2006-12-01 14:21:15 · 20 answers · asked by adam 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Alternative ➔ Other - Alternative
Do you fear death? We fear death because nobody can explain it to us. Nobody has ever "shared the experience"
2006-12-01 14:26:23 · answer #1 · answered by dizzy 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
General fear is a natural base instinct of man. It promotes caution and planning for our everyday activities. In such ways, fear is constructive. The trouble is that when fear cannot get through the planning, it tends to loop in on itself, and becomes debilitating. This destructive fear can only be mastered with courage and curiosity.
I do not fear death, because I look on it as a grand adventure that I've never experienced; a beautiful rest following an arduous life; a wonderful mystery and surprise that I have to look forward to.
I know I am not the norm. Most people cannot muster the curiosity and courage needed to completely bury insidious fear; but unless this fear is mastered, it will inhibit life. Many people are so filled with fear of death, that they cannot truly live.
2006-12-02 01:33:34 · answer #2 · answered by Arman 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The brain cannot imagine itself not thinking and constantly working for various answers to any of life's equations. Try to imagine no longer being able to think in any way. Impossible. It works constantly and perceives each of life's events from birth until death. The feeling we anticipate from death is filled often with God or Heaven, or in some cases Hell, although that is within each man's heart. Unfortunately, following your heart rarely is as successful as using your head. It isn't fear of the "unexplained", it's fear of being wrong about what could be the "unexplained." No one with true faith is afraid (supposedly) becuase fate has been accepted by allowing whatever we perceive to be our best interest (ie: heaven, casket, "hole in the ground", and anything else that would be suit each individual's needs for understanding) in after-life to overcome the thoughts of death.
2006-12-01 23:53:30 · answer #3 · answered by thpsguy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. Survival instinct
2. Fear of the unknown
Compounded by cultural taboos that support a negative reaction to anything realting to death.
2006-12-02 00:35:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
death is feared because no one want to die. moreover , before dying, you have to suffers from such physical pains, or even mental ones. And to someone, death means over forever. In religion, Death means you will have to face the judge of justice to be praised for you good deeds and to be punished for your misdeeds. If you have misdone so many times, you have to go to hell. It is scary to people !!!!!
2006-12-01 22:51:36 · answer #5 · answered by James Chan 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Shakespeare, a fool dreams ten thousand times about his death than a Villain. See it the horrendous side of life. It because.... one have ears but cannot hear, eyes but cannot see, Legs but cannot walk, hand but can not move. The body lies motionless as a stone.
2006-12-02 02:24:17 · answer #6 · answered by Smooth talking 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we know we've done wrong.
(this question really belongs in religion and spirituality, or under humanities/ Philosophy, because those are areas of knowledge that touch on the topic; science doesn't even relate to it. A live body and a dead body have the same number of particles; structurally there's no discernable difference.)
2 DEC 06, 0338 hrs, GMT.
2006-12-01 22:34:37 · answer #7 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Death is not feared, it's the fear of the "Unknown".
2006-12-01 22:28:27 · answer #8 · answered by Mara D 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Because of ignorance and emotional associations from past or previous experiences with death and beliefs associated with it.
2006-12-01 23:50:54 · answer #9 · answered by 16 Ikup 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know whether it's death itself that's scary or if it's the fact that it could happen anytime, whether you've lived a full life or not.
2006-12-01 22:31:40 · answer #10 · answered by pseudonym 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