Does death scare you?

[city2]

As the title says yes or no and why.

 

[bluethrunthru]

no - its inevitable. I hope not to die in a drawn out excruciating pain kind of way but at the same time just dropping down dead will shock the family but with experience of losing people the drawn out version where the dying can say goodbye is better than dropping dead

 

[blumoonrisen]

Only in the short term. Don't fancy going just yet.

 

[RadcliffeRick]

Not death in itself, just the chaos I will probably leave for others to clear up. Too much for my wife to deal with.

 

[threespires]

Not death in itself, just the chaos I will probably leave for others to clear up. Too much for my wife to deal with.

The Swedish apparently have a tradition of'death cleaning' in later years, decluttering and getting your affairs in order so your loved ones have as little as possible to do. I suspect there is a comfort in doing that for the people you love.

 

[BoundedCascade]

Death to me is nothing to be afraid of. It is like before birth, there was nothing, same thing with death.

The act of dying on the other hand, and what it does to my family etc. that scares me.

 

[Tuearts right boot]

If I go like it was when I had my double hernia op then no it doesn't scare me.....one minute awake and talking to the nurse, next minute....well nothing until I came round. It wont happen like that unless it's been arranged.

 

[urban genie]

no not really if I die, then I die we all have to

however dying slowly in pain or while having dementia is something I hope to avoid

 

[Deleted member 77198]

Thinking about it used to keep me awake at night when I was a young lad (8-11 years’ old or so). My first girlfriend from when I was 18 used to have counselling about it when she was young as well.

It doesn’t bother me anymore. It’s just like how I didn’t exist in the past before I was born, I won’t exist in the future.

Did you know that life is only possible in the universe for one-thousandth of a billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, billion billion billionth, of a per cent of time?

For 99.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the rest of the universe’s time, life will not be possible.

But that tiny fraction of the tiniest chance of life being possible in the universe is NOW! and we just happen to be a collection of atoms that have collected into being the most intelligent life-form on a planet that just happens to be habitable now and we are living during that tiny fraction of time.

My collection of atoms could have been a fish or a sponge or a rock on some dead planet somewhere billions of light years away but I’m a homosapiens on Earth today!

That makes me appreciate that I’m alive now rather than being scared of death.

 

[J.G.Blue.]

Yes.