Do you fear death? Why or Why not?
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO FEAR DEATH, IF YOU HAVE FAITH IN GOD.
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If you ever read Harry Potter's 6th book, Dumbledore says something really cool about death.\n"It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more." - Dumbledore\n\nand I found this one while looking for the one above. This one is from the first book\n\n"To the well organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." -Dumbledore\n\nIt is only natural to fear death, it is worst for people with christian believes, because some of them, if not most of them believe in hell too, and that is what they fear beyond everything. I don't think there is a hell, and that death is the end of all things. Another great wizard said this about death:\n"The journey doesn't end here, death is just another path, one we all must take". -Gandalf\n\nHope it helps in your little research
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I believe in the supernatural and life beyond death.\nI don't think you should be afraid of all ghosts,just the mean ones.Violent spirits should definitely be feared,but sometimes our loved ones come from beyond as ghosts to tell us something or let us know were not alone.We shouldn't fear them.
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-Yes there should be a moderators for answers. \n- I am afraid of death, because I worry that there will be nothing more.  Like when you go to sleep and dont dream.\n- Yes, if I loved them I wouldnt care.
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perhaps you have not read the three hundred and forty seven times this has been answered, so I will answer it again just for you.\n I do not fear death,\nGod put me here for a purpose and I am not ready to go until he wants me to.\nbesides that i do not enjoy pain.
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I have family members who have passed from it.  I do not live in fear because there is no sense in living in fear of something that you have no control over.  It is a very scary thing... and it saddens me deeply... i think cancer makes me more angry than anything.
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LONG POST.  Skip if want to.   I have been there once.  I am agnostic.  I am not sure how much weight that will carry in helping you but hope my few words might get the thought process in you motorizing.   Just let me talk about my personal experience.\n\nI don't worry abou the afterlife aspect.  I have pretty much made peace (tho, not 100%...more like 85% to 90%) that my soul will rot along with my body.  My soul is made purely of synapses that happen in my brain matter.\n\nYES, I do still wonder at times what death will be like, and how I might die.  Just natural curiosity and a small fear of simply "not existing" anymore.  That fear or wonderment is perfectly natural.   It is not eternal bliss or eternal damnation or reincarnation that I look forward to to establish my selfish "immortality".  (Imo, it is selfish to me)\n\nI am of the belief that it's the HERE and NOW that matters so much.  I am thinking that my self-assigned purpose is to affect as many people as I can during my --and ours-- lifetime as possible.   I have made others laugh, learn to respect humanity's differences, to be more compassionate.  I attritube some of that success to my being deaf.  In turn, perhaps SOME of them might teach others --their children?-- what they learned.   THAT is my "immortality", Heron.  THAT is my "eternal bliss".  I know in my heart and head that SOME people actually passed it on to their loved ones about being compassionate.  \n\nHeron, Love, I have already had a hard childhood and a hard life.  Part of me is actually looking forward to death as the final escape and a welcome relief from my pains and sorrows of this life.  When I am OLD, when I am OLD!!!!!  :-p  I don't want to committ suicide!  :-p  Relax, peeps!  ;-)\n\nI am also no longer as afraid of simply blinking out of existence.  It's inevitable.  The future that Star Trek espouses, I so badly want to be there, but know I may not live to see it.  I accept that reality.  I just turn my fear of the non-existence into a focus on the HERE and NOW.  I just gape in wonderment of TODAY's science and my imagination SOARS on where it may lead......\n\nA smile at a sad child at Tim Horton's can brighten her whole day.  Years later, when Child is a old woman, she may remember this friendly stranger with the loving smile long after I turned to dust.  In turn, she may return the favor to another sad child she sees at a restaurant.  It's the MEMORY of me that I know will establish my "immortality".  I am hoping in the future, my second cousins or future unborn nieces/nephews will take my poetry (1,000+ already!) and try to publish some of them.  That is also my hope for immortality---just like my beloved poet, Emily Dickinson.\n\nCivilizations come and go.  A thousand years hence, our civilization may not be here anymore.  Religions may no longer exist.   We will no longer be remembered excepting for our own pottery and "ancient items".   Heron, my love, everything comes to an end, just as everything has a beginning.   Both the good and the bad.\n\nWhat is important is to accept your fear as natural....and to gain courage from that fear to take a leap where this may lead you.  All people of faith go through this.  Who knows, Heron, I may "return" to Wicca in the future.  Or be drawn to another religion.  Unpredictability is the magic of life.  :-)   The sooner I accepted that reality, the less I was afraid.  \n\nI was wiccan.  I believed in some of the gods/goddesses.  One day, I was doing the Full Moon ritual.  A thought just popped up out of nowhere that kind of shocked me----"If you are not getting anything out of this praying, hon, STOP doing it.  You are disrespecting the "god" if you pray and don't feel anything out of it!"    After that, I stopped if I felt it would be a "hollow ritual", void of feeling.  Eventually I had to question my wiccan
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honestly,i dont really fear anything.because one day or the other i am surely gonna die,and thats the worst thing that can happen with somebody.i still have a lurking fear to be betrayed by anyone close.
