Serious Anyone here suffers from Death Anxiety?

[Powley]

The only fear of death I have is losing a loved one or being responsible for the death of a loved one

As for myself - when it’s my time to go it’s my time to go

 

[Dr Heckyll]

can you ever really know if you really are afraid of death or not until it's about to happen

 

[Cookie_]

I mean I am not really afraid of death. Like you kinda go along with it, knowing people around you will die, you will die etc. It is natural. however I am not really afraid of my own dead. when I die I'm just dead, I don't give a shit, don't look at it like what will the ppl do without you, what will you miss etc. You just won't care when ur dead. And your alter-ego will live in a different uniferve, backing u up.

 

[Sil]

Fearing that which is inevitable is something people will eventually have to come over.
I feel that getting over it as soon as possible is the best solution, because you suffer less.
I know that one day in the future we'll all be dead and no-one will remember us.
I know that one day there won't be a future for people to forget us, because there will be the universe's death.

Death is a door we all have to go through at one point. It just depends how you want to knock.

 

[Dr.Towers]

The brain fears death because it accidentally percieved it as an impending danger, just don't think too much about it and soon you'll calm yourself down eventually.

 

[leonjosland]

Pretty sure this is normal. I mean, the whole idea of death is scary shit. Nobody knows for sure what happens after it. Some would imagine just a black void forever but even that would be 'something' if that makes sense. In all honesty I'd like to think of it as eternal sleep, and nobody gets bored of sleeping, right?

Also heard that when you die your brain releases DMT. Maybe death is just where you trip balls forever.

 

[Spine]

Yeah, I had this before. But, you can't do anything about it really, its something which you cannot control. However, you can choose to remain locked in your bubble and fear death all your life and then wonder later why you wasted so much time protecting yourself or you can just live your life normally. Also the death rate is a lot lower nowadays, especially in civilized nations. I also found it easier to cope with it by believing in a religion...
I'm not saying follow a religious doctrine step by step, but a bit of spirituality didn't hurt anyone.

 

['77 East]

Nothing lasts forever, it's inevitable for everyone.

Easiest way to comes to terms with it is to stop seeing things as "oh shit I only have XX number of years left" and take things a day at a time.

 

[Jer]

Death is another part of life and you've just gotta go with the flow until it reaches that stage, live in the present and try not to think that far ahead

 

[tera]

It happened to me at few points when I couldn't sleep wells. On some nights, I kept thinking about how 20 years of my life has already passed and I wondered about my future from there. I believe in the existence of hell and heaven thus it does cling to me on things like whether have I done enough for myself, for my family, for the world I live in? The amount of good deeds I have done? I'm afraid of death, especially dying young because I feel like I still haven't done enough for the people I care about and I am not even close to any fulfillment of my life. Though, I'll have to learn to accept it if it became my early predicament.

So in the end, just keep doing what you enjoy in life and always do good for others. Don't try to let death creep into your mind because it will cause you to stall in your activities and daily life and certainly takes out the enjoyment of life.

 

[Raiden]

i live in blissful ignorance for I believe I shall never die

 

[Deleted member 93]

Nowadays, I only get slight anxiety over death when I start to think about it too much. A couple of years ago though, I had it real bad. It was really the combination of multiple shit events, my dad's unexpected death, near death encounter when snowboarding, and a seriously traumatic event where the person I was hanging out with one night, dead the same night. My anxiety was really how easy it was to die, and that death can happen at any point. I really only have my mom when it comes to family, dad's side of the family chose money over both of us, and can't talk communicate well with my mom's side. So I go some nights thinking that anything could happen to my mom, and that's it, I've lost it all. I recall one time went out for a job and was running late, so I almost had a breakdown. Cracked my skull snowboarding as well, fucking up really badly on the ramp, which resulted in me passing out, and having a seizure. Then three years ago, was at a house party, and one of the guys who I was hanging out with went off with a group of kids to end the night at another home, found out that morning that whilst intoxicated, he jumped off the balcony, got his foot stuck on the wooden fence, and banged his head onto the floor. The fact that it happened the exact same night, and how easy it all went away just traumatized me immensely, regardless of the fact that I hadn't known him that much at all. After these events, I couldn't bring myself to go snowboarding again, I was just too scared, and I'd be just like you mate, couldn't sleep at night. It's really shit, and it's not simple. It just took time, and not thinking about it at all, doing what I enjoyed, and trying to make the most out of my life. When you die, you will be in peace. One of the things that helped was to not think that death was quite literally nothing, but that it is the unknown, you don't know what it's like until you're there. @Asstr0

 

[Deleted member 1392]

fuck dude, I saw this thread passing by and I'm getting anxious as fuck

holy shit

 

[Cindy]

I'm gonna make a serious reply to this thread in a moment but when I first read this thread's title I thought it said "Anyone here suffers from the Death Penalty?" and I was really confused

 

[Goatson]

I'm gonna make a serious reply to this thread in a moment but when I first read this thread's title I thought it said "Anyone here suffers from the Death Penalty?" and I was really confused

posting from death row fam can we please remove death penalty

 

[dallahan]

been living with severe depression for 7 years until i found a therapist and very slowly got over it, it only really stopped after i got my first girlfriend

during that time ive had too many thoughts of actually wanting to die, fearing to lose loved ones and just to put a stop to it all

even nowadays, with still some depression, but not as severe as a few years back, i get a little bit depressed when i sit infront of the pc doing jack shit

i do fear death, just not as in "lets not go onto road cuz cars", i just dont like physical pain at all, brains all like, i dont mind being hit by a car, just that i hate physical pain

 

[Bronn]

the main thing i fear about death is not knowing what comes after

are we actually dead? is there hell if you were a bad person? stuff like that creeps the shit out me as i usually have extremely negative thoughts about pretty much everything

 

[Cindy]

But yeah no for the longest time I used to be really upset with my life and I was in this weird state where I wanted to die, but was scared of death. Schrodinger's millennial.

I can safely say that I've greatly recovered from that over the last half year or so but the thought still lingers over my head at times. Especially due to the polarized social norms at times. I like to think to myself that I'll never be a victim of violence but its almost everyday I hear stories about dead trans people or violent antisemitic groups to the point that, even if they're just a vocal minority, the thought still does terrify me.

But on most days I adopt the old anecdote: "Here for a good time, not a long time." Am I afraid to die? Definitely, it's natural. There's so much I've yet to do and experience yet in this life. But I'm gonna try and enjoy my life as much as I can, for as long as I can.
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the main thing i fear about death is not knowing what comes after

are we actually dead? is there hell if you were a bad person? stuff like that creeps the shit out me as i usually have extremely negative thoughts about pretty much everything

The topic of after death is such a strange one that I feel its easier to enjoy as much as you can in life so that when such a time comes you can rest easy to not care what comes after.

Cross that bridge when you get to it, not before, you know? Be it nothing, reincarnation or an afterlife, be content with your life to the point that no matter what comes after you'll be satisfied with what came before, and not worry so much about what's next.

Hope that helps.

 

[Baker]

i want my brain in a jar so i can enter the matrix and live forever

thats how i see the future

 

[jarodine]

No, because I am not incel. Plus I believe in an afterlife so I literally can do whatever I want when I die. It's pretty epic