Are you afraid of death?

[Anonymous]

After losing someone very close to me, what I’m afraid of is my child or sibligings dealing with the loss of me, or me losing them. Grief is a bitch.

[Anonymous]

Read the near death experiences on nderf.org

It has changed my thoughts on this topic, in a positive way.

[Anonymous]

I fear leaving my daughter before she's able to take care of herself. I hope that my death is a quick process without a lot of pain, but I'm not afraid of death itself.

[Anonymous]

A bit of a fatalist. I just think "if it's time to go it's time to go." Of course I'd be scared as the murderer knifes me, but generally,
no. Not very religious, don't believe in afterlife.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have stage IV breast cancer, which means terminal. I'm in my e early 40's. I watched my mom,die of this disease 2 years before I was diagnosed. I think her death process scared me, but also gave me a a strange comfort that we are not alone when we cross over. I'm absolutely terrified of leaving my kids behind, especially with mom gone as well.
I had a very vivid dream of my uncle coming to get my mom. I have never had that dream before or since. He hugged me in the dream and never spoke but gave me the sense someone was waiting for me too. And not to be afraid. I read a quote by the actor Rainn Wilson once "We don't know what is after death just like a baby doesn't know what is after birth. Why do we always asume it's a horrible thing?"

I'm the Hospice Minister PP. I'm really sorry you got such a shitty diagnosis. My best friend died of inflammatory breast cancer several years ago. One piece of unsolicited advice. Listen to the diagnosis. Ignore the prognosis. You didn't arrive on Earth with an expiration date. Doctors can make educated guesses about how long a patient will survive, but they are very often wrong. My friend was given four months. She lived 18 months, most of them healthy and relatively pain free. We have patients given six months who live years. It's not false hope. There is always hope.

If I've learned anything in my work at Hospice, it's that death is like birth. It's a transition. I've seen more than proof that we go on after this body dies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have stage IV breast cancer, which means terminal. I'm in my e early 40's. I watched my mom,die of this disease 2 years before I was diagnosed. I think her death process scared me, but also gave me a a strange comfort that we are not alone when we cross over. I'm absolutely terrified of leaving my kids behind, especially with mom gone as well.
I had a very vivid dream of my uncle coming to get my mom. I have never had that dream before or since. He hugged me in the dream and never spoke but gave me the sense someone was waiting for me too. And not to be afraid. I read a quote by the actor Rainn Wilson once "We don't know what is after death just like a baby doesn't know what is after birth. Why do we always asume it's a horrible thing?"

I'm the Hospice Minister PP. I'm really sorry you got such a shitty diagnosis. My best friend died of inflammatory breast cancer several years ago. One piece of unsolicited advice. Listen to the diagnosis. Ignore the prognosis. You didn't arrive on Earth with an expiration date. Doctors can make educated guesses about how long a patient will survive, but they are very often wrong. My friend was given four months. She lived 18 months, most of them healthy and relatively pain free. We have patients given six months who live years. It's not false hope. There is always hope.

If I've learned anything in my work at Hospice, it's that death is like birth. It's a transition. I've seen more than proof that we go on after this body dies.

NP here: God bless you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a heaven and there is a hell. The only way to heaven is through Jesus. If people didn't fear death they wouldn't freak out and call 911 so frantically during a heart attack.

You evangelicals are so weird

We got nothing to lose

You got everything to lose.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a heaven and there is a hell. The only way to heaven is through Jesus. If people didn't fear death they wouldn't freak out and call 911 so frantically during a heart attack.

You evangelicals are so weird

We got nothing to lose

You got everything to lose.

all Jews
All Christians
All Islamists

Believe in heaven and hell. I think everybody feels it in their gut. Some probably never take it seriously until they are dying. The good news is in Christianity you can be saved even on your deathbed in the blink of an eye .

[Anonymous]

Read this book. “Many lives many masters” by Brian Weiss MD.

