Are you afraid of death?

Why are you afraid of death? Do you see how silly that this actually is? Give 5 reasons you are and 5 that you are not afraid of death?

• John Donne "Death be not proud, though some have called thee" DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadfull, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleepe, which but thy pictures bee, 5 Much pleasure, then from thee, much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee doe goe, Rest of their bones, and soules deliverie. Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poyson, warre, and sicknesse dwell, 10 And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well, And better then thy stroake; why swell'st thou then; One short sleepe past, wee wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.

• Answer:

  not silly at all - it's the BIG UNKNOWN and natural to fear it - I'm much more afraid of the process of dying than the state of death - it's consoling to know we're all headed there - wherever it is !