Are you scared of dying?

[DrNortherner]

For some reason last night dh and I had a morbid conversation about death. I had a horrible nights sleep thinking far too much about what will happen to me when I die.

I know it happens to us all, but it is a horribel thought.

Anyone have any theories, or someone just slap me please.

Not usually the morbid type. Don't know what came over me.

Yes. Very.

Can't bear to think that I won't see every minute of my DCs lives - so I try not to think about it. Not scared of dying but scared of missing out I suppose.

my dh refuses to talk about anything like that, even about making wills. Im not too worried, more concerned about those i leave behind. I believe I wont know im dead, or in heaven or hell in normal way. but believe in new paradise at some point. Maybe thats why
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Not usually no, life's rich tapestry and all that.

However, due to give birth in 4 weeks and it's a constant fear.

I did when I was ultra depressed, I would say even a phobia of it. It did pass, but if I think too much about it I get really freaked out. THe best way, for me, is to deal with it like something so normal. I have had small discussions about funerals with H, so they are done and dusted now and I feel almost to embrace it is part of accepting it. Well, not embrace but you know. I try not to think about it now, thinking "if I die, I am not going to know i'm dead" In a way, there is nothing to fear because all you ever will know is life, never death.

not in the abstract long term sense - but I would probably be if it was imminent. An aquaintance with a child the same age as mine is currently in the later stages of cancer - I have had a few sleepless nights thinking about her and her situation and trying not to imagine it being me.

Like quootie - during my worst depression it was a phobia. It occupied my every waking minute. Not the actual death, but the dying (ie terminally ill) and my worst pain was imagining the children at my funeral, and how they would carry on after I had gone.

Actual death - no, I won't know anything about it. But the time leading up to death must be awful.

Im scared of dying young but reckon I be happier about it when Im 70 odd

It scares me alot.
Like quotie and hippi its the actual being ill too.

No. Scared of growing old and infirm though.

Yeah, it scares me too, basically try not to think about it, which is ridiculous really as it is going to happen.
I suppose my main fears are around being ill, fear about the process and esp leaving people behind. The thought of leaving my children without a Mother when they are young, sends me into a cold sweat

Know completely what you mean (OP)and I do contemplate it all the time. However, death itself only lasts a couple of seconds and is like falling asleep but I do think about the pain that goes bfore it.
I always think it kind seems selfish that parents have children, giving birth to something they know will die.
Also worry about dying soon and leaving my children when they're young without me. I guess though it's best to have a think about death, deal with it in your head, then get on with living or else - what's the point?