does death scare you and why?

[Whateverist]

Your aversion to complete sentences is as strong as your aversion to discussion.

[Brian37]

i'm actually interested in what you have to say.

Irrelevant question. Both the theist and atheist can be either scared of it or not scared of it. Bravery in the face of it or fear of is in our species evolution. The only difference is that the atheist does not assign those natural reactions to a fictional sky hero.

There are a variety of reasons people react to the thought of that.

I fear prolonged pain. I fear not existing, not because of a fictional hell or fictional punishment. I fear not existing because of all the things I wont be around to feel, like love of family and friends, and a future I will not get to see. But I do not have a fear of myths. I will be dead and their is nothing to fear about our finite existence anymore than I fear my pre birth.

[Mudhammam]

Define existential crisis. There can be so many kinds and some I've experienced personally.

Realization of your own mortality.

Yeah, for sure. That realization shook me to my core. Every now and again, especially if I'm stoned, I'll -feel- death in my bones; I will become absorbed in the thought that not only is being i.e. everything, the "I am", essentially clinging onto itself by a thread, it also all but amounts to an obscure nothing; every moment is a continual loss as much as it is a thirst for more, a struggle for sustenance, that cannot be quenched. In that ever strange and dark place is the closest I come to understanding the rationale of irrationality, that is, the leap called faith, though my intellectual conscience prefers the joy and redemption found in the suffering rather than the vain comfort of self-deception.

[His_Majesty]

i'm actually interested in what you have to say.

It isn't necessarily death that scares me, but everything that comes with it. As a human being I am capable of imagining my own death. Here is what I mean..

If I die at home in my sleep, someone will discover my body. Just the thought of someone finding my lifeless body is disturbing. If no one finds my body for two weeks, my body will decompose. Just the thought of my body decomposing is disturbing. My body will eventually make its way to the morgue. Just the thought of morticians giving my lifeless body an autopsy is disturbing. My family will have to make funeral arrangements. The thought of my family making funeral arrangements for me is disturbing. I will eventually have a funeral, at which I will be mourned by those that love me. Dirt trails, church bells, slow songs, sorrow, crying....the thought of all of this is disturbing.

When you put all of those things mentioned in one big gumbo pot, the entire ordeal is disturbing. That is what I fear.

Now with that being said, being the Christian that I am, I know that there is life after death, and our body is just a temporary holding cell, and after death we will be united with Jesus Christ forever.

[Mudhammam]

Now with that being said, being the Christian that I am, I hope that there is life after death, and our body is just a temporary holding cell, and after death we will be united with Jesus Christ forever.

Don't mind me. Just injecting honesty in there.