I’m terrified of dying.
To be more specific, I’m terrified of the potential of oblivion after death. I’m not a religious person, for a ton of reasons, but I like the idea of getting to spend eternity in heaven with loved ones.
The thought of just nothingness is scary to me y’all. I was on the verge of a panic attack today at work due to spiraling anxiety thoughts of just oblivion….nothingness.
I listened to random podcast episodes people talking about how they have had experiences with an afterlife after previously being major skeptics and non-believers in an afterlife and that helped a bit.
Idk y’all I’m 27 years old and I’m just….scared.
Just know any and all who have had the same unfortunate thought process have all of my love and support. We are scared, but we are scared together.
Netizens’ comments
- I only fear death when I don’t welcome it. When everything is peachy and happy go lucky I fear it. When I’m down and everything seems to be going wrong I welcome it. It’s a vicious cycle.
- It’s in our DNA to fear death, that’s where our survival instinct comes from. I am not religious but I have a hard to believing we are this complex for it just to evaporate when we pass but if that is the case it really won’t matter because we seize to exist. We would not know we are dead because there is nothing left to know but I believe our spirit lives on in another way that is bigger than this. We won’t know until the day comes so let’s try to make the best to of the time we have on this earth.