Are you afraid of death or the process of dying?

Question: Are you afraid of death or the process of dying!?

If you knew that death was just the beginning of your journey into the spiritual world, would you still be afraid of it!? Or is it just that we want to self-preserve and don't like the idea of letting go of the physical world and leaving others behind to grieve!? Or it it the potential pain that disease or an accident might put us through just before death that we are fearful of!? What are your insights!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

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I hope you'll excuse my long-winded tendency, but you've got me thinking!.

I'd like to say that there is a reason that survival has been rated as the number one most important thing to human beings, but I can't really wrap my mind around the exact motive!. What is it that makes our lives so precious to hold on to!? Is it our ego!? Our inseparable sense of body and mind(spirit/self)!? Is it that everything that we have ever known (or can recall knowing - to leave room for the argument of past lives and reincarnation) has been transmitted to us through our own eyes and by way of our own perception!? Everything I base my answer on is pure speculation by way of personal experience and searching!. I can't begin to touch all the variables!.

The entire universe as we know it is nothing !.!.!. so infinitesimal compared to a human life and his/her ego (awareness of self)!. We are so very self involved, which is natural, because our entire awareness of this universe is from our own relative perspective!. We are not capable of grasping the picture as a whole!. We cannot look at the world as one and make sense of it's every working!. As it is, we rely solely on our own senses to guide us through life!. Our own relative experience!.

Tell a kid that there are children just like him/her struggling to survive in another country, and they may do so much as to bat an eyelash!. Sure some will have genuine emotion for the less fortunate, but how many actually do anything about it!? Is this kid really effected by this knowledge!?

Take the same kid and spit gum deep in his/her hair causing him/her to get a ridiculous hair cut and become the laughing stock of their school (or publicly humiliate them in some other trivial way) and they suddenly have quite a bit of grief to deal with!. They have a personal dilemma!. Something they can actually feel and be effected by, even though the situation is horribly mundane in comparison!.

It is as if each human is their own little world!. Their own life is of the upmost importance!.

Yet, what is to be said about the self-sacrificing individual!? Do they hold no value for themselves or do they place their own identity in the wellbeing of another interest!? a cause, a community, religion, their country, an idea or another human being!. Even when we ourselves are not afraid of death, or the (uncountable) processes through which death comes, we will often be concerned when faced with another's demise!.

I think the biggest part of this issue is what lies beyong the curtain!. What awaits us after death cannot be ascertained by fact!. There is no answer to the great mystery of our existence or what is in store for us after all is said and done!. It is our lack of understanding that gives birth to the fear of death!. Our daunting absence of the truth of things that cannot be studied on this physical earth!.

Knowledge is something that has been universally sought after throughout all of history; considered by most a great treasure!. What is unknown is to be faced with either caution or acceptance of ignorance!.; like a test of great courage, or a blind leap of faith towards what cannot be determined!.

It is through the creation of a 'plan' or an idea that gives birth to the middle ground: philosophy!. A belief!. Belief in a specific ending so that one can ignorantly venture into the dark and murky without feeling blind!. Most commonly this philosophy has to do with life after life, a new world, a spiritual initiation!.

Although I am not a religious person, I do have beliefs!. Whether by upbringing or instinct it is my understanding that dying is natural and is something that needs to happen whether science finally cures the 'disease' called death or not!. So in answer to your question, am I afraid of death or the process of dying!? I'd say the process holds little interest for me, and as for dying!.!.!.

I am terrified, and very much intrigued!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Never been afraid!.

Most people are so afraid of death, that they are actually afraid of living!.

Similarly, death is always supposed to be bad and sad, and being born just nice and happy!. I don't remember actually that I would have been so happy about being born to this world to start with!.!.!.

Some kid who was dieing of cancer or something, put it very well - "when you die, it's like waking up from a dream that was your life"!. That is it!. After having seen a preview, it is a lot easier to distinguish meaningful things from the meaningless ones, and on the same time, never feeling really free as long as bound to a physical shell (body)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I do not believe in god or life after death!.
I actually am looking forward to dieing , very peaceful!. so long as I die in my sleep!. Being dead is like it was before I was born!. which is nothing!. there is nothing to be afraid of , because you never will know that you died, because you are dead!.
I fear more about getting old and dependent on others!.
I do not plan to live past 70!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i'm not afraid of Death in fact I welcome it because I know that sooner or later I will die but what I am afraid of is how I die!.

My worst fear is to drown because you are consious every moment and when you fall unconisous your dead also it feels terrible!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

wel!

For sure the process of dying!
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Lol!

--Cheerz--Www@QuestionHome@Com

the process of dying of course!.!.!.!.it could be long and painful!.!.!. better to end it quickly in your sleep!.!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i am very scared
i get soo scared or someone shooting me or even worse stabbin meWww@QuestionHome@Com

just the outcome not the processWww@QuestionHome@Com

PROCESS NOT DEATH!Www@QuestionHome@Com

"not all men fear death, but all fear old age" - Someone wise whose name I can!.t remember!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No, I am not afraid of death!Www@QuestionHome@Com

yes i am, just to think your life will be over one day scares me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

no im not afraidWww@QuestionHome@Com

No I am not afraid, if life went on forever i'd be craving for deathWww@QuestionHome@Com

Certainly "pain and suffering" are rightfully a cause for concern!.

However, aside from that and the notions of "things left undone" and "those who'll be affected," what is the process of dying is experienced on a nightly basis!.

Kindly note the following: if one wakes up naturally, not with an alarm or music, or with a spouse's conversation, nor with a "must do now" agenda ("test today," etc!.), one then has the opportunity toward this awareness: alpha wave status, dream status, gradual surfacing to "I am (awake, who 'I am')," is how one is "reborn to dawn's light!."

By not shifting into beta wave mentation, but experiencing without such analysis-mentation, "waking," one, over several such days' awareness, becomes aware of a different and evolving, refitting, into who one has been on the day previous!.

"Waking up" occurs both in the a!.m!. and, for some, in the p!.m!. "lucid dreaming" attainment:
http://www!.lucidity!.com
http://www!.dreamviews!.com
"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr!. Olga Kharitidi,
"Watch Your Dreams," Ann Ree Colton!.

Further awareness is noted: "The Masters and Their Retreats," Mark Prophet;
"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves;
"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce!?", Free and Wilcock, http://www!.divinecosmos!.com
"Reborn in the West: The Reincarnation Masters," Vicki MacKenzie,
"Life before Life," Jim Tucker, M!.D!.,
"Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust," Rabbi Yonassan Gershom!.Www@QuestionHome@Com