Do you fear Death?

Question

Why, why not?

What is your mood towards Death or when you think of Death?


For me,
I feared Death for a long time. Until recently, I've read a book that made me realize that Death may not be as bad as it may seem. I believe now that life is painful and Death is peaceful.
I also view Death as white in color rather than black. Dying is painful...but Death isn't. Your drift into peace. I also believe that Death doesn't look like the Grim Reaper. It can look entirely different.

Answer 1

Please see this video if you have high speed:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4136610474021109864&q=rawlings

otherwise read this story:

http://www.near-death.com/storm.html

Answer 2

I have been a risk taker most of my life, and if you asked my 77 year old mother, she would say I still am. It was not death that I feared in my youth, and much as the "how." Now I enjoy my life, but am comfortable with the knowledge that one day I will leave this earthly body. My fear has left as I realized my exaggerated sense of importance in the lives of my children and family. I am the one who stressed independence to my children, but lacked the faith to believe they could bear my absence with grace! They will be fine when I am gone, and I am fine with that. I hope to embrace death with the zeal that I have been blessed with for life, but I have no intention of hurrying the process. I have also learned from watching other people have their living wills ignored because medical people are less afraid of the dieing person that they are of an emotional relative demanding more heroic efforts be used to prolong the process because the family is not ready to face the loss. That is why my instructions will be carried out by a like-minded friend if my children are unable to let go. Be careful who you empower to make your final decision, if you are unable to communicate your wishes.

Answer 3

C'mon, no Davey Jones avatar to go with the question?

I don't think there's any point in dressing it up pretty, or in playing on people's fear of it. It is what it is, nothing less or more.

I think a man should try to avoid it whenever possible, because it tends to make reaching one's goals incredibly difficult, but I don't think a man should let fear of it prevent him from living the life he wants to live. What you want to do with your life should always be more important than what you want to do after it. If you're living your whole life to be rewarded after you're dead (or while you're still alive for that matter), then you're missing out on the greatest reward life has to offer, work worth doing. No matter how nice it is in heaven (if the Christians are right), one thing you can't do there is solve problems or make the world around you a better place than it was when you found it.

I don't think Death should be the focus of anyone's life. It's an unfortunate circumstance of the human condition, but it's sad when a person lets it become the most important one. I think people preoccupied with Death, are the same people that never tried to figure out what it was they wanted to do with their Life.

Answer 4

I think if eveyone was honest, they would admit that they fear dying to some degree, because it is natural for human beings to fear the unknown, even those of us who are Christians.

We know that we will simply cease to live here, and walk into eternal life with Jesus, and that it will be wonderful. But, the act of dying is scary. Thank God that there will be a special dying grace that He will give us when the time comes, to make the transition peaceful. He is with us always, even unto the end of the world.

The end of the world for me (this earthly world) will be when I join Him in heaven, unless He comes back sooner. Either way, I'm a winner.

Answer 5

I used to be afraid of death because I didn't want to be separated from my family and those I love.When I was 14,I got a dog for the first time(which was something I always wanted).But,we had all kinds of problems looking after him and had to give him back to the breeder.I knew it was for both his and our good,but it still broke my heart.I cried for about a week for him.Since then,I have never feared death.I feel people fear death because we don't know what its like to die.But,surely death can't be as painful as some of the experiences life presents us with?
When I think of death,my first feeling is that of curiosity-I wonder what its like to die.I guess I still have a long long way to go before I find out(I am 18),but you never know.

Answer 6

No. Death is simply a natural part of life. I looked death in the whites of his eyes and lived to tell the tale in 2004 when I was hit by a car. Death no longer scares me. Everything that begins must end and everything that lives must die. Change is not a bad thing. It helps us grow and makes us stronger.

Answer 7

I think death sucks. I'd rather not die. I do believe in an afterlife but I was made to enjoy this life now and I have the will to live. Why would I change that?

Answer 8

No, I don't fear death. If it is going to be a grizzly ending that would suck but I believe the afterlife will rock. I also believe in karma and doing/being the best you can while here and that if you commit suicide, you will end up "trapped" between the here and now and the other side.
However I also don't believe in an actual Hell so that probably helps some :)

Answer 9

When I was a paratrooper... I didn't fear death.

But that's because I was "fatalistic". I had convinced myself that death was just a blank-out into oblivion when the chemical reactions in my brain stopped my neurons from firing.

Then I became His...and I no longer fear death, but for a different reason...I now look forward to the life to come...

Where I will no longer see just circles, squares and triangles, but will be in Kingdom where I will see spheres, cubes and pyramids.

That make sense "imaginer'?

Answer 10

My consciousness is focused on here and now. Even if someone were aiming a gun at me and I fully expected that they would pull the trigger, I would continue to focus on here and now.

Why? Now is the only moment that we every truly experience, and Here is the only place you can be.

When I die, I'll focus on that "here and now". Until then, I don't even think about it. Those that do think about it won't solve what happens after we die. They won't know any more than me until the time comes.

Of course, thinking about mortality as it relates to Life is different. That isn't really focusing on death; it's focusing on life.

Nothing to fear...

Answer 11

I do not fear death, I fear sin. It is the difference between a good death and a bad one.