A question on the subject of death and you.You must answer honestly or dont answer at all.?

Question

Do you fear your death?.any thoughts on the subject of death are acceptable as well, as i have grown older my fear has begun to grow into curiousity.what truely happens at the moment of death.personally i think everyone becomes a little panicked as death approaches think its natural,the end result of the process of life. anyways.as always hope this finds you all well.

sure cut my heart out, and ask me my age im 35.

Answer 1

Nope.

When it happens it happens. I've made a good run.

Answer 2

I'm more curious than fearful about death.

Having been born with a couple life threatening complications, I'm well aware of my own mortality. I've had several surgeries with have been unable to fix the problem, and a few years ago I said "That's it, I'm not doing surgeries anymore." At the time I was being told I would HAVE to get a procedure done within a few years or I would have some serious complications that would grow progressively worse.

Around the time I swore I wouldn't do anymore, I started looking into Christianity's history more. More comparative religion, more research into Biblical events. What I discovered turned me agnostic.

I no longer believe that the Christian afterlife is accurate. I do believe that there is a god-figure, but beyond that I don't know what's up. I personally believe that if humans ever knew the truth, it was lost or forgotten years ago. Since I can't ever find out the truth, there's no sense worrying about it. I'm sure something happens after death, and I'd like to know what, but I'm not afraid of whatever it is. It's nothing I can ever know during my life.

Oddly enough, my health has vastly improved since I stopped messing around with the doctors. I have an annual check-up, that's it. Last check-up the results were nearly what a completely healthy individual would have received.

Answer 3

Everybody and everything, is born and dies. Fearing death sometimes comes when "fear and damnation" is taught in certain religions. I am a senior in my mid 70's ,who, if everything goes well, will probably live another 10 years (hopefully more) As one gets older you think of death a little more than you do than, say when your 30. I have studied the subject, both from the Western religious point of view and the Eastern religious point of view and this is what I have concluded, for myself.
When we die,WE go on. Our bodies are left behind and there is somewhere else afterwards. I feel that according to our beliefs when we move on, say we belong to a certain religion and we are happy within that group. I feel we stay in that same collective world. For instance, Mormons are usually happy with their faith and want to be within that society when they pass over. If you are comfortable that you have lived the best way possible, and you are content and happy at the time you pass over, you will not fear. If you have guilt, anger, hate etc. then you will be afraid to die. I have made a lot of mistakes, and yet I have grown through the years and have improved as a person. I honestly feel thet the only "souls" that will fear death, are the ones who feel guilty about somethings in their lives and have continued to choose negativity as their life style. Be happy, loving, compassionate, forgiving, kind, gentle, all things that Jesus, Budha and other holy people tried to teach us., and you have nothing to fear. I came to a land that I knew nothing about when I was in my 20's, I had no money and only knew one person here. In other words I went into the unknown. I am going to do the same thing as I get older. I am going to look forward with anticipation to the unknown, knowing that a did the best I could, harmed no one, and loved a lot, most especially my family. I long ago gave up on organized religion and have studied, questioned and read books on every spiritual subject. To each his own, and my own is being the best person I can be!

Peace and love

Answer 4

I have been close to death on three occasions.
Each time, my wife realised it, but I did not - I was quite peaceful.
Recently, I developed cancer and over the last two years have had treatment to put it into remission. However, I do understand that my time on earth is now very limited. That situation does concentrate the mind.
My conclusion is that death is natural, inevitable and not to be feared. The cause of death does create some apprehension in me, but only because of the pain and suffering that may be involved. I now understand that the fear associated with death itself is unfounded. There is no reason to invent a god to help one overcome the natural desire to continue to live and pretend that there may be another life afterwards.
For me, the thought of living for eternity is not only wish full thinking to avoid reality, it is also a situation that I think is intolerable. The thought of living forever, without any chance of reprieve from the mind numbing boredom after the first trillion years multiplied by infinity is my idea of hell.
I am content to have lived the best life I was equipped to live and am also content to die and return to a non existent state

