Tell me. Though I understand why. What do you think? Why do people fear death?

Question

Why? What is there to fear? Death is nothing. Death is sleep. What do you fear?

Haha the first two are smart.

Answer 1

Not all fear death - as Kahlil Gibran asked, "For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?" However, for many, death is associated with loss, with pain, with decay, with separation from loved ones, and with the great unknown.

Answer 2

Humans have a drive to survive like all animals do. Since we now have these bg brains and think so much, we interpret this drive as "fear" of death. On the rational side, we fear the pain or suffering of the death moment. We also have a very hard comprehending the universe without us in it.

Answer 3

People fear the unknown. Because there is no real concrete evidence of any pattern when we pass, panic ensues. One other thing, humans are a social animal and death is usually a singular
activity. That lonely thought grips people with trepidation.
I personally can not wait to pass, I find the world to be too treacherous and violent. I would never end my own life and I have a beautiful family to care for but life is hard work.
My wife and I laid our oldest son to rest 3 years ago this March 1st due to cancer, he was only 13 years old. If he could do it so gracefully, so can I.

Answer 4

People fear the unknown, and they fear loss. You are mistaken. Death is not sleep. If death is sleep, how are you taken to be judged, and then punished or rewarded? If you are first awaken from death, and then taken for judgement or punishment, what is there to fear? Death is then only temporary. If death is permanent, then still, there is nothing to fear, since there can be neither reward nor punishment during death.

Answer 5

If I ever worry about death of course their is the pain and the process of dying but what does that matter, it will pass and I will be dead, presumably the pain will end. what I really dislike about death is the idea of loosing conciousness, not being aware of yourself and awake, and beyond that not being able to live and interact with my loved ones, to travel or see the future. basically, I just love life too much and dont want to lose it. but thats just me, some people may not fear death and among those who do fear death their reasons are probably entirely unique even when they are simillar, the same probably goes for those who dont fear death, everyone has different reasons.

Answer 6

It's the Fear of the Unknown. Also, the Fear of a slow , lingering, Painful Death. Plus, the realization that One has not accomplished everything One has wished to do in Life, prior to One's Death.

Answer 7

Those who believe all those myths about life after death, are afraid of the terrible things that may happen to them like hell and all that.... and for those who know that it's just the end, like a deep sleep, and fear death is just because they dislike the idea of non-existence, probably would rather be alive and be with loved ones, or just be than not existing at all...... I hope this is comprehensible

Answer 8

Instinct. Though I'm a history major, I do have a thing for biology. The one thing that every living creature on this Earth has in common is reproduction. It is the one purpose of all life, to continue itself. Death no longer allows an organism to progenerate it's race, thus losing its' entire purpose. Humans are the most socially and emotionally complex of all creatures therefore we just put a more complex spin on death. But the truth is no organism wants to die unless it benefits the whole, except humans, because we're selfish bastards.

Answer 9

For me the terror of God is a healthful worry. the comparable way a toddler could worry to displease his father and mom, we could desire to continuously have an apprehension of displeasing or hurting God. One definition of this worry is “an awe and a profound reverence for the author and a healthful dread of displeasing him.” For the guy apprehensive of dying. Ecclesiastes 9:5 tells us the state of the ineffective, 'For the living are wakeful that they are going to die; yet as for the ineffective, they are wakeful of no longer something in any respect, neither do they anymore have wages, because of the fact the remembrance of them has been forgotten.' Psalm sixty 8:20 states: “To Jehovah the Sovereign Lord belong the approaches out from dying.” by utilising potential of the sacrifice of his human existence, Christ Jesus became God’s “chief Agent” of existence and salvation. there is likewise a desire for the ineffective. At Isaiah 25:8 the prophetic promise is made that God “will easily swallow up dying perpetually, and the Sovereign Lord Jehovah will certainly wipe the tears from all faces.” “The hour is coming wherein all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out, people who did stable issues to a resurrection of existence, people who practiced vile issues to a resurrection of judgment.” John 5:28, 29. desire that helps somewhat.

Answer 10

Humas do not fear death. They fear:

The Unknown.

and

Dissapearing from the Earth without leaving something behind. Not being remembered...