Do you think Atheists fear death more than Theists, or the other way around??

Question

Just wondering if your beliefs change how you feel about it

Answer 1

I can only answer for myself, in all honesty. I fear death far less now as an Atheist, than I ever did as a Christian. And yes, I've faced my own death on more than one occassion. It's just that as a Christian, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was hiding behind a fairy tale for comfort. As an Atheist, I admit that death is the end of existance for me. It's also enevitable. I've accepted this, and now feel far more focused on living my life as opposed to thinking about death.

Answer 2

As a non-theist, I can't speak for theists, only for myself. I do not fear death. To quote Woody Allen, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
— Publilius Syrus (100 BC)

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?
— Epicurus, (ca. 341-270 B.C.E)

The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
— John Quincy Adams

Answer 3

I cannot speak for all Atheists but my personal opinion is that I fear death a lot LESS than I did as a Xtian. I mean I am not in a butt-tearin' hurry to die or nothing because there are so many more things I want to experience in this life. But since I cast aside all religious beliefs I can face the fact of my death easier because I don't have to "choose" or "be chosen" to go to heaven or hell since neither exist for me

Answer 4

I'm an atheist, and I don't fear death. I don't believe in any made-up stories about anything happening after death, as far as I'm concerned, death is a part of life, just like birth. For me, it is hard to deal with, but not hard to accept.

Answer 5

Theists fear death more, because they're prepared to live a life based on fantasy in response.

Answer 6

We use those arguments in reaction on your god's love, why an harmless man or woman could settlement the bubonic plague on an identical time as an "evil" one flourishes. So on an identical time as you carry forth to us that god loves and forgives, he's busy letting some ill bastard rape some undesirable lady, letting a affliction ruin out in Africa, and letting infants die of starvation. those are all OUR issues, god is nonexistent. we don't argue those factors via fact we have confidence/concern, we argue so as which you are going to discover the form of 'justice' your god serves and why we do no longer have confidence. Yeah, no sh*t, death is needed (We get that, overpopulation isn't a fairly ingredient). you're decrease than a faux presumption that we concern/hate death. I, for one, embraced it some years in the past whilst i found out it became inevitable. returned, all of us understand this, do you already know who you're chatting with? Spare them from suffering? How do you think of they have been given there interior the 1st place? whilst smallpox breaks out, became it achieved to alleviate the inhabitants of their suffering? What in the event that they have been residing friendly lives? the alternative to drop the atomic bomb over Hiroshima became the government's, no longer the warriors.

Answer 7

That would be the Theists. Their belief system is fear driven. It's all about keeping it's adherents afraid of where they'll spend eternity.

Witness Dimitri use this fear of death against atheists in his effort to proselytize.

Answer 8

Perhaps when I was a christian I would have thought about how I would be going to hell for things I had done. But now I've realized when I go to sleep at night I would first see nothing but darkness before I see any moving or still images (which doesn't involve the judgment gates of heaven before seeing which way I would go) which gives me some sort of indication that once I die it's just pitch blackness.

Answer 9

I am a Christian and I fear the actual "event" of dying. The possibility of pain, the suffering of those I will leave behind.
I think that is the same for a lot of people. I don't know if fear is really related to religion or non-religion.

Answer 10

I don't think that very many people fear death. I think that most would really prefer not to die until they are quite old, and if they could choose to die in their sleep, they would. But I don't think that people, in general, are afraid to die, regardless of the cause of death. People don't care for pain, and people don't want their loved ones to suffer. I doubt religion plays much of a part of one's views on death.