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What’s your phobia?!

Thanatophobia

i don't fear dying.. because if i do, i do.. there's nothing i can do about it, when my number is up, my number is up..

i just want it to be quick and painless...

i am also one of those people who would like to know when,. and how i will die.. but thats just me i guess

Reply 21

generalebriety

16

Couldn't care less myself...

Reply 22

enigma373

8

I have a fear of getting old, wearing diapers that kind of thing. But actual death doesn't scare me, maybe because I've had a lot of people die around me, I've just become used to the idea that one day it'll be my turn as well.

Reply 23

Fawn

12

ViolatedTreason

i don't fear dying.. because if i do, i do.. there's nothing i can do about it, when my number is up, my number is up..

i just want it to be quick and painless...

i am also one of those people who would like to know when,. and how i will die.. but thats just me i guess

It's irrational to fear something so definate! There is something so comforting about knowing one day you'll just slide off to the unknown, to be embraced by your final ending :smile:

That no matter what fears or how alone/sad/stressed we may feel now there will be a time when it won't matter.

Do you have any personal belief in an afterlife op? (Sorry if you've said before, its late and I'm too lazy to read whole thread :biggrin:

)

Reply 24

ViolatedTreason

13

Fawn

It's irrational to fear something so definate! There is something so comforting about knowing one day you'll just slide off to the unknown, to be embraced by your final ending :smile:

That no matter what fears or how alone/sad/stressed we may feel now there will be a time when it won't matter.

Do you have any personal belief in an afterlife op? (Sorry if you've said before, its late and I'm too lazy to read whole thread :biggrin:

)

thats what i was wanting to say lol

Reply 25

Fawn

12

ViolatedTreason

thats what i was wanting to say lol

Hehe, I find I can be more eloquent in my typing when I'm just cooling down from caffiene high! :biggrin:

Reply 26

ViolatedTreason

13

i need caffeine.. but i think sleep would be more appropriate, as i have to be up early

Reply 27

DominF

2

I'm terrified of the deaths of the people I care about (though fortunately it doesn't cross my mind much). I'm surprisingly unbothered by my own mortality though.

Reply 28

Tinket

Philosoraptor

In addition - how many people clicked on this thread just because they didn't know what "thanatophobia" was? :biggrin:

I was one of them!

Yeah me too :smile:

Funnily enough, I'm not scared of dying in pain, the dying process, I'm just scared of the actualy being dead part.

Reply 29

Lehu

7

who here also suffers from hypochondria?

Reply 30

username104603

0

14

I'm definatly not scared of death, although I'd prefer it not to happen any time soon I just feel that once I'm dead I won't be caring too much anyway.

Reply 31

Not Invented Yet

12

Dammit, I made a long and eloquently argued point about fear of death not counting as a phobia, and then realised it was actually merde. Shame.

I'm not scared of death at all - I don't believe in an afterlife, and I think that if we started out as nothing before we were conceived, then it won't matter if we return to nothing once we die. I'm only scared of the actual dying part.

Reply 32

TheConfuddledOne

OP

10

Fawn

It's irrational to fear something so definate! There is something so comforting about knowing one day you'll just slide off to the unknown, to be embraced by your final ending :smile:

That no matter what fears or how alone/sad/stressed we may feel now there will be a time when it won't matter.

Do you have any personal belief in an afterlife op? (Sorry if you've said before, its late and I'm too lazy to read whole thread :biggrin:

)

To me it's not comforting though. I wouldn't mind continuing in life, even if it was just my mind continuing or head like in Futurama or something :cool:

. I always view afterlife as blackness and nothing there, yet my mind is there. So I don't guess fear of the unknown.

Reply 33

Chasis1991

I stumbled across this whilst looking up other people's views on death anxiety (or thanatophobia) (although i am no stranger to TSR). My main fear at the moment stems from the idea, as many have, of not existing....i simply can not grasp this fact (i know i didn't exist before i was born, but it's not the same),and the concept terrifies me beyond belief

Reply 34

Cities

16

Original post by Chasis1991

I stumbled across this whilst looking up other people's views on death anxiety (or thanatophobia) (although i am no stranger to TSR). My main fear at the moment stems from the idea, as many have, of not existing....i simply can not grasp this fact (i know i didn't exist before i was born, but it's not the same),and the concept terrifies me beyond belief

Ditto. Doesn't terrify me, though I'm not exactly pleased with the idea I won't be around to experience the future beyond my death,

Reply 35

Alpharius

15

Did not have a clue what that meant. :tongue:

Now I do, and having read replies to this, I would say that anyone who says they do not fear death have probably never considered the issue.

Everyone fears death. To not is to be psychopathic (it's not normal). Like every fear however, you need to look it in the face if you ever want to conquer it.

Though I definitely do not recommend you open up coffins to do this :biggrin:

Reply 36

Anonymous #1

Anon because I don't want friends on here to worry about me.

Death terrifies me. The not existing part. People that say well it'll be just like before you were born - that scares me more! I think about it everyday and sometimes feel like I'm going to have a panic attack but always manage to calm myself down.

Reply 37

Ñima.sinha88

3

Original post by Tinket

Death is my worst fear. Just the thought of not existing and there being nothingness forever. Like, just imagine before you were born. Well, you can't because it was nothing. And that's what death will be like and I can't even comprehend it. I have panic attacks about it every day and I can't sleep; it's actually ruining my life.

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