Death is another step in the journey that is life. nothing to be feared in it. the journey is one that all take .

No matter how much you think about dying you can't change your destiny. As you get older in life and start losing some of your loved ones, you begin to be a little less scared of dying. At least that's the way I feel. I also believe strongly in life after death. The more you read about near death experiences you realize how many of them are very similar experiences.

Live day to day, everyone has to experience death so you're not alone. Try not thinking about it so much.

Originally posted by Pervius
Bruce,

Have you ever noticed your body wants to be nocturnal? When Jupiter is overhead, you can't sleep.

It's because of Jupiters emissions, microwaves blasting Earth that won't let you sleep. It's also effecting your heart, won't let it slow down.

Your anxiety/health issues come from Jupiter. She's been REALLY active lately blasting Earth and will be for quite a bit longer.

Where is this information from? Science? Mediumism?
I would be interested.

Let me start off by saying I don't believe in God. Life is about progression. We are constantly progressing in life, and through this progression we experience. Part of this progression is death. It is not an end. Does life end at death? Well this all depends on how you define life. I think that we can all agree that all living organisms have a soul, spirit, life force, etc. This soul, spirit, life force is literally what we refer to as conscience. Light is a type of consciousness, and so is matter. Matter could be described as condensed consciousness. The point is, is that everything is made up of consciousness, which means at some point we were all the same thing, the singularity. The singularity was pure consciousness, which broke itself down, or evolved into many different things. Most of it evolved into our souls, the rest into matter. We are all connected through our conscious, you could think of you conscious as a spherical cloud, the center of which is you, and this cloud is of significant size. If you take every living organism, and add up all their "clouds" you get enough mass to hold our galaxy together, i.e. dark matter is a collective of consciuosness. Since conscience existed before space, it existed before time. Time is an illusion, and you can think about like this. Lets say you have two mirrors, and you turn them back unto them selves. If you look you will see an infinite amount of mirrors going in either direction. This is the illusion, time does not stretch for eternity in either direction, it just appears that way, really there are only two mirror, the beginning and end of time. Since there is no way of seeing outside the mirrors, we have no evidence for this, which is why we claim, energy, and time are eternal, when in fact this is an illusion. Each person has their own piece of the consciuosness, which is their individual consciuosness. We are constantly trying to improve ourselves, and we achieve this through experience. This is why existence was created, to experience. That isn't to say, there is some creator looking down on his work, we are the creator, the universe created itself. It evolved itself into what it is now, because it is just like us, in its pursuit to improve and adapt. Our souls do not last for eternity, that is an illusion, but it lasts far longer after our physical vehicles stop working. I believe we only experience a small amount of whats actually going on. Just like we see just a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum, visible light, we experience a small part of whats really going on.

OP, It is normal to feel and think as you are...after all you are only 18. My son first realized what death was at only 2. He had no choice though.

I too remember being really young and pondering what you have just posted. It can be very overwhelming especially when there are so many "truths". I also took on a journey that lead me to peace. Your journey is heading in that direction, in my opinion.

You sound like you are a very caring person and you feel what others feel. That's great! Not a lot of people have empathy these days.

Get busy living....read good books.....find a hobby and enjoy this life on Earth. When you take your last breath...or anyone for that matter just KNOW they/you are on their/your way to LIFE with no veil.

(((HUGS))))

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It's mostly western way to see death as something negative. Tibetan Buddhism (not that I'm a Buddhist..) is almost solely based on facing death, and a lot of people misunderstands this as something negative. The truth is that NO ONE knows what's going to happen. And that's the fun of it all.

No point fearing death because it's inevitable. Maybe we're here to learn some basic lessons about this plane.

No one can tell you how to live. I'd say do good things and be honest (to yourself) and you'll find some peace.

1. This isn't True Life.

2. There is no Death.

3. Rinse & Repeat (aka: go back to #1).

Ribbit

Originally posted by Cryptonic
My friend, one way to look at death is a transformation. Some of the experiences in our reality are absolutely amazing, and just imagine how they'll be when you shed this physical form! I firmly believe in God, but i respect you if you do not. We all make decisions for ourselves.

