Some people say they are afraid of dying in a horrible manner but not of death itself, others worry what will happen to them (their spirit) after they die, but are you afraid of death? If so why or why not?
2007-08-11 12:24:06 · 29 answers · asked by Nathaniel 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.
I have had a personal encounter with someone who overcame death - the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you do not know Him, there is good reason to fear:
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2007-08-11 12:29:04 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well, let's just say I am not looking forward to dying a painful death...but I do know where I am going and that takes away the sting of death. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
2007-08-11 12:30:13 · answer #2 · answered by dreamdress2 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think I am may be afraid of the actual experience. I know that God will be with me, but I am still apprehensive about it happening. I guess we don't want to confront our own mortality. It will be a first-time experience that's for sure.
On a lighter note for atheists, Woody Allen said about death "I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be around when it happens.'
For Christians, "You can't avoid death-but during this life you can make arrangements for how you will spend eternity." I've made my reservation.
2007-08-11 12:35:47 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to think death was scary. I watched my mom die and the way her eyes clouded over and the way she kept tugging on the blankets, it really is nothing like in the movies..
That image kept haunting me, so I became a Hospice volunteer and routinely go to visit terminally ill patients. I assist in local school in grief classes.
Because I saw death and decided not to be afraid, but instead to embrace it. I look at death as a natural part of life. Just as natural as being born. Its a scary thought to think that you would no longer be on this earth, but after talking to terminally ill patients, its not dying that scares them, but the idea that they are leaving their families.
2007-08-11 12:34:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I'm not afraid of death, but rather the means of dying. I am comfortable with my faith and know that God has a plan and knows what's best for me.
2007-08-11 12:30:45 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. And neither am I afraid of great pain. Cause if death is the worst a man can do to me, there is nothing at all for me to fear.
2007-08-11 12:31:21 · answer #6 · answered by technogiddo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is an inevitability, the last door to go through in your life before an eternity of... no one knows.
2007-08-11 12:30:52 · answer #7 · answered by Worzel Gummidge 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Because I already confronted death when I nearly died in 2004. It doesn't scare me anymore. Death is just death, a natural part of life.
2007-08-11 12:29:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am more afraid of the living than of dying.
2007-08-11 12:28:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not afraid of death. My Christian beliefs tell me there's a better deal ahead.
2007-08-11 12:38:37 · answer #10 · answered by doggybag300 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not necessarily afraid of dying, but leaving too young.
2007-08-11 12:27:17 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