When the day comes, I will surrender and die but today I do not need to think of it as I am enjoying my life. Paradox, you sound like a pot head, paranoid as hell. I do not need to be reminded by some pot head that I have do die oneday. I am looking forward to that experience and not a bit scared.

Hi, Ochin Mutuwa , r u really enjoying life or you being able to escape life! Our life in general is the activities of propagandas of some cunning minds , deep rooted fears and our own various reaxctions in defrent level. We always try to full fill our desires and wants. Desires and wants are the activities to conform memory of the past. So its repeatitive , mechanical and it degenerates the sensitivity of mind. So our living is actually is in past which means propagandas and desires , fears and so on are living through us. Surely to live is possible in the present and its very swift. If we dont have any type of fears, desires ,hope and recognition then we can live in presents which is the pure perception undisturbed by our conviction and ideas.

I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me. Jack Cleary :D

no i am not afraid of death but i am afraid of nepali gurls especially in US

I am not afraid of death but i am afraid of people i love dying thats the only thing that scares the shi* out of me peace

Death is a very beautiful tool for me. Due to certainty of death, I can make myself free from all the cravings and attachments, to experience Freedom/Godliness. I can foresee myself on the pyre...

yes i am :s

Pagal dude! you are pagal for sure dude...why the hell do u have to post that pic.....:S geez so scary

Interesting stuff Paradox. Looks like you are quite an existentialist thinker. For me, death per se is not as frightful as losing someone I love, to death. Now THAT is a thought that really scares me - to accept the reality that someone who was living, breathing, laughing, crying, fighting, loving, and doing much more is no more. I admire those who have gone through such pain and lived on despite their immense loss. I wonder if I will ever be able to bear seeing a loved one end up as the one in Paagal's picture. As a psychologist, I often deal with the mixed views on Freudian theories, not just academically but on a personal level as well. While most of his theories have become either rejected or heavily revised, I cannot help but to be drawn to his incredible insight into dreams and what they can reveal about our inner feelings and thoughts. I have often believed myself to be unafraid of my own death. That's why I said earlier that death per se is not frightful to me. It's a reality I have reconciled with. But last night, I had a curious dream where I found myself hanging from the 4th floor of a building, in danger of falling, possibly to my death. In hindsight, I don't think I could've died falling from the 4th floor -- perhaps had massive injuries but death is less probable. But what jarred me was the absolutely fantastic fear that gripped "me" in the dream. I found myself saying frantically, "I don't wanna die! I don't wanna die." I can feel the vibrations of that fear in me even as I write! I was saved by some construction workers in an interesting twist to the dream which I don't want to bore you all with. But I woke up thinking "Geez, I really am afraid of death after all," with a true Freudian fervor for dream interpretations. So, I guess on a primitive level, which is what dreams are supposed to reflect, I do view death with trepidation. I don't want to overgeneralize, but am tempted to think that perhaps on this primitive level most of us do possess this fear of our own death as well. We may mask this fear with agility for different reasons, but if confronted with a threatening situation, I am sure most of us, if not all, will at least flinch in the face of death! Some people say that those who fear death are those who love life to death. So, does it mean that those who proclaim otherwise in fact hate life? Now that's an interesting thought, isn't it?? : )

i'm not olny scared of the physical process of dying but also "just not existing anymore". and i see where ppl say that "death of someone you love is scarier than your own death". i might just be selfish but it's not that way for me...i mean there are a whole group of people that u love..some u love more than others...so if something happens to one of them, there are still other people that make your life worthwhile...i mean in a sense we go on living ....sure, you're gonna miss the person thats gone n all...tara if i'm dead myself...it's like losing all the people i love ...all at once...it means that i'll never get to experience what might have come...no more beautiful mornings, no more rain, no more holding hands, no more lazy sunday mornings, NO NOTHIN!!! but i guess once u're dead it won't matter.... tara pani to think about it right now ..i'm scared...

