Are You Afraid To Die????

Question

Please state your religion or lack of when responding.

Thanks.

Atheist...not at all.

Tony R....if you come by again, please add your beliefs.

unknown_perfect....if you knew me, you'd know you were wrong. There are worse things in life than death.

Answer 1

You shouldn't be afraid of the inevitable. The only thing you should be afraid of is HOW you are going to die, and before you die that you can look back on your life and say that you are proud of what you did during your time. One of my favorite quotes, "You either get busy living, or get busy dying."

As for religion, I am a Seventh-Day Adventist.

Answer 2

I was born of Hindu parents. To know my religion, you have to visit my blog. I believe in a creator who has made everything that we can and cannot see, perceive, hear, smell, taste, etc.. My answer would be too long to explain here.

With regards to death, I have already answered similar Q's from you, so I'll just reproduce the same below, though you don't like cut & paste:
I was clinically thought dead for some time because my heart arrested. During this experience I felt suddenly that my hospital trolley that I was lying on was being pushed faster and faster and the suddenly I found myself in a huge field that was full of big, big sunflowers, there was a beautiful scent wafting all around me, and suddenly I found myself on my feet (this itself was remarkable. since my torso had been cut for surgery) and walking towards the brightest light possible, but also a cool light that did not hurt my eyes. Just as I was about to make out the 'being' in that light, my doctors managed to revive my heart and I awoke.
So death is inevitable, so why fear it? And that doesn't mean that I encourage taking ones own life, because it's not for us to take.
Life's Lovely! Love & Live Life

Answer 3

Atheist.

No, I'm not. Sometime in the future, I'm going to die. It's already set in stone exactly when and how I'm going to die. The laws of physics will continue to work on me and the rest of the universe, nothing can change between now and then, nothing will change between now and then.

It's not fate, simply determinism at its finest -- in the instant of the universe coming into existence, I was born, lived, and died, all at once, and I now have only to live the experience of that life, no free will, no deviation from the laws of physics. It can't even be said that I am simply playing my part because my part was, is, and will be already played. The movement of time is only an illusion.

I was born 15 billion years or so ago, give or take, I live 15 billion years or so ago, give or take, and I will die 15 billion years or so ago, give or take. My experience is just a trivial consequence of that little dichotomy between the existence of time and the illusion of the flow of time.

What is there to fear then? My death already happened, I simply haven't experienced it yet.

Answer 4

I am a Christian and NO, I am not afraid to die. I very much enjoy living my life here on earth but I also look forward to the day when I am called home to heaven. I read the Bible everyday which I believe is our Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth and I spend time in prayer and worship. I do not belong to a named religion because they are full of man made doctrine and many of the "churches" are busy trying to tell others how to live their life instead of seeking God to find out how they should live their own but I keep looking because I enjoy sharing with others.

Answer 5

I like how Mark Twain put it....."Mr. Clemens was once asked whether he feared death. He said that he did not, in view of the fact that he had been dead for billions and billions of years before he was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

I probably will be when it happens. Most animals are. But I'm not afraid of being dead. More afraid of the possible pain of dying and leaving my loved ones behind.

Oh and ummm...no name for what I believe. The closest religion I can think of to what I believe is Naturalistic pantheism (even that's a bit loony to me though). So I'll make one up for ya....Bojanglism.

Answer 6

Hmmm.... I'm 60 years old. So that means I've got about 15 to 20+ years of this sentence left. Maybe a little longer for good behaviour. Then I'll be free.

Am I scared of getting out of this life. Nahhhhh....

I go to Heaven, Nirvana or whatever & get pissed again with me mates on bottles of wine & a few beers, (72 virgins means 72 bottles of unopened virgin red wine. Yumm) tell outrageous jokes & whistle at the shelias.

Answer 7

Prefer Life ! Have studied all religions ...
don't care to join the club the package deal sucks.
so I recommend sifting through the material and judgmentally
weeding out the bovine fecal matter and utilizing the worthwhile mostly a matter of understanding and interpretation.....when u feel u have found the universal truth.... think again!

Answer 8

I am not a particularly religious person.
I consider myself to be more of an agnostic.

That said, even though my impending death is not the uppermost issue in mind, the concept of dying does scare me.
I mean, isn't it more comforting to think that when we die we will be reunited with all our loved ones and live in a state of constant euphoria, rather than the idea that we are all destined to be maggot food...?

Answer 9

I am not afraid to die, why would we?

Like or not, believe it or not we will die. I am sure I will die and I accepted it, because it is an obligation as a living thing that we must face. I believe all religions also states that. I am Muslim by the way.

Answer 10

Nope.

Agnostic Atheist.