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FEAR OF DEATH
Fear of death is the most common fear among everyone.
But the question is why do we fear death?
- Anything which is not in our experience triggers fears. Unkown things cause restlessness and fear, So we fear death because what is after death is unknown to us.
- We can also understand the first point in this way, It is not death what most people fear, but the process that precedes it: THE DYING
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How to overcome it
- We have to accept we have to die one day, so live in present and enjoy that you are alive.
- The famous Roman Philosopher famously said, "Death is nothing to us when we exist death is not, and when death exists we are not".
- All sensatio...
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“While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.”
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· “The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” ― John Milton
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- Most of us are afraid of dying. But sometimes this fear begs the question: To protect what exactly? For a lot of people the answer is: hours of television, gossiping, wasting pote...
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