Are you afraid of death?

Are you afraid of dieing

  • Yes I am afraid

    Votes: 23 34.3%

  • No I am not afraid

    Votes: 36 53.7%

  • I am not going to die

    Votes: 3 4.5%

  • I am already dead

    Votes: 5 7.5%
  • Total voters
    67

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Are you afraid of death? If so why? If no why?
My answer is no. I haven't ever really been afraid of death and became used to the idea that when you die it's all over and not a problem for you. It is a problem for those who survive you but for you it is the end so no need to worry other than to be sure your significant survivors will be taken care of which you can arrange prior to death.
 
Warning: I'm still in my early 20s, so, to a (small) degree, I still have that teenage "I'm invulnerable" thing going. ;)

I'm not afraid of dying, but I do want to go on living. I still have the majority of my life ahead of me and I would not accomplish what I want to accomplish were I to die this early. In fact, I don't even know yet what I want to accomplish with my life; an early death would certainly not be conducive to discovering for myself my life goals.

I suppose that I do fear specific kinds of death. I can think of many ways that I wouldn't want to die - suffocation, drowning, burning, various kinds of torture, or anything that involves long amounts of suffering. Were I to die, I'd like to go peacefully, surrounded by people who I love and who love me as well.
 
I'm with Cosmo. Death itself doesn't frighten me. But I'm not ready for it yet. I'm not sure I ever will be, though if my health goes I'm pretty sure I'll welcome it when it comes.

There's nothing in death that frightens me, but there's a sadness for all the possiblities not explored.
 
It's actually hard to answer, at least the way the poll is phrased. It's not death per se that scares me, it's the pain and difficulties among my family and friends that would result from it.

That, btw, is why I find it so hard to understand suicide.
 
David Swidler said:
It's not death per se that scares me, it's the pain and difficulties among my family and friends that would result from it.

That, btw, is why I find it so hard to understand suicide.
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i'm with you there.

One of my best friends commited suicide over money issues too, which to me is even sadder.

And my personal beleif is that when I die I will be with God, so no, i'm not afraid.
 
Death, no.

Dying, yes.

I've seen people die. It didn't look like fun.

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Cosmo said:
I suppose that I do fear specific kinds of death. I can think of many ways that I wouldn't want to die - suffocation, drowning, burning, various kinds of torture, or anything that involves long amounts of suffering. Were I to die, I'd like to go peacefully, surrounded by people who I love and who love me as well.
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Or, to paraphrase Emo Phillips,

"When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my uncle, not screaming and crying like his passengers."
 
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Death, no.
Dying, yes.
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I agree with Tricky - so I have to vote yes, I am afraid of the process (while not voting "therefore I will believe in an afterlife just to make myself feel better")

Suicide constitutes a vicious assault on the emotions of your nearest and dearest. I can't understand anybody who does it (even though I've known several people who have, or have tried)

Who's going to be first to vote for "dead already"? Come on, you know you want to ...
 
It was me, Jocky.

A moment of weakness. But I have been punished.



If there's nothing after death, then it's not frightening. If there's something after death, then it's a bonus -- no matter what. Even hell.

I've never found ghost stories frightening. Surely if ghosts exist, then that is comforting not frightening.
 
Being dead doesn't frighten me; there will be no me there to regret it, after all.

But yes, I loathe and fear the idea that one day I will not exist. I hate it beyond all my ability to express it in language. I can no more accept with equinamity the fact that I will one day die than I could accept it if somebody walked into this room this very instant, held a gun to my head, and started pulling the trigger. Don't want it, thank you very much.


ETA: Quite literally, every day when I wake up I think "hey, made it through another one." My disposition by nature is a bit of a depressive one, and this thought pretty much makes all the trivial things I worry about fade into insignificance. Thus I try to make fear of death a positive thing; both by giving myself a sense of perspective, and by using it as a goad to ensure that I do what I really want to do, and not fritter it away. Not that I accomplish all that, but I try.
 
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Spent the usual amount of time officially not believing in the afterlife, but still secretly wondered 'what if it is real, and there's a devil waiting to poke red hot things where they don't belong'.

I'm past that now. Doesn't bother me one jot what happens after I die. It's the 'how' that bothers me. As long as it's quick, unexpected, not too traumatic for friends and family then I'll be...happy?

I don't want to spend the last hours of my life screaming in agony as I'm crushed from the toes up by industrial machinery, and likewise I would not like to spend those last hours in a windowless room with anyone 'who really identifes with the xenobites take on pleasure and pain'. I don't want to be murdered by a serial killer whose weapon of choice is a cheese grater. I don't want to be eaten by anything, boiled, burned, skinned, drowned, or digested by an oversized venus fly trap.
 
Not afraid of being dead, but as so many have already pointed out, the transition appears to frequently be rather unpleasant, so that is frightening.
 
No.

Neither death nor dying worries me, but it probably should.

I wonder if we're somehow wired to not properly think about death, and most people don't really accept it's going to happen, or that it's final, and that's why is isn't feared as it really should be.

A man who is 100 years old knows he's very close to death, yet he'll feel little fear if he is healthy. But take a man and threaten to kill him there and then, and he'll be terrified.

Take that same 100 year old man and tell him he definitely has exactly 1 year to live, and he'll also feel fear.
 
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Are you afraid of death? If so why? If no why?
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No. Death is cute and friendly and will make you a nice cup of tea if you ask her politely.




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Interesting responses. I guess I should have made a dying/death statement, it is the same thing to me. I should have perhaps made a question about what do you think the likelihood of your dieing is.
 
I have ceratinly feared for my life before in threatening situations, but do I sit around at times worrying about dieing? Nope.

So yes and no.
 
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