Why are you scared to die?

Question

I asked a similar question to this and I got many answers that people are scared because they don't wanna leave their loved ones and that they are afraid of what will happen afterwards. When someone's about to die, I don't think their first thoughts are, " OMG! I'm about to leave my family!" I'm not scared of LEAVING my family...but I would be VERY sad because I don't want them to cry or anything. But I'm not scared of death for that reason. I'm scared because its part of my human nature to be scared. I want to live, I just don't wanna die. I just don't wanna be dead, just wanna live. what's your reason? Is it because your afraid of leaving your loved ones, or will you just be sad, and your real reason is like mine, you just don't wanna die?

Answer 1

I'm scared to die because that fear is built into all sentient beings, as a means for survival. Once they realize they are mortal, they fight to stay alive. It's called survival instinct. Beyond that, I just don't want it to be over. I don't believe in heaven or any kind of afterlife, I think what we have here is all there is, so I don't want it to go away, because then I would have nothing. Of course, I don't really know what happens when we die, but that is my belief. So also I have a fear of the unknown. But it's mostly the first thing.

Answer 2

I'm not afraid of being dead, but I am afraid of dying. Why? Natural selection. Humans that weren't afraid of dying went and got themselves killed before they could reproduce, leaving us necrophobes behind. Also, it will be a rather shocking revelation. Everybody knows he's going to die, but nobody really believes it. I want my death to be painless and quick, ideally in my sleep so I don't have to feel my body shutting down, and the knowledge that everything will continue to exist just the same with or without me.

Being dead won't be a problem. My brain will stop working, so I won't be able to experience being dead. I will have no senses, and no mind. You could say that my essence, soul, whatever, is gone, but whether or not you're in to that, I'll just be a lump of rotting meat. No mind, no consciousness, no self.

I would rather not die yet, though. If nothing else, I want to do a few things (listed in no particular order) first.

Have sex --that never sounds right...--
Bike through Germany
Learn quantum physics
Become a piano virtuoso

After that, I'm sure I'll come up with other things. Time will go on whether or not I use it, and I'll fill up my finite life with things to do. But I figure if I get those done, I'll have had a good run of it.

Answer 3

I am not scared to die. I very seldom think of it. I do not want to die, but after death it will be like before I was born. Nothing. I have no wish for an afterlife, my ego is not that big.

I have such a wonderful life, full of family and overseas holidays and my precious children. My fear only involves my selfish desire to mother my children for longer, I feel they need me and I would be very sad to imagine them not having a mother.

As my death is not determined by me, I see no reason to dwell on it though. I would not let the sadness of the thought of it, change my life. The fact it is finite - makes it so precious. What a wonderful genetic lottery, I got to be born and spend time on this planet being loved and loving others, thirsting for knowledge. This is enough for me.

Answer 4

Honestly i have been ready for a few years now. Not to think I wish to die but i am ready for this chapter to end and the next one to begin. I have already donated my body to a place that will use it to help others and burn what they cant have no funeral no service most the people in my life don't come see me while i am alive no reason to come when i die. I have lived a fruitful life i have helped other and i have hurt others but I have felt remorse for those i have harmed and ask for forgiveness so yeah I do not fear death or being dead I am finished with this body and I am ready for something new.

Answer 5

Hi, I had a NDE in the Kansas City flood in the '70's. I was being sucked under a car by cross currents. I had no emotion; my mind was very clear as to the consequences of getting caught under the car; but then had an incredible euphoric feeling to total love. (This may be the reduced oxygen as deepsea divers sometimes rip off their masks in that euphoria.) But then a distinct voice about a foot from the left side of my voice said, "Don't do this to Karen! Don't do this to Karen!" All thoughts of life on Earth had left me--until this voice reminded me of my little girl!! I immediately started fighting for leverage, screaming my head off and called to Jesus (as I had been taught as a small child). At that point, someone lifted my head out of the water, as I was chocking, but he couldn't pull me out due to the powerful current. Another man also risked his life and together, they pulled me out and to dry ground. I have always believed that death is a part of living; that, as the physicists say, energy cannot be destroyed, simply changed in form. I therefore have firmly developed a solid belief in this truth. I love life--the ups and downs that bring new learning and just hope that this learning will transfer to the next form. But whatever, I'm thankful for what I've had and for the time I've had now with my Grandchildren!

Answer 6

I look at death like going to the dentist.

We tolerate the pain because we fear the drill and the needle, but with courage we pay our bill, and feel a release at the freedom from pain, as we arise from the chair.

With death we struggle with a lifetime of pain, and fear the ultimate pain of death, which is an unknowable journey unlike the dentist, making it a much harder path to follow. On making that transition we awaken to life with no pain in harmony once more with the energy we call God

Answer 7

We do not know what is beyond life, and humans have the tendency of fearing the unkown. Many of us who have enjoyed our lives are reluctant to give it away. Religion plays a major role in influencing what a person believes after he dies.

Personally, I do not fear death, I am quite curious to what happens after I die. (I am not suicidal)

Answer 8

Scared....anxious..... excited... expectant
These are all, physiologically, the same experience.
Your body is doing the same thing in each case... we just call them different things because of the context in which they are happening.

So you can say that you are scared to die... it is just as true that you are EXCITED by the thought of dying.

See if that doesn't fit for you.

Answer 9

The reason I'm scared is the same reason I'm scared to be physically injured.
Physical injury is scary...
And death is the ultimate physical injury...
Life is good.
Death is bad...and scary....

Answer 10

I'm not afraid of dying, I've died once already and was brought back, I've also nearly died 5 other times in my 42 years on this planet. Everyone that really knows me will not be sad nor mourn if I die. They know me well enough that they'll be very happy for me.