Strange question? A friend of mine asked me this. People always say ‘exercise and eat right so you may live longer’…why? I know it’s said that it is basic human instinct to want to live longer but what about those people who commit suicide? Do they not have a basic instinct also? And what about those people who hate their lives, why do they go on?
This isn’t related to my personal life, just questions I was pondering on today….
Sorry, I know it’s a depressing question….positive answers welcome!
2007-02-21 22:57:53 · 47 answers · asked by Mistress_T 3 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
im more afraid of not living.
2007-02-21 23:00:23 · answer #1 · answered by alex l 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think death is the greatest thing about living. It makes me appreciate every moment I have with the ones I love. The downside is that there is just not enough time for me to do the things I want. I'm not looking forward to getting old. I hope that I will be content, but If I'm not I just dint know what to do.
I envy people who believe there is nothing after you die and are okay with it.
I'm afraid of dying without my loved ones around me. I always make sure I say "I love you" before saying good bye, and I hate arguing with some one, specially my husband. We always sort our problems asap.
I lost my mum when I was 12, and even though i told her I loved her everyday, I'm afraid I didn't say it enough.
I'm more afraid of death now I'm married, than I was when I was "alone" its not just dying, but leaving someone behind on their own that is scary.
As for people who take their life's, I see that as their own instinct. If you just don't feel like going on living and you think the best thing is to take your life, then that would be your instinct. You see animals die of "heartache" so in a sense I guess it the same thing.
2007-02-21 23:11:56 · answer #2 · answered by Lassie 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I do, because I feel that I haven’t done all what I want.. I am still 18 and may be I am afraid only to die at my age (I don’t know if people get afraid of dying before 20)... May be when I become a mother then a grandmother and fulfill all my duties in life I would be no more anxious about dying
2007-02-26 21:46:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but mostly because I'm scared of leaving behind my loved ones. I woke up in the night once a few months ago with a horrible pain in my chest. I thought that was it and I was going to die right there and then and yet all I could think about was my family finding me and telling my boyfriend and how upset they'd all be. I didn't think once about myself. Luckily the pain must have gone away because I fell asleep again and plus I'm still here and alive today. Don't know what they was, probably nothing.
2007-02-21 23:57:53 · answer #4 · answered by lollysarah 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I did., die I mean. It was negligence in hospital and it took hours to get me stabilized. Now life seems more special. But I'm not as afraid of dying I think it will be easier the second time. I talked to some-one else like this and he felt the same.
The ordinary things in life are the things to concentrate on - family, nature and as several people have answered concentrate on living and dying will be easier.
2007-02-22 02:25:05 · answer #5 · answered by teacher groovyGRANNY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. As someone who was pronounced dead twice in one night, death is always a welcome release for me. I don't hate life- what I hate is me being alive. I wish that I would've been still born and never had the breath of life enter my lungs. I can't say exactly why I feel this way, but I've felt this way this whole existence. I'm 45 and I've been praying for death since I was about four years-old. I have nothing to offer the world, my family, or God. I wish that when I do die that God would vanquish me from existence to make it like I never was- no memory, nothing. I don't want to be in Heaven or Hell-just gone.Forever. A pastor said to me that God wouldn't see it that way because "I have already partaken of life and indulged in its ways." Right. Like I had a choice. I told the pastor that's like sucker punching my lip and then accusing me of having a bloody mouth. Duh. I think we should've been given a choice as to whether or not we wanted to be born and experience life, or not be born and then destroyed in a moments time. I would've chosen to be destroyed in a moments time. Weird, I know. That's my take on the whole "life" thing.
2007-03-01 22:44:49 · answer #6 · answered by 4everamusedw/humanity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I was a lot younger it did concern me a little.
But I was in a car crash in which I should not have suvived and came out of it with 4 broken bones in my foot. (it was still on the brake pedal when the front of the car folded on top of it)
I came out of that thinking 'It wasn't my time'
I am now nearly 60 and take each day as a bonus.
I have lived life to the full
If I die tomorow I know I will not have left many tasks undone.
and after all isn't it just the next great adventure
2007-02-21 23:09:09 · answer #7 · answered by Dreamweaver 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No! I'm not afraid to die; however, I don't want to be there when it happens! That's a joke friend! I think we are all afraid of the unknown . Actually after 3 years on a battlefield in WW2, I am not afraid to die. I am however, terrified of the process of dieing. A long protracted illness with no chance of recovery with endless pain is not for me.
2007-02-28 23:54:46 · answer #8 · answered by Alfie333 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No.. I can’t say I am. Dieing is the easy part, living is another story. Well it is true we all have instinct to live forever, but unlike animals our instinct is second to the ability to think. As for why do ppl who hate their lives go on… simply…HOPE! live is one crazy place, But you, me, they, will never know what waits around the corner. Its like this, live can change in one second… you’ll never know where you going in live… but the destination is nothing, live is in the journey.
2007-02-21 23:38:10 · answer #9 · answered by Jax la Fool 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im not afraid to die i used to be then as quickly as I even have spoken to older people and that they have lost people close to to them their on the component to die besides as they are to drained for this existence. i don't no have been we pass yet i do think of their is a few thing extra perhaps we are born back yet our soul are angels and we grow to be somebody else.
2016-12-17 16:05:44 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well if you think about it we begin to die the minute we are born.I love music art exercise and good sex now and then and I also like my job.These are the things that help me deal with the question of death because if I sit and think about death it will overcome my thinking and I will not appreciate things that I enjoy the most.Yes we will all die,but why sit and wait?
2007-02-21 23:03:25 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