Apart from death what's your deepest fear?

Question

Only the most courageous need answer.

Answer 1

I'm not afraid of death for myself!! I've lived all my life with that possibility. It lost it's fear years ago. What I'm most afraid of is one of my daughter's dying before me. I've seen my parents have to bury 4 of their children and I don't think that I could survive that psychologically even if I survived physically.

Answer 2

I came across this in an Islamic country while on holiday [may well be teaching of Islam but am not an expert]

Two days in your life you shouldn't worry about dieing:
1) the day that you are destined to die, and
2) the day that you are not destined to die

It made a lot of sense to me because long before reading above passage, have had no deep fear of dieing, as I believe that only a fool worry about things that he cannot control. (I have a healthy appetite for living though.)

I have had 2 deep fears as long as I remember:
- fear of failure
- fear of being poor

These believe it or not have served me very well and propelled me to excel in life and carrier beyond would be my natural envelope. I have achieved so much in a relatively short time; much more than deserve or most people can in a life time. Pushed me hard to do well in getting my education/qualification in order and get well paid responsible and satisfying jobs.

These however have made me restless and never happy with what I have done or where I am.
"There are two places to go from here: either up or down; if you are not going up, then you must be going down" has been my motto.

Statistically speaking you are far more likely to survive an accident but majorly or totally paralised. A life changing experience which should be feared much more than death.
In a way dieing is the easy way out, isn't it?

I don't claim to be courageous but felt the urge to share my thoughts with you.

Answer 3

Apart from natural death, my biggest fear is premature death, either from illness, accident or at someone else's hands. You have to live every moment as if it was your last, so I suppose my biggest fear would be not making the most of my life before it's over.

Answer 4

I don't really fear anything, generally. Including death - I mean, I don't want to die anytime soon, but it's going to happen one day, so why waste energy on worrying about it?

If I think about hard enough, I suppose I'd hate to have an illness or accident that left me completely incapable, but with just enough awareness to know what a vegetable I'd become.

Answer 5

Straight up... drowning. I have a fear for drowning. I can swim great, but I've seen some footage of someone actually drowning... you could hear the breaths getting shorter and the panic setting in... then silent struggle... woo!! Gives me the willies.

I'd rather be shot to death than drown.

Answer 6

I am a recovered alcoholic, and have not had a drink for thirteen months.

I went into re-hab and have been going to AA meetings ever since.

I am conviced that I will never drink again, but my deepest fear is that I could get complacent and re-lapse.

Answer 7

Having a terminal illness and dealing with the fact I have got to leave my children but the fact that I would have to prepare my kids to live without me when they still need me to be around, really is my biggest fear. Good question. x

Answer 8

Dying

Answer 9

Being helpless to stop the suffering of someone I care about, particularly if that suffering is at the hands of someone else. People are capable of terrible things, sometimes even in the name of something good.

Answer 10

Being separated from my husband for any major amount of time. He and I lived in a long-distance relationship for almost ten years, and now we cling so hard to one another, terrified of being ripped apart again, that it consumes everything we do.

We're actually getting counseling for it. Gotta love parents keeping their kids apart because they didn't think that our financial statuses were right for one another.