I do not fear death, even though when it comes it might involve intense and even terrifying pain, because being an atheist, I do not believe in an afterlife. Any suffering involved in the process of dying will end with my death, and after that, nothing, I will be no more.

I have no fear of death, I do not believe in an afterlife, but I know the particles that make me up will be recycled back in to the universe, that for me is is the cycle of life. This is our personal human expirence and as far as anyone can understand you only have one. This gives more reason to cherish the life you have and try to make the most of the opportunities that present themselves to us.

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However you failed to answer my questions.

The fact that you said that life is preferabe shows that you choose to live rather then die.
Now death will stop that choice of yours.
Thus you must fear that death will happen before you want it to happen.

Imagine you are in the bathroom and making some big shit. Would you like to die in that position?lol
I know it is funny but it is a funny example why people fear death.
It is the lack of choice that death brings with it that people fear.
It is something in you, you were made this way.
To choose.
Death is your natural enemy since it is the enemy of choice.

I am not saying that you must let fear control your actions.
I am just saying that you should not deny the fact that fear of death is there, even if you control it. you must acknowledge its existence in you to truly understand yourself.
It has a say in your actions.

About the energy part.
I think that we are all connected though this energy that shapes us.
And that it is not the nucleus that shapes the atom but its the space/energy in between since it consists of 99% of whats there.
Did you know that 99% of a human body is space? Since every atom of your body is 99% space.
If you are interested in this subject, I would be glad to discuss it with ya.

Death is just the cease of biological function. People fear it because they don't know what happens or where they 'go'. That is where religion, in its simplest form, originates. I, personally, don't fear death. Thousands of people die every hour of every day. Maybe we're just overthinking it. We, as primitive creatures, act upon our emotions, desires, fears, etc. We make things up and maybe even make a fuss about nothing. Your consciousness exists with your thoughts and knowledge, with your ripened brain. One's ability to make decisions based on the body they exist in. When you die, there is no longer a body to hold your knowledge, to feel pain, to make decisions. Therefore, even if it's hard to imagine, you will no longer be conscious. There is no more you.

Of course I don't know it. Nobody really KNOWS anything about subjects like this. I am speaking in terms of logic.

Yea it is hard for people to accept but there is where hope come into play.
The idea of dieing before achieving my goals in life terrifies me.
Yet i cannot say that i am not curious on what happens.
It is a teological argument that I myself have mixed feelings about.

Though I agree with "We just shouldn't dwell so much on impossible children's books and the questions of pure suggestion."

Mark Twain was simply wrong.
There is a difference between being dead and not exist yet.
+ he is making a claim where he has no information about.
we do not know if we are following some kind of destiny.(or if destiny exists)
we do not know if we existed before.
we do not know if we are just dreaming this world

a phrase like; "I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born" is simply arrogant and stupid.

So tony, your claim of; "not fear death at all" is based on an arrogant and stupid assumption, thus your claim is wrong if it depends just on Mark Twain unfunded claim.

The end is what keeps life from getting boring by giving it a time limit.

I am quite afraid before because of the pain it will inflict on my loved ones. But that's a part of a life cycle, nothing to worry now. I am just living my life to the fullest, teaching my son how to be a good citizen and religion is the biggest joke ever created in this lifetime.

If it will come, I just hope that they'll overcome it, forget about me and live their life to the fullest. Death is just a transition from living to non living, the end of a functional brain, no more no less, not even souls, etc.

I am not afraid of death. It is inexorable. What I am afraid of regarding death is dying while my daughter is young and her having to grieve my death and grow up without her mother.

I am not afraid of being dead, it will be a relief to finally get a good night's sleep...... but I am a little nervous about the process of dying.....Like most humans I don't relish the thought of pain, dependence, loss of control etc....I guess that is why now, I eat right, exercise and stay happy, so when the end comes it comes quickly. Lingering and declining like so many people do does not interest me. If I ever end up in that situation, suicide will certainly be an option. Many of the comments have noted that religious people don't fear death because they believe in something better to come. However studies have shown convincingly that the "stronger" your faith, the more likely you are to die in the intensive care unit in a hospital and the less likely you are to die in hospice. That would indicate to me that they are more afraid of death than non-believers. After all, if you spend your whole life "fearing" god, why in the world would you want to go meet it?