Are you afraid of dying?

[Thants]

Here's a poll.

 

Well? Do you fear for your death or is it just the pain of death? Do you fear for the nothingness or are not bothered cos you expect not to know anything about it? Do you expect to wake up elsewhere?

 

For me I fear grief more than death. I don't think there's an afterlife and as long as I go relatively painless I don't fear it. I sometimes fear the time that is left.

 

Thoughts I had on the way to the cinema today after being with someone who's grandad passed away yesterday RIP.

[RedKnight]

Scares the shit out of me. I should add that death of other people has never affected me that much. It's upset me but I'v got on with things and I don't like remembering the date of when that person died.

[robbief]

i'm not scared of dying, i just don't want to. theres no option that suits that sooo.... im not voting.

 

i'v been brought up to look at it as 'if the older people don't die theres no room for the new babies'. thats helped me a lot that, i got over my grandads dying pretty well.

[Thants]

i'm not scared of dying, i just don't want to. theres no option that suits that sooo.... im not voting.

 

i'v been brought up to look at it as 'if the older people don't die theres no room for the new babies'. thats helped me a lot that, i got over my grandads dying pretty well.

 

When you grow up you may understand and be allowed to vote.

[LFC Brian]

It scares me unbelievably.Sometimes I think really deeply about it and it really freaks me out,I actualy get into a panic !! Still keepin my fingers crossed they find a cure for it !!

[Elmyn Noos]

I'm quite looking forward to it - after all, you spend a long longer dead than do alive, so what the fuck - how bad can it be?

[Ted]

It scares me unbelievably.Sometimes I think really deeply about it and it really freaks me out,I actualy get into a panic !! Still keepin my fingers crossed they find a cure for it !!

 

Ditto. I'm petrified of dying.

[Section_31]

I don't think about it really, like most people, I obviously don't want to die but at the same time I wouldn't want to live forever either. Lately though i get these 'moments' where the idea of death seems clearer to me than it ever has before.

Even if I'm watching a film where someone gets shot, whereas It's something I've never given a thought to before, sometimes it just sort of hits me and I think 'hang on, he's dead and won't ever come back! What the fuck!'

 

A 'short circuit' moment you could call it

 

No disassemble stephanie...

[AVEEZ]

I think you can only be scared of dying if you associate it with the pain that may or may not be attached to it or if you believe in an afterlife where you may or may not be punished for things you may or may not have done..

 

I'm not scared for 2 reasons - I have a very high pain threshold and ultimately any pain will end and I have never done a single thing wrong not ever in my whole life so my after life will be all that and more!! Bring - it - on...

[LFC Brian]

I don't think about it really, like most people, I obviously don't want to die but at the same time I wouldn't want to live forever either. Lately though i get these 'moments' where the idea of death seems clearer to me than it ever has before.

Even if I'm watching a film where someone gets shot, whereas It's something I've never given a thought to before, sometimes it just sort of hits me and I think 'hang on, he's dead and won't ever come back! What the fuck!'

 

A 'short circuit' moment you could call it

 

No disassemble stephanie...

 

 

 

I do the same,I think when Im dead,thats it,forever,gone..thats what scares the crap out of me.....oh shit another panic coming on !!!

[theghost]

I've already punched death in the face twice. No reason I can't do it forever.

[AVEEZ]

I do the same,I think when Im dead,thats it,forever,gone..thats what scares the crap out of me.....oh shit another panic coming on !!!

 

I dont think thats being scared of dying rather then being scared of not having lived!

[Elmyn Noos]

I've enjoyed my life so far so much that if I croaked tomorrow, I'd feel for the people I'd be leaving behind who would clearly be devastated, but not for myself.

 

I'd also feel for you guys, as I've no doubt you'd all feel that a little part of yourselves had gone with me.

[RJ Fan club]

I used to be scared since I lost my mum, but less so now.

 

I'm a much calmer person in the last month or so having undergone grief counselling.

 

Now I could manage a death match with death himself.

[LFC Brian]

I dont think thats being scared of dying rather then being scared of not having lived!

 

 

 

Its more a case of I dont want it to end,they idea of not exsisting for the rest of eternity makes me sad !!!

[DT]

It'd be a massive inconvenience for me as there are still things that I'd like to do and see and experience.

 

But I'm quite certain that there's nothing after death, and frankly, it doesn't scare me.

 

If I died tonight, I would also like to think that I've not done too badly with the opportunity I was given. So I'm actually feeling quite comfortable about it.

[Stouffer]

The thought of people I love dying scares me more.

[Guest TK-421]

I think it's natural to fear death and harm. I am a big scaredy cat.

[JER]

Not seeing my kids grow up makes me scared shitless about it.

[hamstrung]

As soon as I hit 30 I started thinking about it a lot, having never really done so. I don't worry about dying so much but about dying prematurely.

 

I have a theory that life's over-achievers do so well for themselves because the fear or realisation of death kicks in at an early age.

[Section_31]

I dont think thats being scared of dying rather then being scared of not having lived!

 

That's a good point actually.

 

There's still a list of places I want to visit but can't afford to, and obviously having kids is something I want too. If i can experience these things and get to an age where my health is going and can physically squeeze no more enjoyment from life, I won't be that arsed then.

 

At this point though I've never seen New York and I don't know what it feels like to have my own baby smile at me, until I have these things I will be very scared of dying!

[jacco maccaco]

Yes i am.

I have 2 little boys aged 4 and 2 and I want to see them grow up.

I've always said that if I can see them safely to my age (40) without any serious mishaps, or harm then I'll die happy.

Not to say I'm not happy that is... far from it.

[Uncle_Meat]

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." - Oscar Wilde

 

 

I tend to agree with him. Just like going to sleep, a nice long kip. The thought of dying in pain worries me, not death itself.

 

 

*edit* Forgot to add, I'll live for ever. The meat/doll body might wither, but that's it. I know this from copious use of LSD. Huzzah for hallucinogens!

[Section_31]

Bit of a coincidence, but my Grandad died yesterday too. 89, long life, I don't know if I want to live so long.

 

It happens to us all one day. I hope I can die with dignity - it's not the pain that bothers me as much as the thought I might end up unable to go the bog by myself and so on!

 

Above all I hope I can leave the world without the family being too upset, I hope they can get on with their lives after I've gone, whether I'm young or old.

 

 

Sorry to hear that mate, best wishes to you and yours...

[King Emlyn]

I don't mind dying, i just don't want to be there when it happens.