Leave your comments about death here. How do you deal with death?

Question

Everyone is scared of death. It is not any easy subject to bring up. Tell me is death involved in your life? Others will answer this question and you can find out how they handle it. This will be another tough question where the points do not matter. I'll chose one that has the best answer, but I know everyone's answer will be the best answer. Death. Do you work with it? How do you feel about it? Have you ever seen someone shot? Did you ever have a gun placed to your head? How do you deal with death in the military? Answer this question about death in your own way.........

Answer 1

At first, the only reason we live is to die. But as we find our meaning in life. We become scared of death. Death is invevitable.

5 stages. Also works with death.
Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression and
Acceptance.

Answer 2

No one has the privilege of being inmortal. I already accepted it but I don't know how I will react when the moment comes. I have read that before it occurs there are several stages. The first one is to react with anger then comes the stage of negotiation where you make a lot of promises and the last one is acceptance of the inevitable. I have not seen someone shot but I have seen someone shooting to other person.
I have been pointed by a gun in a car jacking. Really I reacted well trying to obtain the good part of the assaulter explaining him I had small children to raise. The worst part was the following days that I felt a great anger with the assaulter. After some time I pardoned him. Luckily I have not been touched by military deaths in my near relatives.

Answer 3

This is my experience - my 15-year-old son died of leukemia after a very short time of finding out he had leukemia (8 days). Death came quickly and heartlessly, and took the very person I cherished more than my own life. So - I would say that I don't fear death now. I'm not afraid of talking about death, or being around someone else who has lost someone, or is dying.

I think that Death made me wiser and fearless. I have a first hand understanding of how fragile, fleeting and precious Life is. I get up every day and choose to be a positive force in the world. I choose to reach out to people (where I might have been frightened to before my child's death). I think that Death tempered and refined my understanding of this world and gave me a wisdom that was won through great loss.

Answer 4

How do I deal with death? Hm, well, I stop moving and stay firm to my Christian beliefs and let my soul drift off to wherever it goes.

I feel that death is a natural part of life and everyone is going to die soon. As of late, there have been no signs of immortality or resurrection, and I don't believe we normal humans could feign death exactly. When our time comes, we will just die and move on, maybe to never be aware of anything else again.

I've seen death, actually... My friend got hit by a train as his foot was stuck in the clamping tracks and all I could do is claw at the ground and cry as I watched him when it was too late. His blood splashed everywhere and it mentally scarred me for the rest of my life... but I guess it was just his time.

When I was a young boy, a robber broke into my window when my parents went to pick up some milk and held a knife to my throat. We made a bargain that we wouldn't tell anyone about what he was taking, and as his part, he wouldn't kill me. You could say I came extremely close to getting my throat cut, in turn, experiencing death.

Answer 5

Not everyone is afraid of death. I have been a nurse for 9 years and have cared for many people at the end of their lives. I have watched people die peacefully and I have watched people fight til the bitter end. Death is an intimate moment in someones live. I have only actually 'witnessed' two people take their last breaths and in those two instances I felt very connected to those patients. I will never forget the moments we shared, me holding their hand, telling them it was ok to let go. I felt honoured in the same way I feel honoured witnessing a birth.

Death in my personal life, of course is different. There is a loss and sense of grief. I miss those that have died, but I also feel hope that they may have found peace. Peace that the living cannot comprehend.

And that, is how I view death.

Answer 6

Death is a natural part of the way the universe works. without death there couldn't be rebirth. People die everyday on certain levels. Death should not be frowned upon because its inevitable. We should embrace it for all the beauty that it is. The real question is what are you going to do while you're still alive and kickin. No one knows when they will die, only unless you take your own life. So i'd palce less emphasis on that aspect of your existence.

Answer 7

I am 16. Yes, 16. I have an I.Q. of 149. I know I will die some day, but that doesn`t bother me. I have never been in a life-threating sittuation, yet. I am an atheyst, therefor I do not believe in God, the Devil etc. etc.. What calms me down is the fact that I visualize death as a neverending slumber. I will feel no pain, I will be totaly uncontios and will see only a cloud of black. So no mather how I die, it will be painless, even if in the last few moments of my life I could be in more pain then I ever could have been in my entyre life. That`s how see death.

Answer 8

I am a nurse and I see death frequently. It was hard to get used to, so I made myself stay with people who were dying and supporting family members. I am convinced that death is not a bad thing. It is just crossing over onto another plane. Some folks struggle in the end and others die peacefully. I don't think anyone can pass until they have made their peace with God.

Answer 9

Unfortunetly death is a part of life. I do not fear death. The way I look at it is like this.............I am just passing thru this life and can't wait to get to the next one. I have never had a gun put to my head nor have I been shot.........I think that would be really scary. I love life and when it's time to go then it's time to go, but I must admit...........I can't wait to see what's on the other side :)

Answer 10

I believe in an afterlife more than I believe that the Earth rotates... and that belief's not tied-in to any specific religion, though I'm a liberal Christian of sorts [not that being a Christian automatically gives me more insight into death].

Part of my BS in medical illustration involved two 300-level semesters spent dissecting human cadavers which, other than some anticipation at unzipping our four person group's 'body bag', didn't bother me at all. At my mother's and later father's memorial services, at the graveside I remember saying "See you later."

I've always liked the statement purportedly made by Chief Seattle [yeah... whom the city was named after]: "Dead, did I say? There is no death. Only a change of worlds."