Yes and no... stupid answer huh! I got startled from a scary ghost movie the other night. I said WHAT!!! There aint no freaking ghost! Why did you jump??? It must of been old reflexes popping up... I tell myself and others that I'm not afraid... but hell. I'm not dying either. I hope I'm not afraid.

I'll sleep when I'm dead.

Death, per se, doesn't scare me... DYING on the other hand, does.

I’m not afraid of death;I just don’t want to be there when it happens -Woody Allen

A few years ago, I was diagnosed with leukemia. I found it to be very interesting that i ws nto really scared at all about dying. (I no longer have leukemia)

As to death itself, I will get there eventually, as we all will, but I am not in any hurry to get there. I think fear of death is just fer of the unknown. I don't see any rationality to beign afraid just becaue I don't knoe something... yet.

I work at a hospital. I have thick skin now. Death doesn't scare me anymore.

I have no fear of death. It's an inevitable conclusion whether you're ready to die or not. What I do fear is how I die. For example, I find the concept of being eaten alive, terrifying. I find I'm afraid of drowning. There are other ways of dying I fear but I won't get into that. You get my point.

Death is exactly what it looks like. When I'm dead I won't even know I"m dead because there will be no one there anymore to know anything. Kinda makes you appreciate life here and now every day.

Death is but part of life, I don’t believe there is nothing to be scared about; for a species that still searching for where we have come, what ever happens after life, should not be scary. I believe people fear death, because the associate their existence with the material possessions they have or would like to have, and they don’t want to lose what they have worked hard to achieve.

I do not fear death. I read a quote somewhere that said:

"You're a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made from stardust riding a rock hurtling through space. Fear nothing."

That works for me.

I don't fear anything. I dislike many things. Pain is a dislike. I don't want to be in pain. But, why would I fear death? It's part the of the same ride we're all on.

All of life is based on either fear or love. Every emotion that you experience can be drilled down to one of those at the root of it.

I choose love rather than fear.

I'm not afraid of dying at the appropriate place and time. (Very, very, old, ambulatory, sane, and not in pain.) Everything else scares me. Having said that. The bright side, I hope, is that there won't be taxes, bills, mortgages, lousy bosses, insensitive xs, war, poverty, pollution, politics, injustice, police brutality, human and animal abuse.

My thinking is that we become what we were before we were born. We never seem to worry about where we were before two cells hooked up in a warm, cozy, dark place and became us.

The aspect of death I find scary - or at least damn unsettling, is the idea of having some painful, lingering illness that renders me mostly helpless and dependent.

Otherwise I don't find the idea of death scary. In fact, the way the world's going lately, I feel my timing will likely be good. Not that I'm in any hurry mind you ! I'm rather enjoying myself ...

I think I have a healthy survival instinct. I'm in no hurry to die but I don't fear it. What I fear is pain. This culture has some real screwed up ideas about death. The Christian who should welcome death seems to fear it the most, thinking it the worst of all evils. I like what Mark Twain had to say about it. I was dead for millions of years before I was born and was not in the least inconvenienced by it.

Lol, I not scared of death, really. I'm not even scared of there being nothing after death. I'm spiritual, I believe in God and Heaven and Hell, and I believe that where you go depends on how you live, not what you believe. Although I'd be open to all of that being wrong, too. It really doesn't matter enough to me. My only fear regarding death is that I'd stop EXISTING. I can handle an empty afterlife of darkness and nothingness, but I cannot understand the concept of ceasing to exist. That's why I still believe what I do. I just find t hard to believe that, with all of my memories, my perceptions in life, my senses, everything, would just STOP. I mean, how we even know what death is, why would anyone ever fear it, if we would literally be GONE when we're gone?

I have no fear of dying. I do not fear death. It is simply part of the cycle. I do think that once I die that there is nothing beyond. I think we just cease to exit and decompose to rejoin the world.

I am not scared of death per se, but I am scared of dying.

I'm not afraid of death, In my mind its just natural everyone dies. I figure when it happens it happens. Though many things may cause me to die sooner or later then others i will die either way, so it dosnt scare me im just okay with it. But that just me. ????

My fear of death fell away with belief in religion.

I have some fear of dying, that can be rather unpleasant. But once I'm dead, I will no longer care. I really don't think on it at all any more.

I don't fear death I fear hurting, or being a burden, by hanging around too long- I am old and I have done enough in my life to feel fulfilled, so, just coasting at the moment; as I said somewhere else -old enough to take life easy, fiddle around with my artwork and enjoy the view.

It does scare me. Not believing in heaver or hell or any of that, I've thought through what it might be like for absence of anything after it, and it's frightening. Think about when you sleep, the dreaming part aside, or better yet if you go under for surgery. Someone sitting awake with you will experience several hours of time pass, while for you it's instantaneous, yet you were together just before and still together now, experiencing the same moments. Like nature abhors a vacuum, consciousness abhors nothingness, and like the perception of time from falling asleep to waking up gets stretched together to meet another, when you die and there is nothing afterwards, your perception of time will be infinitely stretched forward. So I hope to be in a very painless and non-horrific situation when my time comes, or I could find myself in my very personal hell forever.

From my perspective, we aren't truly the same people from one moment to the next. Personal identity is illusory because our mental states, memories, anticipation, etc., makes it feel like the same person persists. But we are different and only very similar. If later today I'm in an accident, that reality at this moment doesn't affect me. That later me isn't present me, even though he has most of the same memories I have and most of the same motivations. I just identify with him more because of that similarity, sort of a super empathy. So I think I've died countless times imperceptibly and another death doesn't have any greater practical impact for me. But, I don't want suffering. I still feel that persistent connection to the person I'll be tomorrow, and I don't want that dude to suffer. Not that I want anyone else to suffer, either, but I have a greater impact and therefore responsibility to the me of tomorrow.

What is there to be afraid of? It is a fact of life, I accept that all things conclude.

No control... I defied death in my youth often enough. I will be ready within the circumstances... I will hate leaving behind a loved one while making plans for us in the future... I will feel for her. But as my son told me after a death defying escapade... "do you know what you dying will do to me?". My only fear is the estate of soul, mind and heart of those I leave behind.

What's fearful is not having lived a life, being incomplete in things you want to do, places you want to go, and so on.

My fear, like many, is going before I'm ready. I have children I would like to see settled and become pillars in their community. There are places to go and things to do that I've not been able to, and hope to in the near future. I'd like to stave off any unfortunate illness in the interim. Suffering is unkind and the more one ages, the more aware we can become to the necessity of attention to our health. Otherwise, I hope the passing is pain-free.

Not afraid to die, at all. It's inevitable. Fearing it would just be a waste of time, and would interfere with the actual living of my life. Granted, I'm not ready to go anytime soon, but that's not my call to make. When your number's up, your number's up. I think so many people (at least believers) fear death because they're afraid they're not going to 'heaven', and they fear 'hell'. They probably know they haven't lived their lives according to the tenets of their belief system, and they fear their hypocrisy will consign them to hell. LOL Sorry, I shouldn't laugh at other people's fears, but if they didn't believe in delusions, they'd have less to worry about.