Why am I so preoccupied and worried about my own death? ?

Jeeze I know how you feel, I just asked a similar question.

I never used to think about it like this but for the last week its been non stop thoughts in my head.

Im an 18 year old female, and all my friends are so happy go lucky and clueless, and I am too until it enters my mind again.

It saddens me that I wont be young one day, that when I hit fifty it becomes almost like a countdown. Im scared that one day everything I worked on building will just disappear, but what I fear most is what happens afterwards. I mean what if Im stuck, just floating or something, or what if it's painful and I'm trapped. It makes me even more made that people just act normal, I want to forget about this so bad and live a normal life being okay with death like everyone else is.

I mentioned it to my mom and she said it was weird to think like that. I love her so much, and worry about her death too, it seems to much closer not that she if 50.

Eh. I wish I had help for you, because I too have been looking everywhere, and I too am agnostic. I even started reading the bible to hopefuly feel better but all it's done is make me disbelieve more. I wish I was raised religiously maybe then I'd have the same peace of mind.

Good luck with everything and all I can say is if you wanna talk feel free to email me at candyxcoreaple1@yahoo.com and if it persists talk to someone, this is a form of anxiety and medication is available for it. =]

I was like this when I was 12 for some reason. I almost had a phobia and undue amount of anxiety at the idea of dying even though I was not yet a teenager, because I felt that 60 years or so was too short a time to be on this planet. I stressed about this the whole day and I wasn't that religious at the time, so it didn't offer any solace. It went away after a little while and my faith grew stronger, so I'm no longer afraid, because I believe there is life after death in Christ. Recently (for the past 2 years) however, I have been having thoughts of suicide though, but that's not really question. I feel like life is such a drag and bore and I have absolutely no hope for the future, so why even try?

No one really knows what is going to happen to them after they die.

I hope myself there is nothing, you go to sleep and never wake up, & I do believe in god.

There is no real evidence to prove there is a heaven or hell, as no one has come back from the dead.

As long as you are a good person in this life you have nothing to fear i'm sure. so stop worrying and do something nice for someone.

So you need to release that what truly harms you is fear, not death. Fear can be very hard to deal with, but happier thought might change the situation. Try to do a good deed, take your family to a picnic, donate to hospitals/churches/orphanages, as you do good things, you will see that fear isn't stopping you. If religion isn't comforting you, try to read a book (or a bible). Fear is sometimes meant to paralyze, but as you change the world for the better, bit by bit, you realize that death might not be so scary, that even after death, you will be remembered, yet death is far away.

everyone is so "happy-go-lucky" because their all out with their friends having fun and living their life ! not thinking about being dead. Just go out and have fun and you'll stop thinking about it -.-

Think about other things