Simplegal - A very in-depth analysis - thanks for sharing. I wanted to share a couple of thoughts running through my mind right now - A lot of us , at some level, are often fascinated by our morbidity. Not least of all because it seems to run counter to everything else about life. I guess there is a bit of cognitive dissonance, if that's the correct term, in the minds of many people between trying to live life to the fullest and be happy on one hand, and reconciling that with the tension and discomfort of death on the other. That is what my mind is trying to process and internalize these days. - Also, it is so true that survival is such a strong instinct, and that strength combined with a love of life, is what makes it hard for people to embrace death like you and others pointed out. What is interesting to me is how we go through the stages from denial to anger to a few others and finally acceptance and how important it is for people to accept, if not embrace, death in order to truly appreciate and life and live it to the fullest. - To the last point, while you need to accept death, you cannot be so fearful of it that you stop living your life. I personally feel I should make merry while the oxygen still flows through my system. People who have chosen to renounce the world and develop detachments from family and loved ones at an early age, lets say in their late twenties or early 30s, also fascinate me - this is another subject running through my mind these days and I am curious to know if anyone has studied the thought processes of folks who make such a decision. Just some random thoughts. Thanks again for your insights everyone.

wow , this thread got life again. Hi SimpleGal, thanks for such a nice comment. Death is really scary although its completly unknown to us. Are we really afraid of death or about the idea about the death we have in our mind. I am not so sure, i am not psychologisit, but i have great interest on it. We really never think what we are and how we are living. we seem all the time struggling for something, to become something which means we are costantly denying what we are at the present. We are gathering so many things physical and psychological, so may ideas and thoughts. One day , we intelectually know death comes and it takes all we have gathered , cultivated. A complete peaceful end. Sometimes i feel its really beautifull but again i dont want lose my identity,i want to continue what i am although i constanly try to deny, reject what i am now , while living. it seems to me we human being are great paradox. Hahaha

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I don't fear death but death is afraid of meh...... -rockend

When death comes you won't have time to be afraid. Trust me!

haha!!!!!!! LOL.......... then ask the person who knows he is going to die tomorrow...... I mean a cancer patient........ how will he/she feel........ or any patient who knows he/she is dying...... you are wrong so called birbhadra........ I am sure bir bhadra wasn't afraid of death......... I am proud of him......... he fought for his country.......

BirBhadra Ji ko kura ramro lagyo......Death does not come with formal invitation.....when it comes, it comes........and takes us away.....we will never know how it was, or how we felt........Its another thing, if you have some kind of disease, and is suffering, then, your death is your pain.....for those in pain, death is better than ur sufferings.......mero 2 paisa ko kura ho....bujne lai srikhanda, nabujne lai khurpa ko bid.....

OK! i died a hundred times and i felt death every then.. and still , i am scared i go through the same feelings always!!! i feel the death - elf As the music passes by my soul i think of days i let go when nobody was never me God helped me go out of it People talkin' about me now Shit people, who cares 'em anyway i lie on my bed with my last breath forever and a lifetime , a grace i had to meet all my life, kept waiting now dont have no life anymore i saw her again the last time loosened hair, touchin' my senses this was the time i closed my eyes feared to open or i wouldnt see her There was dew still from the morning and behind me the people announced my death!

"Do you know what it means to come into contact with death, to die without argument? Because death, when it comes, does not argue with you. To meet it, you have to die every day to everything: to your agony, to your loneliness, to the relationship you cling to; you have to die to your thought, to die to your habit, to die to your wife so that you can look at your wife anew; you have to die to your society so that you, as a human being, are new, fresh, young, and you can look at it. But you cannot meet death if you don't die every day. It is only when you die that there is love. A mind that is frightened has no love - it has habits, it has sympathy, it can force itself to be kind and superficially considerate. But fear breeds sorrow, and sorrow is time as thought. So to end sorrow is to come into contact with death while living, by dying to your name, to your house, to your property, to your cause, so that you are fresh, young, clear, and you can see things as they are without any distortion. That is what is going to take place when you die. But we have a limited death to the physical. We know very well logically, sanely, that the organism is going to come to an end. So we invent a life which we have lived of daily agony, daily insensitivity, the increase of problems, and its stupidity; that life we want to carry over, which we call the "soul" - which we say is the most sacred thing, a part of the divine, but it is still part of your thought and therefore it has nothing to do with divinity. It is your life! So one has to live every day dying - dying because you are then in contact with life." Hi, Its not my words. Its JK is lectures!

Newfoundglory, anticipation of death is different from death itself.