Why do people fear death Are you afraid of death? Statistically speaking half of the students answered yes to the question are you afraid to die. Then, They was asked how they wanted to die and 40% said in their sleep, but 30% said a traumatic death. The fear is based on not wanting to go through the dying, like where you will go afterwards. the fear of the unknown.Where you want to go and you don't really know if that's where you will go.The thought of death on a daily base can lead to a phobia called thanatophobia. (George Campbell 2013 Exit Strategy New York) Humans have trouble thinking of death at an early stage of their lives. This causes a delay in the writing of a will, buying a coffin, looking at cemeteries. We must not think too …show more content…
I like the stories about death.
In the story Pardoner's Tale a group of drunk 3 rioters are sitting and one of the servants tells them that an old friend was slain that night by death. They were outraged. so then, the rioters decided that night they were going to find the death and kill him. On the way to find death. They met an old man and tells the rioters, he has been waiting for death to come take him. The old man told them that he has wandered all over the world looking for death. Hearing deaths name they demanded to know where to find him. The old man points to a grove. Where he said he left death under an oak tree. They rush to the tree, but did not find death, instead they found gold. They didn't want to be called thieves. So in the mean time they need someone to run in town and get wine with bread. They drew lots and the youngest had to run in to town. when he left the 2 brothers discuss the plan. When he gets back we will kill him so we get the greater fortune. The youngest thinks about the same thing, how rich he could be. So then the youngest goes an buy poison and tell them he has some rats to kill. he puts the poison in 2 wine bottles, leaving the 3 one pure. He returns and the 2 brothers
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My counselor thinks i'm afraid of death, but i'm not i'm afraid of the pain it will bring. I don't really care where goes after death. I just want to be will my loved ones that's it. It would be hard to live without them. other than that, I don't really care. I think everyone should go to the same place. you can’t be perfect and some people never learn. They don’t like change so they keep repeating the same thing over and over. I think that's why the same people go to prison all the time. They have been there so long they want to stay. They don't want to go in the real world. Its probably hard to think that way and live it. I don't have any personal experience really with the fear of death, but when I was little. I would ask my mom why she wouldn’t just go to rehab and get help. She would tell me to shut up and I didn’t know what I was talking about. I have seen what she was doing when she would go in the bathroom and in her bedroom. so I told her that one day andd I told my grandma and she asked her about it. She told her I was a liar an all kids lie.So then she put me in the car a drove me to the cliff looking area an pulled over an pulled me out an told snitch get stitches an end up dead in ditches. I cried a long time after that. It’s still hard today to think about. my mom later on after this, made me some tea one day an I drank it, but soon after I wasn’t feeling good and she told me that there was some grinded glass in
Some of us come to term with the reality that everything in life is temporary, and that one day we will all die. But sometimes people face hard time facing the reality of death because is never easy to accept not breathing one day. Some people fear for a good reason because once someone dies there is no coming back and not knowing what happens in the afterlife makes dying even more painful. The sad thing about dying is that one never knows when they will die, which is why someone people hate thinking about dying because it makes them overthink when they will die. Everyone face the reality of death differently
Death is an unknown place that people tend to avoid because of the fear that surrounds it. But, there should be fear or anxiety that has built up because being in a strange place will definitely add anxiety and fear to a person. Ron Scranton confirms this idea by saying. “learning how to die isn’t easy… I was terrified by the idea”. From the time when he was in the army, he had no choice but to face the idea of death. What seems to scare individuals the most is the thought and process
The way I percieve death is that it is absoulute and no living thing can ever escape it. Nor should we be afraid of death it is simply a
Fear of the unknown, and fear of what is to come in our lives, has generations of people wondering what will our lives be like tomorrow or the next day. Death is always there and we cannot escape it. Death is a scary thing. Our own mortality or the mortality of our loved ones scares us to the point that we sometime cannot control how we are dealing with such a thing as the thought of death. Why do we fear such a thing as death? We don’t know what happens after we don’t how it feels. The fear of death is different for most but it is most certain to come and we cannot hide from it. For death is just around the corner and maybe it’s will come tomorrow or the next day! We fear not death but the unknown that comes from death, that is the scariest thing about death.
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” (Mark Twain). This quote from the famous American writer is the basis for what became one of the hardest ideas to comprehend, death. Death has always been a complex term, causing one to struggle with what the true definition is. It is also hard to wrap your mind around what does it truly mean to die. These are the questions we long for the answer. Whether we acknowledge it or not, death has always been feared by many. Death remains an impossible question, one that has been unexplained since beginning of time. Even though dying is a natural, we as a human race still fear it. What can be done to defeat this never-ending battle? According to Montaigne’s “To Philosophize is to Learn to Die” and Cory Taylor’s “Questions for Me About Dying” we can overcome this by living to the fullest, living with no regrets, living a legacy, and lastly not fearing the inevitable. If you want to conquer the question of life, live in the moment.
