I wanted to post this for quite a while but didn't really have the guts to. It's quite a frightening subject and I guess it can hurt people to talk about it. It fascinates me, though. It really does.

I've always been quite a morbid person. Even though it's frightening, I don't think I've ever been scared of it as such. I'm scared about not being able to see family members after I'm gone and I feel sad about leaving grieving family members behind, but death in itself doesn't scare me. In fact, it kind of excites me, not knowing what's after death, what it feels like to die, and trying to contemplate the realisation that death really does last forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever...

How do you feel about death? Does it frighten you? Or do you also find it exciting?

I know this could turn into a debate but I see it more as an every day discussion (well, kind of!) and to be honest, I find the debate board scarier than death :P

So I hope this doesn't get moved to the Debate board.

Honestly, I feel the same way you do. I'm extremely curious to find out as to what really happens after death. Is there really a Heaven, or are we actually reincarnated? Or is it all just..over? Also, death has always seemed to me to be just a complete release. Everything is gone, you no longer have to worry, it's all over now... I give this subject a lot of thought, to be honest.

I used to be really scared of death, but now I'm more just scared of not living my life to it's fullest before I die. There is so much that I want to do before I die, and I'm scared that I'll be robbed of that chance.. especially since around here, I guess it's a trend to die young or something. I don't believe in fate, and I do everything I can to be safe.. but I'm so afraid that I'm going to be a victim of one of those random, freak occurrences. I want a family, I want children and grandchildren - and I'm only 19. So much can happen between now and the day I die, and at the same time, so little. I guess what bothers me most.. is not knowing when it will happen.

I'm kind of wishy-washy with my beliefs.. I don't really know what I think happens afterwards.. but it doesn't scare me. I'm just scared of not being prepared.

I agree about the release part. Sometimes, thinking about it even has a calming effect on me. If I'm feeling like I've got the weight of the world on my shoulders, I'll tend to fall asleep on the thought of never waking up again, just because it feels like some sort of release, even though I know I'll wake up again in the morning. Death evokes a lot of weird and wonderful emotions in me. I guess it's the same for a lot of people, to be honest. After all, we all know it's going to happen to us eventually.

It's all inevitable anyways, so I might as well just say I am scared, but not to an insane point.

And besides. I'm very skeptical of a God, so if he's true and throws me in Hell, it's my own damn fault.

I'm scared about how death can just last forever.

I'm Christian so even if I go to Heaven, it's still weird to think about it. It's kind of like living forever but you're...dead. Once you do everything you wanted to do while you were alive, what is there left to do? :x

Yes, that is a scary thought. More weird, though. Like, how can you contemplate being dead forever and ever while the world continues to spin and life carries on around you?

It mortifies me.

I'm agnostic and often wish I had a strong faith, but I am full of so many questions and doubts that I find I just can't settle into one. I am so in love with life, the thought of ceasing to exists - and moreover, not being able to think about and feel that you no longer exist - just absolutely hollows me. I try so hard to believe in life after death, but it doesn't stop me from thinking about the 'what ifs.'

I used to care a lot about death. And how I won't be around forever and all.

BUt, whatever. That's years to come. C: And by that time, I'll probably want to die, anyway.

I'm curious about death, and I would be excited if I could figure out what it is like without dying. I'd rather stay alive right now though, so I'm not in any rush to find out. XD Personally I think it is simply an end, but because no one can seem to agree on it, I'd just like to see who is right. Assuming there is anything to see.

More than anything, I'm afraid of dying a virgin young.

But I am very curious to see what comes after death.

The most worry I have about it is what is gonna happen to all my stuff? My stuffed animals, my books. Oh god, not my books ;__;

I want to either be cremated or buried with my three most favorite stuffed animals; my Jirachi, Manaphy, and my Baby that I've had since the beginning of (my) time. If my family doesn't do that, they will be haunted forever.

The concept of forever scares me. :c I had a dream once that a friend died and I didn't want to leave her so I dug a hole in the graveyard and waited to die. The whole 'when' question makes my spine freeze and shiver a little. It scares me...

I used to just be so cynical and sarcastic and I thought I wouldn't care much if I died, if I cared at all. Last year I had to go to three of my friend's funerals though and it kind of made me change my mind.

The scariest part, to me, is not what will happen or where I will go et cetera.

I'm more worried about leaving before I accomplish something great, or leaving the ones I love behind. Even if reincarnation is true, what if I don't find the people I love again? Just thinking about it makes me feel like I got punched in the stomach.

When I REALLY think about, like the whole not thinking or being again, it makes me anxious. But ACTUALLY dying doesn't particularly scare me.

Death actually doesn't frighten me much at all. I'm afraid of some things that tend to cause death, such as fire and big cars, but death itself doesn't really bother me.

I actually sometimes think of how it'd feel to die after living, say, 90, 80, maybe just 70 years, and to have accomplished everything you could possibly accomplished and to have seen everything you've ever want to see...and then know that you're close to death. To me, it just seems like a beautiful idea, if not a bit frightening. Especially if we're dealing with dying while sleeping at an old age. That, too, seems pretty graceful. To be dreaming or just lying there and losing breath...and then just have life leave you and not even know it or even see it coming--I don't think you could ask for much more.

Well, anyway, I think I've been reading too much Bradbury or something, but yeah.

I will admit, I have a terrible fear of dying without "changing" in some way for the better...or something like that. It's kind of hard to explain.

Oh, and it hurts me WAY more to think of a loved one or even a pet dying. It may be a little selfish in a way, if the person or animal had been suffering, but I guess the thought of having to go through so many difficult emotional stages until you reach acceptance is scary.

I've believed for quite a while now that whatever a person believes will happen to them when they die, it will happen as so.

if a person says, "Hey, god doesn't exist, nothing will happen when I die." absolutly nothing will. if a person states "yo, sup, man, I believe I'm going to be a bird when I die," wow. they will be a bird. some are jewish, some are christian, but the only person who determines their fate is the person. :o

yay. XD

I'm not afraid.

I think if there is an afterlife, it won't last forever. I believe that souls in no way really connect to our physical beings, so when we 'pass on' we won't have any memories or personality traits or anything we did while we were in that body. We just move on...

Normally, I just don't think about death. It seems to far away to worry about. Resentaly though, I was lying in bed, and I realized that at some point, I will be dying. It was the weirdest thing ever, but it made me appriciate things more.

uh I don't think theres anything to it, just the end, thats it, squat, nothing else. I prefer to spend my time living so haha I guess I don't bear much on it then :X

I'm more afraid of the people I love dying than myself dying.

Lately I've been wondering how certain ways of dying would feel. And I've been wondering what the lives of the people I'd leave behind would be like without me.