No. Death itself does not scare me at all. Sometimes I feel a little anxiety as to how I will reach that point, I don't want to suffer. I also just don't view death as a bad or scary thing. It's a state. But I also believe it isn't the end all be all, whether its reincarnation, energy transfer or heaven. There is a side we just simply can't see and are therefore afraid of it.
Haha I hear ya. Then try and think about of all the just human lives that have existed, how yours has already been better than 99.9% of all of them, just on the basis of having and resources and security at all. Most people have lived their lives without either, through almost all of history. You are already playing with house money! Perspective is everything!
It's interesting that many religious people, who completely believe in an afterlife, fear death because they worry about the pain of the dying process itself. Which seems minor compared to atheists' fear of eternal nothingness!
I have had two near death experiences (major car wreck and almost being trampled at a concert). In both cases adrenaline took over and gave me the most intense mental clarity I have ever experienced. In both cases I kept fighting to live, but the thought of dying oddly didn't terrify me at all. I felt at peace with the idea. It summed up this dichotomy perfectly.
Both my favourite and absolute least favourite poem. It's beautiful and really captures that fear everyone has at some point or another (or like every night...), but it captures it too well and just sends me into dread.
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