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My point is that it's a fear of the unknown. We don't know for sure that there is a paradise after death, reincarnation, prosthetics or something else. Even if a person believes in one of these options , it won't get any easier. For example, it is difficult for me to imagine how it is “nothing”; how it is that you do not feel anything, do not realize, and so on. That's what I think people are afraid of.
For me, it's more the fear that after death-nothing, and this is nothing I personally fear. I am afraid that I will no longer be able to see my loved ones, learn something new, or experience emotions. The fear of realizing that all this is for one time, that everyone is living their first and last time, that no one knows how to live and why to live at all. Although, when we die, we won't care about this nothing anymore and it makes it easier, or something.
It's not fear. Rather, everything can be explained in one phrase: “I will leave, and the rest will stay.” It's a shame that we won't see so much new, we won't learn so many discoveries. And in general, I wonder how everything will go next, because life is such a long film. And then they suddenly turn it off and that's it. Unfair)
In my opinion, as already mentioned above, people are afraid of the unknown, but at the same time a person knows that people died thousands of years ago before him and will die after.In his case, nothing new will happen. After all, death is life, or rather a part of it, it does not exist by itself, death exists only where there is life. Many people are not afraid of death, but of the fact that they will not have time to do something in life. But what can I do?! After all, we are not given a list of things to do at birth that we need to complete while you live. Yes, and there would be such a list, so we need deadlines, and what is it like to live, knowing, for example, that you will die in 10 years or 16? And if there is no specific goal/task, then a person sets his own goals for himself all his life and doubts live with us all his life, but am I living correctly, is this the purpose of my existence here? And there are no answers and there will be no answers, no one has ever come back to tell us how it is there, after death. Based on this, we can conclude that a person does not even know why he lives life on earth, and what is the meaning of all this, so when it comes to the end, doubts take over and drive a person into fear, which seems to be everything, but what is it all for? Many people console themselves that if there are children or their life's work, then life has not been lived in vain, but no one comes and says: “yes, you were good”, “but you are not very good, you could have done better”. When a person dies, there will be darkness and emptiness, consciousness will cease to exist and it will not matter how long you have lived and how, whether it is righteous or not, it will no longer matter.
Everyone is trained to be afraid of death, your religion teaches you to be afraid of death, your idols, your eyes that see what happens to the body after death, and the fear increases every time
My point is that it's a fear of the unknown. We don't know for sure that there is a paradise after death, reincarnation, prosthetics or something else. Even if a person believes in one of these options , it won't get any easier. For example, it is difficult for me to imagine how it is “nothing”; how it is that you do not feel anything, do not realize, and so on. That's what I think people are afraid of.
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It's scary to imagine that your personality may never be there again. For me, death is comparable to anesthesia, during which my consciousness literally did not exist, disappeared in the darkness and ringing of my ears.
I'm not afraid of dying in my old age, I'm afraid of not being able to do everything that I have planned.
It seems to me that people just don't fully understand what is hidden behind this concept. And they can't understand it: try to imagine that at one point you will cease to exist. Even in this sentence, in fact, there is a contradiction: on the one hand, you are alive, because you perform such an act as a performance, on the other – you are dying. Like anything uncertain, “death” scares people, because knowing means being protected.
In my opinion, as already mentioned above, people are afraid of the unknown, but at the same time a person knows that people died thousands of years ago before him and will die after.In his case, nothing new will happen. After all, death is life, or rather a part of it, it does not exist by itself, death exists only where there is life. Many people are not afraid of death, but of the fact that they will not have time to do something in life. But what can I do?! After all, we are not given a list of things to do at birth that we need to complete while you live. Yes, and there would be such a list, so we need deadlines, and what is it like to live, knowing, for example, that you will die in 10 years or 16? And if there is no specific goal/task, then a person sets his own goals for himself all his life and doubts live with us all his life, but am I living correctly, is this the purpose of my existence here? And there are no answers and there will be no answers, no one has ever come back to tell us how it is there, after death. Based on this, we can conclude that a person does not even know why he lives life on earth, and what is the meaning of all this, so when it comes to the end, doubts take over and drive a person into fear, which seems to be everything, but what is it all for? Many people console themselves that if there are children or their life's work, then life has not been lived in vain, but no one comes and says: “yes, you were good”, “but you are not very good, you could have done better”. When a person dies, there will be darkness and emptiness, consciousness will cease to exist and it will not matter how long you have lived and how, whether it is righteous or not, it will no longer matter.
