Howard

I don't fear death. I just hate the idea that the world can get along without me.

sweep

I am afraid that if and when I get old I will be too weak to cope.

HaysooChreesto!

At times, the thought of death angers me. Had I been born in say 2169 rather than 1969 I would probably be able to live in good health for several hundred years. That of course is assuming that medicine and the understanding of the human body keeps progressing.
In geological time 200 years is about one thousandth of a blink of an eye. It's like I'm running a long race; I'm tired, in pain, emotionally spent, but the finish line keeps getting moved back a little at a time. I can see it, but I can't make it. As I drop from exhaustion and fade away, I can just make out the people who were born two or three generations later than I crossing the finish line. I'm pissed.

Death also scares me, but I don't like to think too deeply about it too often. That can lead to depression for me. That's another thing. I think about my kids growing up and moving out, hoping that I can build myself a custom house, travel, and retire. But I don't think beyond that because I can't. We grow so used to making living decisions...

Evil Milkman

I'm afraid of non-existance.

TiredJim

I'm sure I'd feel very afraid of death if I were currently in a position where it seemed like a likely option. Right now, however, I'm more afraid that I may have just lost my last guitar pick.

elanah

I don't fear death itself, but rather the pain that accompanies some forms of death. What bothers me more is not being around to see what happens next.

When I was younger, I used to be very afraid of death, but now I find I can look at it with some composure. I actually think my becoming a full-fledged infidel has helped me cope with the idea.

triplew00t

I'm still a fledgling infidel, so I fear death greatly, because I am weak in my 'faith' and fear that I may meet a very disgruntled deity. Its almost in my mind a race to find out whats 'right' and true so that I can get the best afterlife, in case there is one. I'm looking for someone to talk to about this, a way to bolster my assurance in being correct. If anyone would be so kind as to talk privately, you can reach me on AIM under the sn "triplew00t" (with zeros) or under the yahoo sn "shootthewigger".

In peace, Nero

Rousseau_CHN

Yes...I fear death.

I have three little children...and I want to be there when they grow up.

So that's why I stopped smoking and drinking.

It is a major turn of event. When I was young, death was an impossiblity. It happens to other people, but not to me. I was invincible. I was immortal. I was young.

Then reality and responsibility hit me. I felt my mortality. I guess that is just how it is when you grow old.

crocodile deathroll

Then again there may no one around of the Earth's population may be a lot less at that era of time (2169), which may way you are looking at a world from a vantage point of this point of time and not then.

Death however surely does scare me, You may ask why, because the part of my brain that causes to to be anxious about death with die with it, but I am still afraid of death.

I think my fear of death is due to my theory about it. My theory speculates the existence of only one so called "soul" and everyone that ever lived or will live is a manifestation of you, and you look around to world, some of people have lived pretty miserable lives. I would surely hate to be living in their shoes. I guess that really scares me, I would hate to be one of Saddam's torture victims, and I would really hate to be another species of animal like a horse not the a horse would know any different. It is just that I have personally witnessed people treating horses very badly, which is why I want to hang on to this life as long as possible, because there are far worse modes of existence. I would just simply really rather just stay dead, but I feel the universe is a whole lot more complex for that.

I don't smoke, do drugs and I am only the occasional social drinker a good premium lager beer. I guess that is a good start.

CDR.