Why are Christians afraid to die?

[Mr Natural]

Maybe because they're not 100% sure of the outcome.

 

[strollingbones]

in a moment of dark reality....my mother would be so much better off dead.....as much as that pains me to say...hers is a total mental hell.....physically she is okay....but dementia is hell on everyone..she is coming off a good week....but the progressive disease is progressing....i will feel no guilt....my mother died a few years ago...

 

[PredFan]

why do we morn those who die who are leaving a life of pain? i dont. so i cannot answer that question....when my childhood friend had cancer...i was sadden by the waste of her death but not sadden by her death...she was in great pain and suffering...but she was the youngest of all 3 of us....
we were childhood friends......lk and i were the wild ones....drive fast...in cars with boys...while doll
never drove fast...and never was in the car with boys...she played the organ and piano...had true talent...she also suffered from the same skin disease i do...she took more radical treatments....her hands began to gnarl.....she had to have her car modified for her hands...she could no longer play anything....then the cancer came...perhaps only the good do die young?

We mourn for many reasons, but mainly for our loss. We also mourn for the life that could have been (in the case of children and young adults), and the suffering of those left behind. We do not mourn for an end to their pain.

 

[uscitizen]

faith can not over come..say a brain tumor....who is that guy benny henn? he says people who dont recover aftering giving him their life savings...simply didnt have faith

I figure there is a special place in hell for those "seed money" "christians".

Benny Hinn was a con man and not an example of Christians.

IS a con man.
And there are many more like him.

 

[strollingbones]

Maybe because they're not 100% sure of the outcome.

you know sometimes i wonder if it really just stops.....thats it...its over....no more

 

[strollingbones]

joel osteen comes to mind

 

[strollingbones]

even jesus cries out from the cross

 

[Mr Natural]

Maybe because they're not 100% sure of the outcome.

you know sometimes i wonder if it really just stops.....thats it...its over....no more

I believe that.

 

[uscitizen]

in a moment of dark reality....my mother would be so much better off dead.....as much as that pains me to say...hers is a total mental hell.....physically she is okay....but dementia is hell on everyone..she is coming off a good week....but the progressive disease is progressing....i will feel no guilt....my mother died a few years ago...

I went thru the same thing with my mother. She passed a few years ago, I was relieved for her.

 

[uscitizen]

Maybe because they're not 100% sure of the outcome.

you know sometimes i wonder if it really just stops.....thats it...its over....no more

I believe that.

Me too.
But I do not fear death and it is not far away.

 

[strollingbones]

i dont...we all go back to the mother soul and are spun out again when we are ready

 

[strollingbones]

you know sometimes i wonder if it really just stops.....thats it...its over....no more

I believe that.

Me too.
But I do not fear death and it is not far away.

why do you say that?

sorry about your mom.....its just a hard row to hoe....watching someone slip away

 

[uscitizen]

I do not believe in an everlasting soul of any type.

 

[strollingbones]

why wouldnt the energy of the soul be ever lasting?

 

[uscitizen]

I believe that.

Me too.
But I do not fear death and it is not far away.

why do you say that?

sorry about your mom.....its just a hard row to hoe....watching someone slip away

Ohh I was given about 1 year to live about 4 years ago.
They said if I did chemo and such I might gain 1 year. I declined the chemo, did not want more suffering from it in my last days. I have far outlived their expectations without their million dollar treatments....
The pain grows and death may be welcome soon.

 

[Mr Natural]

What I fear more than death is the idea of getting old and feeble and ending my days in a nursing home completely dependant on others for my most basic needs.

 

[uscitizen]

why wouldnt the energy of the soul be ever lasting?

Not if it is based on biochemically generated energy in the boys, when the body dies so does the "soul" is my belief.
of course no way to absolutely prove that of course...

 

[Dreamy]

I mean if they have faith that they are going to their great reward for all eternity...

Not all are afraid.

Why are some non-believers afraid to die? I mean if they believe there is whole lot of nothingness after death.

 

[uscitizen]

What I fear more than death is the idea of getting old and feeble and ending my days in a nursing home completely dependant on others for my most basic needs.

Yep I still live in my own home. I have a cook/housekeeper and a hospice nurse twice a week.
If I see myself going into full time care I will end it for myself.
I of course have a living will which says let me die.

 

[Connery]

I mean if they have faith that they are going to their great reward for all eternity...

I am not afraid to die. Once you been there or close to it the mystique is gone and it is a beautiful state of being.


However, I have so much to live for and do not want to go yet.