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twolilangels0,\n\nI appreciate the question. It is unique for Yahoo! Answers. Most questions are pretty predictable.\n\nThe truth is Christians should never stay afraid. There are situations that everyone is afraid. That's why so many people are saved in "foxholes." Death, danger or the threat of death brings fear to all. A lot of people on those planes flying into the World Trade Center and a lot of people inside the buildings were trying to make hasty preparations to meet God.\n\nA Christian overcomes fear. Anyone who will live for Jesus will die for Jesus. Death is a promotion and not to be feared. I would like to stay around this earth a long time and influence as many people as possible to choose the life that I have found, but truthfully sometimes I feel like I can’t wait to see Jesus.\n\nThere are also many Christians who worry or fear life's unfolding circumstances. They see their problems and challenges are huge. They forget, hopefully temporarily, how big God is. It's just a matter of perspective.\n\nGod bless.
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i am very scared of dying,im 27 and every birthday i make the most of it,i do something over the top then if anything happens to me they will never forget me.im also scared of being in my own with my kids ,if anything happened to my partner,well it doesnt bare thinking about
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Death is neither a good or bad thing. It just comes without asking?\n\n\nDeath has always been the most dreaded factor of life for any living being. It is not only the humans who are afraid of death... animals and other forms of life also feel the same!\n\nWhat makes death the most fearful of all attributes of God? There is none who can defy death. It is only after gaining self realization and enlightenment that one becomes immortal. It is this stage when the fear of death vanishes for ever. Every God realized Master and an enlightened individual finally overcomes death.\n\nWhat is to death that is feared about most? Death announces the end of the physical manifested journey on Mother Earth. Whatever be the achievements of an individual in any phase of life... be it the form of an insect, animal or the human being himself... all seems to have gone wasted!\n\n\nAfter the death of the body... none remembers what the next manifestation would be! For the present being all is lost after the death of the body. The entity for which it lived all through in the present life seems to be lost forever the moment the death of the body occurs.\n\nThe achievements in the present life... do they carry no value. Why does not God Almighty show mercy on human beings and increase their life span proportionate to their achievements in the physical manifested life.\n\nIt is a remote possibility that such an arrangement may have worked. Probably God Almighty did not have able advisers. People of the level of Edison and Einstein may have continued living for thousands of years. In doing so they would have immensely benefited the mankind and for God there was nothing to lose. But so was not destined by God. Why?\n\n\nWhy is it so that death makes an uninteresting subject! We may have labored for a full 30~35 years... the primetime of our life having spent in creating an enormous wealth. But when comes the time for death of the body... All shall be left behind. Why?\n\nIn the system of God... nothing seems to be disordered or incomplete. Stephen Hawking in his book "a Brief History of Time" has advocated that the system of God is disordered at some stage. He is absolutely in the wrong. He is trying to place his judgments based on science. There are many factors in the field of spirituality which are purely based upon faith.\n\nThe conclusions of Stephen Hawking were wrong for the complete cosmic system is without a parallel. It has no flaws... such a phenomenon can never be! Everything in the whole of Cosmos is governed by laws which are a creation of the Creator himself.\n\n\nIf death was designed by God as it stands today... then how can it be that the achievements of an individual in a particular life remained unpaid? The balance of the whole of Cosmos would get disturbed on this account. The law of karma was primarily created by God to maintain this aspect of life.\n\nIt is the doctrine of karma which makes the achievements of one life carried forward to the next manifestation. It is through the chromosomes that whatever has been achieved by one in the present life shall get automatically transferred to next life.\n\nTalking of death, near death experiences, sudden death and subjects like life and death... science has a very limited role to play for it is only the parameter of faith which shall lay bare the doors of wisdom for us. Never as a scientist can one enter the domain of God.\n\n\nEinstein in his fag end of life when he was nearing death realized the importance of having faith in the system of God. It was too late by then. He regretted not having indulged into reading Bhagvad Gita... the foremost of all sacred Scriptures existing on Mother Earth. He realized his folly that standing on the platform of science... talking of spirituality carried no sense.\n\nStanding on the 30th floor of Empire State building one cannot have a glimpse of the entire New York as it would appear if one was standing on the top of the building. To have a
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No, I am not really afraid of death.  I do not want to die anytime soon because I feel I have a purpose to achieve before I go, but when my times comes I'll be at rest from all the qualms of this world until my Day of Judgement.
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Some comfort for you..... No matter how amazing life is here, it is nothing compared to how wonderfuly awesome heaven will be.\n\nMy christian friend believes Dejavu is God way of telling you that your in the right place at the right time. And dreaming you will die doesn't mean anything. My mom dreamt for years she was shot to death, and she's still here.\n\nAnd what scares you more, being dead, or how you will die? Im not afraid of being dead, I know heaven is more than I can ever imagine, but I am afraid of how and when I will die. For that, I give it to God, trusting his perfect plan for my life, and his will, is better than my own, and with trust comes comfort. Good Luck to you.
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Neither.  I choose not to live my life in fear, and there is nothing to fear in death, since death is enivitable.
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It's because of the fear of death.
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Death is always saddest for the survivors ... I don't fear death BUT I am not ready to die yet either.
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No why live in fear of death when you can live in celebration of life. It is a choice and I know what I prefer.