I wonder if I'd get different results asking this question on a christian web site. Maybe they're more afraid of dying because of all that hellfire and damnation garbage.

While I fear death it is true, I fear that living to an old age a lot more. Especially if my spouse dies before me, he is the only one who truly cares and loves me and without him life would be so dim. I guess one might say that I fear living in a world without my best friend, my partner, my love.

Since I am at an older age and have some experience with that, I have some relatable fears. The only concern of death would be if there were pain involved. Understanding logical consequences, why fear death?

There are a lot of things in life I accept that I don't particularly like. Those are two of them. But I get great deals at IHOP. whoope

Death is no problemo. It's the PROCESS of dying (old age by default, unless something else intervenes sooner) that's problematic with the open-ended amounts of pain and suffering it can inflict.

I am 61 and my wife is 59; between us, in the past 7 days, we've had the following doctor visits:

• Cardiologist eval due to family history, father had sudden heart attack at about this point
• Urologist for increasingly flaky ability to take a pee
• Dermatologist to treat Rosatia
• Pain doctor to bombard nerves in lower back with radio waves so they quit whining all the time

And we're just getting started. So I fear aging way "more" than death although it's not something that keeps me awake at night (I'm pretty good at not ruminating on things I can't control).