Are you afraid of Death?

Most, if not all of the worlds leading researches in robotics and artificial intelligence would disagree with you on this matter. Ray Kurzweil, head of A.I. R&D at Google believes it will happen within the next twenty-five to fourty years.

The thing is that it depends on the advancement of technology. In 2007 there was a prediction that most homes in America would own a personal VTOL vehicle by 2014. It seems that breakthroughs are either luck or hard work. If the right person decided to study the right field, then they can make a breakthrough. Or they can miss their chance and end up working in a different field. They can stumble upon something completely new. Or someone can dedicate their entire life to studying one thing, they can make a breakthrough with a massive amount of incredible hard work.

I'm more afraid of HOW I'll meet my death instead of the fact I will die. I'm not worried about the fact that my life will end. It's been a fact all of us have known about since childhood. But what I learned as I grew up is that there are some ways of dieing that are worse than others, and when I learned that, it made me frightened. It still does.

...Admittingly I'd like to play it cool and say "No." but indeed I am. I am extremely terrified of dying. At nights I think about myself as an elderly man, wondering: "When I sleep tonight, will I wake up the next day?" The thought of being robbed of tomorrow is a thought that makes me cringe in fear and sometimes openly weep.

I'm an atheist, so I don't believe in a God figure, or an afterlife for that matter. It's mind-boggling how I've managed to stay sane.

"The curse of being a human being is being intelligent enough to question life and death." ~

There are honestly times when I think about it that I wish I was never born. Why hand me something as precious as life if it's only temporary? What will it amount to? The humans before me who have died seem to slowly drift into nothingness, and fade into forgotten memories. Even now while I sit and type this out while thinking about it, a cold chill's running down my spine.

Cowardice would be the incorrect word to describe how I feel about Death. I'm absolutely terrified of it. I can see myself as the type of person who would have a mental breakdown if I knew my own death was inevitable, like an infant crying over a toy they can't have.

I'm ashamed to admit it, but I'll probably cry myself to my eternal sleep.

for now i am afraid of course

but lately i think most people not afraid of death
they are afraid about "how to die" not the "death" itself
it's only my opinion anyway
didn't know about the real facts.

but there's always people afraid of death because they still need to do something in this world
like getting married or something
every people have their own reason to staying alive
if there's no reason i think they are not afraid of death
they are rather afraid about how will they die
:p

I tend to bounce between being scared and fine with it. Generally I'm more often fine with death. I've accepted the fact that I'll die one day, and it's not as scary once you accept it.

I think it's natural to be afraid of it, particularly because, well, it's the biggest unknown to humanity. No one knows exactly what happens after we die, we just know life ends there.

Very poetic my friend it would seem that you have come to terms with the morality that is the human specimen. ''So from Nothing you have come and to nothing you shall go returning to the will spring of darkness that has birthed us all'' By Avorix the overseer of poems

I am pretty afraid of death, since when i die won't exist anymore. i don't believe in any kind of religion, so i just hope for infinite lifespan to get invented(i'm thinking 20-60 years until that). though i don't think too much about it, if i did i would go insane.

If she looks like this...then no. Not really.

Am a little scares of death but now the dieing part the what comes next part always scares me

Until I have achieved certain aims in my life, yes, I am very afraid of death.

My thoughts exactly. Although if it happens, it happens. I'm not scared of what lies beyond death because I believe in reincarnation, which ties into the way I live my life now.

Why be afraid of death when you could just enjoy life now.

I am afraid of death but it's natural I guess. Human beings are afraid of the unknown. You don't really know what will happen when you die regardless of your beliefs. There's always doubt.

Either way, it's predicted that in the next 5 billion years the sun will eventually burn out. Considering today's technology and the fact that the sun is thoroughly needed for the human race to survive, unless we can find a way to either prevent the death of the sun or live without it, we will all eventually die.

With that being said, i don't fear death because if i did then that would mean that i would not want to die. Immortality does not bare the fruits that people perceive it to have. Immortality is just a never ending roller coaster that exemplifies the fact that by living century upon century "nothing changes but everything's different."

The things that were once enjoyed will hold no more meaning. 'Never dying' would lead to the disappearance of the risk factor in life which takes away it's sweetness. We hold things dear to us because we know that one day we may never see them again.

Death, permits us to love and give our lives meaning.
Death, allows us to live each day like it is our last.
Death, makes life worth living.

No. I am not afraid of death, I'm afraid of the way death will come to me. As in like, I would be a bit afraid if my death were to be through a long suffocation. I would be intimidated by that. Call me crazy if you want, but I remember one time when I was about 10 I think. I was so curious to see what was on the other side of death I wanted to kill myself. Yeah pretty weird right? I guess it was because people use to tell me about resurrection in death. You obtain all knowledge in death etc. But back to the topic. No I don't fear death. I think some people fear death is because they don't know where they where go after that. I also think certain people fear death because they haven't accomplished all the things they wanted to do in life. But overall I just see death as another form of Life. Not evil or bad just nature etc.

I guess I am just a little bit, but I then I think that nothing lasts forever and when it's my time to go, it's my time to go

I guess I would say I am afraid of the "after death" more than the point in time of dying itself (though to be fair I do not want to suffer in agony like being buried in the ground or drowning or falling out of airplane). I would accept a instant death, and to the original poster I agree that it is scary to know if there is a Heaven and Hell or ______, but my hope that there is something right for the individual who passes on.

We are all programmed to fear death; all things that are considered alive do. However, logically, "fearing" death is like fearing the Earth spinning; it's going to happen and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

If you mean specifically me, I find that death is unfavorable an occurrence at this point in time and therefore increasing the probability of death is avoided. I don't really "fear" it in the sense that I don't feel such an emotion when in dangerous situations. I have however come to terms with my existence and, would it end, I could do nothing but accept it as an inevitability, which it very much is.

EDIT: I noticed the phrase about halfway through my last paragraph sounded a little arrogant, IE: "I dun't afraid no thang", but that's not quite what I meant. What I meant was I know when I die I will no longer have to worry about keeping a job, managing bills, or even feeling pain, so death seems a completely necessary part of life, where as when we are alive, there are many, many things that can harm us in more ways then just the physical sense.

Pretty much, to sum it up: Sometimes I find life more terrifying then the threat of death could ever be.

Yes I am I'm not sure how to describe it but I guess uncertainty would be the best way. Me as a person I like sound proof and I am afraid of not existing.