Are religious people really afraid of death?

[purplepurpose]

Jesus is Hot, that's why.

[Mister Agenda]

Hmm. I'm afraid of dying painfully and before I've done as much of the stuff I want to do as I want. I'm not afraid of being dead, since I don't believe I will be there for that part, I expect I'll be extinguished like a burnt-out light bulb. It's only if I believe that there IS an afterlife that being dead becomes problematic. Will I meet the minimum qualifications to enter heaven, they're a little vague, despite how authoritatively some preachers list them out? If I do make heaven, will it be as good as it's cracked up to be? Even if I like it, will I still be able to stand it after a trillion years? Will I still really be me if my loved ones who didn't make it don't trouble me? If 'ghosthood' a possibility? Maybe I watch over my descendants, as long as they remember me.

Really, an afterlife opens up SUCH a can of worms, I think it may be more comforting to think there isn't one.

[Mystic]

Do religious people really think life would be meaningless if death was the end?

I am sure it is meaningless without God.

[purplepurpose]

Do religious people really think life would be meaningless if death was the end?

I am sure it is meaningless without God.

Women, money, career as a gangsta rapper? Aren't those things fulfill life?

[Mystic]

I am sure it is meaningless without God.

Women, money, career as a gangsta rapper? Aren't those things fulfill life?

Not without God.

[purplepurpose]

Women, money, career as a gangsta rapper? Aren't those things fulfill life?

Not without God.

Why do you want to live forever with God?

[johan]

I am sure it is meaningless without God.

You are incorrect. My life is chock full of meaning. No god though. Not one bit of god in it. None nada zip.

[zebo-the-fat]

As an atheist, I have no fear of death, the process of dying is another matter though!
Since you can only be alive or dead, 100 years ago I was not alive, so I must have been dead... didn't hurt at all!

[LadyForCamus]

I think everyone is, if they think about it at all.  

I don't think they cling to their bibles for fear of death, as reassuring as it seems to atheists to think that.  As an ex-theist, it wasn't one of my motivating factors to hang on.  It's just easier to believe what you are already believing than to question the very pillars of your being.  That's basically why people in general hang on to any belief, religious or not.

I think most people are, but not all. I've never feared death, even when I was healthy. Now that I'm very ill, it can't come quick enough as far as I'm concerned.

Oh, Rob. 😞   It hurts my heart to hear you talk like that.

[WinterHold]

Life's quality is a relative thing: while Randy is healthy and living a rich life, Sandy has multiple sclerosis and living a poor life.

It's very wise to put ourselves in other peoples' shoes; if we did that we discover that life is very different from one person to the other.

I will try to answer your question by asking you to put yourself in the shoes of a person sick with a chronic disease. Did the whole picture become clearer?