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Are you scared of dying?

Asked by saraaaaaa (2317points) February 25th, 2011

I know this kind of thing has been asked before, but there are many many new Flutherites since then so I’d like to throw this question once more into the pool…

A simple one…

When you think about dying what kind of emotion if any does it conjure up inside you? Scared? Determined? Indifferent?

To add an anecdote, and help you think; When I was around 5 years old I remember looking through my cousins biology text book during a family visit. One of those times your parents took you out to see relatives and such where there wasn’t really much for you to do and so you were pretty much left to your own devices.
In this instance my own devices involved looking at the pretty pictures of cells and hearts and such until I found a skeleton picture (probably explaining the bones or something), I was fascinated by this image and my cousin caught me staring at it with childish bewilderment and said ‘that’s what you’ll look like one day!’ harsh I know and I was absolutely petrified, I spent the rest of the day crying my heart out and hiding from the grown ups. Death scared the hell out of me. Perhaps because I didn’t fully understand it all, but still a strong and memorable reaction.
I have since grown older and wiser to an extent and when I think about dying I no longer feel scared in the same way, I just feel that I really don’t want to.

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