Do not fear it at all. The human body will remove you from the extreme situation as it always does. A nasty death will put the brain into a state of shock and you will not be aware of the event itself. To conquer death all we have to do is die. That is a line from JC Superstar

Being reduced to a state of physical inability to care for myself, mind still intact.

Ooh, good question! Drowning is certainly scary — panic sets in pretty fast when you can't get oxygen — but it's a relatively quick death. Fire seems like it would hurt a lot, but I've heard that most people in a fire die from smoke inhalation long before the flames reach them (though being burned at the stake would be a different matter). I think cancer would top my list, because you don't pass out from the pain, it's long and drawn out, and you have to think about it day after day while enduring exhaustion and increasing pain, and eventually organ failure. And you watch those around you, with pitying eyes, experience your decline, grieving for you before you've even died, doing everything for you as you get sicker, weaker, and more delirious, even resenting you for putting them through the ordeal. That's what scares me. If I ever have an incurable wasting disease, I'll end my own life long before I become too sick and a serious burden on my loved ones.

Maybe I'm weird but I think drowning sounds kind of peaceful. I mean it would have to be a big body of water and I'm sure there would be a moment of panic. Anyway, I agree with everyone....slow and painful. I also fear dying of Alzheimer's. In runs in my family on both sides. It's not the death I fear but being a burden on my family.

I just heard the news today of a local fishing boat with a crew of 7 on board that I knew well, that capsized in heavy weather and sank with only one lad escaping, the rest probably trapped in the vessel as it went down, This to me would be one of the worst ways to die, a slow suffocation trapped and unable to escape.

Eaten by fire ants.

Being the fattest survivor of an airplane crash on a desert island as everyone turns to cannibalism

I don't fear a natural death, I look forward to it because I have never done it before and it is a once in a lifetime experience but saying that, I am in no hurry for it to arrive, I still have plenty of living still to do.
The type of death that I fear is a death caused by some knob head who cares about nobody but themselves, a drunk driver, an armed criminal, accidental death whilst at work (my elder brother died this way in 1978 when he was crushed by a train).
Death is inevitable and after a long life, it will be welcome.

Fire and being eaten by an animal.

I fear no death it is a path we must all take it's the one thing that is guaranteed

Cancer, just lost a friend to it.

Anything that is slow and drawn-out, like being swallowed by a snake, being on fire, suffocating, or drowning. I'd rather have something quick and short, like falling from a plane.

I fear dying alone.

dying alone and forgotten

Being buried alive. I'm quite claustrophobic.

I fear being killed by a bible believing religious fanatic. Be it a Christian, Jew, Muslim, or any other person who believes in a higher power. A true bible follower to be sure. That would be my most horrible death. Thou shall not kill...what a joke!

The only kind of death that I fear is the final one. Come to think of it, I don't fear death at all. I think it sucks because there is so much more to learn, to experience, to see, but I have no fear of it.

Oh, wait, that's not what you asked, is it? I think helpless lingering while my mind is still intact. That I think would bother me greatly.

The one where I don’t exist anymore.

falling into a industrial size chipper shredder would not be fun

I do not fear death. I dislike pain. I hope to not die a long, painful, diseased struggle.

I don't know because I am told that drowning is quite pleasant and that being in a fire is pretty quick as you  lose consciousness I don't think we have any animals that eat us here - like bears or alligators unless they escape from the zoo. I think the worms eating me is good enough for me then it will go further up the food chain - something will eat the  worms- prefer to just go in my sleep really though!

I don't fear death but, the one that I find the least appealing is the common in this age, a death confined to a bed in an extended care centre with a failing body and a sharp mind. Give me a rock outside looking up at the stars on a clear winter night.

Ive been living with death as a partner in life for quite a long time . I did tend to freak out at times, fearing the unknown inevitable stuff. We walk or run through life , generally careless about death, it would seem the older we get , that some of us start to fear what is obviously closer to us now , than has been for the earlier stages of our lives. At 17 Iwas wiped out in what was initially classed a fatal motorcycle accident, screwed me up for years, that life had almost ended and Iwas not even aware it had happened, until being all messed up in a hospital. In my 20's Itripped in a factory into a band saw, it was going to decapitate me , so Ipushed myself away from it , sawing a bit of my thumb off in the process << a large bit . In my 20's Iblew up my garage with me in it , trying one of my own experiments liberating Hydrogen gas<< It did it so fast it heated up and self combusted << very spectacular it wass to<< servere burns and a lot of laughing, ( Iwas young and foolish and it was funny it exploded too me ) . Then at 31 Iwas sitting on a combustible item << a Buses fuel tank, when it errupted, shattering my lower half an blowing bits out of me, that used to live on the inside , to the outside . My point being is this, when death comes , you won't see it or hear it , or know its there . To fear an obvious thing in life is not rational ? At death your brain will release a chemical to calm you down , to stop you suffering psychological trauma as you pass , so you pass peacefully. In drowing , you pass out fast without oxygen , the panic is pre acceptance of death , in a fire if the smoke does not kill you , breathing flames will stop your alvioli working, ( gaseous exchange ) and you'll pass out fast , and if your being burnt, ( I have experience in this twice ) your body releases chemicals to ease the pain. My view is not to fear death, but wait for it to come , to be able to walk on the final adventure into what thus far , is the unknown. I also feel , your character is tied to the physical body , a manisfestation of your consciouness and only required to carry this body through this existance and be able to commincate with others etc . Our thinking self apart from the physical self, Ifeel is what remains constant, not this perception of our temporary self, in the realm we are presently occupying . Love and peace too you all. Don't fear death or waste time thinking about it , when it comes, Idoubt you will even know its there . I will personally rise up and take it hand , what a relief that will be . I lived my life , like a race horse with its blinkers off , for the first time in its life. I ran hard and Iran fast, However , this has turned me into a pack mule in old age carrying around the burden of all my injuries, Ive incurred from all of those falls Iendured in that great race ?? << yeah right , ermmm there never was a race or a rush, ( heheheheheh ) but hey Ilike to do things quickly << or rather Idid . I am at dead slow to almost stopped here in life now and Ilove the lack of activity, or disasters that are likely to happen , now Ive stopped being an idiot . Don't worry about things that can kill you , think about all the things that can make you a better person or enjoy life more . Think Positive not death

I don't fear death... I just fear the way it might happen. Any slow painful death would really suck!

None really; got to go some way; as far as I have heard - fire is smoke inhalation mostly so your lungs give out and apparently you go dreamy in the same way as when when drowning and your lungs fill up with water - (I do hate salt though)