Do You Fear Death? [Archive] - RonFez.net Messageboard

Gvac

08-29-2006, 06:17 PM

I'm wondering if I'm in the majority or minority on this one, but I can honestly say that I have no fear of my own death.  I have family members and friends that refuse to write out a will or buy a burial plot because they are too freaked out to even consider their own mortality.  It seems strange to me. Obviously I want to stick around as long as possible, but I also logically accept that I'm going to die one day.  It's unavoidable.  I'm also a firm believer in the "death before dishonor" credo.  I view certain situations in life as less desirable than death, such as being old, infirmed, and senile, not being able to care for myself.  I'd welcome death in that scenario. Does the though of your death overwhelm you with fear or are you more like me?

TheArtOfTheFU

08-29-2006, 06:23 PM

I'm with you 100% Live fast, Die hard, and the corpse aint my problem.

sr71blackbird

08-29-2006, 06:29 PM

I am not afraid of death (right now) for myself, but I am afraid of it for my loved ones.  I am more afriad of losing my job at this point than of myself dying.

boeman

08-29-2006, 06:30 PM

I'm not afraid of death... as long as it doesn't hurt.

HeyGuy

08-29-2006, 06:39 PM

I was never affraid of anything, but over the past few years I have become affraid of many things. Im affraid of death which is why I'm now affraid to fly as well. It sucks anyone know any shrinks or anything to get over my fears?

MadMatt

08-29-2006, 06:43 PM

I am completely with you on this GVAC, and you too SR71.  I don't fear my own death, but I do fear the death of my loved ones - especially my daughter.  I don't mind thinking about death, planning for it, or even wondering about how I'll "go."  This brings up another question - if you could no the date, time, and means of your death, would you want to?I have gone back and forth about this question for a LONG time and haven't been able to decide for myself.  There are positives and negatives going either way.

Gvac

08-29-2006, 06:56 PM

MadMatt wrote: This brings up another question - if you could no the date, time, and means of your death, would you want to?  Absolutely not!  I think knowing the date, time, and cause of your death would make every remaining day seem like a "countdown" and you'd never enjoy the life you have left.  That's why I've already planned for my death as far as having a will and such.

FUNKMAN

08-29-2006, 07:06 PM

i don't believe i'm afraid of death.  if there is a god i wouldn't mind meeting him/her. i don't believe in suffering for all eternity and hell.i think i'm afraid of the "pain" associated with some deaths. buring alive in a carcrash, getting eaten by a shark, getting beaten to deatch etc etc...

SinA

08-29-2006, 07:09 PM

I don't fear much, but I fear death.  To be more precise, I'm not bothered that I will eventually be dead I fear the act of dying.  I'm afraid that dying has got to be such a strange experience (all five senses fading away, not being able to speak, coldness, darkness....), and it might even hurt a lot.  It keeps me up sometimes.

soupcan

08-29-2006, 07:22 PM

i think fez might know a good shrink that'l cure you of all your fears, phobias and anxieties... CampoNJ wrote: I was never affraid of anything, but over the past few years I have become affraid of many things. Im affraid of death which is why I'm now affraid to fly as well. It sucks anyone know any shrinks or anything to get over my fears?

TheGameHHH

08-29-2006, 07:46 PM

I'm still comming to grips with my own mortality, I'm 24. I don't know if fear is the word I have for death, because I've more or less accepted it I just have a lot of questions.

HeyGuy

08-29-2006, 07:53 PM

soupcan wrote: i think fez might know a good shrink that'l cure you of all your fears, phobias and anxieties... CampoNJ wrote: I was never affraid of anything, but over the past few years I have become affraid of many things. Im affraid of death which is why I'm now affraid to fly as well. It sucks anyone know any shrinks or anything to get over my fears? Thanks but I dont have his direct #.

IdRathaHavaBeer

08-29-2006, 08:02 PM

just like sina, i'm not afraid of being dead.  i'm afraid of the
events leading up to my death.  once i'm dead obviously i won't
care but knowing i will be dead soon is going to suck.

PapaBear

08-29-2006, 08:04 PM

I mostly fear what my death would do to my children. I'm also afraid of sudden death, pretty much for the same reason. I want to have a little time to prepare them.

suggums

08-29-2006, 08:10 PM

id love to experience ego-death and be in a permanent state of nirvana/enlightment

KC2OSO

08-29-2006, 08:35 PM

suggums wrote: id love to experience ego-death   Oh wouldn't that be great.  Seriously!      Naughty ego fucking everything up... I'm not sure full enlightenment would follow but I'd like to try it for a day or two.  I don't think I could handle it even though I have the potential to posess it right now.  Don't we all?With my luck, I would show up at the ego-death redemtion center though and they would tell me that though I'd led a somewhat good life, but there was that time stole liquor from my father and therefore had to serve some more time on earth delivering auto parts. As for method of death, I don't care.  Like others have posted, I'd prefer a short shock for those surviving me. We are hopes and memories even now and will remain as such.  There is only now.

