Do you fear death?

[Sigmar ov The Hammer]

I have that habit were I tend to laugh manically at anything I'm scared of, which also tends to raise my spirits and get my adrenaline going.
So for all intensive purposes, I don't fear it. However, I would much rather be taken when I'm full of life, in the spirit adventure.
Say, I was saving someone from a burning building, or rescuing someone from some muggers. Something equal to an hero (If I really had my way, I'd die in battle, sword in hand, facing the enemy head on).
However, the modern world lacks those certain kind of heroics, so I'll properly be aware that I'm dying and will have to comfort myself with the fact that I'm completely helpless and whatever comes next, comes next.

Another theory is that, once I die, I'll awake in a station and be given a ticket to a particular afterlife. Once at the platform, the spirit train will pull up and I'll be on a one way trip to Valhalla (Hopefully).

 

[CrawlingPastaHellion]

like i said, i'd rather we become more efficient/better human beings before we live longer, but either or would be really nice.

Yes, I suppose you're right. Quality before quantity.

 

[6037084]

Nope, If I had to chose between dying and staying alive, I'd try to not die but otherwise I'm not scared of death. I'm actually a bit anxious to die so I could prove all religious people wrong once and for all, not that I'd care much about that when I'm dead though since I'd be you know, dead.

 

[Bonecrusher]

Yes, I have death phobia.
I couldn't go to school (university) 2 years because of it.
It creates a lot of questions in your mind, makes you anxiety, seperated from this world yet deeply rooted to the social life...
When you see a tombstone on the TV, you feel bad.
When the weather goes dark, you feel worse.
When you trying to sleep, you feel much worse.
You don't want to die, you don't want to dissolved, you try to find an exist from born-live-die loop...

Not a good thing, it makes the person pessimistic, nihilistic.

 

[Bloedhoest]

If Death is like Death in the Discworld series, than no.

 

[Kreett]

I suppose death is scary. i dislike it mostly cuz what happens afterwards? i mean i have so many plans... and so many ponies to live for!

 

[curty129]

Life is so beautiful, and death must exist to create life, so how could it not be seen as beautiful too?

"Life" being a vague term, I'll apply it to childbirthing process up until the baby is literally outside of the vaginal canal: screaming, pain, distortion of bodily parts.

We are, however, throwing opinions at each other on what is "beautiful", so we'll never have a productive discussion about this, but the process, I am saying, of creating something beautiful, does not at all have to be beautiful also.

Life referring to the act of existing and perceiving. And yes, childbirth is painful and nasty, but such pain makes the act of life intense and meaningful so yes, it is beautiful.

Touché. The act of death is what makes life meaningful, and if life is to be deemed beautiful, then yes, I suppose in the same sense of 'beautiful', death is also.

And here I thought this wouldn't be productive

'tis still highly dependent on one's opinions, however.

 

[curty129]

I feel pretty secure knowing that when I die, I'll be going to Heaven.

I'm merely wondering why you believe that more so than other beliefs about what occurs after death. Do you have personal experience that indicates, to you at least, that there is an afterlife?

Well, just as it will probably always be impossible to truly know whether God is real or not, or there is an afterlife or not, it really is impossible for me to know with 100% certainty whether my version of the afterlife is true, or if there is an afterlife at all. But suffice to say that the things that I have learned, observed, and experienced have been enough to convince me of my beliefs.

Ah, that's what I'd thought.

I won't ask what these experiences were, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like to hear them.

CONVERT ME.

 

[TiloXofXTanto]

Only on the third Tuesday of March every three years.

Only then mein freunde.

 

[doomspore98]

If I think about it enough it's scary. Being a not terribly religious christen I believe in heaven. Fingers crossed I make it in.

Well shure, even tho the religions christianity copied won't get in if your right. : p

I happen to believe that all faiths are right. Quaker Baby!

 

[Mr.logic]

Death I have only a minor problem with. It's the possibility of ceasing to exist that scares me. But I'm also curious.

I'm just very good with coming to terms with what I can't change.

You are not going to vanish into thin air, but what will happen might make you wish you had depending on what you do.

You got any evidence for that?

the absense of evidence is NOT the evidence of absense. No I have no proof. I wonder so many escapists say whats going to happen like they know.
I know but I can only show those who are willing to see.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Death I have only a minor problem with. It's the possibility of ceasing to exist that scares me. But I'm also curious.

I'm just very good with coming to terms with what I can't change.

You are not going to vanish into thin air, but what will happen might make you wish you had depending on what you do.

You got any evidence for that?

the absense of evidence is NOT the evidence of absense. No I have no proof. I wonder so many escapists say whats going to happen like they know.
I know but I can only show those who are willing to see.

So you wonder how everyone alse can act like they know without any evidence, which is exactly what you're doing right now?

 

[Mr.logic]

Death I have only a minor problem with. It's the possibility of ceasing to exist that scares me. But I'm also curious.

I'm just very good with coming to terms with what I can't change.

You are not going to vanish into thin air, but what will happen might make you wish you had depending on what you do.

You got any evidence for that?

the absense of evidence is NOT the evidence of absense. No I have no proof. I wonder so many escapists say whats going to happen like they know.
I know but I can only show those who are willing to see.

So you wonder how everyone alse can act like they know without any evidence, which is exactly what you're doing right now?

they haven't experienced anything that should make them think one way or the other. I have. I also have evidence but people still don't beileve me. Your mind is made up. You have decided you aren't going to lose in this discussion, and that you are right. Good for you.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Death I have only a minor problem with. It's the possibility of ceasing to exist that scares me. But I'm also curious.

I'm just very good with coming to terms with what I can't change.

You are not going to vanish into thin air, but what will happen might make you wish you had depending on what you do.

You got any evidence for that?

the absense of evidence is NOT the evidence of absense. No I have no proof. I wonder so many escapists say whats going to happen like they know.
I know but I can only show those who are willing to see.

So you wonder how everyone alse can act like they know without any evidence, which is exactly what you're doing right now?

they haven't experienced anything that should make them think one way or the other. I have. I also have evidence but people still don't beileve me. Your mind is made up. You have decided you aren't going to lose in this discussion, and that you are right. Good for you.

Humor me. What experience and evidence?

 

[Mr.logic]

Experience: hundreds of posts on this very site.
Evidence: The Bible.

You will doubt what I just said.
I can't explain or reason with someone who has decided they know better than the one who made them.