Do you fear death? (page 6)

wasasister

Ona:

What is it for me? Seriously?

It's something I don't know yet. When I "woke up", spiritually speaking, I realized I had more questions than answers and that was somehow OK with me. I no longer worry that I don't have all those absolute answers I did when I was a JW.

I guess I'll just wait and see. In the meantime, I intend to live what's left of my life to the fullest extent possible. Do I want this life to end anytime soon? Hell no!

And as to the Woody Allen quote, when I go, I'd like to not be aware of the onset of death. Maybe in my sleep or during the act of.....well, you get the picture.

Go to bed, ya silly beast.

onacruse

searcher! How ya doin', ya old >>insert appropriate Brit derogative<<

You know very well how those "patio conversations" go on and on and on...did you receive that Medal of Pain we sent you?

Hell no, bring it on.

Yep: life comes at you full-face--no past, no future, and usually not many real choices; "It is what it is, and that's all what it is."

So, I'll ask you, in turn, the same question (which we didn't have time to discuss when you were here LOL):

Wat is it for you? Reincarnation? Resurrection? Nothingness? Everythingness?

(Inquiring minds want to know)

Golf

Onacruise, my answer to your question, there is a moral satisfaction to doing good even if I don't fear death.

Guest77

LittleToe

Craig:
I dont wanna get all gnostic on ya... but I will.
LOL

Once one has connected with the eternal "divine", it's permanant.
It transcends life and death, happiness and sadness, pain and bliss.

To ask a more perenniel question - what is the nature of "love"?

tink

i certainly like to tell myself i don't fear death, and apparently i'm not alone in that. what it boils down to is this: i don't fear what comes after my death, because i don't believe anything comes after it at all. i'll simply cease to be. i feel regret, but not fear, at this prospect.

however, i think there are very, very few people who can effectively eradicate in themselves the instinctual fear of death. if someone suddenly grabs me and holds a knife to my throat, will i be calm, unperturbed? i can't convince myself of that. my heart will race, i'll break out into a sweat, my breath will become shallow, rapid. although i may think myself prepared to die, the reality is that i can't fight my instinct to survive.

so grudgingly i'll admit that yes, on some very basic level, death does frighten me.

Valis

"There will be no regrets when the worms come"...

Third Eye Bilnd, "Send Me All Your Vampires"

Sincerely,

District Overbeer

frankiespeakin

I wouldn't want my life to end just yet,,but if somebody told me for sure that i was going to the electric chair tomorrow,,I think I would except it and make my final preparations,,I probably have a real good laugh and maybe a good cry,,I would probably shut out any thoughts of worry,,and get a good nite sleep,,and then try to find out what was the meaning of my life,,but I wouldn't find any concrete reason,,and I would probably tell myself "O well".

searcher

Wat is it for you? Reincarnation? Resurrection? Nothingness? Everythingness?

I have absolutely no idea, so I just dont bother thinking about it, I will face whatever it is when the time comes.

I dont want to suffer so I guess I have some trepidation about that, but dying, actually not being 'here', no worries, might even be an adventure.

Eyebrow2

Like Big Tex, it never dawned on me that I would really have to die some day until I was in my late twenties. I was raised in witness too, and we were supposed to be in the new system by now!

It is wierd, but I never started to fear dying until I had my second child. All of a sudden, I had developed a sense of mortality. It could because I had a lovely seizure right after I had her, lovely blood loss...shaking...quite fun...I remember feeling it coming on, and handing the baby to my husband, and telling him that I loved him. Then the shaking.......eeeeekkkkk!!! It was scarey...the only real moment I have ever had when I thought I was going to die!

It is because I don't want to leave my children motherless, or my husband a widowere. Oh, he would get on after a while without me. But, you can never replace someone's mom. I lost my own father at 19, and even though I was a young adult, I wasn't done needing him. My kids would get over it, but still....

I sometimes wish the concept of going to heaven is true...or just that dying really means going on to some other type of life...but I dunno.

The one thing that realizing that I will have to die someday, is to make me realize this:
LIVE THE BEST LIFE YOU CAN!!!

My greatest fear about knowing I am about to die, and having a lot of regrets about bad choices, or not doing things I should have, or not being able to honestly say I gave my children a happy childhood and was always there for them.

FlyingHighNow

A disheartening thought crossed my mind last week and made me blue. It was this:

If there are evil people who saw heads off of screaming hostages in this life, what if in the afterlife there are evil spirits who do evil things to good spirits? I mean, I'd like to think we get some relief from suffering when we die. But what if we don't? What if the spirit world is just as *(&^%ED up as the material world?

I don't go around worrying about death constantly. I think if I knew it was coming it would scare me though. I sometimes get panic attacks during allergy season and I feel as if I am suffocating. I don't want to feel that way during the dying process. The best way to die in my opinion is to die peacefully while sleeping. I held my mother in my arms while she died. I saw the life leave her eyes. I heard her gasp for air for parts of two days, chainstoking they call it. I hope not to go through that kind of suffering. I really hope she is at peace and maybe there with her oldest son, my beloved brother Cory.

Flyin'

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