Darkover
Angelic
- Jul 29, 2021
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Fear of Death did Ruin My Life for many years
I had severe thanatophobia, or a fear of death staring when i was 18, The dying part doesn't bother me - but the idea of going to sleep and never waking up is terrifying beyond belief.
I'm an atheist who believes that death will be exactly like before we were born - an absence of experience or feeling. I won't be lying there annoyed that I'm dead, or have any concept of time passing after me. I'll be gone.
the nothingness before I was born had an end. I woke up. I was born. Every time I sleep, I wake up. When I die, I believe I won't ever wake up again. Sleeping passes instantly, as did the time before I was born, but how can the time after death be as 'instant' if there's no waking up at the end of it? It's just eternal. I can't imagine what a 'lack of existence/experience' is like if it has no end.
i've learned to accept death and no longer fear death in fact i in brace it wishing to be nothing for all time
just wondering if anyone else here suffered with this before
I had severe thanatophobia, or a fear of death staring when i was 18, The dying part doesn't bother me - but the idea of going to sleep and never waking up is terrifying beyond belief.
I'm an atheist who believes that death will be exactly like before we were born - an absence of experience or feeling. I won't be lying there annoyed that I'm dead, or have any concept of time passing after me. I'll be gone.
the nothingness before I was born had an end. I woke up. I was born. Every time I sleep, I wake up. When I die, I believe I won't ever wake up again. Sleeping passes instantly, as did the time before I was born, but how can the time after death be as 'instant' if there's no waking up at the end of it? It's just eternal. I can't imagine what a 'lack of existence/experience' is like if it has no end.
i've learned to accept death and no longer fear death in fact i in brace it wishing to be nothing for all time
just wondering if anyone else here suffered with this before