Are you afraid to die ?

Question

Do you have faith or so much lack of that you have no fear, or are you afraid?

Answer 1

i'm not afraid of death, but i'm afraid of people i love dying...

Answer 2

Good question though certainly subject to personal views since there is no definitive means to know what, if anything, waits on the other side.

My personal position is that death is where this mortal life I now live will eventually end. There is no avoiding it and in fact, it could happen at any time... to any of us. Some of us apply faith in preparation. Others in a variety of spiritual tenets that hold for a life after physical death. Some think there is nothing.

Again, my personal view is that there is existence after the physical body expires. Exactly what that existence may be is unknown to me... for now.

Fear it? No. Look forward to it? No.

Answer 3

I'm not afraid of death ... I'm not afraid of pain. I've had malignant melanoma twice, and was told I was 'terminal' with three months to live the first time I had it ... I survived (I had it when I was 21, and I'm now 57), and I guess that terminal diagnosis was what got me on 'better terms' with death ... I don't want to die, and I have a long list of 'stuff I want to do' before I go, but I am NOT afraid to die. I am 'looking forward' to that time, though, too, because I believe in God, know I'm going to go to Heaven (we all are, in the end), and I am looking forward to hearing 'the rest of the story.' Just not before I'm 'done' here ...

Answer 4

I'm not afraid of dying because my faith has given me peace about it. However, I DO fear HOW I'll die. I'd prefer to pass away in my sleep rather than in a brutal death. However, if that brutal death is able to further God's kingdom then so be it.

Answer 5

I'm Atheist and no I'm not afraid to die. It almost happened once already, and I got over it. Mind you, I don't want to die, but nothing is forever. All things that live must die. Being afraid of it only makes things harder for you. It makes you more likely to believe idiotic nonsense like the bible.

Answer 6

not really no. Death is an okay soul. he likes kittens and enjoys a good curry. that guy can drink anyone under the table too.
in all seriousness though. why should people fear death? its inevitable and unpredictable. and what? if you fear death do you expect that you can escape it? do you think you can bribe the grim reaper with the hoardes of money? can you fight back with the golden sword? this whole thing forces up the whole meaning of life issue and that one can get pretty tiresome.
im agnostic myself so ill just wait until the curtain call to see what lies beyond...i hope they make good pizza there. the ones in this town suck.

Answer 7

I'm not really afraid of dying (unless there is a lot of pain involved). I am more afraid of the things I will miss if I were to die. Things with my kids and husband.

Answer 8

I don't want to at this time. I have considered it in the past, and been locked up in mental institutions for it.

I suppose I am not afraid, nor to I dwell on a potential endless void. I won't care after the fact, so why think of different probabilities?

Answer 9

I don't know if i am more afraid of death or how i am going to die or more like pain. In some ways everyone could be afraid of death at one point in their lives.

Answer 10

I have faith, and am not afraid to die. I do, however; have a lot more to live for now that I have found God.

Answer 11

Interesting - just finished reading "Losing Julia," a novel by Jonathan Hull, and this very topic was central to the story. (I recommend that book highly - well written, thoughtul, excellent story, and extensive but not boring treatment of aging and dying - as well as love, war, peace, families, and more).

Death is one of the principal motivating factors of most (not all) religions. Ultimately, at least to me, the answers offered by religion mean nothing. As William Shakespeare put it in Hamlet, death is "that bourne from whose realm no traveler returns to tell the tale." there are NO experts on it.

(OK, Christians, you claim to have that one knocked, too, so just drop it for now.)

So I simply accept the reality of it and choose to hope that in my life I do enough worthwhile to justify having had the time and place. No benefit in fear, as far as I can see, and certainly no need of hope for the uknowable.

Pax tecum!