interesting thread
i do agree that fear of death and fear of dying are 2 diffrent things.
i don't fear death- what i do fear, is sudden death.
i'm not talking about going to sleep 1 night and not waking up the next morning, i'm talking about- reaching over to pick up something, or watching a movie, and then all of a sudden i could be dead.. reach across and pick up a cd, and die before you have a chance to pull your hand back- it's a strange fear, but 1 i've had for a long time
i think the reason i don't fear death itself, is partly from watching now is good- they described death pretty well.. you drift in and out of conciousness, and then you just don't come back- and that provides me comfort (i watch that sceen again and again, and i'm comforted by it)
i think dying.. well, it's something i want (in the form of suicide), and have tried to take my life several times.
i don't think their's a reason to fear dying, it's part of the cycle after all.. you're born, you live, you die.
i won't go in to it too much, but i also believe in some kind of afterlife (another comforting thought, at least for me) that their has to be a better place than this
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