Is it normal to be afraid for the moment of death to come?

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I am suddenly since 8 days i fear death. I am 22 to myself and i am pretty simple about it before like u die... it happens you cant help it. Ofcourse its scary but i believe in a life after death. But i suddenly have a very strong fear which controls my life actually. When i see older people i am like, dam are they not afraid they are so close already etc?.

First of all i want to know is this fear normal to have in once in a time? Will it get lesser when u get older that u are more prepared for it? And anyone have a Death expierence but came back?

I hope somebody can give me a head up with my fears.... Thank you!

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  • pixie_dust
    9 years ago

    I think you should research people that have had near death experiences. It's quite amazing to see all the similarities in their experiences. The people talk about remembering hovering above themself and can recount things that the doctors did to them as they were floating above. (This is pertinent bcuz some tend to say the NDE is merely the imagination's manifestation.. blah blah) I also have experienced a sort of a NDE, I saw the wonderful light at the end of the tunnel that is so much happiness and wonder and beauty that I was so unhappy I was alive again. I wanted to be there!!

    When you understand this truth, consistent among many different people with this experience you begin to realize that you have this to look forward to when you die! Loved ones are there to greet you many times. It's really something divine.

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  • Steve92
    11 years ago

    It will come ultimately, and there is nothing you can do!

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  • Shackleford96
    11 years ago

    I once heard somewhere that death is just another part of living. I really like that.

    It is normal to be scared of death. There is so much uncertainty, and it's normal to be afraid of the unknown. That fear is not unconquerable though. You can get over it if you really want to. There are many ways to get over this fear.

    There was one time where I know I came very close to not making it back to this world. I was very sick with the flu and had the cold chills. My dad went to get some medicine from the supermarket and the heater was on because I felt cold even though I was wrapped up in a ton of blankets.

    I fell asleep and after some time, I wasn't really here anymore. I'm not sure what I experienced during this time, because I can't remember everything. What I do remember is somehow being pulled awake. Not just pulled awake, but something else. I feel like there was something more to it. I think I stopped breathing for a time. Something caused me to come back and I inhaled deeply as I woke back up. The realization of what had just happened, or what could have happened, was terrifying.

    I stumbled out of my recliner and somehow clambered over to the thermostat to turn the heat off. It took me a while to come back to consciousness and breathe regularly again. I almost died of a heat stroke I think.

    That is the closest I have come to death that I am aware of and I've only told it to one person before. Thankfully, it was not my time to go. I am here for a reason and when I'm feeling down sometimes I think of this.

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    • theguyfromthenetherlands
      11 years ago

      Thank you for ur reply, i also think u were unconcious or something. But i do believe there is something after life. Some people call it heaven, afterlife etc. I readed alot of almosth dead story's and i am convinced u never die... u always will live.... on earth or as a soul. Its just scary to think about oh dead everything gonna end as we know it when ur old everybody u known dieing arround you etc. That is a scaring thought. I am creating a fear which actually isnt needed.

      I heard alot of old people like to die, they surrender to it and often they smile while passing on from her to a other world. Other stories also say that when they had a almosth death expierence they were in a warm place were they were surrounded with love... the funny this is... all these stories match each other. A warm loving place, the pain will be instaind gone. Alot of happyness and warmness which we dont know on earth anymore. Or its there but you have to search hard.

      I feel lesser fear already to just think i gonna get old and by that time its my time i just wont wake up one day anymore =) i wish that is my way out.

      But thank you for ur interesting story, but at the moment u left. U didnt cared, but at the moment u came back u got scared right?

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      • Shackleford96
        11 years ago

        Yeah, I got scared when I came back. I wasn't aware that I was leaving. I didn't know it was happening or that it was going to happen, it just happened and that is what scared me the most. I don't feel like I'm ready to go and the thought of going before it's my time or before I'm ready is where that fear comes from.

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        • theguyfromthenetherlands
          11 years ago

          But tell me do u fear it now? I really fear it much that one day ur not here, u are in the afterlife.... but its hard for me to imagine. My thinking goes really deep. I am really afraid for death at the moment especially that time is so fast and how will it feel when ur old. It scares me and panics me so much that i dont even eat normal last 2/3 days.

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          • Shackleford96
            11 years ago

            Relax some. You are thinking way too hard on this. I know that when my time is right, that will be it for me and that's okay. Appreciate the limited time you have here and learn to accept that death is just another part of living. Try to live in the present and not worry too much about the future.

            Everything is going to be okay :)

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  • Short4Words
    11 years ago

    The truth is we don't know what comes next. I hope there's an afterlife and it is certainly a scary though to transition into a new world, but here's the thing, we don't know when it will happen unless we decide when. Why live in fear of it, the best you can do, is live every day like it's your last. Or better yet, just do the best you can do, that way at least you tried, you did your best, a life worth living. Do you feel like you're not living up to your potential?

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    • theguyfromthenetherlands
      11 years ago

      Well maybe i have it. I had a pretty negative job before were i went in a psychose i am afraid for everything. To enjoy of life, how life ends, will i be with my 'soulmate' also in the afterlife. I do believe in a afterlife but still i am kinda stuck and only focussed that time is ticking away and i need more time.... I want things to stay forever... that people lived forever and all the good but know its gonna end one day and i dont want this day to come close. Its a deep fear inside of me and it came without any reason. It really bothers me much i wake up with the fear and go to sleep with it. It tires my body so much that i feel so tired of this fear feeling. I feel heavy pressure on my chest because of it like oh any moment something can happen with me. I am to consious about it i suppose!

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