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I'm not afraid of being dead but I'm worried about the experience of dying as long as we haven't fixed the broken way our laws make it so difficult for medical

• kls 7y ago
  It's funny I don't fear death and I don't fear the process but there are a few ways that I would not want to die. Burning to death would be high on that list as it is extremely painful to burn. I was burned fairly severely on my legs as a kid. The pains of death from old age that I have seen do not really scare me. That being said, and what I wanted to mention is that I don't fly, not because I fear death by plane crash but because I made the mistake of listing to a flight recorder one time and I developed a phobia of dying around a bunch of other people sharing that same fate. It really shook me that to die in a situation like that, it would be very hard to make your peace with death. With all the screaming and pleading going on around you. Not that I don't have empathy for those people but I have to steady myself and god forbid my family for the inevitable. I always liked the quote from Marcus Aurelius "Death smiles at us all, all a man can do is smile back" I think of that quote a lot when I am spearfishing and there are sharks around.
  • bodka 7y ago
    so philosophical
  • askafriend 7y ago
    You don't fly? ...do you drive?
    • kls 7y ago
      Yes I understand it is irrational. It's not the fear of death, I just don't want to die with a bunch of people I do not know that cannot steady themselves.
      • smabie 7y ago
        Would you fly your own private plane alone?
        • kls 7y ago
          Yes I have no problem flying in small crafts with people I know.