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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesPhilosophy · 7 years ago

Why a few person afraid of death which is inevitable?

Thanks for philosophical replies.

Update:

@ Glitter- Your answer is irrelivent, any how thanks for your wish.

Update 2:

@ Sharaddha - A line from your answer "There is no light without dark and there is no life without death." Very true. Thank you.

Update 3:

@ Sharaddha - A line from your answer "There is no light without dark and there is no life without death." Very true. Thank you.

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  • 7 years ago
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    I am not afraid of death , i just that im enjoying wayy too much !! !! So many good things happen everyday...

    There are so many things I love. I just want to stay here . There are days when I smile so much that my chicks hurt ..and laugh so much that my stomach hurts ..lol ! YOU deserve to be happy too :) :D you are a very nice and kind hearted person . Dying too old is as bad as dying too young . I have met old people over 100 who wish that they could just die soon . They are sick of life , and wouldn't they be ? :( . Live a life of QUALITY and not of QUANTITY . I want you to be happy too . I want you to enjoy . I think the secret to being happy is to try and learn things on a daily basis .

    In my life I have many problems , but my lips don't know that .. they always smile - Charlie Chaplin

    Live as you were to die today , learn you were to live forever - Mahatma Ghandhi

    Sorry for going off the topic , i do not know why are some people are afraid of death ... to be honest .. maybe because they are enjoying too much ? or maybe they are afraid of the pain before death ? maybe they don't want to leave their loved ones ?

    However death is necessary

    There is no light without dark, there is no life without death :P :D lol ! Never let your fear of dying stop you from living

    :D :) :) :) ^_^ ^_^ :P :D

  • Raja
    Lv 7
    7 years ago

    People are possessed often by different type of spirits. The situation and circumstances are the reason. Human beings are ruled by spirits but humans must learn to control and rule the spirits. Spirits possess people according to the mental state of the human beings and keep them in the same state until they are rejected and replaced by another. This is an all time phenomena occurring in all humans. Human beings are always under the influence of spirits. Often thinking and talking about bad subjects or bad imaginations even for fun can take serious turns on one who think and talk.

    All of your activities, talks and even thoughts determine what kind of spirits you will have for your life. All knowledge, skills, emotions, feelings, interests and everything are spirits. Even thoughts are not your own. When you want to take decision on a subject, one after another they think and you just listen and choose or reject the ideas which they transmit to your mind through your brain in the form of thoughts. A human being during his/her lifetime is living with many spirits which have joined one by one since birth. Human beings are robots made of flesh, bones, tissues etc., and toys of the spirits for their games.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    7 years ago

    People are generally afraid of death because nobody knows what happens after death. It is only with death the value of life is realized. But it will be too late by then.

    Knowing the inevitability of death and realizing failure of body functions one by one aging people may prepare themselves for death. Nevertheless they still fear death thinking about the unknown phase in store for them after death.

  • 7 years ago

    Well, its not few its all , everyone has that ,but thing is some are showing but many of us are acting like brave . but that's doesn't mean they don't . even the most courageous warrior in battlefield will have slightest fear of death . ok coming to your query .. its because the attachments which is created out of emotional bond is covered person's ignorance , no one likes to die , that's the nature an ultimate wish of every one , because , by nature we like to enjoy unlimited pleasures and happiness .. also another thing is uncertainty of after life .. both makes a person restless ... but these fears can be overcome by gaining spiritual wisdom , there are many scriptures in hinduism which talks about individual soul and its various phases of journey by reading those things one can overcome their death fear .. .but i say realizing everything is temporary in life gives a person , direct perception on reality truth .. .

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  • 7 years ago

    Because death is almost always accompanied by the pre-death un-comfortability, such as violence or the breakdown of the body's organs and such, death is the worst possible physical injury we ever sustain, and it is to naturally be avoided as long as possible.

    One of the best ways to avoid dying is to fear it.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    God I love you glitter.

  • 7 years ago

    The fear of death is naturally instinctive. The struggle for survival is instinctive. The fear of death does make any living being to shudder, to flee, to fiercely madly react, to ferociously fight.

    Knowing that death is inevitable, that sooner of later your life will wither and will have to give up, to die, that sooner or later your foes of all sorts will try and annihilate your living life, you will struggle for your survival, you will take precautions, you will contrive medical remedies, you will invent weapons and you will build up fortifications or barriers for the protection of your own life and for the life of those creatures in your world that you do care for.

    The wish to exorcise the fear of death has evoked the thought of a perennial soul-life and also of reincarnation. Also, it has given rise to a religious faith that does promise a good afterlife if you have been good, a perennial life in paradise in the ever loving nearness of your own God.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Because it's an evolutionary advantage to fear and therefore avoid it, meaning that we're all descended from people who were determined to stay alive. This means that our brains are programmed that way, survival is the strongest instinct.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    7 years ago

    We understand that only when we are in death bed. I don't wonder why it is scary, as I've seen my loved one at that situation and I know how it felt like for them.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    Because of religion, religion teaches us to accept death

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