spinoff to fears

Not to be totally morbid, but this is something I wonder about b/c I feel like all my fears relate back to it.

I noticed a lot of us are afraid of death...(including myself)...what about it exactly is everyone afraid of?

I def have a hard time coping with the thought of it...I believe in an afterlife very strongly, yet I am still extremely disturbed by the thought of this life ending. Idk if it's the fear of the unknown or what...I can't quite put my finger on it. I was wondering what other people---whether you believe in an afterlife or not---------think. Do you think your beliefs help you or just make you more confused?

I have a fear of myself or someone I love being killed by the hands of another person.

This is deeply rooted in my father being a cop and having the knowledge and fear that he might not come home. And some days/nights, he didn't...because he was injured by a fkn scumbag on the streets.

So I'm not afraid of death, but of HOW death occurs, especially when someone else is responsible for it.

ETA: As you know, Jen, from our FM's awhile ago, my beliefs are not really rooted in one particular religion. So, for awhile, I did think that I'd be totally fcked in the afterlife...but now I think that as long as I am a decent person, I'll be alright. I believe in spirits, I believe that the people who have passed on do surround me at times, and that makes me not so much afraid of whatever comes afterward.

i don't fear death. I know i'm weird. I find that being ok with not knowing what happens next is difficult but ok.

I'm not religious is any way btw. I don't believe in god, but sorta believe in a beyond.

I am afraid of losing my loved ones.
So far thank God I have not had to deal with losing anyone close to me.. But i think if the time came, I am afraid of not being able to handle the pain.

So in the meantime, all I can do is appreciate their existence as much as I can.

I'm not afraid of my own death. I'm afraid of losing any else close to me. I've lost both parents, both sets of grandparents and numerous pets pass on. I didn't handle the loss of either of my parents well and if someone else passes that I'm super close with anytime soon I don't think I will be able to handle it.

And I'm not sure what I believe in. I pray but I don't know if I believe in a heaven.

My biggest fears are around the people close to me dying. I have basically no fear of death for myself. My thinking has always been that if I die, there's nothing left to feel, so what's to fear? But losing someone really close to me has been my biggest fear since I was tiny.

ETA I don't believe in an afterlife, but I don't really think that it would change the nature of my fears. Since I have so little fear of death for myself, my fear of death for other people isn't around what they will experience when they're gone. It's about what I will experience. Now that I say it, that sounds pretty self-absorbed, but it's the truth, so oh well. In any case, my non-belief in the afterlife doesn't really play into my fear of others dying or my lack of fear of my own death.