Afraid of Death! HELP!

Psilocybin has been used to help people with fear of death, but as far as I am aware, these have mostly been with people who are dying (terminal cancer and the like).

That's what freaks me out too losing all the knowledge we learned in life.

Afraid wrote:

That's what freaks me out too losing all the knowledge we learned in life.

Knowledge is just neuron firing-patterns that are triggered by electricity and subject to the imperfect senses used to take in that information in the first place. It's less real than a digital file saved on a hard-drive. Essentially, it's entirely inconsequential.

But if you're that concerned you could write down what you feel are the more important things you learned to preserve it.

Eyes on me wrote:

The black hole wrote:

Intelligence can be a horrible thing. As we know it we are the only species on the planet that knows one day we will die. Religion, orbs, reincarnation, all ways to cope with the inevitable.

Enjoy life, be kind to others. Life is short.

What's the point of being nice to others? I just want to do me and anyone who gets in the way of that will go down. I don't want to hear that crap about making life better for others. I'm here for me

Same here. Nietchsze changed my life. Once I realized that justice, rights, and fairness were illusory concepts with no meaning that is. I pretend to be a "good" person, but it's just a facade to get what I want. Fortunately, I'm wily enough to have never been found out. I exist only for my own pleasure.

in it to win it wrote:

Same here. Nietchsze changed my life. Once I realized that justice, rights, and fairness were illusory concepts with no meaning that is. I pretend to be a "good" person, but it's just a facade to get what I want. Fortunately, I'm wily enough to have never been found out. I exist only for my own pleasure.

This doesn't make you clever or wily, every person who ever has and ever will exist is the exact same, most are just in denial over it. Altruism is a facade every action derives from self-interest.

Why do people see this light right before death then or see their bodies above them. I also read this book called 90 Minutes in Heaven and the guy said he met people that was in his family when he was only an infant and all his family members greeted him. There's also this book where a guy said he was in this void for like 70 minutes and he got a second chance to prove himself right to God? Are people just making these stories up. I'm a young person and this scares me )';.

Afraid wrote:

Why do people see this light right before death then or see their bodies above them. I also read this book called 90 Minutes in Heaven and the guy said he met people that was in his family when he was only an infant and all his family members greeted him. There's also this book where a guy said he was in this void for like 70 minutes and he got a second chance to prove himself right to God? Are people just making these stories up. I'm a young person and this scares me )';.

I don't know about people seeing their bodies, but I do believe there is some research showing that the "tunnel of light" phenomenon can be generated by cessation of some brain function.

Is there some big plan in the end though? Like an angel sitting at the end of your bed ready to answer all those questions we wondered?

Also, what about our auras isn't this our spirit?

sdsdfaa wrote:

Afraid wrote:

Why do people see this light right before death then or see their bodies above them. I also read this book called 90 Minutes in Heaven and the guy said he met people that was in his family when he was only an infant and all his family members greeted him. There's also this book where a guy said he was in this void for like 70 minutes and he got a second chance to prove himself right to God? Are people just making these stories up. I'm a young person and this scares me )';.

I don't know about people seeing their bodies, but I do believe there is some research showing that the "tunnel of light" phenomenon can be generated by cessation of some brain function.

One of the top theories is that the brain dumps massive quantities of DMT (dimethyltryptamine) when you're on death's door. It's a functional analog of psilocybin (that fun stuff in shrooms) and occurs naturally though has also been synthesized.

Xanax wrote:

sdsdfaa wrote:

I don't know about people seeing their bodies, but I do believe there is some research showing that the "tunnel of light" phenomenon can be generated by cessation of some brain function.

One of the top theories is that the brain dumps massive quantities of DMT (dimethyltryptamine) when you're on death's door. It's a functional analog of psilocybin (that fun stuff in shrooms) and occurs naturally though has also been synthesized.

Well said. I don't doubt the sincerity of these people's delusions while on the death bed. Just like dreams, they can seem so realistic that they could be mistaken for the true thing.

I believe that there are books and movies about similar scenarios, but most of these could just be described as some sort of before-death hallucination.

1600/800 guy wrote:

Assuming you aren't a troll, read the Bible. Seriously. Will change you forever m8. No reason to fear.

The Bible is the scariest thing ever. Eternal damnation, no thanks. And heaven will be full of jesus freaks. I'll take the nothingness of atheism over that nonsense any day. I'm comforted knowing that this is all there is. I'm only afraid of how I die. Rotting away from cancer scare me. Other than that I'm cool with death.

Opposite wrote:

I don´t really afraid the death of mine that much, I afraid the death of my loved ones.

Oh STFU.

Life is the result of a sexually transmitted disease that is 100% fatal.

R. Newhart wrote:

Afraid wrote:

I'm so terrified of death! what happens after? I don't want to feel the world being sucked out of me! What's it like to not be "here" I hope we turn into orbs or something or go to heaven. Ever since I found out stuff like Santa not being real years back it always made me think then what if heaven isn't real and just a fable too >.

Are you afraid of being buried alive in a box?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw

One of my faves. Thanks for reminding me about this :-)

STOP IT!

You need to read Ernest Becker's Book - "The Denial of Death".

It will frame it for you in a proper context, minus all the Bull$hit. Then afterwards, embrace your Faith; if you have one! Remember, not all those in the realm of Christianity are Hell-fire & Brimstone 'Fundamentalists'. There's always HOPE!

"In heaven there is no beer, that's why I drink it here. And when I'm gone from here, my friends will be drinking all my beer"

To overcome fear is to understand it: Imagine you were born in a house (with no windows) and lived there your whole life. Nothing told you what was next: TV, no computers, no nothing. However, the outside doors would be flung open on death. How would you feel?

Understanding creates awareness that we are not so different, every one of the billions of people on this planet was afraid of death at some point.

I've run miles in my work shoes, sneakers, snow boots (today), and I will never forget this time. It wasnt how fast I ran, but how unique I ran. I was worried I might step on my 2 dogs paws while we were all running in the snow. And they are herding dogs so they often run and try to herd me, into a tree sometimes but I'm sure it wasnt intended. They love me.

I only wish one thing: That in the afterlife I am still run. Only then will it truly be heaven for there is only one thing in life that made me feel alive, the wind in my hair, the singing through the mile and miles of forest, being the only one (crazy person) running dodging rocks and roots. I guess my point is that you have to feel a good reason to be alive, good memories, then you lose the sting of death. My dad was content that he had a good life before he died and I gave a short and sweet speech at his wake. I made people remember him, and how he got enraged and threw the TV down the cellar stairs when I was a kid (because he got in a argument with my step brother). That was when I was toddler in the early 1970s After that we never had a TV in the house, and when he died he still didnt have a TV in the house, and my family never did, and still doesnt either. So be it, I dont think about it (stupid TV) and I don't care. Rest in peace RIP, dad. That's how it goes, and now he's in a better place. Free from this place we call Earth.

my farts smell of death

3333333 wrote:

A few times a year, I have this "fear of death" moment and I have mini panic attacks. They're not debilitating or anything, thankfully. (I'm an atheist, FWIW.)

Me too. I am about to turn 40 this year and have had those fear of death moments many times since I was a teenager. It's a real bummer knowing that whatever it is that makes us us will be gone. That everything will just shut down like turning off a light switch to never be turned back on again. I really don't want to die.