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Natural disasters are terrifying - that loss of control, this feeling that something is just going to randomly end your life for absolutely no reason is terrifying. But, what scares me is the human reaction to it and how people behave when the rules of civility and society are obliterated.

A lot of people have found the idea of living your life over and over again absolutely terrifying; there's some people that find it very comforting. There are others that are appalled by it.

We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking.

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.

I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.

What people can survive and what they don't survive is shocking to me. Someone can go to Iraq and be blown to bits and survive. Someone can trip and fall on the street and they die - that's that.

I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.