Why does death frighten most people?

Question

Does it frighten you or not? Why?

Answer 1

The question wasn't if YOU are frightened by , but why most people are frightened by it. I think most people are frightened, not by itself, but by passing through the "doorway" from this life and the next one, and how that passage "works." Those of us who are assured of where we are going--those who believe in an afterlife, and believe that heaven/paradise will be much better than this life, have nothing to fear from , do not fear ....but still, the passage through the "doorway" may still unsettle someone a bit...And I just looked at the sub-question...no, does not frighten me...Because I, as a Christian, believe in what the Bible has said about heaven, salvation.

Answer 2

Death of the phyiscal body most often means pain for self (and for others who love you) so it is frightening. If there is no pain then the uncertainty is uncomfortable. Living your life with an awareness and in preparation for the next life - then no worries. Death of the spiritual body - that would take up too much space here. Me? Not frightened at all. Why? Living well based on universal law and Heart.

Answer 3

Death frightens people because they know that is the end of their life. Maybe they feel that they have more things to accomplish or they have left so many things undone. Death does not frighten me. I have made peace with the fact that I am going to die someday and there is nothing I can do to stop that. Any I can do now is to do the best I can everyday that I am alive.

Answer 4

It does frighten me because I would not exist anymore and after a while you would just be dirt and dust, but do believe in heven.
If you do go to heven it isn't frightening to die.
It give me the shivers thinking about it!

It was like in a book that I read:
"Everything dies, they all go to better places,
not all can come back to earth, and i wouldn't recomend it, because then you go through life as a gohst, staying the same age and no one being able to see you."

and if you read Tuck Everlasting
the tuck family drank water from a spring and stayed the same age forever, they really did not like it and they alway wonderd what heven would be like.

So it isn't the end, it the begining.

But i fear of being murdered, i want to stay in this world the longest i can.

and some people fear they wont get to do eveything they want to:
Get married
go skydiving
have kids
go camping
travle to a different country
climb a mountin
swim with the fish
see runes: pyrimides, castles etc.
see land marks:niagra falls, eiffle tower, great wall etc.

so do eveything while your young, my dad did what he wanted and is very educated, and is fluent in french, and chinese!

Answer 5

Despite protestations of a belief in an afterlife, most people, I think, do not have much confidence at all about it and would really would like a money back guarantee or promissory note.. They are afraid of the uncertainty.
Even more frightening is the vast , empty, dark void into which we dissolve and which is our most probably destiny.
Am I frightened by the prospects? I'd say I'm more resigned to them.

Answer 6

The most frightened seem to be those who continue to struggle with the human concepts of Heaven and Hell. No, I'm not frightened, but am intensely curious. I have to laugh at myself for that, thinking that if there is nothing after this my curiosity was all in vain - but I'LL never know it lol.

Answer 7

Death frightens many people due to the fact that none of us have experienced it first hand before so we don't know for sure what to expect. All we can have is faith in what we believe in and hope for the best. I fear death for that reason but it's not my biggest fear by far.

Answer 8

To quote Keats, "Nothing dies; All things must change". I think death is just the opening to a new beginning. I guess its frightening to some because they don't know what will happen. I don't know either, but I look at it as an adventure, not finale.

Answer 9

Death doesn't frighten me, but I don't want a painful death. I think that is what most people really fear.

Answer 10

Not scared since I learned to really believe in afterlife-that death is not a ending but another beginning. That is the fear -the unknown -for no one has returned and told.Then too people are scared of the judgment to come-the burning in hell or purgatory-according to what they believe. Why I try my best not to do a bunch of bad stuff. People should read the bible so they can inform themselves for the knowledge will make them less afraid.