Are You Scared Of Dying?

[nailit]

My mum who has terminal cancer, had mapped her funeral arrangements out long ago and it required a religious ceremony. Prayers, Hymns etc. But after been allowed to attend the cremation of my brother in law...as one of the 10 people allowed at the start of lockdown...she has since changed her mind. My BIL had a humanist funeral and my mother found it beautiful, simple and to the point. She has since changed her request from a religious ceremony to a humanist one.
No religious claptrap spouted by a priest/vicar etc about living again in some etheral realm.
Just a simple accaptance that all things must die.
She seems more at peace with that, than this idea that we will live again after death.

Its unavoidable that we all must die, faith or no faith!
Ironically, as a young christian, I was terrified of dying.
As an atheist, Im not.
It seems to me that its the terminal religious that are most afraid.
To me death is nothing more than a return to the state of being before conception...nothingness!

Still try to make the most out of existance, but nothingness is not to be afraid of.
Like been in Non-REM sleep. Nothingness.

[nailit]

//Why should I not also be hated and abused and for why?//
Might surprise you, but no one here hates you. Questions you, falls out occasionally, yes. But hate? Stop interrpretting disagreement as hatered.
Thats a christian concept that has no base in reality.
Because someone vehemently disagrees with you doesnt mean that they hate you.

[naomi24]

Don't spoil his delusions of martyrdom, nailit. He loves it.

[Theland]

Nailit, thank you for that.
That is comforting.

[Theland]

Oh dear!