Hell yeah I fear death . I have no desire to die , I like been alive u know . And I am pretty sure I ll be crying like a baby when I ll be given my walking papers from life . For about a day or so . And that's that . Knowing me , probably I ll get over it and facilitate my way to death when it's time to go .
I ll be damned thou if I live my life worrying about my death every day . Nobody escaped that f r . Another reason to " live ". Have fun , do good , and if possible live and be loved . Rest ain't matter .

I have a death sentence hanging over me. Lymphoplasmacytic Lymphoma. (Bloody mouthful). It's been hanging over me for 4 years, and is incurable. So what can any rational person do other than accept it's going to happen.
Meanwhile, carry on enjoying being alive. I don't need religion as a palliative.

Dying but not death. It is one of the sad acts of religion that the mercy of planned death that we can give to suffering animals, is not available to humans. Who, thanks to dogma are forced to endure sometimes nearly endless suffering in the name of so called sacred life.

So far the ride has been great so I certainly have no desire for it to end, yet. Being dead does not scare me. Dieing on the other hand might be painful.

I once was nearly electrocuted. I was unable to get free for a long enough time that I was convinced that I was going to die. My last thought before I got loose was "I hope it doesn't take long". I was not afraid.

When my time comes, I hope I'm walking across one of my fields and ZAP!!! A stray lightning bolts takes me out and leaves nothing but my ashes as fertilizer for the next crop!!

I don't fear death as I'm immortal, but if I'm wrong and I do die it'll be bloody inconvenient

No I am not afraid to die. I just don't want to have to suffer an agonizing death or die before I have declutterd my house or red all the books I have.

i have no idea what most humans, freethinkers, agnostics or atheists think about death, because there is no credo and nothing guaranteed for us to have in common beyond a lack of belief in a deity, or a belief in the lack of deities, or both. i can therefore only say what i feel or think, and i am afraid of dying, and i am annoyed that i won't get to achieve goals i have set for myself before i die. i am also afraid of being ill and in pain (well, more pain; i am already in pain). i am afraid of what will happen to my guy and my pets after i die. afraid of being dead? well, i don't expect i'll know i'm dead, any more than i knew before i born that i was going to exist.

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Death is just non-existence. I didn't exist for billions of years before I was born and I have no complaints during all that time.

It is the how that troubles most people.

Know NO fear.

Personally, I think it's pretty fucking stupid to be afraid of something that
happens to everyone.
I have nothing but contempt for anyone who believes in an afterlife.
Except my aunt. I can't with her. She's too dear to me, and I forgive her
her delusions.
I realize that's a bit of hypocrisy, but it's mine, and I own it.

Death is something I do not fear, but neither is it something I'm actively seeking. Death, like most unpleasant chores, is something I prefer to put off as long as possible.

actually, i think often about just checking out while i'm ahead of the game, relatively speaking.
why wait until it's too late & you're in a hospice laying in your own waste in a vegetative state with relatives uncomfortably hovering around?

I don't fear death being an atheist but it always surprises me when y.mom, a life long Christian, tells me she's scared.

I don't fear anything that's not threatening me at the moment. Whether we call it fear or just an instinct for avoidance, if it was not built into us biologically, our species would not exist. I don't fear Mack Trucks, but curiously, every. single. time. one has headed straight for me, my stupid body has hopped out of its way. Not me, mind you; just my stupid chickenshit body.

I have no fear of death or dying. There has been so much pain already, that the final pain will also not disturb me. My GS knows what to do- keep his hysterical mother (my daughter) away from me during my last minutes. I will slip away smiling while the jukebox in my brain plays the last song. that's the plan.

Being dead doesn't worry me, but the process of getting to that state could be painful. So it's dying that worries me, not death itself.

Well I guess seeing as we believe in nothing we have nothing to fear

I should already be dead. Everyday I get is a bonus.

I've found that in the most critically dangerous situations, fear doesn't set in until the threat is over or you're dead; then it's either pointless or impossible to be scared.

Don't remember dieing before and I'm open to new experiences

Death is like stupidity.Those afflicted are unaware of it but it's those round about that suffer.

Although I do tend to try to avoid death, I don't think I actually fear death. Why worry or fear something that I know is inevitable? Fearing death will only inhibit my life experience, and because I only have the one shot at life, I want to enjoy it.

The Human fear of death is the foundation of all religions.

I don't fear it, its going to happen, i just want to squeeze as much enjoyment as possible from living before i go.

I do not fear death but I fear a painful death. My biggest regrets at death will be my loss of daily "sense of business" that most of us have as a routine. Nothing to you but everything to me, many people build ghost stories on this. I do not believe in ghosts, wholly, holy, or otherwise.