Death, do you fear it?

Ok, here we go again.
I do not do this to be inflammatory, but I seem to have a knack for raising questions all the time that others take off on and turn them into a downward spiral of personal attacks.

This is an honest question.

Do you, personally, fear death?

I do not. I might have 30 years ago as a youth with my life in turmoil. I might not even have been able to answer the question at that time. Of course, I was so busy raising hell that the question would never even have occurred to me as I was rolling my '64 Olds F85 onto it's roof.

As I have grown older, the thought has arisen.
And I can answer. No. I do not.

I have my faith in the Lord above. He has granted me so many blessings in the past couple of years that I know he has already forgiven me for my terrible sins, past, present, and occurring.

So, I have great peace in thinking about what might come after my passing.
The only thing I worry about is the care of my kitties should I pass away.

Your thoughts?

And please keep the answers civil, or I shall close the thread.

Meow?
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"Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty."

As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

I fear senility more than I fear death. The thought of not being able to even recognise my own children scares me sh*tless. So I would rather die now than have an extra 10 years but not be aware of it.

As for death, I guess I really won't know how I feel until it's "crunch time" but my current outlook is, I've had a good life, it's had it's ups and downs, but I've always had good health and my kids have all turned out to be the kind of people I'm proud to say I'm related to. If the clock stopped tomorrow I would die happy.

T.A.

I view death as a release from this world's trouble and trials.
And God knows they have been many.....LOL.

Death of this life, as we know it, shall be a release from our current state to another one much better suited to the 'kitty state of mind'.

Dylan knew it......
I Shall Be Released.
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"Ask not, what your kitty can do for you. Ask what you can do for your kitty."

As it is kitten, so shall it be done.

As long as I'm not there when it happens, I'll be fine...
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Remember...Always look on the bright side of life.

As long as I'm not there when it happens, I'll be fine...

As long as I'm not there when it happens, I'll be fine...

The Soldier

If I should die, think only this of me;
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

I don't fear death. There's no point in fearing the inevitable.


I just lost my mother-in-law (after having been with Michele for 20 years, I've earned the right to call her that) yesterday. It was a very sad ending, IMO, but I'm perfectly at peace knowing that she can no longer hurt herself and those she was supposed to show love, and has returned to the nothing-ness that was before her life began.

No, Well...I Fear a Slow Painful one though.
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I Desire Peace and Justice, Jim Scott

I don't fear death because I am not expecting it to come soon. I hope I feel the same way when my time comes.

I do fear death, always have and always will. I wish I'd believe in an afterlife. I think it's all finished when you die, you only have one life...
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I don't so much fear death, as wishing I had a longer life. No idea if there is an afterlife, I have to much to do in this one first :-)

I'm also too busy during the day but I sometimes think of these things at night, when I can't sleep...
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I suspect that all thinking people do mull upon that issue Julie, particularly at the sort of time that you mention. We wouldn't be human if we didn't. But I plan what I'm going to do the next day in the time that I do have, to make the best of it. I'll worry about the hereafter later.


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