No. I'm a bit concerned about the method and circumstance, but I'm not afraid of what's after. Being religious helps there.
Poll: Do you fear death?
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Death itself, not so much. Everyone dies. What I fear is the dying part. Getting old and having your body shut down piece by piece until you're nothing but a burden to other people.
Or dying in a painful way. Burning to death, drowning, poison. Quick and painless is how I prefer to go.
Or dying in a painful way. Burning to death, drowning, poison. Quick and painless is how I prefer to go.
Honestly not really, I think mostly because I don't really concern myself with thinking about what happens once you die. You're obviously not going to find out until you die, so why worry about something that's going to happen anyway and that you won't find out about until then?
Do I do not. I do not look for it but when it comes I will not run because I can't outrun it so I might as well face it with a little pride.
But death is the greatest adventure! And some would say it's the only adventure 
Seriously though, when it happens, it happens. I've learned not to sweat it.
I have no concrete beliefs or disbeliefs regarding what the end will be like... I just know that nobody gets out alive in the end, and so what?
Seriously though, when it happens, it happens. I've learned not to sweat it.
I have no concrete beliefs or disbeliefs regarding what the end will be like... I just know that nobody gets out alive in the end, and so what?
I don't fear death, I fear how it comes to me. Dying peacefully in a bed surrounded by the people I love sounds nice, falling into a vat of sulfuric acid does not.
Your going to die soon.OmniscientOstrich said:
Relatively speaking of course
. Responding to the original posters question: Don't think of it as simply the end of existence, nobody knows that for sure, but the answer to the greatest mystery Humanity has ever known. I'm almost EXCITED to die just to see whats on the other side.
...almost that is.
Logically it is right to fear death if you do not believe in an afterlife, it is the curse of intelligence. Of course if you follow that logic through to the end then life is irrelevant if you have a truly non-religious view on the world.
This is why religion is welcomed in many areas of the world, because it provides hope and existence, giving meaning to living. Whether it is true or not is up to you, but anything that lets people progress humankind instead of dwelling on death and inevitability is a worthwhile pursuit.
This is why religion is welcomed in many areas of the world, because it provides hope and existence, giving meaning to living. Whether it is true or not is up to you, but anything that lets people progress humankind instead of dwelling on death and inevitability is a worthwhile pursuit.
not entirely. i would fear the pain that may come with dying, but if it were quick, even if i knew i was going to die, i think i would be okay with it. of course then again, i'm not staring death in the face at this moment, so who knows how i'll really react when the flying dutchman comes flying in on his krabby patty ship to steal my pickle shaped soul. wait, i'm a ginger, i have no soul to steal. take that flying dutchman!
That's just it, I'm an Atheist. My convictions are sealed. I believe all that awaits me is perennial black nothingness, hence I am afraid of death. Not now obviously, but as aformentioned when I reach an age or a time when it will dawn very near.Talo_AML said:
Not so much scared as dismayed about the inevitability of death.
This life is all we have. It'd really be a shame to lose it.
This life is all we have. It'd really be a shame to lose it.
Well, I don't want to die, but fear it?
Actaully, fuck yes. what happens? Am I right, and do we just putter out into nothingness? No nothing, no matter, no mind? Or are religions correct, and there is/are a god/gods up on some throne, waiting to pass judgement on my unbeleiving soul?
So death, no. It's what comes after that gives me chills...
Actaully, fuck yes. what happens? Am I right, and do we just putter out into nothingness? No nothing, no matter, no mind? Or are religions correct, and there is/are a god/gods up on some throne, waiting to pass judgement on my unbeleiving soul?
So death, no. It's what comes after that gives me chills...
I voted Other. I don't fear death, in fact I rather look forward to it (not that I want to die right away). I don't know what's going to happen after I breathe my last. Many things could happen. I look forward to finding out what. It's the next great adventure, after all.
If nothing happens but oblivion, then that's fine, too. I won't know, will I? I won't even be enough to care. Though I hope that's not the case. That'd be as lame as only having Judgement to look forward to. (Which is frankly the most boring and depressing concept of an afterlife I've heard of. I mean really. It takes the Next Great Adventure and reduces it down to "moral" accountancy.)
Now dying, which is a slightly different matter, concerns me a bit. I would prefer to go in a rather clean manner (none of that being dragged underneath a motor-vehicle for umpteen yards before shock sets in, feeling my flesh being scraped off and bones crushed and leaving a long streak of myself behind).
If nothing happens but oblivion, then that's fine, too. I won't know, will I? I won't even be enough to care. Though I hope that's not the case. That'd be as lame as only having Judgement to look forward to. (Which is frankly the most boring and depressing concept of an afterlife I've heard of. I mean really. It takes the Next Great Adventure and reduces it down to "moral" accountancy.)
Now dying, which is a slightly different matter, concerns me a bit. I would prefer to go in a rather clean manner (none of that being dragged underneath a motor-vehicle for umpteen yards before shock sets in, feeling my flesh being scraped off and bones crushed and leaving a long streak of myself behind).
Well the human race has believed in the existence of the soul for most of it's existence I don't believe all of the stuff in those religious texts but the similarities makes me at least speculate there is something more to life.
...and then I walk out from under my rock.
my real reason for not fearing death is my life makes me feel more pain than enjoyment
I know i just sound like some emo ***** but its the truth. So if I am to look death in the face I will face it like a man.
...and then I walk out from under my rock.
my real reason for not fearing death is my life makes me feel more pain than enjoyment
I know i just sound like some emo ***** but its the truth. So if I am to look death in the face I will face it like a man.