I'm extremely afraid of dying... to the point where sometimes I'll wake up in the middle of the night, just wondering what happens once we die, and it's all over with.. no answers, no one there to be with, not feeling anything, were all just a part of science, nothing more and becoming nothing, but something that once was. Just to die, scares me so much.. I was raised very religious my whole life always believed in God, but I've recently been studying science and space more.. It seems the more I learn, the more unclear, and scary it all is.. Does anyone else think like this? For the most part I'm fine.. during the day, and most every night it doesn't enter my mind.. It's only once in a great while I feel this way, but it's almost as though my mind is greatly thinking beyond things I just can't comprehend, and I get severely frightened to the point I'll have a panic attack and I can't be alone. Thinking about how things started.. how anything started.. if and when I die, will I never be with my son again, or have anyone there? Any feelings, where we go? It's to the point I would REALLY love to see a ghost, spirit, something of the unnatural reality! It could be the devil for all I care.. it could be a spirit, or ghost that is evil and wants to kill me.. As long as I would know there is something after I die.. Just to know there's a life beyond the physical body.. I've never seen anything, no UFO, no ghost, no odd thing that's actually happened where I can say for sure.. So basically I'm asking.. is this normal to think about, and does anyone else have a hard time swallowing death?
Imagine going to bed tonight and never waking up. There you go, thats death. Is it all that scary? I think most people think about this stuff and probably most go through a panic stage like you are describing. I did probably around the time I graduated college. For me, the more I thought about it helped. The more I have learned the more comfortable I am with my life and the temporary nature of it all. Look on the bright side, you are alive today so enjoy it.
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Oddly enough the only time in my life i was ever afraid of death was years ago when i was a christian. Not sure why, you;d think the promise of an afterlife would comfort me but it never did. Oh well.
The only reason we are afraid of dying is because we've come to expect something after death. Once we realize there is nothing, we feel a great loss over something we were never going to get anyway. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Find comfort in the fact that no one else will get anything better than you will! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
It's like this: You're in bed. It's warm in your bed. It's cold outside. You look at the clock. In an hour your alarm will go off and you'll have to get out of your warm bed and go out into the cold world. Our lives are just like this. Our time on earth is like that short hour before we have to get out of our warm, safe beds and venture out into the unknown.
when you die they put you in the ground and thats the end. yeah sucks dont it. ah the irony life kills you.
my take on death "We are all just stardust eating sunshine"..there is no such thing as death...we just transpose from one medium into another...different electrons and neutrons...
A few times I've been lucky enough to experience a situation I thought was sure death. Of course, it's all been drug enduced so I can't honestly tell you it's definetly how I'll react if/when I do face dieing. But, I can tell you the one time that it was really serious. Myself and two other friends were stoned at a school parking lot around 10:30 at night. We ordered food to the school parking lot (a challenge on it's own). Anyway so we're sitting in the front area of the parking lot and a motorcycle rides by. A minute later it comes back and parks next to us. Then a car comes and delivers our food. We go to the back area of the parking lot. We started talking about whta the hell that motorcycle was doing. As we begin to unwrap our food, that same motorcycle comes into the back area of the parking lot, sits for about a minute, then leaves. We're now about to eat and another motorcycle comes in and parks. It stays for about 3 minutes, one of my friends starts eating. After it leaves myself and the other friend begin to get ready to eat. The motorcycle reappears and parks about 15 feet from us and the guy just sits there. My friend turns to me and informs me that the guy is there to kill us. At first we were scared and talking scared. Then I started thinking "oh well, I suppose it won't really hurt or anything". My logic was he was going to shoot us. After about 7 minutes of contimplating my death (the guy still sitting there in the parking lot on his motorcycle 15 feet from us) I finally (haha) accepted it. I just kind of thought that it was no big deal, looked down on my sandwhich and figured I might as well eat it before I die. About 5 minutes later the motorcycle finally left. I was almost halfway done my sandwhich, one friend was done his and the other still hadnt started.
Krystina 661 ... Whatever there was before birth. Take care Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! "We must respect the rights of the dissenters, even though they .might be idiots or harmful." - Wau Holland - (Died 07/29/01) -
Krystin, Don't worry about it, seriously. There's absolutely nothing you or anyone can do to stop it. Life is short, enjoy it, and don't spend all of it thinking about death. You and every single person on earth this very second will die, and those that kept thinking about how terrifying it would be to die won't have as much fun as those who were hit by a stray bullet in the middle of a good laugh or those who died in a "warm, comfy bed" with their relatives and kids and grandkids holding their hand the entire way. You have more important things to think about, things that actually matter.
Rush I crave for the rush of Death without the side affects. Can you imagine jumping off a brdge and feeling your body slowly go numb fromt eh shock of the pain, your heart stopping, and finally your "soul" emerging onto the spiritual hitchhiker route. No I guess you cant, neither can I, but I tremble with the thought. I dont fear the act of death I believe it could be a wonderful esperiance if one were to embrace it whole. The only thing I fear is everything I will miss for all eternity. I feel saddened and angered by the injustices of nature to give us a beautiful concious mind and body only to let it rot into oblivion. -The true horror is the horror of being forgotten-
Yeah, in our time the only way to become immortal is to do something that really shakes everyone up. You, yourself, will die of course, but your ideas, and who you are, could live on forever. But as for the rush of death, chances are I wouldn't have enough time to think about it unless it happened to me slowly. I'll probably say to myself "oh well, this is it. Hope what's next is just as good or better."
everybody does. grab a few books on death. they might dispel a few of your fears. it kinda pained me to read your post, cos no matter the reassurances you might get from others, this is something everybody will eventually face and do so alone
Oh it was definetly just drug-induced. But the point is not the situation, but what was going through my mind. I was 100% sure I was going to die.
Thanks for the reply's. Was nice to read different points of view.. I guess all I can go on now is faith, which I'll have to figure out what I feel is right for myself, and through the process learn what I can Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! We may know a lot, but most of what we know, are what most scientists have guessed to be true.. There's so many things we don't know which could all fit together once we do die.. Like a good magic trick.. you can't figure out how it worked, and it appears to be impossible and unrealistic.. Until it's revealed and your so amazed at how simple it was.. and it all makes sense..
