Does the thought of death scare you?

Of course.

I'm pretty sure everyone goes through a "fear of death" phase in their lives.

True in some respects, if you believe in no afterlife then you would think nothing happens, you lose all sense of existence. But he could have meant leaving behind a legacy, for example children or an influence on society/the world, and even though you would not see it; there could be people knowing you after your dead in a way.

Yeah i agree. Im sure we all(to a degree) hope that we are remembered for something. Then again we wouldn't have any awareness or means of acknowledging such a thing, seeing as we'd cease to exist

I believe that there is nothing after death. You simply cease to exist and your body decomposes and returns to the bottom of the food chain (although very, very slowly...). I'm not scared of dying when I think of it, but if I was terminally ill, or if I was in a situation where death was inevitable or very probable, then yes, I would probably be quite scared. It's in our genes to do everything possible to avoid death, except when protecting others, so you can say it's natural. What would scare me much more is the possibility of life after death, or immortality. That would be horrible.

But isn't all death a wasted life?
If you die, you lose everything. Seems like a waste in my opinion.
What do you think?

I'm scared of a young death, a death with a wasted life.

Yes, it's frustrates me that people that have now had such a profound influence are - probably - completely unaware. It's said a true genius is never understoood by his/her generation; but knowing I have made a difference is sometimes important to me and other times I don't care so much.

I couldn't agree with you more. The prospect of existing forever without ever being able to die is more scary to me than the idea that I will one day simply cease to be.




If you're dead, would you care? I can imagine dying is scary, but I think that being dead is neither scary nor soothing, it's probably nothing.