Do you fear death or boundlessness?

Question

What makes you mortal?
Do you accept, by dint of time's persistence that you too will "die" -- whatever this means?

Observation of those who are born, who sleep and wake, who die is consistent with a world we also dream-- a world possibly to escape another one, where discontinuity and boundlessness reigns. The preference for one over the other, that regularity is identical to reality, cannot be justified.

Are you afraid of limits or the lack of them? (or none...)
In what way are you mortal, in what way a god?

Answer 1

no fear dude

Answer 2

It is not death I fear but the pain involved with dying.
Watching a friend or loved one die from Cancer is a very sobering experience, but once they have passed away ones first thought can be relief at seeing the end of their suffering, before true grief sets in.
It is the pain and suffering that I must honestly say I fear, past that stage into the eternal sleep holds no fear as I will be following in the shadow of everyone I have ever known and many more I will never know.
Another fear connected to death is the fear of what will happen to our loved ones if they survive us, yet this fear is really a deep concern for others well-being which forms the basis of loving Compassion.
As for what awaits, I keep an open mind without resorting to speculations.
As all Buddhists are aware of the impermanence of all existence, the reality of death holds no surprise.

Answer 3

Death is like a deep sleep in which there is no conciousness. Really, it means non-existence. (Ecclesiastes (9:5, Psalm 146:4, John 11:11-14) John chapter 11 shows what the jews of the first century thought of death and how consistent this is with the rest of the Bible. They also believed (some of them) in a resurrrection. Death must be brought to an end, according to Revelation 21:4, which can only happen if those held in death's grip are let loose by being brought to life again.
In answer to your question: because of the foregoing, I am not as afraid of death as I used to be. If I die, cease to exist, for me an instant will pass before I live again since I will not even be concious of time passing.

Answer 4

No.
Because as a J.W. I am aware of what the Bible says about death.
Ecclesiastes 9; 5,6
If I die before Armageddon, I will be resurrected [ a standing up] back to a fleshly life.. on the earth. Psalms 37; 9,11,29,34.

If I have done the right thing by God, he will have removed death and sickness from me. Revelation 21; 4

If Armageddon happens before I die, I hopefully will be protected through it. Providing I have been obedient.

(Luke 17:34-35) I tell YOU, In that night two [men] will be in one bed; the one will be taken along, but the other will be abandoned. 35 There will be two [women] grinding at the same mill; the one will be taken along, but the other will be abandoned.”

To be ' taken along' is simply to be saved from the ' second death' , because those will have no resurrection.

Answer 5

Wa Alaikum Asalam I fear Allah, not death, if that makes a difference.

Answer 6

The ego fears death, for the truth is boundlessness, and the ego is a lie. And yet we give ourselves to this physical plane, each to die on our own cross of our own making. Very good question. Thanks.

Answer 7

I am afraid of limit less space and time. Dont take it as phobia, its so amazing and chilling that death does not stand anywhere.
That makes me to think of god, not the hell or heaven.
Hinduism makes sense in this perspective for me.

Answer 8

I hope not to 'die', but merely to go to sleep and slip away on a tide of dreams.

Answer 9

Not skeerd.
I believe that when I die, my permanent Self will go into a dimension so much less constrained than this one, that it will be bliss..
hope I see y'all there.

Answer 10

We never die! This brief little excursion comes to a final curtain,
but the play goes on

Answer 11

I didn't fear no being before I was born so I will not fear it when I cease to be again.