who fears death?

Question

me personally i dont but it crops up now and again.why worry?

Answer 1

I personally don't want to die because I want to raise my daughter and do more things, but I don't fear death at all.

Answer 2

If everyone thinks about it, everyone around them is dying. It is just a matter of when. Nobody knows when their time will come. I learned from my grandfather that there is no reason to stress over the little things. It's always family and friends that should matter most, especially family.

Personally, right now I would have to say yes that I fear death. Only because I don't want my daughter to grow up without her mother. But if my time comes I am willing to accept it. In a way though, No I don't fear death. That is why everyone should live their lives as if it were their last day here on earth and make sure that they tell everyone they love how they feel.

I got to learn the hard way that people are taken out of our lives instantly. There is no way of knowing when it will be our last time speaking.....

Answer 3

It is a matter of debate
whether animals have an awareness of mortality, but
it is certain that man alone among all living creatures
knows that he has to die. Yet even Homo sapiens ac-
quired this knowledge relatively late in the long history
of the species. It is reasonable to assume, as Voltaire
did in his Dictionnaire philosophique (article, “Tout va
bien”), that man has learned about death “through
experience.” More recently some philosophers, notably
Max Scheler, asserted that man possesses an intuitive
awareness of his mortality, and Paul Landsberg sug-
gested that it is not through experience in the usual
meaning of the term but by way of a particular “expe-
rience of death” that one realizes one's own finitude.
There is undoubtedly some truth in this view but as
numerous anthropological studies have shown, primi-
tive man is totally unaware of the inevitability as well
as the possible finality of death. For him it is neither
a natural event nor a radical change: death occurs only
as a result of violence or of a disease brought on by
magic, and those who do die merely enter into another
mode of living in which the need for food, drink, and
clothing does not cease.
Therefore it is misleading to speak of the primitive's
belief in immortality, because his view of death is
rooted not in a denial of death but in the ignorance
of its nature. And the term “immortality” would have
to signify deathlessness as well as survival after death,
whereby survival would be that of the whole man and
not merely of a hypothetical incorporeal entity. It was
only after it had become apparent that death was not
a mere temporary lapse and that the change was irre-
versible and extreme that the notion could occur that
what survives is something other than the whole man.
Even then the “survivor” was not conceived of as
something immaterial, but as a replica of the body,
a “ghost” or “shadow,” and only much later did it
become the completely disembodied “soul.”
The primitive's misconception of death is due pri-
marily to his inability to draw the proper conclusions
from his observations, but it is also strongly favored
by the difficulty of visualizing the end of one's exist-
ence. This psychological peculiarity is not charac-
teristic of the primitive alone. As Freud, and Schopen-
hauer before him, have pointed out, “deep down” even
contemporary man does not “really” believe in his own
death. And Martin Heidegger shrewdly observed that
the proposition, “all men are mortal” usually involves
the tacit reservation “but not I.”

Answer 4

There is considerable evidence that death is only death to the body. The soul goes on, perhaps even eternally. We are sent here to live a life when our time in the spirit realm is over. The purpose of this life is to learn something (I have absolutely no idea what!) There is evidence obtained from a hypnotic state, called superconciousness, that there are indeed good and bad realms for the soul after life. One's conduct in life apparently determining the souls final destination; so look out all you bad people, hell (or something like it) truly awaits! I have found it very difficult to in any way associate anything that I have learned about NDE's, Lives between lifes and past life regression with any of the religious texts. There is a father figure who asks what you have done in 'his' name while alive at the time of passing to the spirit realm, but other than that, he tends not to show up too often. We live in the spirit realm, we are sent here to learn something, then we return to the spirit realm. That is life, over and over. There is absolutely nothing to fear from death, unless you have a bad nature.

Answer 5

I have a huge fear of death. I think it is because I am somewhat of a control freak, and you really have no control over when or how you die (unless you commit suicide which I would never do). Also, I'm so afraid of thinking about there being nothing after death and imaging an eternity of nothingness.

Answer 6

Not all old people are happy at the though of shuffling off this mortal coil, that is a conceit best left for the young.
In fact it seems to me that most kids simply find it unthinkable as applied to themselves, that's why they take so many chances and get into so many accidents.
I'd like to stick around for a while longer, my kids are grown and my husband and I are happy, my grandkids are well started, so its not that they need me. But there are lots of books to be read and paintings for me to paint and I like to read trilogies, and no one who reads trilogies wants to die before the last one is read.
So you could say this old lady isn't afraid of death, but is afraid of missing that last book in a series

Answer 7

death is inevitable, so don;t sit around worrying about it or fearing it. when it comes, it comes. After all, death is not the end, this life is just a stepping stone into the next.

Answer 8

A part of me fears death - I don't want to die, I want to carry on living, as life is short.
But most of me believes that everyone dies and it has to happen sometime. I curious to know what happens after death, so I've got to except it.

Answer 9

No one wants to die but it's a strange fact that the older you get the less you fear it. There are exceptions, at the age of 83 years my father who lived alone and was stone deaf wanted to go because he was fed up.

Answer 10

I fear it big time. Well, not enough for it to affect my every day life but if i think too hard about me or a loved one dying i get very scared. Wish i didn't, its typical of me to fear the one thing in life thats completly unavoidable!!! LOL.