Anxiety over death

[Panic57]

I don't worry about death so much as I worry that I'll die not having done anything for the world or the things on my list. I don't want to die prematurely. The thought that I'll fail to do anything relevant with my life stresses me out more than the thought of death does. But I worry about my family because my brother is at that age where he's getting into activities that are dangerous. My mom is definitely at the age where I have to worry about her getting some deadly disease like cancer or Alzheimer's. That scares me but I can only deal with that when it comes.

 

[17emilyhalko]

I don't think that it's unreasonable to be afraid of what may become of you after you or those around you die. Fear or anxiety arises from an uncertainty, an insecurity, or a presupposition, and sometimes even all of them together. We're all insecure about what will happen in the future, because there's never a guarantee that things will work out as we'd like. Nevertheless, it isn't healthy to always assume the worst, and I think that it's better to neither hope or fear the future, and to just take life as it goes. It's completely irrational to worry about death, when the problem is so far away, so I try not to as best as I can.