Discussion Are you afraid of death? Why or why not?

[Spiny Lobster]

The only things that have stopped me from CTB in the past have been 1) the fear of my friends/family getting traumatized and 2) the fear of death. I can't even sleep at night, I'm so afraid of death. Falling asleep to me is like falling asleep in an eternal slumber, even if I know it's just for eight hours. As much as I don't want to exist, the idea of not existing scares me. What happens when we die? No one knows. Do I want an afterlife for me or not? Not even I know the answer to that question.

It's all too much; I think if I learn not to be afraid of death, I'll be one step closer to my goal of snuffing my life off the face of this Earth.

So what is your take on all this? Why or why should one not be afraid of death?

 

[dysfunctional]

No, I want death. I'm afraid of actually killing myself.

 

[lobster salad]

No. There's nothing to fear about death. We're all going to die someday, most of my elders already faced it. Right now I'm just clearing up and preparing to leave, it's the fear of the method failing that I'm scared about; the worse life I'll be living from failing ctb.

 

[willitpass]

the only thing that scares me about it is the unknown... will i reincarnate? will i go to an afterlife? if there is an afterlife is it better or worse than this life? or do i simply cease to exist? do i become a ghost who is trapped in the middle of the world with nowhere to go? but at this point i don't care. as long as it is not this life i do not care

 

[dropdeadfred]

Death is just the same as being born to me... like an irrational fear. I hope it's an end. I don't want any "life after death" unless it is way more amazing than good food/sex.

 

[MrBigSad]

I had a previous attempt and failed. What's stopping me is 1. Traumatising parents and 2. I really don't want to end up a vegetable.

 

[Bootleg Astolfo]

Not really, I mean, it can't possibly be worse than this shit existence.

 

[Shades of Grey]

I don't buy into the concept of an afterlife, so no worries there. What scares me is the prospect of failure and ending up alive in a severely compromised state where I am unable to finish the job and become a burden to others.

While I have never been particularly wary of dying, I suspect that some of my resolve probably comes from losing a loved one who was very young to suicide when I was a teenager.

At the time, I experimented with his method in non-lethal ways because I felt a need to understand what he experienced at the end of his life, and it made suicide feel much more accessible in a way that I hadn't intended. I am not afraid to die. I am afraid that I might survive my attempt to do so.

 

[EmptyManForever]

Im just stuck between life and death, i dont wanna live this "current" life but also im a bit scared to end my life as well ,im just stuck here not knowing how to proceed, its like ill never be happy in "this" life again and i would be less nervous to end my life if i knew what comes after death, and especially if its something good or better than this current life ,the only problem is that i dont know what's after death, that thought right there is scary to me and it keeps me from ending my life

 

[Spiny Lobster]

Im just stuck between life and death, i dont wanna live this "current" life but also im a bit scared to end my life as well ,im just stuck here not knowing how to proceed, its like ill never be happy in "this" life again and i would be less nervous to end my life if i knew what comes after death, and especially if its something good or better than this current life ,the only problem is that i dont know what's after death, that thought right there is scary to me and it keeps me from ending my life

That's exactly how I'm feeling. I'll never be happy being "me" -- I'd give anything to not feel like "me." I'd give anything to be someone else. But what will happen if I die? Will it be a good thing to shut my brain off forever or is there going to be more where this came from in the afterlife? If I hate being "me" so much, I should be happy and grateful to have the chance to end "me." Yet here I am, scared as all hell.

 

[Meditation guide]

It's life that terrifies me. Every morning when I wake up and dread going through another day. I'm suffering physically. And I have ptsd from multiple traumas. Death would be a blessing.

 

[Sherri]

It's life that terrifies me. Every morning when I wake up and dread going through another day. I'm suffering physically. And I have ptsd from multiple traumas. Death would be a blessing.

Same here. I dread waking up. Its 6am here, another god damn day.....

 

[FarAcrossTheWater]

Why be afraid of the inevitable?

 

[foxdie]

I don't fear death, I fear injury like others have mentioned. I wish I could just die but the only way is by my own hand and that is where my doubt creeps in. No desire to live, too afraid to kill myself. It's a terrible place to be trapped in I feel you mon ami.

 

[albino_elk]

Dot worry baby this is afterlife cuz we came here. We existed much longer that physical world or life itself. Chill. We just forgot for the fun sake. Its okay.

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

The only things that have stopped me from CTB in the past have been 1) the fear of my friends/family getting traumatized and 2) the fear of death. I can't even sleep at night, I'm so afraid of death. Falling asleep to me is like falling asleep in an eternal slumber, even if I know it's just for eight hours. As much as I don't want to exist, the idea of not existing scares me. What happens when we die? No one knows. Do I want an afterlife for me or not? Not even I know the answer to that question.

It's all too much; I think if I learn not to be afraid of death, I'll be one step closer to my goal of snuffing my life off the face of this Earth.

So what is your take on all this? Why or why should one not be afraid of death?

I'm Not afraid of Death . A microsecond after death the pain is over for a trillion trillion years . I'm afraid of life and the pain it brings. I'm also afraid of remaining alive but with brain damage so that i won't be able to escape this hell painlessly. it's the only thing stopping me from commiting suicide the fear of remaining alive with brain damage in case of failure. I don't believe in afterlife or reincarnation just non-existence is what i believe will happen to me and i want that : tired of working and everything just want to rest , sleep forever .

Why be afraid of the inevitable?

