who's More FEARLESS: the Person not AFRAID to LIVE or the Person not AFRAID to DIE?

Question

or could they be the Same Person?
if not, what makes them DIFFERENT?

Answer 1

This can be the same person: A person who embraces life, but is well-in-tune enough to accept its inevitable end. (IE... It's a good day to die).

The only person I've ever met like this is my grandmother. She was almost 88 when she passed away. She did not hope for death, she lived in the now, but accepted that her life was long and well-lived. She milked every bit of understanding and experience out of each and every day... it's like she saw life and death as part of the whole... compatriots, not enemies.

Answer 2

Death is easy life is hard. The person that faces life head on and is not afraid is a fearless individual. The end result of this life style will be an individual that is not afraid to die. I believe one leads to another. After life throws everything at you and you are still relishing life you know there is nothing to fear not even death.

Answer 3

I am more fearlful of your questions. Each time I read your question, it takes on more, or different meanings. I am fearful that I'm not looking deeply enough, or looking too deeply.

I'll start with a difference. Life is basically predictable; we all have our unique "hopes" or "apprehensions." If we preceive life as a basically negative journey, we will fear living. We are fearless if we accept it, & flow with the harmony of it.

Death is inevitable & "after" death is unknown. I can't imagine how we could fear an unknown. BUT. If we are fearless in life, that is, in the balance & harmony of it, I doubt we'd fear death.

Could this be the same person? Yes. Fearless of both, or fearful of both.

Oh, you are really taking me over the top!

Answer 4

Well a teacher of Kabbalah would argue that death is not the opposite of life. Death is the balance to birth, life is what happens in between.

However to stay within the bounds of your question, it follows that a person that is truly not afraid to live, lives without fear of consequence therefore is by definition unafraid of dying.

A person that is not afraid to die however could have any manner of other fears. This is why suicides do what they do, it's less painful for them to embrace death than to go on living.

Answer 5

i think all probabilities could be considered.

But to answer this question, I will assume that the question is to be taken literally, meaning that when it states: A person not afraid to live means a person who says or shows her/his lack of fear towards life (It does not include any psychological or symbolic aspects of the fear notion) and that it addresses our culture only. Let's take 2 scenarios only:

1) A person who is not afraid to live may be afraid to die.
2) A person who is not afraid to die may be afraid to live.

It is not necessarily in human nature to be afraid of death. However, thanks to the media ("The culture of Fear: Why Americans are afraid of the wrong things" by Barry Glassner) and other societal phenomenons, more individuals are afraid of death than not.

Also, if we consider statistics to hold true, the number of persons who are not afraid to live but afraid of death is superior to the number of persons not afraid to die but afraid of life.

Considering the probability's rate, I would answer that a person not afraid to die is more fearless than the person who is not afraid to live.

Answer 6

I think the person not afraid to live is not afraid to die - we are the prisoners of what we fear to lose. But fearlessness is not courage - it's more a lack of imagination. Courage is confronting fear; and that's what it takes to live. Death itself is nothing; it's the process of dying that's alarming, but I think even that is more easily faced if we have learned to truly live.

Answer 7

surely the person who is not afraid to die assuming that person has nothing in the world to care for or worry about.

in a bad sense, that person would likely to do anything within and beyond the boundary of laws and with determination. since they have nth to lose.

in a good sense, they would try on taking on extreme tasks that are of extreme risks that reasonable rational persons willing to live would not take.

again , in a bad sense...what's more menacing or fierce than a person not afraid to die when engaged in a street fight or at a war ?

Answer 8

I think they are the same person. If a person is not AFRAID to DIE they have the freedom to really LIVE without FEAR.

Answer 9

As Nietzsche puts it, "Live dangerously." The person who has fearlessly lived is most likely to also fearlessly die, for the courageous living person will most likely accomplish much in life and die feeling satisfied that life was well spent, whereas the coward who nervously spent life afraid to take risks will have much reason to be afraid of death, for regrets of missed opportunities contribute to such fear.

Now consider that we spend a longer time living than we spend time dying or thinking about our own deaths. Nearly every action we take throughout our lives gives us the chance to courageaously live, whereas our chances to think or feel courageous about death are less frequent. Considering that we have more chances to courageously live than to courageously confront death makes clear that it takes the most courage to live courageously; for life benefits from our courage more frequently than it benefits from, and calls for, our courageous confrontation of death.

In sum, the person who fearlessly lives is the most courageous not only for living but also for confronting death.

Answer 10

I vote the person not afraid to live is more fearless. Everyone dies, not everyone lives....that's the difference.