Are you scared of death?

[Mai72]

I'm always amazed that people tell me they are not afraid of death. Well I guess when you're in a comfy air conditioned room, young and full of energy you'd think death was a million years away.

But, what if you're on a raft surrounded by hungry sharks?

Or, you're on an airplane that's falling from the sky.

You would probably scream and cry like a little panzi. Because, the cold hands of death are slowly suffocating your last breath. Until it's too late. Then, your body goes numb, and you fall to the ground. Game over.

 

[rumpleforeskin]

Nope, I had a fairly bad health scare a few years back and had a few weeks thinking I was done for. After the initial shock of it I was more sad for those around me than any fear of the event itself.

 

[IronWing]

No, but I am afraid of dying.

 

[MongGrel]

I'm not afraid of it, but contemplate it more often than I should.

OP's examples are a bit lame to begin with, to be honest.

It's probably not something you can seriously answer till you are confronted with it, I remember sitting on my Grandfathers bed a few years ago 5 hours before he died in hospice who had 5 Bronze Stars in WWII and he looked at me and asked me if he would ever amount to anything. I basically busted out crying.

The guy was basically my hero growing up, he became a well known artist locally in Tampa Bay after that the rest of his life.

 

[Mai72]

I've been contemplating my own death. It's a practice the Greeks did many years ago, called Stoicism.

You basically contemplate your own death so you can live a much fuller existence. As a country, we don't deal with death that well. Nobody wants to talk about it. Which is ridiculous because it affects all of us.

http://blogs.exeter.ac.uk/stoicismtoday/2014/11/29/overcoming-the-fear-of-death-with-stoicism/

 

[Mai72]

Funny that when I went to my mom's funeral I did not cry. Not even once. Since I've been practicing Buddhism it has allowed me to view death differently than the people in my life.

There is nothing wrong with crying. It's a healthy emotion.

 

[MongGrel]

Funny that when I went to my mom's funeral I did not cry. Not even once. Since I've been practicing Buddhism it has allowed me to view death differently than the people in my life.

There is nothing wrong with crying. It's a healthy emotion.

My mother died in a car crash smashed against a telephone pole in a car accident in 1980 two weeks before my high school graduation.

You should maybe ponder the threads you start in the future, but you always have seemed a bit clueless.

For a proclaimed Buddhist you seem pretty out there from most of your posts in the past.

That avatar has always confirmed that, you have never been sneaky in any way, shape, or form.

Why you and Mayne and the other guy ever thought you are some form of master trolls is laughable.

 

[lxskllr]

Nope. I'm afraid of heights under certain circumstances, but that's an anxiety issue. I do things objectively more dangerous than working heights, and it doesn't bother me. I wake up every day ready to die.

 

[IronWing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_H5pC8ay8A

 

[MongGrel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDCNbacVt5w

 

[Red Squirrel]

I'm Born Again Christian so not afraid of death, I know my destiny. I am somewhat afraid of HOW I'll die though but not something I think much about. I just hope it's not some kind of terrible disease like cancer or something. I'd rather die young and quick than old and slowly. Idealy, I want some crazy death that is unusual, like getting hit by lightening or a meteorite or something. I'm a ginger, so it's probably going to be skin cancer or something.

 

[MongGrel]

I'm Born Again Christian so not afraid of death, I know my destiny. I am somewhat afraid of HOW I'll die though but not something I think much about. I just hope it's not some kind of terrible disease like cancer or something. I'd rather die young and quick than old and slowly. Idealy, I want some crazy death that is unusual, like getting hit by lightening or a meteorite or something. I'm a ginger, so it's probably going to be skin cancer or something.

I prefer just not thinking about it these days

 

[IronWing]

I know my destiny. I'm a ginger.

No soul = no afterlife, sorry, rules are rules.

 

[lxskllr]

No soul = no afterlife, sorry, rules are rules.

Poor Squirrel :'^(

 

[MongGrel]

The Squirrel is a good guy, he'll probably end up in the same dustbin as the rest of us.

I doesn't hurt to think of other things in the meantime

 

[Red Squirrel]

No soul = no afterlife, sorry, rules are rules.

Wait, that makes me immortal then! If I do get bored of it I just need to sacrifice another soul.

 

[SKORPI0]

Death no , dying yes.

 

[shortylickens]

No.

I'm scared of life.

 

[1sikbITCH]

As I get older I am more acutely aware of my mortality. At 48 I have been telling people that I'm old now, been there, done that, etc and then my 70+ folks call me from the beach. I'm starting to embrace that I could have 20 years left and that it'll be enough. I've never had more than exploratory suicidal thoughts that would accompany anyone faced with contemplating their eventual demise, but I do believe I've come closer to terms with the fact that the clock is ticking.

For me I was worried about missing life than experiencing death. In some ways I was already missing life with that attitude. Now I am trying to refocus on quality as I have no control over quantity. Be right back, beer's empty.

Edit - As to the threat of immediate danger, there is not really much time to think normally. You just have to react and trust your instincts. Once you're clear it's exhilarating. If you're not clear then

 

[Captante]

Not so scared of death ... its dying PAINFULLY I'm afraid of!

 

[GagHalfrunt]

My father has advanced Alzheimer's and I've seen other relatives die slowly from cancer and other debilitating illnesses. While I might be one of the people screaming on the airplane now, if I'm older and staring at something that's going to take me slow and put my family through hell, I'll welcome death and do everything I can to hasten its arrival. Watched too much of the slow way to even consider going like that.

 

[TheGardener]

How to extend your life.... gardening. It's scientifically proven. Well to be accurate it is one study.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/27/garden-for-half-hour-to-slash-heart-risk/

 

[Platypus]

not at all

 

[Rubycon]

Lead me from tortured dreams
Childhood themes of nights alone,
Wipe away endless years,
Childhood tears as dry as stone.

From seeds of confusion,
Illusions darks blossoms have grown.
Even now in furrows of sorrow
The dance still is sung.

My life's course is guided
Decided by limits drawn
On charts of my past days
And pathways since I was born.

I carry the dust of a journey
That cannot be shaken away
It lives deep within me
For I breathe it every day.

You and I are yesterday's answers,
The Earth of the past came to flesh,
Eroded by Time's rivers
To the shapes we now possess.

Come share of my breath and my substance,
And mingle our stream and our times.
In bright, infinite moments,
Our reasons are lost in our rhymes.

Doubles faces dark defense
Talk too loud but talk no sense
Yeah I see those smiling eyes
Butter us up with smiling lies

Talk to creatures raise the dead
Fate you know sure got fed
Trained apart from houses of stone
Hour of horses pick the bone

Come forth, from love spire
Born in life's fire,
Born in life's fire.
Come forth, from love's spire

In the burning, all are yearning,
For life to be.
And the pain will (must) be gain,
New life!

Stirring in, salty streams
And dark hidden seams
Where the fossil sun gleams.

They were, sent from (to) the gates
Ride the tides of fate,
Ride the tides of fate.
They were, sent from (to) the gates

In the burning of our yearning,
For life to be.

There's no end to my life,
No beginning to my death
Death is life!

- Modest Mussorgsky / Greg Lake

 

[GeekDrew]

Yep. Absolutely terrified.