Thinking of Death?!
Question: Does it happen to you that you think of death quite often or almost every day?Why is that?It happens to me...am I strange or does it happen to you as well?
Answers: Hello,
(ANS) No.1 As we are ALL mortal beings I think it is absolutely inevitable that we are going to think about life & death.
No.2 Also we live in a world which is utterly obsessed with death, dying, killing, murders, accidents, atrocities of one sort or another. This is a subject that almost every TV program, movie, play or story is about (almost).
No.3 I think the reality of death is something you only really fully comprehend (appreciate) when someone close to you actually dies. My dad died in 2000 very suddenly and without any prior warning, it came as a terrible shock, but it made me realize the world divides into x2 groups those that fully know death through direct experience and those that don't know death at all.
**Once you have experienced the death of someone in your immediate family, you will know that you are moral too. Before this experience most people tend to think they are immortal & will live forever. (usually young people!).
No.4 I think a lot about the death of my mother as she is now in her late 70's and I know she wont live forever. But this prospect terrifies me a great deal as I will be alone in the world (frightening).
No.5 I think about growing old myself and my own death. Even though I am healthy right now in my middle years.
**The worst fears are those that wake you up in the middle of the night in sheer fright at the realization that you will die one day!! This is the specific fear of your own ego's death which is not the same as fear of the physical bodies death I think. I think its is EGO DEATH that is the most terrifying!! in my opinion.
Kind Regards Ivan