death cw how do you deal with knowing you’re going to have to die someday? this is eating away at me so bad. i can’t go a single night without thinking that i’ll die eventually, or that i’ll die in my sleep. it makes me sick to my stomach. it doesn’t help that i don’t know what i believe religiously either. i think i’m agnostic. if you’re gonna comment and try to tell me i shouldn’t be agnostic or anything, please don’t. it’s going to freak me out.

I like to imagine how the cells in our body are just rented by us for our lifetime and they get recycled back into the earth when we’re gone, into plants and animals and other living things, so in a way we still live on :)

You should listen to near death experience stories of people who were clinically dead and left their bodies and came back, it helped me overcome my fear of death and god. Now I’m agnostic but I know there’s nothing to fear when we die.

I personally am a bit religious. Although when it comes to my death, I picture a different ending than my family. I think of drifting in a Void instead of retiring to Valhalla or suffering in Tartarus. I suppose the Void has peace and tranquillity. But in an attempt not to think of it I picture a dry eraser wiping everything away or something ripping it all to shreds. I don’t know if that helps, I’m sorry if it doesn’t.

It definitely terrifies me, and it’s something I’ve been thinking about a lot this year. My family dog died in august, we had him for 18 years. This was the first time I felt grief, and since then the fact that we all die someday has devastated me. Obviously I knew about the whole dying thing before, but feeling grief made it all more real. It’s a very isolating feeling and sometimes it feels like I’m the only one upset by it. I think most people just try not to think about it, but for me it’s hard not to right now. It definitely exacerbates my ocd as well.

My dad died few weeks back, now I constantly fear death but I’m very spiritual and believe in reincarnation with a erased mind and fresh start