Remember if there is afterlife, it’s going to happen to all of us regardless of our religion. If there is not, then it’s not going to happen to any of us. In other words meaning of life would be the same for all of us regardless of our religion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a heaven and there is a hell. The only way to heaven is through Jesus. If people didn't fear death they wouldn't freak out and call 911 so frantically during a heart attack.

You evangelicals are so weird

We got nothing to lose

You got everything to lose.

Correction, weirdo:

I HAVE everything to lose.

Read something besides the New Testament now and again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a heaven and there is a hell. The only way to heaven is through Jesus. If people didn't fear death they wouldn't freak out and call 911 so frantically during a heart attack.

You evangelicals are so weird

We got nothing to lose

You got everything to lose.

all Jews
All Christians
All Islamists

Believe in heaven and hell. I think everybody feels it in their gut. Some probably never take it seriously until they are dying. The good news is in Christianity you can be saved even on your deathbed in the blink of an eye .

Which seems a bit of a cop-out, really. You can live a vile and depraved life and repent 30 seconds before death and be saved, whereas someone else who was a good person but didn't accept Jesus goes to hell? No thanks.

And while I can't speak for Islam, Judaism does not really preach that there's a hell the way Christianity does. Maybe some mystical texts but it's not at all part of the day to day religious or quotidian teachings. It certainly was never mentioned in my Hebrew school nor, in over 30 years of attending services, have I ever heard it mentioned. Judaism focuses on how to live your life in accordance with the Torah, but not from fear of hell.

[Anonymous]

I'm not afraid of dying suddenly.

I am afraid of it being slow and knowing when it is going to happen.

If that makes sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a heaven and there is a hell. The only way to heaven is through Jesus. If people didn't fear death they wouldn't freak out and call 911 so frantically during a heart attack.

You evangelicals are so weird

We got nothing to lose

You got everything to lose.

PP Hospice Minister here. You are losing much more than you can possible imagine. When you suggest entire groups of people are going to hell because they believe differently than you do, you are acting in direct opposition to the Christ you claim to follow. As a Christian and a Minister, evangelicals make my job 100X harder.

So, what do you have to lose? You are losing out on the opportunity to respond in kindness, tolerance, and compassion to your neighbor. And that my friend, is what Christ taught.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a heaven and there is a hell. The only way to heaven is through Jesus. If people didn't fear death they wouldn't freak out and call 911 so frantically during a heart attack.

You evangelicals are so weird

We got nothing to lose

You got everything to lose.

PP Hospice Minister here. You are losing much more than you can possible imagine. When you suggest entire groups of people are going to hell because they believe differently than you do, you are acting in direct opposition to the Christ you claim to follow. As a Christian and a Minister, evangelicals make my job 100X harder.

So, what do you have to lose? You are losing out on the opportunity to respond in kindness, tolerance, and compassion to your neighbor. And that my friend, is what Christ taught.

Share with me how you convey to people the core of our faith that no one gets to the father without Christ. I'll use it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a heaven and there is a hell. The only way to heaven is through Jesus. If people didn't fear death they wouldn't freak out and call 911 so frantically during a heart attack.

You evangelicals are so weird

We got nothing to lose

You got everything to lose.

all Jews
All Christians
All Islamists

Believe in heaven and hell. I think everybody feels it in their gut. Some probably never take it seriously until they are dying. The good news is in Christianity you can be saved even on your deathbed in the blink of an eye .

Which seems a bit of a cop-out, really. You can live a vile and depraved life and repent 30 seconds before death and be saved, whereas someone else who was a good person but didn't accept Jesus goes to hell? No thanks.

And while I can't speak for Islam, Judaism does not really preach that there's a hell the way Christianity does. Maybe some mystical texts but it's not at all part of the day to day religious or quotidian teachings. It certainly was never mentioned in my Hebrew school nor, in over 30 years of attending services, have I ever heard it mentioned. Judaism focuses on how to live your life in accordance with the Torah, but not from fear of hell.

Interesting everybody goes to heaven? So is Judaism sort of like martial arts a lifestyle of discipline?