whenever i hear that there is a funeral nearby my house or here is a funeral going on in a cemetary, i often feel creepy and scared, why is that?
2006-08-16 23:31:19 · 28 answers · asked by Seungyong W 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Go to one of the funerals. Then you'll see you have nothing to fear.
2006-08-16 23:36:32 · answer #1 · answered by Ray 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you are just fearful of death. I grew up in an older household where many family friends and relatives passed away, at least more than is normal for a younger household. I finally concluded that dead is dead. There is nothing to fear. Nothing in the casket, the church, funeral home, or cemetery. The dead aren't going to stick around and try to make your life miserable by haunting you. The only thing left in those boxes are husks, the leftovers after the person has left, no different than a box of cereal except that we assign meaning to the body. I worked in a military cemetery for three years, spent a lot of time doing it. Mowed, scrubbed headstones, dug graves, even buried a wife right on top of her husband. If you think it's spooky standing in a graveyard, try doing it standing on an occupied vault in an open grave. No ghosts, no odd noises, nothing. So, buck up, there's nothing to fear at all. You have to figure, as long as people have been on this planet, there's probably at least some remains almost everywhere, even in the dust. It's just a state of mind.
2006-08-16 23:57:38 · answer #2 · answered by fishing66833 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not unless it's you're own, and even with that you won't be "around" to fear it. As has already been said, perhaps you fear "death" itself or the notions of death, and your own mortality. Recognize death for what it is: a cycle, a process, like the "birth-life-rebirth". You may also be experiencing a "fear of the unknown", which is an instinctual fear. Perhaps a visit to a funeral and/or a cemetary to confront those fears would allow you to accept and then to overcome your phobia. Remember that the "dead cannot harm you" because they are physically unable to. It's often our own inner fears and insecurities that do.
2006-08-17 00:00:19 · answer #3 · answered by Companion Wulf 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just like "Fishing" I've been to more funerals than I have years on this earth. And I can say, funerals can be creepy but it's a part of life.
Too many modern folks want to protect their children from the experience, but they see more death and violent dying and gore in today's video games.
2006-08-20 07:40:58 · answer #4 · answered by hnz57txn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm continually afraid i am going to lose my composure and commence bawling uncontrollably each and every time I attend a funeral. i have carried out that sufficient circumstances for particular. even as i turned right into a baby, funerals did not hardship me as a lot as they do now. I wasn't almost as senstitive to stuff like that as i'm now. per chance it truly is because at the type of tender age, i became evidence against such thoughts, or did not understand what became occurring. As we become old, ultimately (and all of us wish it truly is later) we are going to lose someone we care deeply about, and perchance the inability of existence and funeral of a loved one turns into more beneficial frustrating to flow by ability of.
2016-11-05 00:09:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must have a deep seated fear of dying. Don't, I drowned when I was 12 and was resuscitated. It was a really nice place to be, I just wasn't allowed to stay. It was not my time, but it was a peace I can't even describe. Of course that was a natural death, not suicide. Don't feel creepy, just know that the one who passed was not alone that they were wrapped in the loving arms of ones who had already passed and Jesus.
2006-08-17 01:21:00 · answer #6 · answered by flip103158 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't feel creepy! It's just the thought of a person's soul passing from this world to another. We don't know where they are headed or how it works until we experience it ourselves. It is scary to think about until you realize there ain't nothin you can do to stop it, might as well sit back and chill!
2006-08-18 13:27:45 · answer #7 · answered by K-Flo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
my family owns funeral homes ,and yet I'm am still scared of funerals..guess I just don't like all the sadness
2006-08-17 02:59:35 · answer #8 · answered by myangel_101211 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are scared of funerals because we .are scared from death.We fear from anything due to ignorance ,and in this darkness,we feel rope ,as if it is snake. So we should have the true knowledge of "SELF" to feel immortal.
2006-08-17 00:50:21 · answer #9 · answered by agni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you should not be afraid of a funneral you just have to do how you are feeling if you need to cry if you feel the need to comfort outhers you should do so but do not be scared there is nothing to fear but your fear of not going especially if the funneral is for someone important to you so i hope this will help you
2006-08-19 06:44:58 · answer #10 · answered by skyppolar_green 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