Go back
Anxiety about death

Anxiety about death

Spirituality

Vote Up
Vote Down
-1

What plays the biggest part in causing it?

Dwindling time available?

The pain and suffering that might be involved?

Uncertainty about one's expectations regarding what happens after death?

Vote Up
Vote Down

Living things are wired to be afraid of death, just like they're wired to reproduce. Fear of death is an instinct that helps keep a species around to continue evolving.

Vote Up
Vote Down
-1

@vivify said
Living things are wired to be afraid of death, just like they're wired to reproduce. Fear of death is an instinct that helps keep a species around to continue evolving.
When I go out on my motorbike I don't drive in a reckless and dangerous way because of my natural fear of death.

If I were to kill myself that way, it wouldn't have been inevitable.

The "anxiety about death" being referred to here relates to coming to terms with one's inevitable death at the end of a finite existence.

Two different kinds of death with different philosophical implications.

Vote Up
1
Vote Down
-1