TheMojoPin

08-29-2006, 08:35 PM

I have death-related fears, but I don't think I fear death itself.  I don't like the idea of dying a really slow and agonizing death, or dying in some kind of really lame way.  The only real fear I have is that I die before my parents and they find all my porn, because I know that would then kill my mom and she'd totally kick my ass in the afterlife.

AngelAmy

08-29-2006, 09:52 PM

I fear it because I cannot fathom nothingnes...I just cant.it's fear of the true unknown.

This message was edited by AngelAmy on 8-30-06 @ 1:55 AM

TheArtOfTheFU

08-29-2006, 09:59 PM

suggums wrote: id love to experience ego-death and be in a permanent state of nirvana/enlightment You want you ego to go out with a shotgun in its mouth?

PapaBear

08-29-2006, 10:01 PM

How about this...Who here would like to be a ghost? I don't mean the "tortured soul" type. I mean the type of ghost that can just do cool shit?OK... that's a bad question. Who wouldn't like that?

BoondockSaint

08-29-2006, 10:24 PM

Well, I have thought of taking my own life at times but the one thing that keeps me from doing it is the effect on loved ones.  It would crush my father.  So I can't have that.  But, no, I do not fear death. 

reeshy

08-30-2006, 02:26 AM

Nah...kinda lookin' forward to it....even have a suit picked out!!!!!!!

A.J.

08-30-2006, 03:26 AM

SinA wrote: To be more precise, I'm not bothered that I will eventually be dead I fear the act of dying.  I'm kind of the same way.  For me it's not the fear of death it's fear of the pain of death.  I see myself suffering a painful, drawn-out death due to any number of smoking-related illnesses.  Or I fear being paralyzed or being brain-dead.That's why I'm pro-euthansia.  Why spend my life's savings just to cheat death for a while?  If I'm told I have some terminal disease, I see it as getting the death sentence so let's just get it over with.  We can put down suffering animals but we can't do the same for people who are suffering.  That's bullshit.

ShelleBink

08-30-2006, 07:40 AM

I don't like mourning others' deaths, but I don't fear my own.  Its not something I have complete control over on when its going to happen, but when it does, so be it.

SatCam

08-30-2006, 09:18 AM

If I can die in the funniest way possible, I say bring it on ASAP

Don Stugots

08-30-2006, 12:22 PM

it is not something that i think about but when i do it scares the hell out me.  mainly because of the unknowen factor of what awaits us after.  what also scares me is that one day i will grow old and my body (which is already shot from construction work) will give out on me.  i sturggle with that i will become weak and one day die.  what if there is nothing else after this?  what if when you die, thats it, no heaven no hell just nothing.

EliSnow

08-30-2006, 12:30 PM

Here's what I think.  One cannot know whether he or she is afraid of death until one faces it.   I've never faced death really.  I've had cancer, but was never so bad that I thought I was going to die.

JamMaster

08-30-2006, 01:13 PM

AngelAmy wrote: I fear it because I cannot fathom nothingnes...I just cant.it's fear of the true unknown.This message was edited by AngelAmy on 8-30-06 @ 1:55 AM That is exactly my fear to a tee.

OldGravyLeg

08-30-2006, 04:32 PM

GVAC,  I side with you on your feeling and the attitude.  Just watched my mom die last week and now have to watch how my 80yr old pop does not accept the fact that he too will soon die.  I think it is really tough to acknowledge until you have been close.  My bro beat Leaukemia and appreciates every day since then.  I support your view and share it but the reality is you wont know until you are closer.                                                     When it happens it happens

feralBoy

08-30-2006, 05:22 PM

I never thought I was afraid of death.  But the other day something pretty fucked up happened to me.  I was finishing up taking malaria pills, which give you some weird dreams.  Anyway, I had this dream that my brother was stuck under a door and I was sawing off his feet.  He was passed out.  I went to the bathroom to peel the flesh away from the bone in the bathtub because I thought it would be cleaner.  Then, my brother comes hobbling in, and starts yelling out me for cutting his feet.  That was the point when I realized that I had to kill him because I couldn't live with myself for cutting off his legs, because he would have to live as a cripple.  I woke up after this, scared to fucking shitless of death.  That was one fucked up dream.

OGC

08-30-2006, 07:01 PM

I would have to agree with other posters here in that I don't so much fear death as much as I fear a slow lingering death.From seeing my Dad battle with colon cancer over the past couple of years, and seeing my sister (who is 2 years older than me) suffer a series of strokes which pretty much put an end to any kind of an enjoyable life for her, I have come to realize that death is rarely the quick painless thing that we see in movies.Anyone who wants to get an insider's view of slowly sliding downhill towards death should spend a little time reading <a href="http://www.bloglassiter.com/wp/" target="_blank">Bob Lassiter's blog</a>