To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
I've always been somebody who's acutely aware of my mortality.
You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
It seems to me self-evident that if you have a life, things happen in it, and certain things do change; certain things end. People you know die.
I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.