What type of feelings do you experience when thinking of your death?

Peaceful
I will finally be at peace and everyone can get off my back
I look forward to it

I get excited, because that is when I will finally experience and find the answer for myself! That said, I don’t spend time thinking about it or wishing it earlier on me. But I also don’t fear death, as it’s illogical to fear something that’s inevitable to every living thing.

The fact that we all die actually makes me cherish my existence more. I feel honored that I was lucky enough to be born a sentient human versus a pitcher plant in the jungle! Thinking like this can inspire me to get out of depression and get up and accomplish something.

I used to get panicky, frightened, surge-of-adrenaline kinds of feelings. Now I have a combination of resignation and wonder.

No feelings really, unless I’m in pain at that particular moment, and then there are feelings of relief. My mind mostly beings to create scenarios of how people would act if they found me dead somewhere, and what they’d do Is that weird?

@Facade Not weird. Kind of interesing actually.

When I was a kid, the thought of death scared me a lot. When I was about 8 (and learning about death) I asked my mom, “are you going to die one day?” She answered, “yes dear, we all die one day.” I cried uncontrolled for about half an hour after that. That truth was a bit of a scarring moment in my childhood.

Of course, I’m older now, and I accept that death is a part of life as breathing is. I still don’t like the thought of it though, so I don’t dwell on it too much.

To be honest, it scares the hell out of me.

I don’t think about it much. I kind of think about it as something everybody is going to do, and we don’t know what really happens, so why dwell on it. I guess if I knew I was dying soon I would be very upset about leaving life, and worried that the process of dying might be painful.

@ItalianPrincess1217 OK good

A feeling of incompleteness.

@Sarcasm I know what you mean, buddy

Like there’s a deadline no pun intended, that there is a time by which I have to have done what I wanted to do…made my mark etc. But in this case there is no graded paper to get back, or a pat on the back. I am my own moderator.

I think of reincarnation and hope that I can get everything squared away so I don’t have to do another round on the wheel of Samsara.

I get fidgety and anxious in the now, want to do more, more, more before that time comes.

Watching my mother perhaps live forever, I do not think about my death. I am too busy reteaching her how to buy toothpaste and kleenex, reminding her to shower and shampoo every Saturday, and driving her to dermatologist’s in order to keep her skin nice.

@Sarcasm @teh_kvlt_liberal can you elaborate?

No :)

I guess so.
My desire in life is to build up the world. Which I haven’t really done. Thus, incomplete.

Interesting question. When life sucks, I tend to look forward to dying. I know it will be peaceful and of no troubles. However, when life is going good, or I just don’t feel ready for some reason -when I think of death I get a little anxious. So, when I am in that position, I just put the thoughts away (:

Interest, questioning.

Until recently, I was completely at peace with it. What changed was we bought another house, and our finances will be screwed it I die. Our house was paid off, and we had no credit card bills or car payments. Now, a new retirement place is great, but a new burdon. I don’t want to leave my wife holding the bag.

There are times, when I’m really depressed, that it makes me feel relieved. Usually, though, I just feel kind of anxious and sad. I don’t fear death, but there’s so much I want to do and experience before I die, and I wonder if I’ll have done any of it and if I’ll have really made any difference to the world at all. And the sadness is mostly at the thought of how badly I know my death would affect my loved ones.

Curiosity. I wonder what it’s like to watch yourself die, in your head, and when you stop watching, and if that happens before you die… and if there’s a difference.

Well, some of the above. But mostly, perplexed, by the mystery of wanting to know what all of this stuff has been leading up to the final moment?

I imagine dying a happy grandfather, having done everything in my power to reverse the sad history of my family.

Is it to feel weekness

I start to cry when I think of death, but 3 deaths in as many months will do that to a person I guess!

i think that i dont want to die out of my control, but want to die when i decide and the way i want, also i get v. scared of what it is like leading up to dying if i have cancer or something. On Earth, it always feel like your constantly being pushed towards the end of ‘time’ for you, and like one day its gonna push you off, or catch up with you and drag you under.
Sorry im being a bit morbid… =)

But, when i think about after ive died i dont really feel scared about that, just the process of it on earth.
I saw this documentary thing about near death experiences, and although there were lots of theories to do wit why we have them, it made me think of all the things that could possibly happen…
I’m not christian or any other religion, but i dont completely not believe in ‘god’ at all. Or I do maybe not believe, but feel there is so much more than we know now, and there may be ‘scientific’ reasons for ‘spirits’ and if we live in another way etc, but we dont know yet, because it defies physics or something.
Also, there is a sort of theory that deep within part of out brains, we could have quantum particles, which (i dont understand so may be wrong) sort of can be in two places at once for some reaosn, which explains why people might feel theyre going off somewhere, and can see everything and give accurate accounts of they’re ‘dead’ or whatever self…
so i was thinking maybe we live feeling like we’re in a ‘human’ form or something, but really we’re just a particle floating around after we die…
ha i dont know =)
i went off on one…

I ponder my legacy a lot. Will I have left the world a better place than I found it? Will I have made a positive impact on anyones life? I also wonder what songs will be played at my memorial service.

Quick and painless, hopefully, is how I’ll go (preferably in my sleep. ). I worry about the pain and suffering. Yes, being anxious and fearful would best describe it.

Knowing that my father will die within months has made me think about my death, that of my children and partner as well…I fear I will die before my children are grown and independent and that my partner will die young…I fear more about others dying…when I think of myself dying, I wonder if I will die when my love dies or close to his death…I wonder if we will reunite in the after…if I, when close to death, am in pain, I will seek relief in it, I know that…I also know that when I am close to death, I will try to teach as many important things to my kids as possible…but I hope by then, it will all just be repetition of things I have already taught them…