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  • #1

    Are you afraid of death or dying?

    Been asked a couple of times before, but...

    Are you afraid of i) death and/or ii) dying?

    Does your answer to the first question depend on whether you believe there is something after this life or not?

    Does your answer to the second question have anything to do with fear of a painful and slow death or something else?

    Carolus
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    Not yet.

    And no, cos when I'm dead I won't know about it...

    I know it is totally contradictory, but I do kind of wish there was an afterlife just to show all the religious freaks in this world just how wrong they've been all their lives - kinda seems a shame not to be able to show them what suckers they are...
    Is it me, or is MOBIUS a horrible person?

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    • #3
      Yes & no. I know I'll be with God after this life, but I don't want to leave my wife here alone.
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      • #4
        This may sound silly, but yes I'm a bit afraid of death. Actually mostly because of the fact that death in general involves pain. I'm not 100% a hedonist, but I try to avoid pain when I can (seeing I live in pain almost all the time.. I've got something wrong with my back, it's horrible but gotta live with it), and a lot of deaths are quite painful.

        I'm not afraid of not being around anymore. If I could die without knowing it or noticing it I wouldn't mind that much.
        "An archaeologist is the best husband a women can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her." - Agatha Christie
        "Non mortem timemus, sed cogitationem mortis." - Seneca

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        • #5
          I'm not afraid of dying, but I find it to be a strange and curious concept. I guess I won't understand what it's all about until it's too late.

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          • #6
            I didn't use to think so

            but yes

            JM
            Jon Miller-
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            • #7
              No & Yes. Dying is a natural thing but as a living being I want to live aslong as I can - it's quite natural and every living creature want do the same.
              With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

              Steven Weinberg

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              • #8
                I'm far more afraid of pain. When the time comes that death is unavoidable, I think I'll quite enjoy being able to drift into a sleep from which nobody will wake me.
                Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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                • #9
                  Sure. Ceasing to exist is a bummer. But it doesn't dominate my thoughts like it used to. Dunno why - exhaustion maybe?

                  Being in extreme pain would certainly be unpleasant, but it's a far less likely situation than being dead. So, I'm relatively unworried about it.
                  "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
                  -Bokonon

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                  • #10
                    No.
                    "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
                    "Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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                    • #11
                      I think it is generally the process that people find unpleasent

                      JM
                      Jon Miller-
                      I AM.CANADIAN
                      GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                      • #12
                        No. I'm more afraid of the manner of dying.
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                        • #13
                          My health basically has gotten really bad recently. And instead of just continuing what I was doing, and allowing myself to die early, I have started trying to get on an exercise regime (and hvae cut out coffee).

                          I still don't think that I mind death, but when my health was really far down (And even now although I ahve been working out every other day for the last week) I felt really bad which sucked.

                          Jon miller
                          Jon Miller-
                          I AM.CANADIAN
                          GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Frankychan
                            No. I'm more afraid of the manner of dying.
                            That avatar sucks!!!!!!

                            ACK!
                            Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust!

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                            • #15
                              No, If I die, I die, and that's that.
                              "I'm moving to the Left" - Lancer

                              "I imagine the neighbors on your right are estatic." - Slowwhand

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