Death is an inevitable fate for all living beings. It’s an aspect of life that can be hard to deal with, and the ability to overcome the fear of this unavoidable event can be difficult when it comes to knowing the reality of your fate in an
My interviewee expressed that she has no real fear of death but does fear the process of dying. She wants to die with her mental health intact as much as possible. She explained she does have some “senior moments” like buying a bag of potatoes when she already had a bag at home and not being able to find the potato peeler which makes it a little tough with the sudden surplus of potatoes. However, she has recently taken some mental evaluations that test things like memory and she scored well on those. She believes there is an existence after this life and that helps her a lot as she
Many people seem to fear death, but philosophers such as Socrates and Epicurus would argue that one has no reason to fear it. Socrates sees death as a blessing to be wished for if death is either nothingness or a relocation of the soul, whereas Epicurus argues that one shouldn't worry themselves about death since, once we are gone, death is annihilation which is neither good nor bad. Epicurus believes that death itself is a total lack of perception, wherein there is no pleasure or pain. I agree with Epicurus because Socrates doesn't give a sound argument for death as a blessing, whereas Epicurus' argument is cogent. I would also argue personally that death is not something to be feared because, like Epicurus, I see no sufficient evidence
There are numerous things that citizens of this world are afraid of. A huge example is public speaking. Getting up in front of many peers, friends, advisors, and role models can intimidate, frighten, or discourage us in many different ways. The fear that others will judge or think less of us is scary and can be a gigantic blow to our pride. Often times, feelings of anxiety join the scene, making the situation as terrible as it can possibly be. Many of these feelings that have been mentioned contribute to the reason why humans like to stay in their comfort zones and do the things that they have always done, for fear that people may judge them, or they might fail. Another common fear that people have is dying. For many religiously active people, this topic is the least of their worries, but for others, they can’t help but worry about what will become of them once they leave this earth. Will they be remembered for how amazing and confident they were? Will people feel a rush of relief and happiness because they
Fear of the unknown can be a fear of the dark or fear of what happens after we die. Children often experience fear of the dark typically because they imagined a danger like a monster that may be in the room but they cannot see inside to assure them that their perceived danger is absent. This fear of the unknown could result in the child hiding under his/her blankets or running to another family member’s room for safety. Similarly, people fear what happens when they die because there is no certainty other than someone’s faith or belief. Even being a person who experienced near death, I could not relieve someone’s fear by explaining that my experience was mind-blowing and amazing. Not only could their experience be different, but I do not know anything about what would have happened next.
We humans especially, fear many different things: death, disease, old age, commitment, noises in the night, pain, responsibility, work, being too fat or too thin, or any number of other things. Some of our fears are reasonable and rationale, like the fear for our safety so we lock our doors at night, never walk alone on dark streets, and
I feel that when it is your time to go, you are going. That’s really the only belief that I have about death. Explain how level of death anxiety may be impacted by gender, age and mental health. Death anxiety in gender, women tend to have higher death anxiety scores than men on self-report scales. This does not mean that women get excited over everything it’s just that men usually tend not to show any emotional feelings about an emotional situation. Death anxiety in age, death anxiety is higher in adolescents and early adulthood. Then it decreases as we settle in life and by the time we get old anxiety gets higher again, by the time you reach seventy your anxiety will go back down. By this time in life you start looking forward to death. Most of your friends maybe dead already, your parents, siblings, and spouse by this time may already be deceased so in a way you have embraced death at this point. Death anxiety in mental health and illness, death anxiety is higher in people with diagnosed psychiatric conditions. Selective attention is when you have so much going on and you get distracted. You are not trying to avoid anything your mind is just on somewhere else. Selective response is when a person has thoughts about death but they choose who they want to talk to about it. Compartmentalizing is when you realize and understand that he is in a life-threatening situation and choose to respond to some aspects of the illness. Deception is when someone
Everyone consciously or subconsciously is afraid of death because we don’t really know what happens after we die. Many people wonder if our population is growing how can reincarnation be real. Three lines of evidence demonstrate reincarnation is real. There have been multiple stories where young children have remembered parts of their past life leading to the idea of reincarnation. Doctors have done multiple studies on patients that have had near death experiences (NEDs) and what they experienced. Many of the patients said they saw a bright tunnel or encountered spirits. Plato said you will never sleep as in you will never be dead for good and, you will always end up coming back to life.
Fear is a feeling induced by experience, perceived danger, or watching a frightening traumatic accident. The fear responses arise from the perception of danger and ultimately a change in behaviour, such as fleeing, or hiding or from perceived traumatic events. Every person has fears and different fears may be different adaptations that have been useful in our evolutionary past. I have fears too, and sometime, I feel embarrassed to intersperse my fear with others.
Death is a familiar thing to most of us, whether you’ve had a loved one pass or have seen a lot of pain. The reason I picked this topic is because of all the ways and things that can happen, in our lifetime, what is the most scariest thing people have trouble with and death popped into my head. I asked the question, ‘Are you afraid of dying?’ My belief was that the youth would be less likely to be fearful of dying compared to the older populations I interview and researched. I believed that the youth would see it as a long time away and would be more focused with living rather than focusing on something they can’t control. I believe that the elderly would have a bigger problem with death because of all the problems that come with old age. As you age everything becomes closer and is more realistic.