Are you more afraid of suffering, or afraid of leaivng loved one?
Or afraid of where your spirit will go?
2007-10-22 11:44:17 · 18 answers · asked by Mrs J 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In my mind, the discovery of impending disease and death of my seed body is enough to evoke powerful feelings of sorrow, fear, and anger. Without myth and fantasy based on mystery about the divine immunity of the soul and eternal life of the spirit, I would be without countervailing emotive forces of joy, faith and love. I need countervailing emotive forces of joy, faith and love to balance my mind against emotive forces of sorrow, fear, and anger that follow from the discovery of the impending disease and death of my seed body. I think, believe and expect that if my mind becomes unbalanced by powerful emotive forces of sorrow, fear and anger then I would be more likely to engage in sad, mad, and bad behavior. I expect that sad, mad and bad behavior would hinder my efforts to create, and survive in a competitive body consuming biosphere divided by a primal conflict between predator and prey. Therefore I think, believe and expect that from both a material and spiritual point of view, my energy, space and time is well spent building a model of self and world that includes both a foundation of truth and knowledge based on scientifically reproducible discovery that produces the most powerful physiological responses of good health possible and a framework of myth and fantasy based on mystery that when thought, believed and expected to be true produces the most powerful emotional responses of joy, faith and love that I can possibly imagine.
2007-10-22 12:03:43 · answer #1 · answered by H.I. of the H.I. 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you kidding? I am the only 50 y/o that I know that is an adrenaline junkie! I have crashed on the jet ski (no worry you just spit out water and get back on) hitting 60 plus mph. I've had a harness go south on me hanging me up-side-down at 400 yards height, laughing my fool head off. Just started wreck diving and had my first (and hopefully last) close call with a pretty big beam. I am not suicidal in the least bit, but I don't scare at all. Yes, I'm a Christian and have my fire insurance premium paid (lol). And yes, it has a little to do with why I don't fear dying. But, I just don't want to be one of those people who worry about whether my prostrate is enlarged or if my arteries are clogged. Playing it safe just has never been my first impluse!
2007-10-22 12:02:15 · answer #2 · answered by delux_version 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes!!! Everything you said. I think mostly that I am worried about leaving loved ones.
I have had friends and very close family pass. It is usually not a nice calm and happy process. Although, I equate it closely with birth. Usually birth is also not a calm and happy process either. Often pain and suffering is involved. Hopefully, like birth, death has a "happy" ending in most cases.
2007-10-22 11:54:35 · answer #3 · answered by Michelle 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone is afraid of death even if they don't admitt it. it's natural for Human's to be afraid of the unknown. Humans have this urge to find answers about everything. and the thought of the unknown scares people. so i think in a way everybody is afraid of death in some ways
2007-10-22 11:49:15 · answer #4 · answered by Amanda14 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm afraid of leaving loved ones, nothing else. In my opinion a soul or a spirit does not exist.
2007-10-22 11:48:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course I'm "afraid" of death. I don't want to die. I have a natural, biological instinct for survival.
Granted I don't dwell on death or let it get me down. But at the same time I'm not so quick to swallow whatever self-deceiving beliefs people have of the afterlife just to feel better.
2007-10-22 11:52:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No I am not afraid of death, it is an appointment we must all keep. In fact, I welcome the day that I die. I do fear suffering with death a little. I do empathize with those I leave behind unless they don't care about me anyway. I am not afraid of where my spirit will go.
2007-10-22 11:46:47 · answer #7 · answered by Tim N 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No I'm not afraid of death because I know where I'm going once this life is over.
2007-10-22 12:03:20 · answer #8 · answered by Giggles 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Like the Apostle Paul said: (my paraphrase)
I Ain't Scared of Dying---but I don't want to Leave Right Now
(because of Family, Friends so on--and doing the Work of the Lord! ;)
2007-10-22 11:49:45 · answer #9 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not something I ever think about.
So, I guess my answer is no.
However, when I was a child I was terrified of burning in hell.
I'm glad I don't have to suffer from that irrational fear anymore.
2007-10-22 11:48:43 · answer #10 · answered by lilith 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