The fear of death

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Fucky McFuckerson

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Who has it? Who thinks about what happens when you die? I have been obsessing about this for a while now.

At one point in my life, i felt that i wouldnt care if i died. Now, that is a very different story. My life is good and i am very happy.

That being said, i just cant wrap my head around death: you do not exist anymore. What happens? No memories?

Sometimes i feel like religion was invented to soften the fear of death. If people believe that they go onto another life after this one, the fear of dying deminishes, IMHO.

It really is an odd thing to think about at 30, when only 5 years ago i had a very different view on death.

Who else thinks about it?
 
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daluvlymel

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i have thought of it..the notion crossed my mind but death i feel is never a ending but rather a beginning to something more and perhaps unfinished you were not able to do in this life...it maybe death of the flesh but never of the soul. i once had a friend that i made a promise with that if either of us died we would come back and tell the other. i never believed he would die but he did by gunshot. he did keep his promise and came to me in a dream. at first it seemed scary but what he showed me in that dream calmed my fear of the unknown..of death..it wasnt so bad and actually it was pleasant in my dream as he tried to explain that many things are connected in some sense. universally speaking. i still to this day make a cross sign on myself when i pass a church as he used to do.
 
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well some people are scared to die cos they dont know whats gonna happen afterwards. i suppose some people are scared to take a shit cos they dont know whats its gonna smell like.
 
SeriouslyThug

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fear of death is fear of the unknown.
life and death are two polarities of one thing.
Why die on the inside by fearing the inevitable death ? id rather live 5 min of REAL living than 80 years of the average fearful attempt at living that we see all around us, because in one you live and the other you are already dead.



now me on the other hand, i cant wait to die. Ive thought hard about death and an eternal punishment and all the shit that people fear and ive come to conclude that in death either you stay conscious and liberated from the body, or you cease to exist as a consciousness. Both of which are VERY liberating.


@seeing things differently when you are 30, its because your perception shifted according to your belief. When you realize that "death" is closer to manifesting than it was ,it becomes more real. But really, people die everyday, and to worry or fear death is no different than americans giving away their rights so they wont get killed by terrorists, when the probabilty of dying in a car crash is enormously greater.

live in the moment and cherish what you got, so you actually GET something from life rather than give it all away for fear.
 
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daluvlymel

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thanks that was nicely put^^^i think more people should discuss realistically as you have about the subject as everyone has thought of this at one point in their lives weather a loved one passed or friend. There's nothing too thug about this topic.
 
SeriouslyThug

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^realistic topics and concepts are all that interest me and take up my time. I got lots to say about everything from reality, to addictions, to the government, to consciousness, etc


i was born into a very fundamentalist and close minded family and upbringing, so i had to build a "logic" ladder to really find my way out.

logic and logical beliefs (assumptions) all start with priorities.
 
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MDebruce

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if i die i just dont want to come back to this world re-incarnated,as much as i dont want to die,i feel like i already been living in hell,my thoughts of life and how the scientist made up this shit big bang theory,my mind is to big to just believe we are the only people in existince,and im suppose to believe the government just cuz they say so? fuck that,its more to life then earth and planet mars.and i feel like if i die i just wish i go to another galaxy with a few thoughts from the past living on earth
 
BASEDVATO

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Sometimes when going to sleep I will get some anxiety of death. Like being old and just waiting to die from a heart attack stroke cancer...

To me Death is the fear of the unknown, it would be nice to have consciousness life after death... but it could also be black eternal unconscious - you would have no time to reflect - you dead... so live your life by the moment, and enjoy life now, might be your only one!

to bad we slaven away are life
 
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rekomstop

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co-sign to seriously thug's post and to mel's but not about the dead person coming back in a dream(even tho i wish someone would, really)

to original post, why of course, as a normal american girl with high risk of ovarian cysts and cancer(my mom has been diagnosed and has gotten an ovary removed) i was scared of death to die, especially being young.

i then met a girl IN my philosophy of death class, that had ovarian cancer and had to drop the class eventually because of her chemo treatments, she was an alcoholic because of the stress and just wanted to party every night she could before she died.
shit was actually really sad at that time.(she had been given about a year to live by her doctors)

i then went through the whole class and realized there were many people taking that class because of the death in their family or facing health issues, as a result i dealt w/ my own problem of death and my own fears.

death is just another step(dimension, etc.), i feel as if i will be reunited without so many damn distractions lol. i know everything that is, IS, how could anything be as seperated as our minds try to perceive it?
 
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i have thought about it b4 and never cared one bit, cuz it's gonna happen anyway.......but (yes a "but") since i got 4 kids now and wanna c them all grow i guess u can say death is on the mind a lil more (more like from time to time) cuz im not ready to go cuz of my kids.......I dont dwell on it tho, cuz like i said it's inevitable we all gonna die some day!!!!
 
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daluvlymel

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rekomstop said:
co-sign to seriously thug's post and to mel's but not about the dead person coming back in a dream(even tho i wish someone would, really)

to original post, why of course, as a normal american girl with high risk of ovarian cysts and cancer(my mom has been diagnosed and has gotten an ovary removed) i was scared of death to die, especially being young.

i then met a girl IN my philosophy of death class, that had ovarian cancer and had to drop the class eventually because of her chemo treatments, she was an alcoholic because of the stress and just wanted to party every night she could before she died.
shit was actually really sad at that time.(she had been given about a year to live by her doctors)

i then went through the whole class and realized there were many people taking that class because of the death in their family or facing health issues, as a result i dealt w/ my own problem of death and my own fears.

death is just another step(dimension, etc.), i feel as if i will be reunited without so many damn distractions lol. i know everything that is, IS, how could anything be as seperated as our minds try to perceive it?
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or maybe reunited within yourself as a whole?
 
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daluvlymel

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Yes but what about reincarnation? Do you believe in this? I've read much about this and want to hear others takes on this? And if you have lived lives before, would they infact come together and merge in a sense once you pass?
 
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rekomstop

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yes, reincarnation helps you see parts of the Self that other perspectives don't allow you to see(well mostly feel).

but what i think is that being human allows you to change your POV while your in the same body. right now i feel very very different than when i was born til 17. i was unhappy being born, i cried NONSTOP(yes i was a freak of fucking nature) and barely ever slept, therefore didn't allow my mom or dad to sleep. i was unhappy most of my life, although my carefree nature was always prevalent.

i am indeed a diff. person because of the different perspective, thats what i find so fascinating.

death happened for that part of my life, and i am so liberated, that is why i know and am reassured by the fact taht death is will be ultimate physical (therefore mental) liberation.


btw, im sure i was a native spanish speaking man that sang romantic love songs in spanish, probably gay man in one life, and a bird of some sort, and thousands more.
 
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