Curious about fellow atheists: are you scared of death?

Question

Your answer should be "no." Think about it... when you die, you are essentially losing consciousness permanently. Like going to sleep, without the dreaming. You physically could not feel, have regrets, remember, think, ANYTHING; so what would it matter that you died? You simply wouldn't... *be* anymore. So did you say no to begin with, did I convince you...?

Answer 1

Not at all. Death is the easiest thing in the world; you just lay there and rot. Dying, on the other hand, scares me quite a bit since it often involves a lot of pain.

Oblivion doesn't scare me. If there's any sort of afterlife, it'll probably be something far weirder than any of the man-made religions say it will be.

Answer 2

I am not scared of death, as there is no reason to be. You are right, you just cease to exist.

I am just concerned with how I go. I don't want to die a long painful death. I guess in your sleep would be best.

But, personally, I would like to die when I am 80, while having sex with my 20 year old girlfriend. Could there be a better way. I guess could say I would like to "come and go" at the same time.

*added* for Pretty Girl's Answer.

I have read the bible, the koran, the book of mormon, and a great many other religious writings. I am willing to bet with great certainty that I know more about your bible and you religion's history than you, and most of the people in your church.

Answer 3

Thank you for directing people to what their answer should be. I don't know how I might have arrived at the correct answer without your counsel.

Now, as to your question: I am not looking forward to death, but I am not particularly afraid of it, either. In all likelihood, I will find it a bit frustrating to die, as I will have not finished the book I'll be reading, but other than that, it might be an interesting experience.

Answer 4

I think about that all the time and you'd think that people would be scared because they simply wouldn't be so I don't WANT to die but I don't think I'm really scared. Because once you died you wouldn't be anything or anywhere, so you wouldn't know you weren't anything. It scares me a little thinking about it because all I can picture is me floating into this like black abyss forever; but not knowing it. I don't know, its just weird. Thinking that you wont be anything and not knowing or caring. Or maybe we really are reincarnated like the Egyptions but just don't remember our past lives. Each time we live, we think its our first. I'm rattling on......

Answer 5

I'm scared of the physical pain that inevitably comes along with dieing It is a primal instinct no one can really deny We would not last as a species without it. As far as there being nothing after wards doesn't bother me a bit

Answer 6

I am not scared of death but It does bother me to think that when I die I will be leaving people who love me and care for me. One could easily turn your argument into an argument for nihilism, which is not atheism. I think one can love life and wish to avoid death without having to believe that there is or isnt an afterlife.

Answer 7

The answer was "no" before I clicked on the question and read the rest of it. I'm not afraid of death, it's just the end of life, there's no way to avoid it, so what would be the point of fearing it?

Answer 8

You didn't convince me I already knew that. I have never been scared of death. Only sad about having to leave the people I love.

Answer 9

I'm not scared of death at all, death to me gives lives meaning. Our mortality defines our existance, death is a natural part of life. Life is so much more meaningful to know that we don't live forever. We have a short time at it and that is it.

Answer 10

No. Death would let a skeptic (not a full atheist yet, not even agnostic, but NOT semitic) find the truth. And if not, it will be the closest to peace most men will ever find.