Stop fearing death

When I believed in an afterlife it was a lot easier to forget about, but now I’ve lost hope.

I’m not afraid of a sudden death or dying of advanced old age, fully crazy and distant from the mind I currently reside in- I’m afraid of a horribly cognizant death that I’m not ready for. Lying sick and tired in bed, knowing it’s coming and regretting my life. How do I get past this?

People fear death naturally. It’s part of the human response to guilt, fear of things inevitable but to some degree unknown.

I used to fear both what I did and didn’t know of death. I’ll be blunt. Don’t call this a shameless plug – but it was Jesus that freed me from this fear. I have a real and solid relationship with Him now, and part and parcel of that involved losing any fear of death. Think whatever you want, if your only explanation for me is delusion then know this – I used to think as you do.

But for anybody who does ever trust in Him, you’ll reach a day where these words will ring true:
“I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in paradise”
– Jesus, speaking to a murderer dying by His side, asking to be remembered.

fear death for myself. I have a very passive acceptance of it. However, what I do fear is my loved ones dying. I need to accept that people are doomed to die whether I love them or not.

why fear the inevitable?

we’re all going to die some day, yet i’m still afraid. not of death, just not knowing when or how it’s going to happen.

well as a christian, i bilieve in what jesus said, when you die its like going to sleep, you are unaware of whats happening, so ur basicaly sleeping, and i would feel sad about leaving those that i luv but at the end ov the day, we all gona die, so thts y ima make tha most ov life.

I’m not scared of death itself but its consequences. I’m so afraid of losing the people I love and know and I fear old age and its frailty. I got over this for a few years but the fear just came back. I feel like I’ll never see them again, also being old sucks. You cant do anything, you eventually become to frail. You lose everything. Dammit, I don’t want to lose anyone. Maybe I don’t have a strong belief in an after life. I do but its very…sparce. I don’t know what to do. I’m only 16 and I’m already freaked…

“What is, just is.”

then you can stop fearing death and start chasing it. When you dare death to get you then you can do things that nobody else can, because all fear is linked to this fundamental fear. It is how you get the strength of legend.

But I think I have come to a point in my life, due to introspection and reflection and learning to calm down and stop being materialistic where my fear of death, while still existent, is at an all-time low. I am not sure how to help others do this as it is a rather person and individual process.