Afraid of death?

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Yes or no? For me, no. How I die though I wonder about though...

I'm the same, I constantly wonder about my death but I'm not afraid of dying.

recent thread on this subject at:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt55888.html

No sir, I embrace both life and death equally. No segregation.

Given my knack to survive risky situations unharmed, perhaps it's death that fears me.

Not anymore.

Since suffering from severe depression, I have come to fear death. My only understanding of death is that it would involve a complete loss of all sensation and perception. Perpetual darkness and numbness... like an unending depressive episode. I feel I already know what it is to be dead, and I don't want to exist like that for an eternity. Or, more to the point, to not exist.

And I know that doesn't make any sense.

The thought of one day becoming unconscious and never being able to think again scares me.

Yes. I realise it's irrational to fear something that I won't actually be around to experience (unless there's some kind of an afterlife, in which case it's not really death), but fear isn't rational. What I fear more than my own death is the death of humanity, the Earth, and eventually all life in the universe. Those kinds of thoughts make me wonder if this is really all there is, and if so, why don't we all just curl up and die right now, because all of our accomplishments will be in vain...

Yes, if I wasn't afraid I'd have killed myself ages ago. It's my biggest fear, I don't see how you others can shrug it off.

I'm not really afraid of dying but I don't really shrug it off either. I'll guarantee it doesn't have anything to do with courage. It’s just not something I think about often or worry over. I'm deftly afraid of plenty of other things.

I'm much more afraid of people that I love dying than I am of my own death. I can't completely explain the reasons why. It might be because I'm just selfish. I know that if I die I won't have to mourn anything because I won't exist, yet if a family member dies I will have to live with an irreversible loss.

Ironically it’s this realization that has prevented me from killing myself. I knew that taking my life would cause irreversible pain to other people. I can’t purposely kill myself even if life doesn’t always seem worth living. Only intolerable pain could convince me to take my own life despite this.

What scares me more is the way of dying than the death itself, but death can get scary if you consider things heard from superstitions and many beliefs that revolve around the afterlife, it is actually a mystery for me, for one, its really hard to imagine the lack of existence and not having a conscious anymore, which it seems to be more like that.

No, I would be afraid of the process of dying. I don't want to be in pain as I die.

Death is a part of life, it gives life it's meaning.

That said, I am fearful of death only in the fact that I desperately want to keep on living. So more accurately, I am afraid of dying of unnatural causes. For I want to live the WHOLE of my life.

Mark Twain once noted that he had been dead for billions of years and it didn't bother him a bit. Becoming dead, however, seems to be rather unpleasant.

Wouldn't we have envolved to have a natural fear of death? I think that natural selection would have chosen those with temperaments determined to survive.

Natural selection would also favor those who enjoy life.

Some of us may not fear death, but we do not fear life either. Therefore we preserve ourselves and take caution of danger because we're motivated to pursue life's natural course.