are you scared of what might happen to you when you die? Like what if when you die, you just die?

Answer 1

Just marvel at the fact, that it renders our lives so meaningless! All this for nothing!!! It is more comforting to realize that life is more purposeful... i think that s why we created religions... and poetry... i think we perverted religion by taking it too seriously. I think religion should be more like a longing for meaning and sense rather than an imposition of some truth. And death is one source for such a longing.

Answer 2

If we just die, and cease to exist when we die, then it doesn't matter. Actually, that would mean that nothing mattered. So that is not something to be scared of. However, this not the case, If you are a Christian, and these ideas and fears are popping into your head. I believe that God can handle honest doubt. Make the active choice for Jesus in your everyday life. Read the Bible, and read christian books like Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. Those doubt and fears will naturally reduce and eventually disappear when you begin to focus your life on Jesus.

Answer 3

There are only three things that could happen when I die:
1) I go to heaven, and will be too happy to be worried about anything.
2) Nothing, and this entire existence (including the afterlife) is a joke... at which time, I won't be around to worry about it.
3) I go to Hell, and will be too busy shaking hand with people I know to worry about it.

Final tally:
What is there to be scared of?

Answer 4

All humans have some fear about death. Lets face it we are the only creatures that truly know we are going to die. Other animals may know when it is approaching. We spend alot of our lives thinking about it. It in psychology is called existential anxiety. You can read up on it if you like.

Answer 5

That's why ppl beleive in God, becuase He's the only being that addresses death. So now that I believe, I'm not scared to die because I know I'm going to Heaven

Answer 6

Nothing scary about non existance.... whats scary is the idea that you may have eternal concequences for bad decisions you've made. I dont care if there is nothing out there after I die, but if there is, I want to stay away from Hell.

Answer 7

People can say what they want, but the bottom line is that it is only natural to wonder about such things.

There is an old philosophical principle called Paschal's Wager. Paschal didn't know if God existed or not, but he decided that it would be better to believe in God and just vanish when he dies than to not believe in God and to go to, well, you know where. Moral of the story: If you're not sure whether or not God exists, its safer to believe!

Answer 8

I'm not scared of death. I'm kinda hoping for it, you know? It'll be the final break of this godawful life filled with war and pain and etc, etc. If when I die I just die, good going for me! 'Cuz if there's a heaven and a hell, I'm definetely going to hell.... and... I'm not too thrilled about that. (Not that I'm actually doing anything to prevent it)

Answer 9

If you just die,you won't know anything about it,so why worry? Religion is for people whose ego is too big to believe the world could go on without them in it.

Answer 10

No, because of what Jesus said.

Jesus Christ spoke about the condition of the dead. He did so with regard to Lazarus, a man whom he knew well and who had died. Jesus told his disciples: “Lazarus our friend has gone to rest.” The disciples thought that Jesus meant that Lazarus was resting in sleep, recovering from an illness. They were wrong. Jesus explained: “Lazarus has died.” (John 11:11-14) Notice that Jesus compared death to rest and sleep. Lazarus was neither in heaven nor in a burning hell. He was not meeting angels or ancestors. Lazarus was not being reborn as another human. He was at rest in death, as though in a deep sleep without dreams. Other scriptures also compare death to sleep. For example, when the disciple Stephen was stoned to death, the Bible says that he “fell asleep.” (Acts 7:60) Similarly, the apostle Paul wrote about some in his day who had “fallen asleep” in death.—1 Corinthians 15:6.


The Bible teaches that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” They are not alive and have no conscious existence anywhere. The account of Lazarus confirms this. Upon returning to life, did Lazarus thrill people with descriptions of heaven? Or did he terrify them with horrible tales about a burning hell? No. The Bible contains no such words from Lazarus. During the four days that he was dead, he had been “conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5) Lazarus had simply been sleeping in death.—John 11:11.
The account of Lazarus also teaches us that the resurrection is a reality, not a mere myth. Jesus raised Lazarus in front of a crowd of eyewitnesses. Even the religious leaders, who hated Jesus, did not deny this miracle.

Think about this too: If Lazarus had been in heaven for those four days, would he not have said something about it?— And if he had been in heaven, would Jesus have made him come back to earth from that wonderful place?— Of course not!

Yet, many people say that we have a soul, and they say that the soul lives on after the body dies. They say that Lazarus’ soul was alive somewhere. But the Bible does not say that. It says that God made the first man Adam “a living soul.” Gen. 2:7, Adam was a soul. The Bible also says that when Adam sinned, he died. He became a “dead soul,” and he returned to the dust from which he had been made. The Bible also says that all Adam’s offspring inherited sin and death too.

The Scriptural teaching of the resurrection, however, is not compatible with the doctrine of the immortality of the soul. If an immortal soul survived death, no one would need to be resurrected, or brought back to life. Indeed, Martha expressed no thought about an immortal soul that was living on elsewhere after death. She did not believe that Lazarus had already gone to some spirit realm to continue his existence. On the contrary, she showed her faith in God’s purpose to reverse the effects of death. She said: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.” (John 11:23, 24) Likewise, Lazarus himself related no experiences of some afterlife. There was nothing to report.

Clearly, according to the Bible, the soul dies and the remedy for death is the resurrection.