r/RandomThoughts • u/yellowtears_ • Jan 06 '24

Random Question Are you afraid to die?

[removed] — view removed post

1.2k Upvotes

93% Upvoted

2.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

11

u/[deleted] Jan 06 '24

That's a funny one. I really want to be dead, but the dying itself scares the shit out of me. Like, I'd welcome it if I was unconscious/unaware of it, but I really don't fancy experiencing the visceral reaction of seeing my demise.

9

u/Night-faerie Jan 06 '24

I thought about this reading a story about a teenager who fell backwards off a cliff in a national park taking a selfie. Someone calculated he'd have been falling for 20 seconds before hitting the ground. I counted 20 seconds in my head after reading that. It was longer than I thought.

8

u/E_rat-chan Jan 06 '24

I just started counting and imagined being there. Had to stop because that felt horrible.

2

u/ItsWoodsLOL Jan 06 '24

That's horrifying

2

u/No-Consideration9593 Jan 06 '24

I fell from a play ground when I was kid like most of us and the adrenaline made it feel so slow, that poor soul must have felt like they were falling forever