Are you afraid of death? Why?

[Ioneliness]

I was looking at threads of people discussing what happens after we die and didn't relate at all. I saw one comment saying you could start life over like a video game, lol. What else could wait for us after life but non-existence/nothingness?. Do other animals think there is some afterlife that exists if they practice morals that were simply just made up? There has been millions of years when everyone reading this didn't exist. We literally have people who have survived near death experiences say that they felt nothing, like they are at peace. The answer is obvious to me. I guess my life is so dull and empty that I don't really have anything to lose, so thats why im not scared-but I honestly feel like there is no other rational way to think about death.

 

[tonicer]

I'm not scared of reincarnation or nothingness i am just afraid of the pain. That's why my preferred methods are so quick i won't notice anything. Methods like getting crushed by a shipping container for example.

 

[Captive_Mind515]

I'm not scared of reincarnation or nothingness i am just afraid of the pain. That's why my preferred methods are so quick i won't notice anything. Methods like getting crushed by a shipping container for example.

Is there a megathread on the shipping container method?

 

[3rdworldsadness]

I don't afraid of death or the pain it will take, I afraid what if I didn't die and survive? Becoming a vegetable? I live with abusive people I fear them mostly, and they will most probably throw me away in the dirty street if I become a vegetable that's what I fear the most. Surviving. Death sounds like a hug to me, and a mercy upon life.

 

[ravendrops]

death can't be worse than life

 

[franos666]

I don't believe in the afterlife and I think that the most probably scenario after we die is just nothigness when you don't feel anything because your brain stops fuctioning and it's responsible for thought process.

Concept of hell and heaven doesn't make sense for me because I don't think there is a free will among humans. We are simply determined by factors beyond our control like genes, environment, culture so God would have to sentence people to eternity in pain based on actions that weren't in their control.
Reincarnation would be slighty more reliable but still very unlikely because lack of any proof for that

 

[burninghill]

I'm not scared of pain or the process of dying, but I am scared of what happens after. I don't want there to be nothing after because I'm a person who doesn't hate the world or living, I just don't think that the person I am right now is suited for it.

I sort of hope it's like a video game. I disappear for a moment and then come back as someone new.

 

[E4syW3y0u7]

I'm scared of death because i'm wired to be afraid of it, even if i say i'm not. The old lizzie brain pulls me back to the most basic instinct : survive. I wish i could bypass it.

 

[tooafraidtodiez]

Death is not scary to me. The process to achieve death or what might happen after it is what scares me. I hate the idea of both eternal torture and reincarnation. I hope if reincarnation exist then we can't be reincarnated as animal, as it'd suck to get reincarnated as a farm animal and get slaughtered.

 

[tonicer]

Is there a megathread on the shipping container method?

Nah but i saw a couple of videos from china and india on 4chan a while ago of people getting smushed by those things. There's once minced meat left a second later.

 

[hopefullysoon]

Death is not scary to me. The process to achieve death or what might happen after it is what scares me. I hate the idea of both eternal torture and reincarnation. I hope if reincarnation exist then we can't be reincarnated as animal, as it'd suck to get reincarnated as a farm animal and get slaughtered.

What is your favourite show?

 

[pthnrdnojvsc]

I'm not afraid of Death.

Death is Non-existence forever . we've experienced non-existence before we were born.

When you don't exist you can't suffer pain that is so bad it's a billion times worse than you can imagine. you can't fall into a hell a trillion times worse than the worst you can imagine if you don't exist . but while alive you certainly can suffer to such horrible extents and beyond.

this is just one reason i don't fear Death but i do fear being alive . but imo they seem to have most people believing the exact oppossite. and this is just one thing out of millions .

1 micro-second after my brain dies i will cease to exist and never exist again. all my problems will be solved instantly and foreever. never will i suffer, feel unbearable pain, have problems , bad memories, 1000 other horrible things in this evil life and evil world.

I don't see why i or anyone should fear Death , no suffering , no pain , no problems no bad memories. instead they have everyone thinking they love something that can torture a human or animal extremely

 

[lillmonix3]

No, I'm not afraid of death; I'm afraid of surviving. And of what will happen after that. I'm also afraid of how my decision will affect my parents. Although things are getting so much worse right now that very little bothers me anymore

 

[volo]

Not at all, but I fear a risk of failing to ctb and permanent bodily damage/ involuntary hospitalization as a consequence, and a pain that methods available to me, can/will inflict.

 

[egegeg444]

No, because in my opinion you shouldn't fear the inevitable.

 

[Sedfrg]

To understand concepts such as reincarnation, hell, or heaven, we are forced to introduce the concept of the "soul," which ensures the continuity of subjective experience; however, in reality, this raises serious doubts. For example, under the influence of trauma or illness, a person undergoes irreversible changes in personality, and the question arises: where has that part of their "soul" gone? This leads to three possibilities: the soul does not exist; the soul exists, but is not the source of those traits we consider to be "ourselves" (this is closer to Eastern religion); or the soul exists independently of the body (currently, there are neither waves nor particles capable of realizing anything like this, let alone a constant exchange. Hypothetically, such elements do not even have a place to exist based on known baryonic matter) - in any case, the continuation of subjective experience is impossible. The concept of "nothingness" is also interesting in and of itself precisely because of the absence of any characteristics; we know the scenarios by which our universe will end, but our tools for structuring chaos have limits beyond which we cannot see, so ruling out any possibility 100% would be a false assumption. This is not about theories of quantum immortality, the Boltzmann brain, or the multiverse; even these theories remain merely theories and deny the continuation of subjective experience, but rather about the unknown dynamics of infinity. Given this uncertainty from both a scientific and a religious perspective, the "nothing" option is the best possible one.

 

[Forveleth]

I do not fear death at all. I see it as a relief from suffering and also the natural end to life. I may have been somewhat lucky in being exposed to death very early on in life and quite frequently with frequent deaths of relatives.

 

[AltercatingVoices]

Personally wouldn't be scared of the pain or process as that's only temporary, but very much so of death itself. Knowing all my memories, experiences, etc. will all be forgotten is terrifying even if it is inevitable. Rational though? Probably not

 

[lonergirl_26]

I think the fear of death and what comes after is part of the human experience.

I personally aren't afraid of either. I'm way more scared of the actual doing part rather than the dying and after part.