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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 :)
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I love that thought <3
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@Dia Rancid I never thought about it like that. Love that
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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I’m so sorry for your loss
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I’ve been perturbed for a couple of months now with incessant thoughts about aging and dying. I really am not sure what to do. This feels like other OCD themes, but also really different, because this time, what I’m afraid of is sure to happen. I will either die, or age and then die. It’s been so difficult to enjoy anything lately. I just want to pull a blanket over my head and wait until death comes. Has anyone else felt this way? I feel quite alone. I am trying to enjoy life, but I just remember that it will all be gone in a flash. Nothing really seems to help me feel better. The only escape I have is in my dreams where I can fantasize about never aging or dying. Or at least being able to rewind the clock to have more time.
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Okay so for context to assist anyone who wants to give advice to me, I am religious (catholic) but I also believe in science, the reason I believe in both in simple terms is the math don’t math for me. Yes we know the big bang theory happened, but the theory is it started from a singularity kind of like what you would find in the center of a black hole, no one knows what happens if you go through it. So out of this point and singularity, there sprung an explosion that created the universe and in that universe out of all odds a planet was created (the only one we know of right now, though I think it’s highly likely there are other life forms out there) that just so happened to have to develop the exact right conditions for life to develop. And how did that life even develop, primordial soup, the earth’s bodies of waters just so happened to get the exact chemical compounds in the exact amount needed to create organic compounds such as amino acids. So my point in this science brief is that everything we experience and exist in is a statistical anomaly, to many anomalies to make sense for me. Maybe the way I understand religion ends up being correct or not, I hopefully won’t know for a really really really long while, I go with what makes sense to me, but I do know that there has to be some sort of higher power that I don’t understand that in my opinion must be at work within the universe. Despite all I know about science and all I know about religion (my own and others) I cannot shake my existential dread, I can’t shake the awful fear of death. I can’t even enjoy basic milestones in life like birthdays or weddings for people because it always creeps in. It even doesn’t help if I try to think about the concept of heaven and just radically accept that as my answer for what happens after, because then I feel so much fear and dread of seeing the people who traumatized me when I get there. My adopted mom once asked me when I would stop being scared of my abuser ever finding me or interacting me and I told her when the woman is dead, now that’s not even true. I can’t even feel of safety in religion because then I become terrified I’ll be in eternity with that woman, and I’m not even going to start on my religious OCD themes right now. It’s affecting my OCD horribly and I’ve had multiple panic attacks at this point and so so many compulsions, it’s like they never end. For those with death anxiety, what are things you’ve tried that I could try to help? Are there any specific therapies for death anxiety that I could try? I want to be able to take control of my life and be able to enjoy things without always having this creep up in the back of my mind, so I’ll gladly hear any suggestions or things others have tried that could help. Thank you!
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My chest is aching from the stress of it all. I haven’t felt this bad in years. Please any words of advice would be most helpful. The fact that I’m going to die one day and I have no idea what’s going to happen next, possibly nothingness, and I lose out on all my memories of everyone I ever loved, everything I ever did, is messing me up. I’m 27, and idk how I never felt this way before. I never had these fears before. I never even thought about death like this before let alone it scaring me. Now it’s just stuck in my mind 24/7. The other thing about death is I have to do it alone! :( I love my mum and brother more than anything, I have to leave them one day. I can’t believe it. And they have to leave me?
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