Do You Feel Afraid Of Death Sometimes?

[Salty80]

Sometimes there are moments when I feel very afraid because I will die and I will not be able to celebrate, see people, laugh and have fun with friends.

[Ken4155]

I do not fear death. I just don't want to be there when it happens :-)

[david small]

I embrace it. It’s the beginning of a wonderful new adventure.

[barry1010]

I'm only afraid of a slow, painful, wasting death. Being dead doesn't bother me at all

[Toorak]

My wish is that I die before my OH - I can’t imagine not being here without him

[Toorak]

Being here - grrrr

[choux]

lol Toorak, I did worse than that today. I called Ed SpareEd ;)

[Toorak]

:-))

[MissTerious2]

I know how you feel Toorak. I feel the same.

[Khandro]

Timor mortis conturbat me
by Diana Hendry


Will it give me six months warning
Or come when least expected?
Will I trip over it one morning
And find myself disconnected?

Will it come on the way to Corstorphine
Or when sitting on the loo?
Will I need a lot of morphine
Will a bottle of brandy do?

Will it happen in broad daylight?
Or wait until it’s dark?
Will it come like a lover at midnight
On a necromancing lark?

Will I lose control of my bladder?
Will I lose control of myself?
Will the Lord send down a ladder
And shock the National Health?

Will it start as a minor chill,
Then turn to a nasty cough?
Will it spread everywhere until
Someone has to switch me off?

Is it already growing inside me?
Does it have a date and a time?
Will I know when at last it’s untied me?
O what’s the use of rhyme?


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’The fear of death disturbs me’, a phrase from the Catholic Office
of the Dead, was used notably by William Dunbar, the medieval Scottish poet, in his ‘Lament for the Makars’.

Diana Hendry
from Second Wind (Saltire Society, 2015)

Reproduced by permission of Diana Hendry.

[Thisoldbird]

I'm not afraid of dying, I am very grateful my other half went first. He relied on me for everything towards the end of his life. I watched the process of his slow death over many months. I was with him when he was told his life was nearing its end. I had kept it from him for many months. It amazed me he took it so calmly. He said he wasn't afraid.

As long as I don't have to go into care ill not worry about it just yet.

[anneasquith]

Hi. TOB, how are you coping without your OH ?

[Thisoldbird]

Hi Anna, I'm doing ok, I think. I have some depressing days, particularly weekends I find hard.
It's the loneliness I am troubled with.
Thank you for asking.

[Old_Geezer]

What makes you think that you will not be able to celebrate, see people, laugh and have fun with friends ? You will likely know many who went before you.

[dave50]

It is impossible to imagine having no contiousness and no awareness, not even a dream.

[mjwman]

I am not afraid of death itself, and at the age of 71, the inevitability is fast approaching. I do feel sadness though that there is so much in my world to enjoy, and new things to discover plus the grandchildren growing up, that I really want to experience but also It cannot be.

[Khandro]

71, good lord! you could be around for another quarter of a century.

[david small]

Khandro, I’m seventy one and feel it. My father died at fifty four, sister at fifty five, mother at sixty six. On the conveyor of life, I am on the downward stretch.