What exactly scares you about death?

[Busticket]

First let me say that I don't believe in any kind of afterlife.
Nor do I believe we have a "soul".
I believe we are strictly physical beings and our conciousness comes from our physical brain.

So for me what is scary about death is that the moment i'm dead, that's it.
My consciousness is gone forever.
I will never experience or see, hear, smell, taste, touch anything ever again.

 

[Symbiote]

The expectation that my wife will not be able to live a fulfilling and happy life, even though as mean as she is with me, I think she be lost without me even though it doesn't seem so.

 

[FuneralCry]

Nothing scares me about death itself. I believe there is nothing after this life, just eternal nothingness, meaning there is permanent peace. The thought of no longer being conscious comforts me, I see consciousness as a prison. I am scared of ctb though because I am worried about failing an attempt and there is always survival instinct to get in the way. Living this life is the true scary thing though.

 

[AloeGarten]

mentally, i believe im ready to die, im just scared of how badly it might affect my parents/family. there are people that dont get over things like that and the thought scares me :/, i dont wanna be responsible for that, they dont deserve it

 

[WornOutLife]

The only things that scares me about death, "not existing" in other words, is leaving my dad alone and destroying his life. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

[lanax09]

It may sound sort of narcissistic but I sort of want to see what happens after my death, both in general terms and as in how people in my life would react to knowing I died. I'm not necessarily scared to be gone but I wish I could be told everything that will happen upon my death before fading into nothingness. I'm also scared that my grandmother who's very frail and loving would most likely die if I ctb.

 

[BlankUser]

I'm not afraid of what happens after death. I know I will be a fish food or a worm food lol. The thing that scares me is the process of dying, and the fear of failure.

 

[Downbylife]

The eternal nothingness and the feeling that I will feel nothing (neither good or bad emotions). literally live is pointless but it's still scares the shit out of me, even the thought of non existing

 

[Pen>Sword]

I may be an outlier on this heavily agnostic or atheistic forum, but to answer your question, I'm afraid of hell. Being raised in a Catholic household I believe in afterlife that's consists of three things: Heaven, purgatory, and hell.

 

[Dr Iron Arc]

I'm not afraid at all because even if there is an afterlife, it won't be heaven or hell in the traditional sense because that's already a flawed design. Sending humans to hell just because they live less than a perfect life is unfair, cruel, and doesn't take into account the vast complexities of civilization. If there really is an omnipotent Sky leader then he should know that The Good Place already designed a better afterlife (in the finale) for him and he should take that idea because it gives everyone a chance to actually get into Heaven but they can also eventually choose to leave existence entirely in a peaceful and dignified way.

I guess my only real fear about death is people finding out my porn habits.

 

[NormaJeane]

First let me say that I don't believe in any kind of afterlife.
Nor do I believe we have a "soul".
I believe we are strictly physical beings and our conciousness comes from our physical brain.

So for me what is scary about death is that the moment i'm dead, that's it.
My consciousness is gone forever.
I will never experience or see, hear, smell, taste, touch anything ever again.

Nothing scares me about death, death is a part of life and death is the end of everything. We are all going to die so why should someone who is alone think about other people, I have to think about myself first and my own suffering, I have the right to decide over my own life. Only a failed suicide attempt scares me and that is why I am still alive.

 

[Beachedwhale]

But just as we did not exist before our birth, could it not be that we exist again after death? That is kind of what scares me. What if I get born into a worse life than this one? I think I would have to have really exhausted all options for a good life and really feel completely hopeless in order to ctb. But the urge to ctb right here right now is still there..

 

[motel rooms]

So for me what is scary about death is that the moment i'm dead, that's it.
My consciousness is gone forever.
I will never experience or see, hear, smell, taste, touch anything ever again.

For me, that's exactly what's so appealing about death

 

[JustAnumber]

I'm more afraid of living then I am dying. Just the process of making death happen is a lot harder then people think it is.

 

[poisonedminds]

The only thing part of death that scares me is hurting my family.

 

[azazel_djinn]

My practical concern would be the aftermath of my ctb. How will they clean it up? How will they notify my family? I feel terrible about causing inconvenience to other people especially the ones I love.

My geeky concern would be whether there is consciousness after life. I tend to believe there is none because of Occam's razor: both Eternal oblivion and after life is possible, but oblivion is the simpler answer so it's probably the right one. I personally prefer oblivion because there would be no suffering of any kind.

However, recently I've been really bothered by the idea of quantum immortality. It's basically saying that since you don't have consciousness after death, so there is no way for you to observe this state, so death must not exist in your subjective reality, which is a paradox.

For example, even if you pass out for days, it's just a blink of an eye when you wake up: like it never happened! So the coma (like death) does not exist to you.

Even though it's likely just a pseudo science idea, but it really drives me nuts. I hope some one can help me see the fallacy of this thing...

 

[Bagger]

Process of dying, and the unknown that lies beyond. All cards would be thrown on the table then. What-ifs. If this is a simulation of some sort? And i would be thrown into worse version of it because of my decision? Stuff like that is scaring me, and i'm the science oriented guy. I should shrug it off easily, but... i can't.

 

[motel rooms]

If this is a simulation of some sort? And i would be thrown into worse version of it because of my decision?

Why couldn't you end up in a better version of it? Maybe people who ctb are rewarded for their courageous, intelligent decision

 

[Bagger]

Dunno. Maybe because in this version all my good deeds were rewarded only with the shit to the face, and pessimism is the only thing im familiar with

 

[motel rooms]

Dunno. Maybe because in this version all my good deeds were rewarded only with the shit to the face, and pessimism is the only thing im familiar with

Or you're more infected with silly Christian superstition than you thought...

 

[Bagger]

There are hits, and there are misses bro. This one missed badly. If there is any religion-oriented infestation in my mind, it's the Summerian stuff from where whole Christianity bullshit originated.

 

[LONE WOLF.]

Death. I'm going to wedgie that bony bastard!!!

 

[motel rooms]

There are hits, and there are misses bro. This one missed badly. If there is any religion-oriented infestation in my mind, it's the Summerian stuff from where whole Christianity bullshit originated.

There's no hell in Judaism/Old Testament. The Sumerians didn't believe in it either

 

[Bagger]

Yes, and that is exactly my point. I never talked about any hell, you do. I talked about what ifs, what if this is just simulation and after my death there would be another round, based on my decisions. I don't know if suicide is good decision or not. I don't know if this is simulation or not. I'm scared of the unknown, and that's about it.

 

[motel rooms]

Yes, and that is exactly my point. I never talked about any hell, you do. I talked about what ifs, what if this is just simulation and after my death there would be another round, based on my decisions.

My point was that your fear of ending up in a worse version of the simulation due to your decision to ctb is very similar to the fear that Christians have that they will end up in hell if they off themselves. I'm glad you're not religious, I didn't mean to offend you by implying that you were

 

[Xaxysh]

i'm scared my mother will kill herself too
she's abusive, but something makes me scared about her death.

 

[Sprite_Geist]

Failing to reach it and surviving, but crippled.

 

[logan]

I think it's like in physics: energy can't be created or disappear.
Whether we are born again in some form I don't know - I think it is at least possible.

 

[Soulless Angel]

what scares me about death is getting old, we all die yes, but getting old and my body going games up, but society being the dick it is, trying to forceably bring you back as they claim its not your time yet or some other bull shit.
I don't want to grow old, I see no point in life when life is just existing with no meaning or sense, death doesn't scare me, people and life does

 

[motel rooms]

This is real scary

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