Do you fear Death?

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Hodegetria said:
I don’t get it either…not to BE to BE. I thought it meant “death is inevitable” but now I’m not so sure. Can you fill in the blanks, can I buy a noun or something? I replaced “BE” with all manner of verbs and I still get no meaning from it. Your tag line, on the other hand, is profound (from the “Change…” part
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That is about change. Not to be, to be. I think the colon does the job. 😃
 
Not really, no. I’m afraid of torture- I’m nowhere near holy enough to gratefully welcome that kind of pain for the sake of the Kingdom- but of death itself? Not so much. To a Christian, a holy death is a reward, not a punishment. My biggest fear is dying in a state of mortal sin.
 
GEddie said:
I do.

Religious faith doesn’t change the purely hideous reality that is human death.
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I do, too. Especially if it’s a prolonged illness that I know will lead to my inevitable death, like when my dad suffered with pancreatic cancer for 9 months before he died. A sudden death doesn’t scare me as much, but I’m not too thrilled about that idea either.
 
"Peccantem me quotidie, et non poenitentem, timor mortis conturbat me. "

Roughly, ‘I’m scared to death of dying.’ :rotfl:
 
“Dying is easy, it’s life that scares me to death.”
-Anne Lennox
 
I fear the dying, but not death itself.

I believe in the general resurrection and trust in God’s Church. However, I fear I may be weak at my moment of death. I know that spiritual attacks are common at time of death and I fear my weakness.

I need to go to confession. :o
 
Faith1960 said:
Maybe she never saw anyone suffer a long, painful death.
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You can’t suffer anymore in this life if you are dead. I think this was her point. It’s living, life itself, with all the suffering therein, that should cause people to be fearful.
 
KendraDZ1902 said:
Depends on the day. Some days I’m ready for it, pray/beg for it. Other days I’m extremely terrified about it. The whole fear of the unknown thing. Never experienced death, don’t know what to expect, ya know?
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Perhaps that is why many people who have had near-death experiences are much less afraid.

Also, I have heard it said that, in general, younger people are more afraid of death than older people. I don’t know if there has been any research on this.
 
In a way yes,
because for one thing, I’m not completely sure I have packed enough life experience in yet.
and secondly, I know I haven’t , hadn’t yet been to a bunch of country, studied enough about human nature and understanding my own faults, and what makes me have those faults, understanding what made me do this or that, was it faith or not enough faith,
or just plain human laziness I’m still a work in progress,
yes I guess I fear death because I’m not really ready for it yet.
 
phil_at_dayboro said:
In a way yes,
because for one thing, I’m not completely sure I have packed enough life experience in yet.
and secondly, I know I haven’t , hadn’t yet been to a bunch of country, studied enough about human nature and understanding my own faults, and what makes me have those faults, understanding what made me do this or that, was it faith or not enough faith,
or just plain human laziness I’m still a work in progress,
yes I guess I fear death because I’m not really ready for it yet.
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Regarding life experience, there’s a lyric in the song “Be not too hard,” beautifully sung by Joan Baez, which always sticks in my mind. It’s not exactly comforting except in its truth, I think:
Be not too hard for soon he’ll die
Often no wiser than he began.
 
I only “fear” death the process, not the outcome. Why fear the inevitable?

John
 
BrunoMaria said:
In our today’s paper we got an interview with David Garret
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Garrett_%28musician%29
(Star-Violonist 34) about „Fear of Death“.
This guy answered:
“I don’t have any fear of death, because I don’t have any non-good memory about the time before I was born. So, I won’t have any at the time after death”

Ain’t this a terribly questionable answer. Surprising that any paper would print such pointless babble.
But it’s a silly question too; „Do you fear death?“

Christians who lived in God can’t fear Death, for there is no death and no-one is ever dead. There is just a door called „death" we have to pass to be in God’s hemisphere. We might fear illness and other bad ways of dying - but “to fear Death” attests asubstantial lack of Jesus’ doctrine.
He however, who denied God, ought to know Paul’s word of Hebrews 10,31: It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
To all others - then our real life begins.

Yours
Bruno
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I fear the unknown. And i fear a wasted life.
 
BrunoMaria said:
“I don’t have any fear of death, because I don’t have any non-good memory about the time before I was born. So, I won’t have any at the time after death”

And yet this same man would probably poo and urinate in his pants if he had a live grenade shoved in his mouth.

Who is he trying to fool?

Human beings love the bravado of words, but the reality is usually very different.
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The fear of death is a biological reflect to survive.**
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JackVk said:
In some ways, I do. It makes me consider whether I truly believe in eternal life. We either are headed for glory, or it is game over.

“The healthy human mind doesn’t wake up in the morning thinking that today is its last day on earth. But I think that’s a luxury, not a curse. Knowing you’re close to the end is a kind of freedom… a good time to take inventory.” -Captain Price, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
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“To do is to be” Nietzsche
“To be is to do” Kant
“Do be do be do” Sinatra

My sister-in-law gave me a t-shirt with that phrase on it, only Plato, Socrates & Sinatra. We are both big Sinatra fans so I love the shirt. 🙂 👍
 
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