouTube (some say we reincarnate on other planets as other creatures and that dreams of flying are memories of when we could fly), that death is "like waking up" but if there is actually nothing, all the atoms that make me will "quietly disassemble and go off and be other things" to paraphrase Bryson, so I will still be part of everything, just not aware of it. I'll be helping flowers grow.

Neither of those things sound bad to me.

I'm not too fussed. I like to spend time in graveyards and cemeteries as they're peaceful and they give me a strange comfort because despite anything that happens in life, whatever goes right or goes wrong, we all end up in the same place. It's a very humbling feeling.

Strangely, the one thing which freaks me out is the thought of going in my sleep. I have to be aware and present in everything and wouldn't want to fall asleep and never wake up. Also, it would be one of the children who would find me in bed- horrible.

Trivial things like if I were to die tomorrow, I'd never know how LoD ends

THIS IS NOT TRIVIAL!!!

Thanks ginger I’ll check it out!

I used to have constant, recurrent awful thoughts about death - I would wake at night and and would feel totally paralysed. It went away with anti-depressants.

For me it's the only certainty on life. But for others I guess it's facing up to the fact that it WILL happen and you can't control it.

My spiritual upbringing has taught me that death is as natural as any other bodily function - birth, having a poo. That's what bodies do. I'm more afraid of losing my mind.

I haven't had an easy life but a good one so far, and I've already had far more life already than most people and I don't feel entitled to anything more.

Part of my religion tells us that as we get older we need to learn to let go of things that tether us. To do all you want to do and say all you want to say and love all you want to love And be satisfied.

Also I generally don't worry about things I can't control. There's no point and it's a waste of valuable thought space.

Surely you'd be scared if you believed in the afterlife, particularly hell and there was a risk you'd go there.

Of just disappearing, why? Nobody is that important.

I worry more about the way I die, but even so, not that much.

The main reason I don't want to die in the next few years is DS, but he's a teenager and I know he would be ok and well cared for.

worked in terminal nursing for years so it doesn't scare me,more intrigued really as it's all part of the life cycle. have had a few ghostly encounters while working though, but that's another thread

Yeah, I think I'd be more scared if I believed in an afterlife, like, what if I actually went to hell? Or I'm in heaven and, y'know, then what? I have to watch my family grieving on Earth? I just sort of hang around forever? Doing what? No thanks.

I'm much more scared of my parents dying than myself... maybe because it's more likely to be sooner. The thought of not having them around terrifies me!

I have just turned 54 and it might be hormonal, but I have started to feel anxious about getting old, dependant and then dying. Like others at times the idea of death being welcomed has floated through my mind at times due to the circumstances I found myself in.

But what really troubles me, is what is this all for? Everything is ultimately pointless, none of us matter. We live, we have a bit in the middle, then we die. And that is everybody's fate, no matter how high-up the social scale you are or what you have in the bank, we are all not going to be here and the world will continue to spin without us.

i’m absolutely terrified. Terrified of leaving my family, my friends, my dogs. Also terrified of my family dying.

The idea of living forever is more horrible to me than the idea of death but then my grandmother told me the story of Tithonus in Greek mythology who was loved by the goddess of dawn. She persuaded Zeus to grant him eternal life but not eternal youth. He lived forever but Tithonus indeed lived forever, but couldn't move and lost his mind. he was supposed to have turned eventually into a cricket.

Even if its painful, death will be an end to that pain.