Do you ever think about Death? Does it scare You?

Answer 1

Occasionally when people I know die I think about death, but no, it does not scare me. It is nothing more than the finish to biological life and entirely natural.

Answer 2

Death is a part of the sinful nature that has been passed on from humanities first parents. Death within itself is evidence of the sin nature. As Apostle Paul says; Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world; and death by sin and so death passed on to all mankind, for that, all have sinned.

There's Physical Death, Spiritual Death and then there's the Eternal Death. Each of which carries with it a separation. The Physical death separates us from the physical world. The Spiritual death, separates us from communication with God. And the Eternal death separates us from the Presence of God.

We have all missed an appointment at one time or another. However, death is a appointment that we all will keep one day.

Hebrew 9:27 says; And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

The concern should not be upon dying. But on Judgment. The day of which according to the scriptures, everyone not born again, will one day stand before a Righteous and Holy God.

As Charlie Daniels puts it - Payback Time

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Answer 3

Throughout my lifetime, I've maintained an philosophy that "death is not an option ." (Not that it'll do any good in the end, but meanwhile, I reject it, and want nothing to do with it.)

No matter how wondrous heaven and the next life may be, THIS is the world we know, and the lifestyles and possessions we've developed and obtained.

I write and publish books and am frustrated to realize that not only will I not have time to write all the books in my head, but neither will the other authors whose books I've published.

I own 25,000 books, and it's awful to realize that I'll never get to read more than a small fraction of them. Likewise with all the shows and movies I've videotaped since I got my first VCR in 1981.

Hugh Hefner's around 80 now, and one evening I saw a program that showed his own collection of videotapes. What a library! And he's rich enough to have a librarian to catalog and organize them. One day he'll die, and then never again have the chance to even begin to see them all. With his wealth, mansion, empire, and girlfriends, he seems to have it all. But in many areas, even he doesn't. Nor, even, does Bill Gates. Sad.

Does this all seem superficial to you? If so, think about all the things you enjoy in this world, and all the things you'd like to do. Really think about it. The places you'd like to go as a tourist, maybe? A world cruise? Trips to Antarctica, or Victoria Falls? Even though they come close with some things, even the super-rich will never accomplish everything they'd like to do.

So -- death is NOT an option for me.

But just as for everyone else, I guess I'm stuck with its inevitability. Frustrating.

Answer 4

Yeh, I think about it "often enough", but sometimes wish I didn't have to (meaning I have resisted the path set before me more than once). I am a Welsh faerie shaman, and death is one of my "duties" in this lifetime. I am to "educate" others about death, care for those preparing to die, and help those left behind come to terms with life. Without going into a long, drawn out "diatribe" about "me", I'll just say that I've been through the training for it, courtesy of one of the oldest crone goddess known to man. It hasn't been easy, and it hasn't always been willingly, but for today I have transcended all the struggle and have come to a place of willingness to participate in this purpose as well as a few other purposes for my existence this lifetime.

I do not fear death anymore as I once did by running from it into high oblivion screaming and howling and being chased by death's sour breath, nor do I fear the deaths of others. Death is not "final", there definitely is more, and knowing that has comforted me in a way that I will be forever grateful for.

Answer 5

I think about it because I have an aneurysm of the aorta which is the artery that carries the oxygenated blood from the lung to the heart.

It has to grow a little larger before they will do the surgery to fix it. In the meantime it could explode and Theophilus would be no more. When the aneurysm grows to 5.5 cm, they plan to operate. Meanwhile they try to keep my blood pressure as low as possible. My last visit it was 110/60.

If they perform the surgery in a timely manner and fix the problem, I will not have as much concern about death.

I do not fear death, but I do fear leaving a 73 year old wife to do for herself without a partner. One of her fears is to grow old and alone.

grace2u

Answer 6

I think that most everyone ponders mortality at some point, - especially their own...

Many would say they are afraid Death, - but I think it more likely that this fear of Death has more to do with not knowing what will become of them once they are dead.

What will happen, do you think:

Will you go to an after-world filled with everlasting rewards, - or eternal punishments?

Will your soul return as another being?

Maybe nothing happens to you at all and you just go from "on" to "off"; your life just simply "unplugged".

In fact, The Big "Switch-Off" hypothesis probably scares more people than the idea of damnation, for what could truly be a worse Fate for a human who is dying:
The knowledge that one maybe damned forever?...
...or no knowledge of anything,...at all; the perfectly terrifying state of nothingness?

Answer 7

I used to ponder death when I was little, but found out that it was not death, but impermanence which bothered me. The sense of waste, loss, irrevocability. It just seemed unfair to me. Having learned about purpose of life, evolution and culling to improve health, reincarnation, karma and spirits only my instinctive bodily fear remains, but no longer my mental and emotional fear.

Death does not scare me, but it would irritate me because death would keep me from doing things and I dislike being bound/passive so I try not to rush to it. At times the simplicity and freedom a spirit experiences does attract me, but my belief in reincarnation and life after death make suicide an excercise in futility. The game remains the same.

Answer 8

Death is the natural order of life around me. Why would that prospect scare me?

The only aspect of death that scares me is that my children might die before I do. That scares the hell out of me. Beyond that, no, not at all.

Answer 9

Death doesn't scare me, but I don't like the thought of leaving my children behind, motherless. That's the only thing about death that bothers me.

Answer 10

i used to be petrified of dying, each and all the time, daily. the 1st concept upon awakening grew to become into "will this be the day that I die". at last I got here to realize that something wasn't precise with this manner of questioning, and that i've got been given some help from a therapist. it could relatively be a desire--no longer a wakeful desire of dying, yet dying might actually sparkling up each thing, does no longer it? i've got had dying fantasies, yet they do no longer artwork out satisfactorily in the top because of fact i might omit the section the place i prefer to hearken to what human beings say approximately me when I die. some years in the past I did narrowly get away a issue the place i grew to become into pretty confident i grew to become into going to die interior minutes. till you're in that issue, you do no longer understand what the be conscious "terror" ability. it extremely is an entire nother length of worry. even regardless of the undeniable fact that all of it have been given used up that day, and after understanding what it feels prefer to have the door to dying opened precise next to you, I now understand that i will die while i'm meant to die and not a minute earlier or after. there is not any worry of dying left in me in any respect, and that's sort of friendly.