Death is inevitable and will be here in no time all anyway but a natural neath is usually painful so i have to work fast to make a painless fast suicide my way. Another thing besides the inevetability of Death that no one talks about or even realizes is that time passes much much faster than humans realize. This becomes more apparent after age 40 the decades passed by as they were days. You blink and you're old. 100 years from now will be here in no time at all .

 

[Pho3nix]

I'm not scared of death itself since it's inevitable. What scares me is the process of dying and the pain.

 

[Dead beat dad]

The only things that have stopped me from CTB in the past have been 1) the fear of my friends/family getting traumatized and 2) the fear of death. I can't even sleep at night, I'm so afraid of death. Falling asleep to me is like falling asleep in an eternal slumber, even if I know it's just for eight hours. As much as I don't want to exist, the idea of not existing scares me. What happens when we die? No one knows. Do I want an afterlife for me or not? Not even I know the answer to that question.

It's all too much; I think if I learn not to be afraid of death, I'll be one step closer to my goal of snuffing my life off the face of this Earth.

So what is your take on all this? Why or why should one not be afraid of death?

In a nutshell I'm tired of living, but scared of dying. Until one outweighs the other this will be the lamentable misery of it all

 

[ecmnesia]

no. in fact I crave non-existence, the absence of sensations, thoughts and pain.

curiously tho, after years of holding the same beliefs (and I still do) when I finally purchased the items to cbt, when cbt were within my hands reach, the abstract concept finally materialising, even if it was for barely milliseconds (can't really tell cause somehow my perspective of time got distorted) I got scared.

the way my body would look when dead, how'd it decompose reducing me into pieces and gases.
I hold no beliefs whatsoever, no heaven, no hell, no reincarnation. still, on that moment, it scared me to think that maybe, just maybe, there was a 0.0000001% chance that somehow after death I'd be force to regain consciousness somehow, therefore condemned to "exist" with the burden of my final choice. trapped within the void for eternity reliving the memories, somehow constantly aware about the pain I inflicted into others with my choice.

it was nothing but a lapse. a fantasy, (or a nightmare if you will) structured by my own mind perhaps as a survival strategy. none the less that fear crawled into my bones and there it's stays dormant. there is probably no reasoning against it.

 

[Caspers]

I'm not afraid of death and having died once, I don't believe in an afterlife. I am ready to welcome death. As many others, I am afraid of hurting friends/family/my dog

 

[Lilium]

I don't fear death, I just dislike pain.

 

[xLosthopex]

I'm scared of the dying process not so much death itself, I'm an atheist but there are times I get moments of panic, especially now because my ctb date is very soon, where I fear that there is some kind of afterlife because I want there to just be nothing, like after going through all the effort of ctb for there just to be another life after this I'll be pretty fucking pissed!

 

[voyager]

Death itself doesn't scare me. Terror beyond doesn't seem logical to me, and even if there was it's inevitable and we can merely delay it. I see it more as a conlusion to life, possibly a gateway. It could lead to nothingness, but it might very well lead to more considering infinity as a timescale. I'm actually somewhat curious and excited.

What really terrifies me though is failing. The thought of preparing my mind to end this life just to show up here again brings me a lot of unease. The social stigma, the hurt caused, possibly being worse off and unable to try again that's what scares me. I can't shake this feeling that I'm destined to fail or at the very least suffer a complicated passing filled with miserable thoughts.

 

[RottenDeer]

I'm not afraid of death. I am afraid that it comes before I experienced certain things but I'm not afraid of death itself.

 

[gayprince.exe]

Hello, mortuary science student here! Part of my courses is the psychology of funeral service and fear of death comes up very often. I have personally accepted death a long time ago through my own experiences but I know others who have gone through terrible things and are suicidal yet they are afraid of death. It's 100% normal to be afraid of death; I'd be rather disturbed if 99.99% of the people in the world wasn't afraid of death.

I personally stopped caring if I died or not a long time ago. I don't know, something just snapped in me one day and I just no longer view death as this daunting thing in my life. I've lived long enough and gone through enough shit to know that I don't want to live. I've seen what life has to offer for me and the cons significantly outweigh the pros. Death is the only other thing for me and I've just accepted it. I'm not afraid of it and honestly, even as a child, I was never too afraid of it.

 

[Kruger]

No I'm not afraid. I want to get out of this free-range slave farm. However I also want to avoid the reincarnation trap. We are spiritual beings having a human experience - once you ditch the meat suit, you can go home to source. Provided you know about the trap on the other side and the way they trick you into coming back so they can recycle your soul.

 

[Jean Améry]

Of death itself as in being dead? No. In fact I happen to think it's a most desirable thing and certainly preferable to being alive. Consciousness is a disease and the conditio sine qua non (absolute prerequisite) for experiencing any kind of pain and misery.

Of dying? More so although I hope that when the time comes I'll have figured out a way to do it humanely and peacefully. I'm sure that if I could have acess to a substance that was guaranteed lethal and would knock me out before killing me I'd happily ingest it.

 

[KClown]

Its "exist or not exist" for me.

Eternal nothing or 40+ years in the purposeless hell called life. Both are extremely boring, and I already got used to the pain that life brings anyway, I even enjoy it.

So no, I am not afraid to ceace my existance, I worry more about not being able to, and crippling myself in the procces.

 

[woxihuanni]

I am terrified of death, but it is not like I will avoid it if I don't ctb. The only difference is the torture and emptiness between now and later.

 

[Matthias_k]

No.Everybody/everything dies. When I was a kid I spent a few years in a war-torn country. Death was something banal, you could see bodies rotting in the streets. After that, God, afterlife, fear of death etc just seemed like vague and stupid concepts.