I'm not afraid of death itself but I am concerned about the dying part. It all depends on how you go. It's the people I will leave behind that concerns me more. I don't know if there is anything after this life but if there is then it will be beautiful, if not then I won't know anything about it so either way it's nothing to be scared of.

For now I will live my life and enjoy it without worrying about what may or may not be because it's more than likely the only chance I'll ever get.

no, but my body is.

i am afraid of losing touch with this perspective, if afraid is the right word.

but it is the same sort of fear you have in a dream where you have too many things to do, you forgot to do your homework, you forgot to wear pants, you forgot where you left the baby... an exhilarating terror, like the first great hill on a roller-coaster. but then, suddenly it fades away and it no longer matters, because you wake up from the dream.
so what if you only replace one dream for another? that only makes things better..

I think it's really interesting to find that most of the posts I read where people saying they were not, I would imagine the general censuses to be yes

I'm not afraid of dying, or what happens afterward. The only thing I am somewhat afraid of is when it will happen, I would hate to die before I got to experience what I wish to on this earth. I told my mom, "I wish I could see the future so I could know when I would die so I could stop thinking about it and live my life in it's entirety before then." She said, "No, you would just try to avoid that moment to live longer." I don't think I would to be honet, but I can see where she'd get that idea from.

When you die, you simply stop seeing the Illusion, which is everything you see
around you right now. This is not you and you are not it, and, this place, is not
real.

Originally posted by awareness10
When you die, you simply stop seeing the Illusion, which is everything you see
around you right now. This is not you and you are not it, and, this place, is not
real.

Hey. I'm interested in what you think "life as we know it" really is. The illusion, Do you think it's a religious thing? Leaders of the world hiding the truth, or Matrix type thing? I've heard people mention before they think life is an illusion and our eyes will truly be open when we pass, but was never able to go into much detail with them.

Originally posted by awareness10
When you die, you simply stop seeing the Illusion, which is everything you see
around you right now. This is not you and you are not it, and, this place, is not
real.

Absolutely positively correct. Whats beyond does not even pale in comparison to this illusion. We know what we have created in our minds. Through death you leave your mind, theres no longer any thinking to do, just to 'be'.

Originally posted by ka119

Originally posted by awareness10
When you die, you simply stop seeing the Illusion, which is everything you see
around you right now. This is not you and you are not it, and, this place, is not
real.

Absolutely positively correct. Whats beyond does not even pale in comparison to this illusion. We know what we have created in our minds. Through death you leave your mind, theres no longer any thinking to do, just to 'be'.

It could never compare to here no, i just can't wait till the illusion fades.

I've already died once and that was quite the experience. Do I want to permanently die? No.
Do I have to? Yes.

so there is nothing to fear as it would be illogical. Some people are more afraid to live but don't realize their time on this planet is short. If not an accident, a contaminent, if not that then old age eventually.

Personally i'd like to go doing something heroic and preferrably if not death by old age, then under 35 sometime so as not to drag out my life for too long.

LOL.

I am afraid of death. It's not so much what comes after death, it's the process itself. My body seems (from what I have experienced and observed) to want to continue functioning. I have an immune system to fight off disease, when I get cut I heal, broken bones are mended, and there are parts of my brain dedicated to breathing and pumping blood.

What scares me is the fact that one day all of this will stop. My body will be unable to sustain itself... how is that going to feel? If I stop breathing eventually my body demands air. I HAVE to start breathing again. Is that what death is like, something inside you desperate to stay alive even though it's efforts are fruitless?

It's just scary to think about to me... but it's inescapable. I am going to die. One day I will experience death.

...and then I'll see just how scary the experience is.

Regardless fearing the inevitable is a waste of energy in any light, might as well fear the sun rising tomorrow.

DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so,
For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee,
Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow,
And soonest our best men with thee doe goe,
Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie.
Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell,
And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then;
One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

I have no fear of death, but that is not to say I seek it.

There is faith which is establishing your behavior streams on what has not been seen, but informed about. Then there is Presence which is immeasurably beyond faith, past all religions. It will be like walking through a Door which I already fight to "look" away from every waking moment. Because it is the Door.

Hmmm I don't know I guess I'm not exactly scared of death I mean I'm sure everyone has a healthy curiosity about it, although in saying that I'm still kinda young so hopefully I won't be finding out anytime soon

As for after death I have a few views and I am not really part of any particular religion so I have a few funny theories but I kind of believe in reincarnation in the way of being reborn as another person after death. I also had a thought that what if there is a heaven but it's kind of like another world and when you die and go there you have another life up there and then when you die there you start another new life back here?
Another thing I thought of was what if there are millions of different worlds out there and when you die you're reborn to another world depending on how you lived you're previous life?

Well that's my crazy opinion and no I'm not on drugs or anything