Scared of dying

[Pelly Greeny]

Being dead is nothing to be scared of mate, once it's happened you won't know or feel anything.

Being dead is neither good nor bad, as it's simply just nothing.

It's hard to fathom being dead but that's just the way our brains have evolved.

The only thing to worry about is if you're in pain before you die but there's plenty of pain that you will experience and survive throughout life, as will we all, so even that's not worth worrying about. You don't worry constantly about stubbing your toe or getting kicked in the bollocks do you?

As others have said this will pass, I thought about it similarly a lot when I was younger for a period but I quickly stopped.

Life is short mate in reality but it's all about just getting enjoyment out of it whilst making a positive impact for others and leaving a good image of yourself behind.

Stages come and go and in 5 years time it may be your latest gas bill that worries, hopefully not but that's life.

Watch the shawshank redemption if you haven't already.

Sorry to hear about your brother by the way.

How do you know? Have you ever died?

You could spend months in agony as your flesh is slowly rotting on your bones, being nibbled at by whatever has worked its way into your coffin. Your eyes being sucked dry and your juicy organse chomped away at by thousands of tiny creatures with tiny teeth.

Are you Edgar Allen Poe?

Is that cockney rhyming slang for something?

 

[Gelsons Dad]

Mate I'm 15 too. I always have a little cry about the thought of my parents leaving me and I never tell them how much they mean to me. Lots of people take the piss out of me at school and I just say to myself life it's to short. Just go out and have fun and always work hard. Just remember EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON

I think you will find that hardly anything happens for a reason. Our universe is driven by randomness.

 

[i8therags]

Being dead is basically not being alive. Our universe may have had a beginning and may have an end. Time however is infinite (no beginning no end)so based on that,before you were born you have not been alive forever. Hard to get your head round that I know,but one thing I know is that it hasn't left any of us traumatised. That how I look at it lol.

 

[scotty123]

How do you know? Have you ever died?

You could spend months in agony as your flesh is slowly rotting on your bones, being nibbled at by whatever has worked its way into your coffin. Your eyes being sucked dry and your juicy organse chomped away at by thousands of tiny creatures with tiny teeth.

Are you Edgar Allen Poe?

Is that cockney rhyming slang for something?

Lol, Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer of horror and the macabre, he specialised in death and coffins, your post was written in the same style he used, ie tiny creatures eating you in a coffin :)

 

[Uncle Wally One Ball]

We all die. We have no choice so don't worry about it. What you should be worried about is failing to live while you have the chance.

That isn't what you should be worried about. Some crazy reckless fool is thinking about pouring ironing water back into the bottle on another thread.

 

[Ban-jani]

Being dead is nothing to be scared of mate, once it's happened you won't know or feel anything.

Being dead is neither good nor bad, as it's simply just nothing.

It's hard to fathom being dead but that's just the way our brains have evolved.

The only thing to worry about is if you're in pain before you die but there's plenty of pain that you will experience and survive throughout life, as will we all, so even that's not worth worrying about. You don't worry constantly about stubbing your toe or getting kicked in the bollocks do you?

As others have said this will pass, I thought about it similarly a lot when I was younger for a period but I quickly stopped.

Life is short mate in reality but it's all about just getting enjoyment out of it whilst making a positive impact for others and leaving a good image of yourself behind.

Stages come and go and in 5 years time it may be your latest gas bill that worries, hopefully not but that's life.

Watch the shawshank redemption if you haven't already.

Sorry to hear about your brother by the way.

How do you know? Have you ever died?

You could spend months in agony as your flesh is slowly rotting on your bones, being nibbled at by whatever has worked its way into your coffin. Your eyes being sucked dry and your juicy organse chomped away at by thousands of tiny creatures with tiny teeth.

Can you tell me how that would be possible without a functioning brain?

Plenty of people have been pronounced dead and been resuscitated and I cannot remember a single one of them say they were in any pain during the deepest unconsciousness.

 

[@BluePhil8]

It's perfectly normal to be afraid of the unknown.

I'm 22 and like you I also used to stay awake thinking about death. My brain just couldn't comprehend the nothingness but I trivialised it like this.

I have been alive for 22 years. The universe ticked on fine for billions of years without me and it will carry on after I die. When I die my body will feed the planet, the planet will eventually be consumed by the sun going supernova before collapsing in to a neutron star and helping shape the galaxies around us. We're all just building blocks in the grand scheme of things.

One thing I do think is that finding meaning in your life helps get rid of fear. Raising kids is a good one. Doing what you want like travelling. I'd rather live a great life for 5 years and die suddenly instead if living in fear for 90 years, staying shackled to a job I hate before having a slow death from age.

 

[Pelly Greeny]

Being dead is nothing to be scared of mate, once it's happened you won't know or feel anything.

Being dead is neither good nor bad, as it's simply just nothing.

It's hard to fathom being dead but that's just the way our brains have evolved.

The only thing to worry about is if you're in pain before you die but there's plenty of pain that you will experience and survive throughout life, as will we all, so even that's not worth worrying about. You don't worry constantly about stubbing your toe or getting kicked in the bollocks do you?

As others have said this will pass, I thought about it similarly a lot when I was younger for a period but I quickly stopped.

Life is short mate in reality but it's all about just getting enjoyment out of it whilst making a positive impact for others and leaving a good image of yourself behind.

Stages come and go and in 5 years time it may be your latest gas bill that worries, hopefully not but that's life.

Watch the shawshank redemption if you haven't already.

Sorry to hear about your brother by the way.

How do you know? Have you ever died?

You could spend months in agony as your flesh is slowly rotting on your bones, being nibbled at by whatever has worked its way into your coffin. Your eyes being sucked dry and your juicy organse chomped away at by thousands of tiny creatures with tiny teeth.

Can you tell me how that would be possible without a functioning brain?

Plenty of people have been pronounced dead and been resuscitated and I cannot remember a single one of them say they were in any pain during the deepest unconsciousness.

Clearly you are not a medical claims lawyer ;-)

But who says that the laws of 'living' science apply to the dead - we are now talking your soul or spirit feeling the pain.

Science cannot explain why we are who we are and how our 'minds' work so what's to say that when your brain is 'clinically dead' that the spirt of you cannot feel pain?

 

[Ban-jani]

How do you know? Have you ever died?

You could spend months in agony as your flesh is slowly rotting on your bones, being nibbled at by whatever has worked its way into your coffin. Your eyes being sucked dry and your juicy organse chomped away at by thousands of tiny creatures with tiny teeth.

Can you tell me how that would be possible without a functioning brain?

Plenty of people have been pronounced dead and been resuscitated and I cannot remember a single one of them say they were in any pain during the deepest unconsciousness.

Clearly you are not a medical claims lawyer ;-)

But who says that the laws of 'living' science apply to the dead - we are now talking your soul or spirit feeling the pain.

Science cannot explain why we are who we are and how our 'minds' work so what's to say that when your brain is 'clinically dead' that the spirt of you cannot feel pain?

There isn't a single shred of evidence that human beings have spirits or souls.

"You" is your brain, and when you die it stops working, hence no more you.

I can't simplify it anymore than that.

 

[DiscoSteve]

^^^^ This