being atheist or agnostic we know that chriatainality and angels and demons gods and devils and most likely an afterlife are all just wishful thinking. seeing as we know that death is indeed the end for us does that idea frightend you ? what are your thoughts on death ? personaly i gotta admitt it scares me . i know there is nothing i can do to avoid it . im so sad when a relative dies knowing ill never see them again. and this is why i think so many people wanna believe in a god and heaven. we want so badly to believe us and our loved ones will live on that many do so just to comfort themselfs. your thoughts ?
I'm not terrified of death at all I would actually embrace it. You can't control that part of life.
I find the prospect of nothingness kind of comforting. An afterlife seems like a lot of pressure. I don't want to die, I don't look forward to the process or to an early death, but I'm not afraid of the eventuality.
Yeah I fear death a little bit, it might hurt, be prolonged, messy, distressing to others, etc.
I don't in the least bit fear being dead though.
Non-existence wasn't a problem for me during the billions of years before I existed, I have no reason to think it will be different after my existence.
I was afraid of dying when I was younger and being raised in a very violent home. once I got out of that and grew up the fear got less. I think I'm not afraid to die, but I'm terrified of getting ill and lingering. I'm hoping I go in my sleep or suddenly somehow. Other than suffering, my biggest fear is the hurt my death will cause my children ,especially my daughter who will struggle emotionally when I'm gone. But the absolute worst fear is that I will outlive my children. That will cause me to want to die as soon as possible.
I am not afraid of being dead but I wish for a sudden and painless death. I am afraid of prolonged suffering.
It never even occurred to me about seeing others in heaven as heaven is such a ridiculous idea to me. Atheist from day one...
I think I've pondered this question for most of my life, and while I was younger I did not fear death, I do now. I guess what I really fear is not being remembered. That's the only thing I know I have any control over, and yet I sometimes feel I don't.
While I have rejected almost all forms of religious or superstitious thinking on the matter, I do take comfort in the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, which states basically that energy cannot be destroyed, it merely changes form. Atoms act like data bits, and live on to be combined with other atoms. Is this an afterlife? I don't know, and I don't think anyone can say for sure.
I'm (usually) not looking forward to it, but I wouldn't say afraid. To paraphrase Twain, I was non-existent for billions of years before my birth & it doesn't seem to have bothered me at all, I figure the same will happen after death. I surely don't want a painful, protracted death, which is why I believe in Death with Dignity & think it is something which is a basic human right. I do agree that fear of death is probably one of religions biggest drivers & attractions, I just don't happen to believe wishful thinking is productive.
We don't know everything. This scientific theory that energy cannot be created or destroyed only transformed comes to mind.
Sure, & we know most of those transformations at death. The breakdown of your cells, the biota present in your body being "set loose", outside buggies looking for a new food source. But, without a brain, how does the "energy" of your "personality" cohere? I don't subscribe to dualism or the concept of a "soul". & the amount of energy involved in the brain/mind is minimal, very easy to just dissapate.
@phxbillcee Does anyone fully understand consciousness? We know a sperm inseminated an egg and grew you and you are conscious. I say you are conscious because you seem to be responding to stimuli. Can we definitively say where consciousness begins and ends or is it possible that consciousness exists before and beyond it is observable?
Nothing cannot exist. without nothing been false by you knowing something and not nothing. Nothing is forever literally. I believe in nothing prove nothing without proving anything and I will believe you. You bare witness to your own individual.
Even a eternity of nothing would pass in a instant without you there to know about it. All but nothing is possible within infinite time.
Believe what you want just don't define the impossible and think you know Truth by knowing nothing since you know something and not
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Nothing cannot exist. without nothing been false by you knowing something and not nothing. Nothing is forever literally. I believe in nothing prove nothing without proving anything and I will believe you. You bare witness to your own individual.
Even a eternity of nothing would pass in a instant without you there to know about it. All but nothing is possible within infinite time.
Believe what you want just don't define the impossible and think you know Truth by knowing nothing since you know something and not
Not scared of death. I don't like the idea of it, but there is nothing I can do about it.
I kind of look at it a bit like I look at the time before I was born - it didn't hurt and I didn't miss it.
No. Living with these christian asses prepares one for death daily. They also think if you have enough money (at least here in Waco) you can buy immortality. The rich people go to Germany and other countries trying to find a "fountain of youth" or cure for their old age.
Haha, I'm from Germany, but missed that fountain. Tell me when anyone found it.
Death is one of the things I am NOT afraid of. I am afraid of falling (from great heights), I am afraid of drowning, I am afraid of sharks, some snakes and spiders, and I am afraid of being permanently mentally or physically incapacitated, but I am not afraid of death; when you're dead you're dead and that's that. Of course I would prefer a painless death, but there's no guarantee of that. The concept of heaven and hell never did make any sense to me, even when I was a "believer", but then again I'm not so sure I ever did really believe in a god. So short answer: no, I am not afraid of death.
There are things in life that are worse than death. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm afraid of living several years paralyzed from the neck down. I'm afraid of losing my mind and running around urinating and defecating on everything and everyone. There are some other medical conditions I fear, but I don't fear death for myself. I know it will be hard on my family, and I feel sorry for what they will go through, but there's nothing I can do about so I accept it.
Others have speculated on what they think death will be like. I think it will be like being on propofol. You're conscious and then you're not.
I think about this quite often. Perhaps too much. I certainly feared death when I had a heart attack a little over a year ago. Before that, Death was just a word on a page. I think it was mainly terror of never having been in a hospital as a patient before. That and the fear of my family finding my porn collection and various other "accoutrements". It was kind of like my worst nightmare come to life and had no control over it.
Now, since then, I've had a "Leaving Las Vegas" experience that I somehow made it back from. I truly wasn't coming back - I was gone. But my dad convinced me to come back home and be there for my kids. So I did. But I REALLY wanted to die back then. (my wife asked for a divorce, my dog died, money stress, work stress and a car accident didn't help my already tenuous state of mind) Now, I'm kind of quietly amused by it all.
Seeing how organized religion flourishes by selling the scam of "eternal life" in heaven just pisses me off to no end. And as far as I'm concerned, when I die I won't even know I'm dead. I'll just be dead. No consciousness. So it's all just a big cosmic "wet fart" amusement park ride. Fine then, I'll enjoy myself as much as I can on the journey. Because when it's over...it's effin' over. IMHO.
Not afraid of death just afraid of my children being taken care of when I die