Scared of dieing??

**Hitcher** · 9th March 2006, 14:25

I have no fear of death. The thought of oblivion pales me not.

What shits me to tears is pain. I am not a great sufferer. I am a Great Girl's Blouse (TM) when it comes to personal discomfort.

And being significantly maimed or disabled bothers me more than a little, more for the impact that such a state will have on those who love and care for me, rather than on me personally.

This is why my life insurance cover is significantly less than my income protection and major medical insurances.

**Lou Girardin** · 9th March 2006, 14:27

Originally Posted by imdying

That's not necessarily a fear of dying Dynamtus50, but a fear of someone killing you. Subtley different imho.

When you face it, it doesn't matter where it's coming from.
With the possible exception of wanting death as a release from an unbearable life.

**Charlie** · 9th March 2006, 14:28

It's foolish to be scared of something so certain, something that you grow up knowing will happen someday. What makes you scared, I think, is when you spend the time thinking and dwelling on how and when you'll go. So to avoid being scared, STOP THINKING ABOUT IT! Live your life to the fullest every day, look after yourself and enjoy the ride...

Certainly no one wants to die slowly and painfully, and I'm sure no one wants to die before their time; before they watch their kids grow up or before they've done all the many things they want to.
So in saying that, I'm NOT done! And I'll be angry more than scared if I go before I am!

**beyond** · 9th March 2006, 14:28

errrmmm,
Not scared of it but like others have said, rather not when you leave family and friends behind. They are the ones that screwed up.

Kinda like to die very, very old, as long as I'm healthy, don't need a Zimmerframe to crawl around with or a bag between my knees.

Like to be able to ride hard, not die on my bike or get injured and live to late nineties and die in me sleep. Now that would be cool.

Anyone offering guarantees????

**Charlie** · 9th March 2006, 14:34

Originally Posted by Dynamytus50

Fucking oath Lou you got it in one, its all easy to say you are not scared of dying but if you are in the situation where someone is trying to kill you, or you think something is going to pass completly out of your control and its going to cost you your life...its a horrible frightening feeling.

... and to add...

100% ture too. The thought or prospect of dying doesnt scare most people. But when your life is in someone elses hands and you have lost control and are just waiting for them to choose if you live or dye; that would be terrifying!

**T.W.R** · 9th March 2006, 14:34

Why fear dying ? its inevitable, its lifes process why fear life. And when you've looked death in the face & come away maimed for life you think yourself lucky its only the shell thats damaged.
having a terminal illness is a worse scenario, get the gun now & shoot me F@#% having doctors play god & achieve F/A let me go with some dignity and as little suffering as possible.

**MSTRS:Me** · 9th March 2006, 14:37

Originally Posted by beyond

Anyone offering guarantees????

The only certainty (apart from taxes) is death. I would hope that when the time comes for each of us, that we go with no regrets. Especially over things we could have, but didn't, do.

**Finn** · 9th March 2006, 14:41

Originally Posted by pritch008

That's probably the most sensible comment I've seen you write :-)

I guess Sensei would go about 6'2'' or 6'3'' and 100kg
Hair red, belt black.

Your worries are not entirely without foundation.

Pffff, then I have nothing to worry about. I'm 118 kg's, no hair and a broken belt due to only being 5'1".

*sic · 9th March 2006, 14:47

hmm death, something most people will convince themselves they have no fear in, when infact they do have fear but repress it as they know they have no control over it.

Its the one certain thing we all have in common, and a complete uncertainty of what happens when we do...

**Oakie** · 9th March 2006, 14:47

Originally Posted by beyond

errrmmm,
Like to be able to ride hard, not die on my bike or get injured and live to late nineties and die in me sleep. Now that would be cool.

Stuff that. I want to live until my late 80 s and then I want to be shot dead by a jealous husband while escaping through his 30 year old wife's bedroom window!

**R6_kid:Me** · 9th March 2006, 14:50

the second poll option just gave me an awesome idea for tonights ride!

**RantyDave** · 9th March 2006, 14:52

Yeah, but more scared of having not lived in the first place. Hence the bike.

Dave

**Wolf** · 9th March 2006, 15:06

Originally Posted by Dynamytus50

Fucking oath Lou you got it in one, its all easy to say you are not scared of dying but if you are in the situation where someone is trying to kill you, or you think something is going to pass completly out of your control and its going to cost you your life...its a horrible frightening feeling.

A few times as a passenger in friends' cars when they've done something stupid and the car has been spinning or sliding towards something that will definitely kill us all, nothing within my power to stop the inevitable - "This is it"

Once clambering around the rocks at Titahi Bay and found myself on a 5cm wide toe-hold with bugger all to grab hold of and around thirty metres of open air between me and jagged rocky oblivion - I should have turned back when I asw the pitons someone had hammered into the rock! I actually imagined I saw a cowled skull hovering in the air. Did what I had to do to get myself to safety.

Once, when I was younger, I actually bothered to count the number of times I was sure I was going to die, now I can't remember them all. Was a fair few times, though.

I didn't want to die and I was as glad as hell I didn't - but I wasn't scared by the prospect.

So, from someone who has been in situations where I've been sure (beyond all doubt) that I was going to die: I have no fear of dying.

Like Charlie, I'd be more likely be extremely pissed at dying than scared these days. I've got a lot to live for at the moment and a lot I want to see.

**Mental Trousers** · 9th March 2006, 15:22

Originally Posted by Lou Girardin

Ask the question when you're actually facing death. Till then, talk is cheap.

Funnily enough, I came very close a couple of weeks back.

I must have hit something with the front tyre cos it partially deflated. A short while later I was braking heavily into a corner when it started pogoing. There was a 4x4 coming the other way and things suddenly went very quiet and were crystal clear and I was thinking shit, this could be it. I missed the 4x4 (you might have guessed that) somehow (subconscious probably took over and got the bike around the corner while my conscious mind had gone all calm and quiet) and spent the rest of the ride wobbling along until I got air into the tyre.