The fear of Death is the most powerful of the fear systems built into almost all the physical bodies of people born. The fear of death should be considered on the segment of the “Life-Death” principle, since this is a single line.
Inside, any person has a so-called life line, which determines how much a given person should live. The life span is defined in time, in years. The time of life-being depends and is built exclusively by Fate and is expressed as a Destiny. That is, what a person must do in their particular incarnation in order to live this life in the most effective way and move on to the “next class of Life”.
Since Life is literally fixed in time, in the same and familiar to us, then here appears the first reason why a person is afraid of death. Life goes on, time ends. There are many meanings attached to time from the current social society, which dictates how to live. Any reasonable person understands that all “dictation” is impossible and unnecessary. But the principle of measuring personal success in relation to the “dictated” exists. From here:
a lot of social desires accumulate that cannot be realized. Just because I don't have time. Subconsciously, this leads to the feeling that “I won't make it and I won't be able to”;
the process of life develops into a race only for desires. A person ceases to track that he lives at all and cannot even explain what “Life is for him”. Therefore, the main thing is to be just alive, purely at the level of physics, in order to allow yourself to move more. And for as long as possible to postpone the reverse side of Life-Death.
The second reason. The inner feeling that everything that a person does is done for no one and not for him. And for “strangers”. The less a person can realize himself, develop in the direction of the chosen Goal, and not a socially accepted stereotype, the more he will be afraid to die. Because, again subconsciously, it feels like something is going wrong. And he does not do what is necessary for himself.
The third reason.Death, which is out there somewhere and it is not clear when it will come, serves as an impulse for people to move. The main impulse to do something. Let's assume that we have removed Death from the system of people's Lives. And then what? Well, then you can do what you planned for today, in 500 years)) After all, what difference does it make, nothing will change much. Losing momentum is scary.
These are the main, underlying reasons.
As a result, I can say that the closer and more a person makes in the development of his Destiny, and therefore does everything to realize the Goal, the Fear of Death weakens. It also remains as a system, but the influence from it goes to the “normal” level.
Personally, I am afraid of the realization that I still have so much that I have not done in my life.
After all, if I die, all my plans will collapse. All dreams and aspirations will turn to dust.�
We put off so much for later, and it may not come.
For those who are afraid of death and all those who are not indifferent to it, I strongly recommend reading the Tibetan Book of the Dead or the Bardo Thedol to stop being afraid (or start being even more afraid, Yyyyy). Rationalists – with Jung's comments, people with brain mysticism like me-with comments�Sogyal Rinpoche (a friend of Richard Gere, by the way), the Dalai Lama of etc. (Wikipedia wildly recommends Namkai Norbu, for example).
In a very simplified form, the essence of the teaching explains death as a fierce bad trip (because consciousness at the moment of dying begins to convulsively reflect on what it has done in life), and how you behave in it will affect your future rebirth or liberation. A real exam isn't for the faint of heart, yes! The word “bardo” means an intermediate state: life is the bardo between birth and death, death is the bardo between lives, sleep is the bardo between wakefulness, and so on.
Here are just some quotes from Sogyal Rinpoche:
“One of the main characteristics of the bardo is that they are periods of intense uncertainty. Let's take this life as a prime example. Just as the world around us is becoming more turbulent, so our lives are becoming more fragmented. We are disconnected from ourselves, detached from ourselves, anxious, restless, and often paranoid. A minor crisis punctures the balloon of design behind which we try to hide. One moment of panic shows us how unstable and unreliable everything is. Living in the modern world is like a reflection of the Bardo realm; you don't have to die to experience it.
This pervasive uncertainty becomes even more intense, even more demonstrative, after we die, when, as the masters tell us, our clarity or confusion “multiplies sevenfold.””
“Of course, post-mortem bardos are much deeper states of consciousness and immeasurably more powerful moments than the dream and dream states, but their relative levels of subtlety correspond to each other and show the connections and parallels that exist between all the different levels of consciousness. Masters often use this comparison to show how difficult it is to maintain awareness in bardo states. How many of us are aware of a change in consciousness when we fall asleep? Or at the moment of sleep when the dreams have not yet begun? How many of us know when we dream that we are dreaming? Imagine, then, how difficult it will be to remain conscious in the tumultuous confusion of posthumous bardos.
How your mind behaves in the dream and dream states shows how your mind will behave in the corresponding bardo states; for example, how you react now in your dreams, in nightmares, and when you dream of obstacles shows how you can react when you die. This is why sleep and dream yoga plays such an important role in preparing for death. Those who truly practice it strive to maintain, constantly and continuously, their awareness of the nature of the mind during the day and night, and thus directly use the various phases of sleep and dreams to know and confidently recognize what will happen to them in different bard-ods during and after death.”
