Does The Thought Of Death Frighten You?

[TWR]

A q often asked in our company.

[tamborine]

No, its just a long sleep but death is the number 1 killer in the world ;-)

[cupid04]

I just don't wanna be there when it happens....


[Now ask a more cheerful question]

[TWR]

I'm cheerful Cupid, I can ask the Q In the first place. xx

[Old_Geezer]

Ah beso beso beso. Surely you realise that Wilde is the source of all witty comments everywhere/time ? And if he's not, he will be.

[woofgang]

This keeps getting asked on here...

[retrocop]

No. Not now . Having been close 3-4 times I kinda got into the habit. :-)

[Baldric]

Been close twice, early 80's and '09, so no it doesn't, the mechanics of it concern me more, along with the impact on my nearest and dearest, although I know they'll be left financially secure, there is more to life.

[retrocop]

My big worry is going to hell and being reunited with M.I.L.
I would be really hacked off if my faithful mutts were not waiting for me at the pearly gates though. (providing 1st alternative does not apply. ) :-(

[Baldric]

First wife in my case retro, Shudderrr!!!!!.
I'm gonna be overrun with Canine Friends tbh, hopefully.

[NoMercy]

It would be lovely to think our furry friends were waiting for us on the other side...like "Rainbow Bridge."

[jourdain2]

The state of being dead doesn't frighten me. I hope to meet many furry friends and people I have loved and who loved me. At the worst - it will be a blank and I won't know anything; so what is there to be frightened of?

OH ponders sometimes about how he explains things to his late wife, but the love that he had for her and the love that he has for me are both valid and I'm sure both will exist somehow. Ought to talk to a vicar I suppose!

The process of dying does worry me, as it does most people. I really, really hate paperwork (almost phobic about it) and yet feel that before I die I should sort out my affairs and leave them in order and also leave a will. I did once write a will, but that has been invalidated by marriage. I would like to know about a week before I die, that the end is nigh, then calmly sort everything out for my children and pop-off gracefully, surrounded by them and grandchildren, peacefully and pain-free dispensing wise words if I can think of them. Don't suppose it will be like that. :(

[paddywak]

It's not death that worries me but the way of dying,as I've mentioned before In the early '70's I had a very bad accident on the coalface which resulted me getting the Last Rites and spending several very painful months in hospital even after all this time I still get pains in the old scarred area and I must admit I'm afraid of going like that terrifies me,if I knew I'd just drift off in my sleep after a couple of glasses of a good whisk(e)y I wouldn't be bothered at all.

[237SJ]

Not really - as long it is not too soon. The death of other people worries me far more than my own.

[mibn2cweus]

Fear of the inevitable is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[grasscarp]

I hope I die peacefully in my sleep like my father did, and not crying and screaming like his passengers.

[trt]

I am not scared of dying as I think I have had a good run, compared to what I have seen, when kids don't reach their 10th birthday.

Nine months ago at 4am, I was rushed to A&E with breathing problems (i have copd), and while under sedation, but aware what was going on, two female doctors examined me for about ten minutes.

The head one said to me ''as you were resuscitated two years previous ''we are not sure that its in your interest that we should this time, if it comes to it''

I was taken back a bit, but feeling high as a kite, I said she had better phone my daughter, who was in Hong Kong, and tell her, but don't be offended if she tells you to stick your phone up your @rse, and make sure you don't turn off the switch on me.

When I think of the things I would have missed with my family & friends the last two years, nine months, it makes you wonder if some doctors have the right to decide if you live or die!

[trt]

What I forgot to

[whiskeryron]

No, only the method of dying.

[Dahlia_Lama]

Death doesn't scare me at all ... a lingering one keeps me awake at night .

[Togo]

“Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room. Nothing has happened. Everything remains exactly as it was. I am I, and you are you, and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged. Whatever we were to each other, that we are still. Call me by the old familiar name. Speak of me in the easy way which you always used. Put no difference into your tone. Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow. Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together. Play, smile, think of me, pray for me. Let my name be ever the household word that it always was. Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it. Life means all that it ever meant. It is the same as it ever was. There is absolute and unbroken continuity. What is this death but a negligible accident? Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight? I am but waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just round the corner. All is well. Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost. One brief moment and all will be as it was before. How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!”
― Henry Scott Holland, Death Is Nothing at All