The Idea of leaving this world into the unknown or oblivion creeps me out too much.I feel like I'm thinking about it constantly.How do I at least be calm about it or at least lessen the fear?
2007-07-12 06:40:16 · 8 answers · asked by araisuwilliams 2 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Hi,
I also think about death, when it might happen and how it will occur, and maybe that is what is "creeping you out" as a chilkd I nearly lost my mother when she was in Hospital and underwent a very serious surgical procedure, her heart stopped on the operating table. The surgeons resusitated her, but her retelling the whole story when she came home freaked me out so much, I worried about death for years afterwards.
I dont worry so much now, I accept it will happen ( as if I had a choice!), I think most people just dont want the possibility of a painful end, that might be your worry. If we could all just go to sleep and not wake up ever again and die in that way, then maybe we wont even think about it very much. I have seen death in all of its horror in the last two years( road accident victims, Murder victims, drowning victims) I just feel that as long as my own passing is not gruesome, its okay.However many people tell me that I am a picture of health and should last well into the 21st century! that takes me to around a 100 years. Thats cool by me.
Live your life to the maximum,do all those positive things you want to do, as its the only life you have right now and make every day the very best possible. Dont worry so much, it ( worry) wastes so much precious enery you could use for other matters and could bring your end around much faster!
Just try to remain open minded about it and most of all positive with the rest of your natural life. Take care of yourself, eat good food, fruit, drink minimal alcohol & you should last a long time.
2007-07-12 07:02:42 · answer #1 · answered by Latin Techie 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If we could have known we were going to be born, we might have had the same fears about life. I say enjoy life but understand it is all on loan. It is not our true inheritance. Life is rather like a toy your parents gave you for long trips. It tests you, it occupies you, but it is not what you will always have.
Death is our inheritance. Though it should always choose us, not be chosen, it should be embraced as part of our natural lives. It is hardest on those we leave behind. I look at it as a great challenge when life looses it's mystery or when I can no longer decipher life's mysteries.
2007-07-12 13:51:58 · answer #2 · answered by morrowynd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps, what you are imagining about death is false.
The only thing that helped lessen my fear of dying was to study the Bible. Now, I don't worry about it at all. I just say: "Take me when you are ready, Lord, because life on earth sucks." If you have a fear of the unknown, explore the "unknown" and find out what lies ahead. It helps to speak to a pastor too. I don't know what else to tell you. Fear of death is common, if we don't know where we are going.
2007-07-12 13:56:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know it seems counter-intuitive but the only way is to face your fear. It will initially be scary - visualizing your dead body, etc. but you will de-sensitize yourself to it more quickly than you'll believe. And then the fear will no longer have any power over you. It's only our resistance to ideas that make them intolerable. Face it; walk into it with head held high and eyes wide open and you'll see that it really has no power except that which you've given it.
2007-07-12 13:54:19 · answer #4 · answered by lotus4yoga 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a firefighter, I have seen death first hand. From homicides to natural causes it all ends the same, death is inevitible. Live your life to the fullest with the knoweldge that someday you will die, but don't focus on how you will. focus on how you are gonna live the rest of your life being alive.
2007-07-12 13:53:55 · answer #5 · answered by Dennis R 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Listen to calm music about living. And if it creeps you out so much, like it does me, to think about your life ending at any minute, live life to the fullest.
2007-07-12 13:43:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death comes when it is time.Usually It's not painful.Worrying about it only makes your fears worst.Try living your life instead of anticapating death.And if your heart is right with God you have nothing to worry about in the afterlife.
2007-07-12 13:59:36 · answer #7 · answered by sharen d 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
One day, you, me, and everyone else you know...will die. DIE YOU HEAR ME! That's the way it is...that's the way it always has been. Nothing makes us special. Go to a cemetary. Walk around it and pay close attention. All those people had lives once. They loved, lived, got married, had children, sang songs, drank, ate, and DIED. This too will be you one day. Get use to it.
2007-07-12 13:58:26 · answer #8 · answered by MadCuzImFlagrant 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