Well, as a beautiful epilogue:
“You're wasting your time, not thinking about your impending death,
You do useless things in this life.
You are not wise, for you neglect what is given to you.
the best opportunity for improvement.
If you leave this life empty-handed, then you've been following the wrong path.”
Bardo Thedol (Tibetan Book of the Dead)�
The fear of death is inherent in everyone. This is what motivates a person to live. He will not want to die early or quickly, he will try to survive by any means because he is afraid. He is afraid because he doesn't know what will happen after death.�
The void? No one, nothing, nowhere… Or paradise? Hell? A ghostly life? Birth in a new body?�
What am I afraid of in death? Voids. Where there is nothing. You don't see, you don't hear, you don't feel, you don't think… I can't imagine that… Will life be so short, and your end will be an endless, terrible ordeal?
I will not say that death is a fear of the unknown. I'm pretty sure there won't be anything after death. But this is quite scary. When you live, you involuntarily feel like an immortal, because how can it be that you will not be there, and your feelings and thoughts will not be there ( and then life may begin to seem meaningless with such reasoning) �there will be nothing at all. You can only stay in people's memories.
I'm afraid of this emptiness.
Personally, I've always been afraid of the unknown. And after that? Nothing? I could never imagine what it would be like to stop existing, to stop thinking, because with the physical body, consciousness also dies. Or does it not die?
I hope that death is somewhat similar to a dream: you will not feel the border between “I am alive” (I am lying under a blanket and preparing for bed) and “I died” (I fell asleep), and in the morning (here you can think of anything from reincarnation to moving consciousness to another reality where “you” are alive) these few hours will seem like a blink of an eye.
By the way, about the “morning” I have my own theory (although I am more than sure that there were enough such philosophers before me): the consciousness of each person is nothing more than a particle of the universal global mind (organism), so death is nothing more than a redistribution of consciousness. That is, a person (as in the case of sleep) does not feel the transition from one physical body to another.
In general, the devil knows how everything is tripled. Maybe everything is a matrix at all!
The fear of death makes me (and humanity as a whole) come up with crazy theories (religions, cough-cough), one of which I described above, in order to somehow calm down and calmly go about my routine, without worrying about what will happen after. And after that, nothing will change (well, I hope). Just like that.
I'm not personally afraid of death. I'm afraid of what comes before it. Pain, fear, confusion, cold sweat. Death itself is a complete absence of sensations and to be afraid of this is stupid for me. We all basically die every day when we go to bed, the only difference is that death is a dream forever. For example, if you fell asleep and didn't wake up, you wouldn't even realize that you were dead.
On the one hand, this is an absolutely rational fear, since all living things are inherent in the instinct of self-preservation. Of course, this instinct can be suppressed by some stronger factor.�
In addition, the fear of death is rather a subconscious phenomenon, which is why it is so difficult to formulate the reason. You might say it has to do with the Rebirth archetype and our hidden fears about what will happen to our personality.�
If a person is religious, they may fear punishment after death (such as Hell).
it is correct that death is a fear of the unknown. We are afraid of a dark room, we are afraid of a thick forest, we are afraid of the depth of water, an unknown insect, etc. – all because we do not know what will happen. Our inherent animal fear of danger. But if we can learn about all these thickets and waters from our comrades, from some personal experience, then no one can say anything about death, because no one returned from there. Our brain can't understand it in any way – because throughout life we learn everything by experience, we are used to shuffle. And here-well, no way! �And that's it. Another question – it's a shame! “but you have to accept that, how many people have died without seeing a car or a plane, how many have had their teeth pulled out without anesthesia, and how many have died of diarrhea.
First, it makes sense to be afraid of an unnatural death: diseases, catastrophes, or violence cause a lot of other unpleasant sensations in addition to death, which you want to avoid, even if there is a chance of survival.
In addition, a person has an instinct for self-preservation, which motivates him to avoid emotional trauma, and therefore awakens an instant fear of the danger of death in order to avoid bad consequences.
Also, death means the complete absence of any feelings, memory and perception of the individual as a whole. After death, consciousness dissolves into emptiness, without the ability to become more aware of its existence. It means losing everything that ever existed or could have existed for you in this universe. It sounds scary.
In addition, it is influenced by the social value in the eyes of family and friends, the understanding that even after death, life will continue for others, and your death can have a bad impact on their situation.