Most likely they do.

Thank you! It is very comforting that we are many people who share this fears, that we indeed aren’t alone.

You spoke my fears more eloquently than I have ever heard them. So know this; you are not alone.

Thank you for writing! And absolutely, I also believe there is much more than science to existence, and most likely, mankind will never ever be able to grasp the whole concept of existence.

Robert first off let me say hi and thanks. This one page has answered alot of questions and has shown me I am not alone. Now im not a very good writer i never usually respond to things i read on the net but i had to tell someone my story as it might help out someone as your origional post helped me.

Now before i start let me just say i dont beleive in religion and i don’t beleive in the athiests views i have my own personal beleifs that i have just now discovered.

I was at a party one night when i was confronted with an athiest we got to talking about my religion and as i joke i told him i was an “Agnostic Theist Athiest” and when he questioned me on this i told him i dont wholly beleive in a christian god and sometimes when the mood takes me i don’t beleive in a god at all. He asked me why and i could not answer him, he told me my problem was i had a lack of faith and i couldn’t see the truth, nothing happens after we die. I reject this idea, i personally am terrified of death but not because of nothingness after we die its something diffrent it’s the thought of this life as being pointless. If we were solely created to live then why not just give us some basic survival skills and send us out into the world, why ponder, why create. Art is meaningless to our existence why create it then? Love is meaningless, why love, we don’t need to love to mate so why? for awhile i have despaired at these questions as it makes my existence here meaningless, as it makes all of our’s pointless and i just can’t buy it. So i beleive that there is a god to some degree i beleive we were created theres just far too much evidence not to agree. Imagine nothingness, most people think of a terrible blackness but the truth is nothingness is much less than that and imagine that’s at one point all our universe was. What created the first thing? people theorise it was a “Big Bang” but then what created this big bang? again something cant just come from nothing, its impossible.

Look at free will, conciousness, personality, spirituality. We are an inquisitive species by nature but why? what’s the point if there truly is nothing out there? i reject that notion whole heartidly, Ill never know if there is a creator but to me it makes sense. To me it gives some comfort.

I really still am confused in what i beleive and being 22 i thought i was too young to really worry about it to the point i thought something was wrong with me. It is very comforting to see people even younger than me question there morality. Truly though don’t ever be scared of death, no one can ever say what happens after we die, science tells us nothing but science has been wrong before it’s based alot on beleif a narrow beleif that all we see is all we have. Look around your world and never be afraid to question what is and why it is. If we all sit around waiting on the inevitable then on our deathbed we will look back at this time as wasted, live it and love it and be sure to squeeze every single minute of pleasure out of our lives theres nothing wrong with being afraid, but don’t let that fear rule your life. I had so much more to say on this subject but i don’t want to get all preachy. Remeber though is all else fails just think of life as being in the doctors waiting room when your sure theres bad news to be told. You can sit around fidgiting and waiting for that door to open or you can kick back, open a magazine and enjoy the wait. Who knows maybe when it’s all said and done there will have been nothing to worry about the whole time.

Also let me add here that i just wanted to say that you are an incredibly brave person, i would never have written about my fears as you did it took a helluva lot of courage.

Thanks for sharing!
I think that sounds like a very good way to handle it, to think about making other peoples’ lives better, and that they will remember you as a good person.

Thanks for writing!
And personally, I do like that view of that we will always, in some form, exist as energy and be part of the universe.

I usually think about death right before I go to sleep because I think that’s how death is. As if we’re sleeping but never wake up. As we get older, we grow younger again physically and mentally. I try to see death as not an ending but as a rebirth. Nothing in our universe(s) die but just gets converted into a different source of energy. Like when a sun dies, it goes super nova which in return gives back energy of different elements that nourish the universe, or it transforms into a neutron star to form possible new planets.

On top of all that, we are made of star dust also serves the point that nothing in this universe dies so to speak. Our physical bodies do but our energy gets recycled into something else. That is all we are, just energy. On that note, I think there is no reason to believe that human species is inferior to another, we rely on everything else just as it relies on us. I don’t see myself as religious but I guess this is somewhat Buddhist philosiphy, I could be wrong though.

“In all of our searching the only thing that makes the emptiness go away, is each other.” Ted Arroway; Contact.

RIP Carl Sagan.
I suggest you guys watch Contact if you haven’t already. It’s a mind relaxer and touches base on the topic discussion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_%28film%29

Thanks for sharing!
It’s a very good question.

I struggle with seeing a particular significance in almost anything and I feel guilty about it.. to me it seems as if life has a fundamentally illusionary nature, like a shadow on the wall, or a reflection in a mirror, but what is it that is being reflected?

Thanks for writing!
I agree, very much about the fear is not the moment of dying, but what we are missing out on, and what is lost.

my life has come to a point there is no point of living, no point of life, no point getting out of bed, no point in making new friendships or new relationships with people, no point of understanding human cruelty and killing eachother in different forms by war, murder, hate crimes, religion etc.
where is point in that. i dont trust any human being, how can i.

i wish i was never born so i didnt know, i didnt see, i didnt get hurt by everything. now i must see me dying, see my self 6ft underground in darkness. how cant i feel that. i do feel that yes i do. just the thought when im closing my eyes every time is a chance im ending my life by going to sleep.

im still young but im walking dead.
living but not breathing.

every person is the same in terms of contexture, awareness, mortality, feelings, joy, sadness, etc. and we are still hurting eachother. irony, lies, cynicism, sarcasm, deception etc.
personally i dont see point in all of that even if mass needs all those traits just to justify human evolution. that is crap

i had to many sleepless nights when im lying in my bed and are afraid of closing my eyes becuase fear of dying.

nobody can lie to him/her self by not being afraid of death. like yes its natural, you dont feel nothing when you are dead, you are wimp i am tuff, think positive not negative, etc etc.

but that is a comfort zone, deny, lie.

just when you watch your love one die in front of you, you are afraid
you panic, you shake. child with mortal disease can scare every parent in the world and you dont hear somebody telling that person you are wimp im tuff, think positive, its natural, aaaa he is not gonna feel anything. it is ok. life goes on. you keep silent, thats what you do.

i am aware of death and its meaning and thats scare crap of me
just that you present thought can be so intense and focus on a summarized dot of your all life since you were born and baam you are dead, you are gone,

if anybody had sleep paralysis thats the feeling i have. you know you gonna die but think you see your self dying like a preview and there i nothing you can do.

the most scary part is when people know their time line. how can you come to agreement with your self.

maybe death would not be so frightening if the world was an utopia
a place where humans are trying do make them self a purpose by focusing on evolution in wider range. knowledge, science, solutions, disease cures, unlocking human potential and where there is no politics, no propaganda, no starvation, no wars, no crime, no deceptions, a solution to eliminate bad traits. no need for back/hidden thoughts. no more profits. no government

just one union, one race, one nation, humans and only jobs of evolving our race in many fields, exploring etc.

Thank you for sharing!
It makes me very very happy to hear that your daughter made it!