Do you think it would be advantageous for nothing to exist beyond this realm we live in now?

If you want a good way to learn about life, and get a completely different perspective, I would recommend talking to the folks at record.oct282011.com Despite the fighting you run into on there, they'll show you things you never dreamed you could see.

Best of luck to you in your search my friend.

I agree stongly with your statements of death being a transformation. Death is undefined but I also believe there is a realm that awaits us after this reality. There is comfort in an afterlife if you have a belief system in place that strengthens the principals of faith.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. And good luck to you in your search for transformation.

You wanted something to make you feel better. Here it is. Although I too am afraid of death and I'm a lot older than you (57) so I'm really thinking of it these days in very REAL terms, not theoretical like I used to. But anyway.... my father died 13 and a half years ago. And after he died I had experiences of contact with him. He died at one in the morning in NY. I live in NH. I was informed at 8:30 that morning that he had died. I drove to my parent's house and got there around 2 p.m. That same night I slept in my father's bed. All night long I heard things. I was drifting in and out of sleep and groggy, but I heard the sound of something thumping very hard against the outside of the house. It happened several times. In my groggy state I told myself the cats were throwing themselves against the house. I heard footsteps walking through the yard all night long, back and forth, back and forth. I figured it was my brother walking outside since he was the only other person in the house. I also heard banging on the bedroom door. It took me a couple of days to realize that cats don't throw themselves against walls and that when a person is walking on a grass covered yard in the summer when the bedroom window is open, you don't hear footsteps. And I asked my brother the next day if he was walking in the yard and he said no. So I think my father was trying to get back in the house or trying to reach me or something. He died unexpectedly. He had cancer but he was doing okay. He had recently started on some new medication and he had a bad reaction and his blood pressure dropped and my siblings who were there at the time made the decision to ask the nurses not to revive him. They figured he had not yet entered the bad painful terminal part of his illness. So why go there? He was not going to recover. He was just not too bad yet. I would have supported that decision. But I think maybe part of my father's consciousness was shocked to find himself dead and the energy I felt that night was shocked and somewhat angry. I think it could have been my father.

I don't have any conclusion as to what this proves but I thought it might help you. Another experience I had with him. A few years later I was writing a story about my sister and father. It was fiction but it was based on my perceptions of their relationship. And it was very negative towards my father and one day I was at my computer in my bed and a clock that had belonged to him that I had taken after he died was sitting on the window ledge in my room. It's a wide window ledge and the clock was well at the back of it well balanced against the window and there was no breeze or vibration or anything and it just fell off the ledge and crashed onto the floor. It was very sudden and it came out of nowhere. and I really feel it was my father saying, 'ENOUGH ALREADY!!!! I wasn't that bad. Knock it off!!'

So I believe I've had contact with my father since his death. I'm not Christian but I have tremendous respect for the Bible and Christians and they say there is no such thing as a spirit lingering after death. Everyone goes immediately to Heaven or Hell. Or in the case of the Jehovah's Witnesses, they believe that when you die, you're just dead until you resurrect at the end of the world. Both of these faiths take their beliefs from the Bible and neither of them thinks that spirits hang around. But I know a lot of people do think spirits hang around. Another thing, I've heard a lot of people say that when you dream about someone you are really visiting them in the spirit world. After my father died, I dreamt about him about 3 times a week for about 18 months. I don't know.........

Two answers to life after death, one is science and the other is religion. I am sure I dont have to explain the religious side of the answer so I will tell you of the scientific theory which I think is cool.
This is based on the universe and what ever is outside or what ever created the universe is infinite. From dust you came and to dust you will return, before you were born you did not exist and when you die you will cease to exist again, but this just sets you up to be born again. In an infintie universe you have been born and died an infinte amount of times and will continue to do so for infinity. Obviously you dont retain your memories since we cant remember living before. That is probably a good thing since I imagine it would become quite boring.