Anxiety Support Group

Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...

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daredevilfan3 05/16/2015

I always get scared about what might be at the end. I am a Christian, but sometimes I like any normal Christian have my doubts and wonder what if we die and there is no afterlife or heaven. It's a scary thought. No one would want to just see blackness. I don't know. Just been thinking about this a lot today and it has been scaring me.

sumotherguy 05/16/2015

I too have this same fear.

Reed31 05/16/2015

There are volumes written by people who have died and come back and none of them say there is just nothing. A neurosurgeon wrote a book called "Proof of Heaven." It's a good read.

Most recently, there's an interesting book called, "The Afterlife of Billy Fingers" written by Billy's sister. That one's pretty good too.

The truth is that we don't know for certain but we do know that a lot of people have had after life experiences and every single one of them talk about feeling unconditional love, peace, unity and comfort.

Because we don't know we might as well focus on the most positive possible outcome. Sometimes that's easier said than done, I know.

brokenpieces1990 05/16/2015

Ah, I think about this all of the time! I am totally and completely freaked out by death and not knowing when and how it's going to happen. It's honestly consuming me with dread. But, like Reed said, I do believe that there is much more out there and that this life is only one little link on the chain of our souls! I try to focus on the fact of NDE's and it is good that you have a faith to follow. That often helps.

BonTemps 05/17/2015

I think the good news is , if there's no afterlife, when your dead you wont know it. I am not saying this to be a smart azz..If your just gone and there is no more , you wont be freaked out because you wont know anything. I was in a bad car accident several years ago where I
was knocked unconscious for a few minutes. After I thought about it
later, if I had died , it would have been so quick there woudlnt have even
been time to feel the pain or worry about it.

bridgie101 05/17/2015

I'm an atheist, so I have nothing to fear. An atheist's point of view is that when you are dead, you are gone. That's it. You are gone in the same way you were gone before you were born. there is no eternity of fire, there is no eternity of non-aware sitting on a cloud in the presence of any deity. You're just not there.

If you can fathom the planet's existence prior to your advent, you can fathom the world after you are gone. You just won't be there. There's no pain, because you're not there any more.

:)

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