Are you scared of Dying? How do you combat that fear?

Answer 1

I kill the innocent. Just like our government.

Answer 2

Nope
I'm more afraid of the suffering I may have to do before I finally drop dead.
However I am a Catholic and I guess that helps me.
Even though I am a Catholic I like to entertain the idea that I might be allowed to come back and try again.
So while I believe in God I also hold hopes that he is more generous then we know.

How do you combat the fear.
Well I figure once I'm dead nothing can ever hurt me again and I also know that death is going to happen sooner or later so why fear something I can't stop.

Answer 3

Faith. I have heard stories of those who have had near death experiences say that they left their body before the pain began. I believe that God is timeless, past, present, and future, just as is His/Her place of existence. I also believe in reincarnation. There haven't been any new souls created since the very beginning. We chose to come here to learn. The earth is where we can learn the fastest. Our goal is to learn what we need to know to join into God again, because when we separated we forgot who we really are, spiritual beings having a human experience, not human beings having a spiritual experience. The world is a mess, I do not fear leaving it, just how I will go. We are loved by a Creator that loves us more than we can comprehend. Who we are today is not only what we think we are. We have had as many lives as we have chosen, and done both good and bad. We will never understand completely until we are in spirit again.
may you find Peace

Answer 4

I am scared of dying. I don't really combat the fear. I just try not to think about it and also I hope that I live to be old enough to not be afraid of death anymore.

Answer 5

What specifically is it about dying that you fear ? Lack of meaning do your good works now while your young ? There are medicines for pain, getting better everyday at prolonging life too. Just think you could devote this time to having fun seeing how we all die anyway ? Have some fun ? Good Luck. Best Wishes. Mars Mission Soon In A Galaxy Near Yours.. Source(s): Studies..

Answer 6

I'm not afraid of dying. I combat the fear, by believing that any of the options that could happen after I die can't be all that bad. For example, if I just cease to exist when I die, that wouldn't be bad because I wouldn't know either way. If my spirit/soul goes to "heaven" then that would be pretty sweet. As long as I don't go to someplace like "hell" it can't be all that bad, but I don't worry about that because overall I'm a decent person.

Answer 7

No, I'm honestly not that scared of dying. Everything has its time and everything dies. We're just a part of the ecosystem, and a hundred years from now we'll be nothing but soil and bones, replenishing the resources of the planet (if we're lucky enough to belong to a species that's still existing and procreating a hundred years from now. Very little we can do about this process, so enjoy and make a difference while you're here - it's much harder once you're dead(!)

Answer 8

I am afraid that I'll die before my kids are ready to live on their own. There are three of them still at home, all teenagers, still in high school. None of them have a clue how to go about getting a job, renting an apartment, balancing a check book, etc. They'd be able to cook as long as there are directions on the box, but that really only amounts to heating things up so it isn't really cooking, is it? Mostly, I try not to think about it. I have enough on my mind to keep me occupied with the present, like trying to make sure my kids will be ready when the inevitable occurs. I thank God every night that I made it through another day, and thank Him for all the good things in my life. I don't believe in eternal, fiery torment in hell. God is too loving to send anybody to a place like that. If God judges my heart as a bad one, I will simply cease to exist, but I pray that my heart will be found to be a good one so that I can live in paradise with my loved ones.

Answer 9

I look at death in the same way as the period before birth -- non-existence. Should I feel scared or anxious that I did not exist in 2000 B.C or 1798 A.D.?

While dying does scare me a great deal, and I want to hold onto life as much as I can, death itself does not scare me.

"Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?"
-Epicurius

Answer 10

Most people say things like, "Some day my day will come", and when they realize they have a limited number of days that is when they really get into action. We don't live lives, we live roles. More people die on Monday morning, have heart attacks on Monday morning, commit suicide on Monday morning than any other day. So we don't like what we are doing.

Then as one woman said, " My disease gave me permission." So I can read letter after letter from people saying things like, "I took time to smell the roses", " Oh, you know, I really did put in a rose garden." And these were people who were expecting to die who didn't. Now we all die - but so many people have never lived, and I think that's why the disease becomes a gift. That they really begin to live their life. And as one man said, "There is this stupid clich 'Time is money'.? He said, "Time isn't money, time is everything."

And so when you see a limited amount of time you begin, as he said, to spend more time with the things and people you love. If you are reading a page in a book and it isn't important you skip it. And you really begin to focus on that. And at the same time as I said, people will straighten out relationships, quit jobs, move from where they didn't want to live in the first place and then wonder why something nice happened to them physically as well.

Answer 11

I think that the fear of death is two-fold: 1) the method of one's dying and the pain involved, and 2) the aftermath; nonexistence or reward/punishment?
I do not dwell often upon my eventual death since it is inevitable. Everyone and everything dies, including ultimately the Universe itself; thus, death then must be the natural state of affairs. It is unavoidable and is simply the climax of one's life. Our anguish at the death of loved ones arises from the loss and from the uncertainty as to whether we shall ever be reunited as well as from the untimeliness of the demise, especially in the case of those who die young.