Hello
My name is Sebastian. I created this topic because I have serious question about our civilizations most feared issue- death. I dont want creaate a simple topic when I ask a short question and wait for full, interesting answer, so I want expleineid it, shortly why I even tried to create this topic on this forum.
Im 21 and for past 5 years Im troubled with death. I don't belevie in god, which means that Im aware that after death, its total oblivion/nothingness. Ok, so your probably thinking right now "Why this guy isnt writing this on psychological forum or go to specialist?". Im going to tell you why. Since I was a kid, I believed in science. Science did save me from alot of fears. Ghost fears, boogeymans, monsters. Not by simply telling myself that they arent real, but by proving it by science that it is IMPOSSIBLE, to fear something that doesn't exist. In my teen years, science also didn't let me believe in some SUPER GALACTIC TRAGEDIES that will happen in near future, 2012 scam, active black holes in the center of the earth and everything which paranoics create just to do another conspiracy or apocalyptical scenario. So science didn't give up on me then, it proved that by logical reasoning I can't be terrorised by something created on nothing.
So I wrote that Im 21 and I have strong death anxiety. Unluckly for me, my knowledge and experience about death aren't big enough to convince me that there is nothing to be feared about and that this fear is irrational. I cannot simply think calmly about non-existing in ages, bilions of years. I know, the non existence isn't scary, we cannot feel it so we cannot feel unhappy, but everytime I think about this , it comes to me that even if Im am calm now, someday I will have seconds before facing the final end. And there will be no possible things to do to through away this terryfing fear of near end.
Members of this forum, I didn't create this topic to write my fears in public and feel realesed. I created this topic because I belevie that everyone is or had fear of death, but somehow they deal with it by explaining it to themselves in the right way. So once again Im beleving that science will and knowledge will show that they are stronger that any fear.
P.S.-I dont like writing long post because I think they are boring to others, but I couldnt just throw few words with question mark and expect to be threated seriously
Hanabishi