If We Are Dying Everyday Then How Do You Keep From Being Depressed and Afraid About It?

Question

I have recently experienced some phsical problems that makes me anxious. At this time in my life is the first real time in my life that I have really took note of the fact that im mortal and will die.Most of my life I have been gung ho and always wanted to expore and do things that I have never done in my life.Now that I worry about my physcial problems they have become and obsession that anything could go wrong anytime.I have taken note of my mortality and feel ,why should i worry about anything because we all are going to die? Then I look at others that works so hard at doing things and they are really sick and have beat the odds and do everything.What is my motivation? Why should I care since im going to die and don't even know when? Please no religious answers ,not that im against religion but there must be something else that can be said about this other than whats to come after death with relgious referrals.Its more of a philosophy /science /humanist question ,thank you

Answer 1

i have this problem too... and i know how you feel. it sucks. i have yet to find a permanent result for this crappy feeling, but i try to surround myself with positive things. things that i like. like friends and family. i try to keep my mind off of it. sometimes it isn't possible to not think about it. sometimes i think about it so much that i start to cry, and sometimes it just takes a good cry. i try to listen to up lifting music. i've found the best way to keep my mind off of death is comedy. i LOVE jay leno, so i usually get on myspace or youtube and look up some funny jay leno clips. and talking about it with people can help sometimes. it depends who you talk to. you might think i'm crazy, but sometimes i feel a lot better after talking to my cat when i'm down. it works for me.

Answer 2

I will tell you why you should care and it does't have anything to do with Religion. You wonder why you should care, but that is not what is happening to you. You have always known that you are mortal and that is not what is bothering you. You are currently in a state of calm in the sea of life.
No one can tell you what to do, but a lot of people will try.
You don't really have to do anything because you are ready for a change in your life. Very soon now you will forget all about your mortality and you will find the path that you have drifted away from.
It is like a car shifting gears. and that is what your life is doing at this time. Forget about caring, just wait for the signs that are going to head you off in a different direction than the one you have been traveling. Some people would look at your problem as a Mid life Crisis, but it is not.
You are just shifting gears and soon you will be in high gear, doing something productive and fulfilling your destiny. That is the important thing. An old Saying: It is a shame to die without striking at lest one blow for Mankind. You obvioously have not fulfilled your destiny, but you will. Think about that and forget about Mortality. It is a blessing, not a curse.

Answer 3

"Sometimes all that is needed is a sense of possibility" -Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

I recommend reading bits or a chapter here and there that catches your interest (or all of them!) from a book:
"Kitchen Table Wisdom" by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

From page 9,
"Can we choose to live? And if so, do we choose survival in the same way that we choose a suit of clothes or a car? Many people have come to believe that we do. Yet evidence suggests that survival may not be chosen in quite the same way that we choose a possession. Life is not a possession. Those who intensely wish to live sometimes may die and others, for whom life has little appeal, often linger on. How strange when many of us have an inner experience that there is some dimension of personal choice connected to survival." ...

Or this from page 83:
... "Chance!" he said bitterly.
The dice lay there on the rug, two perfectly identical cubes. One had come up a one and the other a six. We looked at them in silence. Then for the first time in months, Jess began to laugh.
Sometimes all that is needed is a sense of possibility."

Dean Ornish has written the forward and Deepak Chopra on the front cover says, "I recommend this book highly to everyone."
It was also a New York Times Bestseller.

Answer 4

I know how you feel I've nearly died four times in my life and the last time I almost didn't make it.
Mind you all of these occurrences happened within a year.
If anything these cases had the opposite effect on me, before all of that happened my life was a real mess and after wards I got my life together.
But yes it does make you think about your mortality.
As humans we often forget that we are mortal and will one day die.
All we can do is get everything we can from life before we leave this world.
The best thing you can do is attain everything you want, get what you want out of life and in the end you will have no regrets.

Answer 5

We Keep From Being Depressed and Afraid About death simple by being conscious that what ever we do (good or bad) we must one day die. Everybody dies. And yet there is no pain in death: a dead person has no consciousness, no memory, no sensory perception, The death are inanimate, comparable to nonliving things like stone, e.t.c., e.t.c.
Because it does not discriminate among the rich and the poor, man and woman, young and old, the follish and the wise, it should be viewed as the inevitable couse of nature.
Consider: if Adolf Hitler was immortal, then it would have been posible for him to dominate mankind. One man must die to give room for others. Very important because man is full of greed and wickedness, and does not in most cases give consideration for his fellor.
NB: You die faster and possibly live like a subjective criminal when you fear what should not be feared, nor what you can't avoid.

Answer 6

It sounds as although you're ache from Bipolar Manic-Depressive disease. It is a situation induced through neurological chemical imbalances and signs incorporate peculiarly exceptional temper swings from elation backpedal to melancholy, frequently unpredictably and for menial factors. This outcome in gigantic quantities of pressure, frustration and confusion as good as a prime suicide price related to the disease. You would possibly discover your self fitting very irritable over minute feedback or the movements of others and later fail to recognize why you grew to become indignant. My father has this disease, he used to be hospitalized as soon as and tried suicide two times. However, he's an overly triumphant businessman and has discovered to control the ailment very good. There are drugs that may aid to keep an eye on those temper swings, reminiscent of lithium. It appears as although that the time for the period of that you typed this query, you had been in a melancholy. You gets by way of it. When you emerge as extended once more, and discover the incentive to take action, ensure you perform a little looking and discover the healing/cure that you simply must make you bigger. It is incurable, however it may be handled.

Answer 7

Why should you think of death which is to come eventually?
I have seen normal ordinary people living ordinary bu strait life die peacefully in their sleep or pass away with in seconds.
It is only when you have a serious long standing disease you have the problem of struggling with it for long time.
In Normal life you can take each day as it comes and live a normal life suited to your taste

Answer 8

That would be like saying,"My car is running out of gas and there are no gas stations"
So f***ing what.
It's time to get out of that loathesome feeling.
Park the car.
Get out of your pity and start to do something worthwhile in your life.
I thought you said you were always "gung ho"
Take all of those experiences and take them to the extreme, live life, live life in the extreme!!
And if you were honest about already have done the extreme, give your knowledge to the ones who have not had the opportunity to live the exhaulted life that you have. there is no greater, ackknowledgement in heaven or hell than give another the zeal for life, that you have experienced, or to teach them that life goes on,........even in death!!!

Answer 9

Honestly......... you should visit a Cognitive Therapist.

They will help you get out of that cycle of thinking. It really helps trust me.

For myself, I make a point to focus on all the wonderful things I have in life, all the excellent experiences I have had and are to come. I dwell on the love in my life and take joy in knowing that even though everything is not perfect, I will savour every day.

Time spent worrying is time wasted.

Answer 10

in thisredundant hamster wheel of life we think we have al lthe time in the world and we can finally be salfish and do what WE want.... then one day we look in the mirror and you're alone.

Life's purpose is to multiply - replenish the earth and find joy in family. - - and as long as you have family your life will always be full. all the other stuff along the way are just distarctions that suck the life and time from our true purpose.

And in the end if you life has been full, death as cynical as it may seem, is just the next step and almost welcomed. You feel as though your life is full and complete.

Answer 11

don't worry about it, we all will going to die in some day, just live your life to what you like to do till you die.

I some time think the same way as you too, why we are working so hard? what for? in the end, we will die. But, you wasn't about to die, and it is not the time you think about death. Just leave the death behind,