Answer 5

Your question is most appropiate for a human being.
Certainly I fear death. We all fear death. Witness how carefully we protect our bodies against unknown enemies. We spend millions for medicine, billions for defense, practically every home has some kind of weapon. We've invested everything in this body—to lose it would mean to lose our facility to enjoy. Only an insane man would want harm to come to his body. Especially for one who knows nothing of the eternal self within the body, death means the end of everything. But the Vedic literatures explain that one who is self-realized, who has understood himself to be a spiritual entity, is not bewildered by the changing of bodies that takes place at death.
In Bhagavad-gétä the Lord clearly says, måtyuù sarva-haraç cäham: [Bg. 10.34] "I am all-devouring death." Thus måtyu, or death, is the representative who takes everything away from the living entity who has accepted a material body. No one can say, "I do not fear death." This is a false proposition. Everyone fears death. However, one who seeks shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead can be saved from death. One may argue, "Does the devotee not die?" The answer is that a devotee certainly must give up his body, for the body is material. The difference is, however, that for one who surrenders to Krishna fully and who is protected by Krishna, the present body is his last; he will not again receive a material body to be subjected to death. This is assured in Bhagavad-gitä (4.9). Tyaktvä dehaà punar janma naiti mäm eti so'rjuna: a devotee, after giving up his body, does not accept a material body, but returns home, back to Godhead. We are always in danger because at any moment death can take place.
Actually a very and one of the most important literature that I study every day, besides Bhagavad gita, it bigins when one king is cursed to died in 7 days. Is called The Srimad-Bhägavatam and was first discussed 5000 years ago by Sukadeva Gosvami to Mahäräja Pariksit. King Pariksit, the emperor of this planet, was cursed by a brähmana boy to die within seven days. He was very wrongly cursed, but still, Pariksit Mahäräja tolerated. He could counteract such curse, but he did not do it. He took this opportunity of retiring from active life and prepare for death. So he had only seven days to die. And because he was king, all the great sages and kings in all parts of the world, they came to see him, and the problem was what to do at the time of death.

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http://www.srimadbhagavatam.org/

Answer 6

I do not fear death I do study all I can on it and try to understand more, the bible says precious are the death of his saints who die in the Lord
to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord
I know that the soul leaves the body instantly and is present with the Lord
It is the body that we think about not the spirit and soul
we will have a new body as the angels in heaven

Answer 7

I don't really fear death per se, but maybe I do the transition. I wonder about it sometimes. I wouldn't want to have a painful, undignified death. And I can't stand the thought of burial in a casket, what a waste of space. I know I wouldn't even "be" there, but cremation is the only acceptable option for me personally.

The possibility of what is after death is exciting, though.

Answer 8

No I have no fear of death, it only happens once and then no more.
What I fear is how I die.
But death itself has no hold on me, I have my Lord and He has conquered death. Once my soul leaves this tired old body? Life starts again forever and it is entirely different than what we could ever expect here on earth.
Dying doesn't bother me because I have so much to look forward to afterwards. It is how I die, that would be a bother.

Answer 9

I have no fear of death. I know for certain that I will go to heaven to be with my blessed Lord Jesus. I have died once , after a hit run accident on Leap Year Day 1984. My heart stopped and when CPR failed to start it and the surgeon cut me open and massaged my heart with his hands while they poured warm blood over it. To make a long story short ,It started again. I remember crying out to Jesus that if he would save my life I would serve him the rest of my days. I saw a bright light and got a feeling of peace that passes all understanding and I knew that my life would be spared. I woke up 42 days later and I was still alive. I spent 3 & 1/2 months in thre hospital and I have been serving Jesus ever since. I have no fear of death, but I am still needed by my family so I am not ready to check in to heaven just yet. Of course it is not my decision, Jesus knows the date. Whatever he decides is fine by me. I am ready to meet my maker because I have prepared myself by accepting the gift of life freely given and purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ. Thank you LORD!!!

Answer 10

i don't fear it much, but then again, i don't think about it much either. i was obsessed with death when i was a teenager, and wanted to know what the experience was like. so i got into a lot of wierd things to see how closely i could mimic the feel of death. i experimented a lot with various drugs, sensory deprivation, all kinds of strange things were going through my mind... i think it was the fear that really turned me on about it. morbid, huh? glad i'm over that now. i was a wierd wierd kid.

the resurrection though... that excites me these days.

Answer 11

No I have no fear of death, I have been to deaths door a couple of times in my life