Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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.
The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.
Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.